Photoshop and Indesign

Photoshop and Indesign are both software tools made by Adobe that will let me enhance my media work for the forth coming year. Photoshop allows you to play around with pictures with its hundreds of the features allowing you to play around with it making it any way you can. Indesign is slightly different whereas its very similar to Microsoft Publisher, helping you create different things such as leaflets, posters or in our case for this year, a magazine.

The first feature I found useful on Adobe Photoshop was the feature to crop pictures. for example if there is a space of a picture that i do not need i am able to delete/crop that out and focus on one specific object of my choice. Below you can see that the top picture is the original but i have decided that i wanted to get rid of the unnecessary sky and just focus on the main feature, the planes.

Another feature that i found useful was the lighting. On photoshop i am able to change any parts of light on the picture to make it brighter, darker or maybe even a completely different colour. It allows for many colour alteration, a feature that can help you get the effect and highlight detail that you want. for the pictures below the first picture wasnt what i wanted, so i decided to make the picture brighter, clearer to make the pitch and players stand out more than they did before.

The feature that i used for the below pictures is a tool that i struggled with and was hard to get used too and thats the clone stamp tool. This helps you get rid of the bottles and leave behind what you want. As its a static picture and the computer doesn't know what the background is then the clone stamp helps. As the back ground is a nature setting then you are able to clone of a picture of the nature in the back and this allows you to wipe out the bottles leaving you with a realistic nature picture as you would find believable.

 Finally the last picture is the spot healer tool. This allows the user to get rid of the small parts of the picture that can be erased to make something look more clearer and purified. Many magazines use this tool to make sure that the celebs that they are photographing are as perfect as they can be. on the picture below is a before and after picture of a young boy who has many spots, but using spot healer has now been cleared up and looks more professional.

Questionnaire

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12MYG4RjpzVUptwttFeIyfLJECT--4yC3cADGUz8ZGno/viewform

 This is my questionnaire to help me towards finding my right target audience for my very own music magazine.

Homework- Interests

Above is my favorite music video that has recently been brought out named 'Not Giving In' by Rudimental. I enjoy this video because not like other music videos this draws you in, this makes you want to watch as a story is being portrayed whilst the music is going on in the background. I feel that with music videos, you can see what artists but there effort into the videos that represent their single and here with Rudimental you can see that a lot of cooperation and time was put into filming it- that i enjoy.


This link is of the film trailer for the Disney film 'Up' the reason i like it is that i first of all enjoy Disney films and i was looking forward to this film a lot, so straight away i was looking forward to it. i like the fact there is a narrator is talking you though the basics of the film and what the story is about. Its humour and fun feel to it makes this a very enjoyable video that i feel people of all ages can enjoy.



 
 This is the video game that i enjoy the most as i am a huge football fan and also a keen fan of the Xbox 360. I look out for every fifa that comes out and always look forward to the new update and improvements that they make every year. the new Fifa 14 is out later this month and i will be looking forward to buying and playing that.

https://www.facebook.com/
  This website, 'Facebook' is one that i thoroughly enjoy as it helps me keep connected with my friends and also lets me talk to new people. A lot of interaction is available such as pictures, videos and more. i use this website at least once everyday and i can speak for most people in this country or even the world that they use it a lot too!

Introduction

Hello my name is Kieran Givens and will be taking media as an AS for the year 2013/14. I am currently resitting year 12 as i feel that the results i got in the summer where not at a level that i know i can achieve, so even though this decision was a tough one, I certainly hope it will be a good one for my future. I am a very approachable person and l always try and have a laugh when i can but do try my best to keep my serious face on at the best of times. I took media for my AS option as i enjoy the sound of the topic and i have never thought of taking in the past for either GCSE or my year 12 last year. So this will be an new experience for me but one i am thoroughly looking forward too. when you look around it is very hard to see a place where the media world is not heavily based and i feel that with the qualifications in a subject such as media, it will push me on for better things in the future, because as some people may not know there are hundreds of thousands of different routes that media can take you and that's what i hope to achieve at the end of my time taking media with the qualifications. As everything i do i will put all my effort into the work i produce for media because i do want to achieve the best grade i can in this subject.