Examples of Photo Editing

Screenshot of editing process

Edited Photo

Crisis is wearing a jumping and a baseball hat which is the typical dresscode of a Grime artist in the UK. Fans of GRIME would refer to this as "GrimeWear". Using Ulead Photoimpact I inverted the colours of the orignal image and I added a lightening effect. I believe these effects show the underground side of the Grime music genre. The edited photo connotes that this music artist is posing for a photo in the night or that he is an underground artist because the underground UK Grime artists are usually played on pirate radio stations during the night unlike the Mainstream artists who are played throughout the day on well known radio stations like Capital FM, Kiss or Choice FM. The animated font below is an example of the font I would use if my music magazine had its on website. The animation looks like graffiti, which is also associated with Grime music.

Original Photo

As you can see Chris hasn’t got the average look of a rapper. His dress code is the different from the ones of rappers therefore he is breaking the conventions of the clothing associate with the Rap music genre. I told Chris to dress smartly for this photo because I wanted to illustrate that there are many different sides to the way rappers dress, not all rappers where baggy jeans, hoodies and baseball hats. This makes his "swagger" unique and different which is why I used this photo in the 'IS YOUR SWAGGER ON POINT?' section of my magazine contents page. He is also wearing Dr Dre's 'Beats' Headphones whilst listening to music on his Blackberry Smartphone. These two gadgets are highly popular amongst young people (my target audience) so this will attract them to read about this. Using Ulead Photoimpact 10 to edit this photo aswell. I added a 'DiffuseGlow' effect to this photo to enhance the brightnesss of this photo. This distinctive glow gives the impression that he is shining like a star, or that he is a star in the music business.


Edited Photo



Music Magazine FINAL DESIGNS

Contents Pages FINAL DESIGN

Double Page Spread FINAL DESIGN

Music Magazine SECOND DRAFTS

Double Page Spread SECOND DRAFT

As you can see in my first drafts, I didn't follow the original flatplans of the 3 main elements of my music magazine. While I was creating my first drafts, my creative instinct told me that I needed to alter the actual layouts of the drafts to differ from the original flatplans. The transparency of the first draft titles illustrates how unique and niche the Grime music genre is.

Avatar/James Cameron Notes

• CGI was used to create the film
• December 2009 - Premiere in the UK and USA
• It is the highest grossing film ever
• Its the best selling 3D film
• Many different specialised cameras were used to film the movie
• Film critics describe this film as an "Innovative Sci-Fi film". This means that the film is ahead of its time or it has done something different that other Sci-Fi films haven't done before, so it changed the way Sci-Fi films can be made
• It took James Cameron 15years to produce Avatar. From the initial idea to the release of the film
• James Cameron also directed Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986) and Titanic (1997)
• The film's budget was $237,000,000 and its Gross Revenue was approximately $2,800,000,000
• Cameron was also a CEO of a Visual Editing Company when he was creating a film called Brother Termite (1993). The film wasn't completed but James Cameron released 2mins of footage from the film showing the 'Performance Capture' technology which was used to create it
• This technology was also used in the creation of Avatar
• 20th Century Fox (Film Distribution Corporation) supported (funded) Cameron with Avatar for over a year
• Cameron wanted the characters of Avatar to be “animal like” but still be physically attractive to the audience
• Most of the jungle set in the film was based on landscapes in China, Venezuela and New Zealand
• There was deep and detailed research during the creation of the film. For example Cameron hired botanists to help with the design of the plants in the film so they could be digitally created to look realistic
• This showed that the process of creating a film involves much more different factors than just hiring actors and writers
• WETA is a special effects company, based in New Zealand, who helped produce Avatar
• During the creation of Avatar, 20^th Century Fox kept insisting that the film needed a famous actor/actress to star in the film for it to be successful
• So they hired Sigourney Weaver, who was a notable actress from Aliens (1986)
• Cameron also hired a linguist to assist with the making of the main language used in the Avatar plot to create a unique language for the characters to use
• Captured Performance is a technology used in Avatar
• Cameron also hired an actual soldier who fought in Desert Storm to train the actors/actresses (Method Acting)
• It took two years (2005-2007) for the film producers to master the performance capture technology
• Reference and Visual Cameras were used to film Avatar
• Most of the film was filmed using virtual environments/backgrounds
• The production wasn’t easy as the hardware/software used by the film makers would often crash as they were pushing the boundaries (doing things that haven’t been done before-innovative)
• There was 140 members of the crew
• The different sets (live action with the humans) and the CGI with the avatar characters made the actors/actresses feel like it was two different films, which shows it was a lot more hard work than a usual film
• Cameron also hired a helicopter pilot to assist with the flying scenes in the film
• Fusion camera – shoots actors and live action on 3D Sets. It was designed to be a state of the art cinema camera
• Virtual camera – more like a monitor because it displays all the different angles of the references cameras scattered around the set
• RIG programming controls how facial expressions are shown in the animation of the film. This was used to make the Avatars facial expressions/body gestures extremely realistic
• It took over a year for WETA to animate a section of the film (Feb 2007 to May 2008) to animate 10/11 shots of the film
• The film consisted of 2600 shots in total
• Took out 40mins of film at least as some bits were too long to be kept in the film
• From 2008, Avatar became even more difficult to make as the set deadlines kept getting missed whilst the film release date was coming up only a year later
• As WETA got used to the type of animation for the film it became easier for them to animate more shots in less time

Music Magazine FIRST DRAFTS



Front Cover FIRST DRAFT



Me and the other member of my group decided to choose the Title/Masthead "Grime Time". The image on the left illustrates my first attempt on creating the frontcover for our magazine. Our teacher informed us that every member of each group had to produce their own version/issue of their magazine, so me and my partner had to create 2 issues. I will be using Ulead PhotoImpact 10 throughout this media project to create my magazine. As you can see my first draft has many of the key conventions of a music magazine front cover, like the masthead, tagline or slogan, date, background image of a music artist, price and a barcode


Contents Page FIRST DRAFT


My Contents Page may not look like the average contents page but it follows the conventions of a contents page for a magazine. I the different sub-headings on differents sections in my magazine to give the readers easy access to the stories they want to read



Double Page Spread FIRST DRAFT



Research for Music Magazine

These real magazines will give me some ideas on the codes and conventions of a regular music magazine. Analysing these magazine products will assist me when I am creating my own music magazine.

Original Photography for Music Magazine