According to my schedule, firstly my homework for the weekend was to test out my equipment, different techniques and experiment with the software and hardware that I will be using throughout the production stage of my product. This includes Photoshop, InDesign and practising using the camera to take shots of people. The time in lessons this week were meant to be focused on the photo-shoot that should have taken place on Monday 9th January. I had planned to take two days to capture all of the shots needed so Tuesday would have been photo-shoot time too. Because this is one of the most important parts of the project in getting the photos, the only other tasks I had planned this week was creating my contact sheets and creating a copy, along with writing all of the sell-lines.
Here are some of the different images I took when practicing my skills. I feel much more confident with the camera and its different settings. Obviously, I could not get the complete experience at home, as I lacked my own lighting but getting familiar with the settings of a camera and being able to edit the photos from my "A Night to Remember" photo-shoot a bit in Photoshop, re-familiarising myself with its features was a helpful and worthwhile activity.
Here is an example of a photo taken by me of two of my friends and edited using Photoshop. This gave me practice with use of colours, the cropping tool, the blur tool, the gradient tool, filters and adding adjustment layers for Brightness/Contrast and Photo Layers. This gives my photo the summer look and helped me to get used to Photoshop again.
Unfortunately, I could not book my cover and contents page photo-shoot for this Monday, so I have had to make some changes to my schedule. This alteration however has worked out reasonably well as it has given me the chance to catch up and complete all of my planning work so that I feel more prepared for my photo-shoot, which is now booked for Monday the 16th January at 9:00am. I have now completed all of the necessary planning documents and even had some time for some extra research into appearances for features, contents page and front cover. This has given me the opportunity to prepare in more detail and get myself completely up to date with all previous work, as well as making what would have been a rushed photo-shoot, into a well thought out photo-shoot, prepared for success, with completed photo-shoot plans and call sheets etc. This has also taught me how to manage my time more effectively and gives a real example of when contingency planning is useful. I decided to leave my contact sheets until I had all of the images taken so that they could be looked at together.
Although my client might be disappointed that I could not complete my second photo-shoot, I am sure that the Northern Echo would be glad that all planning documents were done to a good standard and that I have organised myself so that I am up to date and better prepared for the photo-shoot on Monday. I am not worried about this set back as it was an earlier date for my photo-shoot, so having it a week later will still mean that I am keeping up and will have plenty of time. Also, the largest and longest photo-shoot has already been completed last week instead, so I believe that I am on track.
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