22.10.09 Thursday

Today we where given a new task which was to produce two pages of research on the company you have chosen to create your advert for i chose apple. At first i was struggling to find print ads for apple products they where all movies. I only managed to find some images on google images after searching for quiet awhile. In all i found nine images which should easily be enough for two pages. i also went on the apple website to look for some facts about them and their products i got some good facts but they will have to re-worded and bulk added to them.

John showed us how to use the pen tool in photoshop today he showed us how to use it to cut out selected parts of images and attach text to it. We had to attach an image of our choice to a bus to make it look like an advertisment. I struggled with it at first as i didn't realise i needed to use a larger image and the one i was using didn't fit when i re scaled it to the other bus. But i had some help and got a larger image which fitted not perfectly but quiet well. I think i accidently deleted or saved over my picture of it or i would have put it up.

21.10.09 Wednesday

Today we started our second part of the advertising unit. we have to design in rough two vehicle advertisments to go on buses. We can use the back and both sides.
I am doing my advertisment on apple computers this is because it has lots of applications therefore giving me more options. we only have to make 1 final copy of the bus advertisment and i think mine will be either of on ipod or an apple laptop.

14.10.09 Wednesday

Today John showed us a Power Point about semiotics and we where talking about communication and advertisment. He then showed us a few short videos explaining how viral advertising works and why it works so well. I liked the animation in the videos we watched because they where very simple and got quickly to the point.

We have been given our first task in advertising now which is 12 A3 pages by next week. The research has to be on aspects of advertising such as T.V, Radio, Print etc and why they produce the adverts the way they do what their target audiences are etc.

12.10.09 Monday

Today We started Unit 9 which looks into advertising how it works and why it works.

we had to get an images and come up with slogans to sell the product to 4 target markets. They where 10-16, 16-19, 20-25 and 35-45. Below is a screen shot of my adverts as you can see the images are all the same the only thing that changes is the slogans.

My 4 slogans where

10-16 - Bring out the rock star in you

16-19 - Serenade your special someone

20-25 - Start a career in music today

35-45 - Get out of your daily routine.

08.10.09 Thursday

Today we had a supply teacher because john was ill. I have finished both of my posters now I am going to put a picture of my original poster 2 and a picture of my second finished poster 2 below.

as you can see I have changed the soldier added some new images and changed the background. I also faded and blended in all the images so it looks more realistic. I also added an aspect from my "Economical Effects Of War" by putting money into the fire coming out of the tank. I got the supply teacher to show me how to use the clone stamp which I used to put the baby into camo. The relavance of the child is to show how childrens innocence in war is taken away and to make you question how young is to young. A there are are teenagers the age of 18 being poorly trained and sent to war.

I also started and finished my powerpoint presentation today. I added my posters into my presentation and wrote why and how i did what i did as well as what i would have done differntly.

I think my finished posters are a big improvment of my original mock ups all in all. They have better images and better composition.

07.10.09 Wednesday

Today I think I may have finished my first poster it has both the scanned images now as well as the 4 photos and a few images from the Internet. I say think because I do really like my images I'm just not to happy with my composition but i feel the only way I could improve it would be to start over which I don't have time to do. I have scanned some images from news papers into my second poster one was a an army helmet which I plan to photo shop onto a baby, put a gun in his hand and put him next to marching troops which I also scanned into photo shop. Tomorrow I need to start printing out my screen grabs and first poster to begin annotating my work.



Below is my first posted which I feel is finished but i may touch it up a bit when I have some spare time.

As you can see I added some begging children to show that the money being pumped into the unnecessary war could be pumped into either their community or our community which is a far more important and respectable cause. I also added some soldiers made of money and photoshopped guns into their hands. This is meant to be questioning the cost of life but I'm not sure how effective it is at doing so.

05.10.09 Monday

Today I started my final copies of my posters. We only have to do 2 posters rather than 3 now to ensure we stay on schedule plus this gives us more time on each poster meaning they will be of higher quality. I have decided to do my "The effects of war" and "the economical problems of war" posters as I felt they where my 2 best original ones. I have most of my photos now but I'm still not 100% sure what to scan in. Below are both my unfinshed posters.

The picture of the wooded area on the left is a picture I look at the level to show what the landscape could look like before and after war, I also look the picture of the school sign. On the right I look photos of the "bomb bins" all the money at different angles to give the impression that it's falling and the man is my girlfriends dad who I told to smile and throw socks in the air, then edited out the socks.

01.10.09 Thursday

Today we learnt two ways to use the scanners. You can load it up in the start menu and go on "Canon" or you can open it in photoshop which john says is the easier way to do it.

We have also started to plan our first final poster. I am leaving slightly early today to go and start taking my pictures and finding pictures in news papers and magazines to scan into the computer.

I also printed out my mock ups to stick in and anotate over the weekend they are abit late but I am sure i can have them in my monday morning.