New Media Production Log

Experimenting...

2006-12-13T00:58:00.000Z

Sofas with the Backgrounds!

2006-12-11T17:33:00.000Z

These are first drafts of the sofas placed onto the backgrounds I've taken. Needs some work done on the shadowing and colours...

I tried to pick the sofas which would fit into the backgrounds according to their positioning and colour.

Some backgrounds

2006-12-07T11:19:00.000Z

I managed to catch a day in Wales when it wasn't raining! Just a few shots of Cardiff and Treforest train station...

Sofa on a Background

2006-11-30T11:59:00.000Z

This past week whenever I had planned to go out and photos of various backgrounds the weather was not on my side and was too dark and gloomy. I'm hoping that this week there will be some sunshine and if not I'll have to stick to dark photos and hopefuly do some work to them on Photoshop.

In the meantime I've found a picture of a road from here and have put one of the sofas onto the background to see what sort of thing I'll be coming across. For example, shadowing is a big part of the whole image and I will have to place shadows onto the sofa in comparison to the lighting in the background image...

This image has been taken from this website...

First Attempts

2006-11-20T17:55:00.000Z

I've started to do some work on getting just the sofa from the entire photo. I used the Lasso Tool to go roughly around the edges of the sofa.

Other sofas!!!

2006-11-20T16:52:00.000Z

The Sofa From Home

2006-11-16T18:47:00.000Z

Photo of my bag...

2006-11-13T00:08:00.000Z

This is actually a photo I took of part of my bag. I really like this floral desing, The bright colours make it attractive and vibrant. I would really like my images to create the same feeling.

The Sofa

2006-11-12T23:51:00.000Z

So, after talking to Michael it seemed that the best idea which had been formed from my mind map was the object 'sofa'. I came to this through thinking of arrival lounge, then sofa. My first thoughts on how to make it creative and interesting is this... To have 5 different sofas (1 for each page) and contrast it onto a different background/environment:

Sofas -----> home, Grandma's, student halls lounge, Aunty Christine's (1), Aunty Christine's (2)

Backgrounds -----> forest, park, town, city, beach, train station, car park, shopping mall

I would like to have some sort of hand drawn image included in the page. I thought I could do this by having an abstract, floral type of design which situated in the corners of the image. I would like this design to be pinks and purples as through my research of looking at images I find this very appealing and I think it would add a sense of femininity to the picture.

Images...

2006-11-01T23:00:00.000Z

1. This image is my favourite out of the ones I have found. I think the colours and shapes are asthetically pleasing to the eye. I think the colours are the main impact because I like purples and pinks which is what this image is but with hints of green in it. If you look more closely you can see intricate patterns which give the image depth.

2. I really like the silhouette in this picture, I think it emphasises the couple's kiss and is set on a beautiful purple background

3. I actually have this image as my myspace background. I like the simplicity of it and yet it is an 'unreal sunset' which is what it is called. The way the sun is so bright means your eyes are drawn in by it.

Taken from: www.bombiadesign.com

4. I think that the movement captured in this image is fascinating. It is a very smooth looking image, the colours are very cool and overall it looks very sleek.

Taken from: www.gallery.hd.org

5. Similar to the previous image in terms of movement, I love the way the movement of light in the city is captured. It really portrays city life as fast-moving and energetic like the lights in the photo. I talso reminds me of a music video, can't think right now which one, maybe Pink!!?? Or actually, The Spice Girls '2 become 1'!!!!

Taken from: www.home.datacomm.ch

Practice on Photoshop

2006-10-27T01:05:00.000Z

My first proper attempt at trying to do something clever on Photoshop...

Image of 'ARRIVAL'

2006-10-26T11:16:00.000Z

Here's a cool image I found when I searched for 'arrival'...

Taken from: www.alexgitlin.com

Photoshop

2006-10-26T10:57:00.000Z

Important tools...

Magic wand (you can inverse)
Lasso tool (magnetic, polygonal)
Marquee
etc.

What I did today...

HMMM, flying ducks

Brainstorm

2006-10-19T13:31:00.000Z

The best idea for... getting an idea is probably by a brainwave/ spider diagram/ brainstorm etc. which is what we did today. First we started with an easy one, 'RED', where there were some very strange things that came out of it such as 'winter', 'banana', 'Will Smith'!!! Then we tried doing one for 'New Arrivals' which was slightly harder.

Here's a few of my random trail of thoughts...

Train station- transport- cities
Fashion- models- shopping- money- employment
Technology
Freshers- new places- new faces
Arrival Lounge- sofas
Medicine- illnesses- death
Music- bands/singers/song writers- record companies- money
Babies- pregnancy- nappies- crying- cute
Immigration

NEW: fresh, different, exciting, innovative, unknown, modern, original

ARRIVAL: appear, coming in, landing, entrance

The Beginning...

2006-10-12T10:46:00.000Z

This blog is my production log for the module New Media! ..................

Way of analysing visual material:
Image
Colour: e.g. red= urgent, danger
Type
Layout

Questions I will be asking:
What?
Where?
Why?
How?
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Metadata -------> TAGS- attach keywords that are relevant
- use for images
- use for links
- in the future will be using for video

'Sharing' sites:
www.blogger.com
www.wordpress.org
www.flickr.com
http://del.icio.us