How did you use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages? research, planning and evaluation stages?

Construction:

Ancillary Task

To create our magazine advert and digipac we had to use Photoshop. To begin with we had to use the still camera and take a variety of shots of our images. We were using a heart as our main image and took about 60 pictures of the heart in different situations. First we took a photo of it in our breakfast bowl with a green A3 piece of paper behind it as our imitation green screen so it would be easy to cut it out using the magic wand tool in photoshop. This worked well because it made it easy and neat when we cut around the image in photoshop as the green was a bold contrast against the white so the wand separated them easily. We then took a photo of the heart placed in the snow as we had heavy snow at the time and we poured the blood from the packet onto

the snow as though it has been chucked there and was very 'off place'. This worked for our genre as snow is supposed to be typically natural and beautiful however this broke that typical stereotype as a heart covered in blood is not what you would expect to see.

On photoshop we also used tools such as the outer glow around

our artists to not make them look so cut and jagged. Also we added effects on to the hand/heart to make it look darker and ore scratched rather than a pale natural hand (as shown to the right). We also used the paint bucket to create a block color background of black on our advert and on 2 of our panels of our CD cover as this is a typical color of the rock genre and is typically seen on other products. We also used the basic tools such as the eraser, text tool and selection tool. However we didn't use the fonts that were on photoshop as they were typical and boring. Instead we went onto Dafont.com and browsed through the hundreds of

fonts on there to find a perfect 'scratched' font for our digipac and advert. We ended up downloading one called 'Scorchflash', 'Spider fingers' and 'Bloody' to create a more interesting, bolder font which fitted our genre perfectly as shown below.

We also used dafont.com to find our logo. We typed in Rock on dafont.com and all these mini symbols came up instead of letters. We decided the mini one of the silhouette of a man on the drums was a perfect simple but effective logo to represent our band and genre.