Final Print skills audit

AS Media Production: Final Skills Audit Print Production

Name:       Lilly Yuill            Tutor group:              Date:

Photographic Skills

Which of the following photographic features/equipment have you used on a camera before:

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Manual Focus features	x		I learnt this skill in school when I done photography as a part of my art GCSE. I also done it when taking my photos for my magazine I used it help get my photos in focus and have the best quality.
Shutter Speed	x		I have done this when learning and improving on my skills, I took photos with lights when they were moving and this created a shadow and lighting effect.
Aperture control		x
ISO Control	x		I changed the ISO levels when I was taking photos with torches to capture the light moving and create the right effect.
A tripod	x		I used a tripod when I took my photos for my DPS and front cover, It helped me create the correct angle that I wanted for my photos.
External flash		x
Self timer facility		x
Light meter		x
Composition grids	x		I used this to make sure my header was in the correct place and it was all equal and in proportion.

Photoshop Skills

Which of the following features of Photoshop have you used before:

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Text control	x		I used text control to add text on to my front cover such as my sell lines, my header.
Filters	x		I used filters on my photos to make them have more of an effect and make the details on them stand out more.
Brushes	x		I downloaded brushes off brushezzy.com, which I used when I created and edited my women to turn he into a vampire. I downloaded blood and Christmas trees/decorations too which I used for my Christmas CD.
Layers	x		I learnt how to add layers to my Photoshop document when I wanted to add a photo or text on to it.
Opacity control	x		I used this when I created my circle, this helped make the circle a little see through and blend in a bit more, which prevented it from been a block circle.
Shape creation	x		I used this on my front cover when I added a circle that I put the price of the magazine in to make it stand out more from the rest of the magazine.
Brightness and contrast control	x		I learnt how to adjust the brightness of my photos that I had taken so I could make them stand out more and have more of an effect.
Gradients		x
Load selection features		x
Feathering		x
Colour curves adjustment		x
Resolution setting control	x		Set everything up to 300 pixels resolution.
Magnetic lasso, polygon lasso tool	x		I followed a tutorial to see what it would look like if I used it.
Cropping tool	x		I learnt how to use this when I needed my photos cropping as I was cropping the background out of my images.
Clone tool		x
Retouch tool	x		I learnt to use this because I needed to retouch a part of my photo to make it stand out more and give the correct effect that I wanted it to.
Other skills

In Design Skills

Which of the following features of In Design have you used before:

Feature	Yes	No	Comments if yes – where have you completed this skills and to what level
Have you ever used In design ever before?	x		I used in design when creating my DPS, this helped me create my article and create all the breakout boxes and columns I wanted to use.
Margin and column guide creation	x		I created columns and a margining on my DPS to make it look more realistic.
Inserting an image ID	x		I opened an image onto InDesign to add on to my DPS.
Resizing images in ID	x		I changed the sixes of my images so they fit my DPS/Front cover.
Text manipulation – resizing, rotation		x
Text manipulation – controlling kerning and leading		x
Text flow creation	x		I learnt how to create text flow when I was adding my article onto my DPS; this helped my text flow from column to column.
Using transparent imagery in ID		x
Shape/line creation In design
Exporting to PDF from In-design	x		I exported to a PDF once I had finished and completed everything I wanted on In design.
Text Wrap	x		I used this when I added a break out box onto my DPS so the text blended around the breakout box.
Other Skills

Number of new skills achieved:

(compare with your initial skills assessment)

Progression on my Front Cover

This is the progression of my magazine so far, I have taken my photos and chosen the picture that would look better on the front cover. I am also in the middle of choosing the correct font and colours that will work well and editing it all.

Christmas album

CD album 

I opened a document on Photoshop and changed the resolution to 300 pixels/inch I also changed the height to 5cm and the width to 5cm. I then went on to www.brusheezy.com and typed in christmas and christmas tree's and then once I found ones I liked I clicked on download, open, extract files, and then saved them to my network documents into the 'Brushes' folder that I had created before hand. By creating a separate folder for my brushes so that it was easier for my to access them and find them quicker. After I had downloaded the tools I wanted I went back onto photo shop and clicked on the brush tool and clicked on the arrow next to the brush and then clicked on the arrow next to the maser Diameter and then selected load brushes. Once I had selected the brush tool It tok me to the brush palette and my brushes where at the bottom of the list, once I had chosen them I changed the colour of them by clicking the square colour picker.

After all of this I then changed the background of the CD album to a light grey and wrote the title 'Christmas Album' which I had chosen and downloaded the font from website dafont.com

Header ideas for my magazine on Photoshop

Header ideas for my magazine. 

When designing my Masthead on photo shop I had to firstly create my page which was 300 pixels per inch, 21 in width and 29 in height. After this I went on to Dafont.com and chosen a font which was Serif font because my article is serious so I need my audience to understand the seriousness, and I want the font to look girly and make the audience not think my article is very important. After this I then clicked onto select, load selection, modify, expand, and then I was able to change the font size I wanted and how bold and large I wanted to make it.
If I made a mistake I knew that I could press command and hold the letter z down to go back. Once I had done this I then clicked on to the the Fx tool which enabled me to give my title a more glossy look and a two tone colour effect.
After all of this I then changed the colour of it so I has a choice of things that I could chose from.

Language techniques

Informal writing 1st/2nd person

Anorexia and eating disorders in my opinion is a big part of todays culture, over 160,000 people suffer from disorders like this every year. I think this is caused by magazines, models, seeing images on the internet which are all photo shopped to improve there looks, when in reality its not natural or healthy! People in my eyes will be self conscious about they way they look by all the dieting that is shown all over the front of magazines and even on the TV, after christmas there is quotes on magazines that say 'pigged out over christmas' or new diet plans that are shoved in people's faces. For example I saw a lot of dieting adverts on TV just in the middle of shows that weren't relevant to anything to do with food, such as 'diet chef' where they deliver the food right to your door. Do you agree that dieting is overly exaggerated? All this is a bad influence on people and the way they feel about there self, people always want to have the 'perfect' body and will go to extreme measures to achieve it. Even from a child children are playing with Barbie dolls that where claimed to have the 'perfect' body, but if they where real they would be underweight and most likely extremely ill. Whats your opinion on anorexia?

Writing in the Third person

There is a 13% increase in the number of eating disorders between the years of 2003 and 2009. Research shows that the highest rate of cases for anorexia is in girls aged between 15 to 19 and boys between 10 and 14. Eating disorders are one of the most common new mental health problems that are affecting teenage girls in todays society. Experts are saying that the younger generation has increasing pressure to look and be 'perfect' which is effecting the health of the whole generation. Also around about 50% of people with eating disorders meet the criteria of depression. Eating disorders/anorexia usually show around the teenage years but can develop later in life.