GRAPHICS EVALUATION

EVALUATION FOR GRAPHICS

This all started in the first lesson of Graphics with my teacher. The first ting we started doing was finding information on what an artefact is and by also finding definitions of different types of artefacts. Homework was given out by our teacher to gather ideas of artefacts such as ‘machine made’ artefacts and hand-made artefacts. A radio was an example of a machine made artefact and a clay pot was an example of a hand-made artefact.

After a couple weeks learning about artefacts, we then moved on to looking at different Cd covers through out of the remaining lessons for the term. I had to look up on different ways people designed Cd covers and the type of software they used. For homework i went home and find different Cd cover examples and wrote about it. I thought things were getting too difficult at that period of time because what i needed to do was find images of Cd covers then cut them out and stick it in my book, but the problem was i do not have any kind of glue in my yard except for crazy glue.

For only two different lessons we started researching on different packaging such as a Skittles packet and a Doritos packet. Doing homework on this category and finding different packages helped me learn more about why these different packages are made and how. Now when certain packages is bought, i end up looking at the back of them for more information about it.

The teacher told me i had to design a Cd cover of my own before the term finish so i had to do ruff drafts of the design i will produce. My main theme for my Cd cover was Bob Marley, everything about my ruff drawings was to do with green, red, yellow and black colors. What i was thinking was that it was too much of the same colors for all of my drafts but then again the layout and drawing ideas were different. I produced some great idea but there were like two other i was not happy with. This was the main part in graphics that i enjoyed most.

Now it was at the stage where i was given top f the line , new drawing pads, to draw out my final idea for my Cd front, back and spine. I thought it would have been difficult using the drawing pads and before starting i was not feeling confident, because i did not think the idea i did on paper would come out as good on the imac computer.

I started off doing the back of my Cd cover first, by playing around with photoshop to get use to all the different tools and effects on it. I used the brush tool to draw out a picture of Bob Marley, but only a quarter of his Body. Using the drawing pad to draw him actually came out successful, i started gaining full control over it and in time it was all easy to use. The main background color for the back was green but it was a red color first before i changed it. After two lessons i ended up completing it fully with me happy with it. The lesson after i started the front and it took me only 2 hours of the graphics lesson to finish it, i actually thought it was easy and i was fully happy with it. The last lesson of graphics before the half term was when i started my spine Which i completed in around 15 minuites, considering the width was 0.7 centimeter and the length was only 12 centimeter.

After this completion i looked back on my work and realized i done a good job. It was a work i was fully satisfied with and a work i would really want to do again.

How i edited my images 23/10/09

This is the picture i took with the 10 megapixel camera, a week before the deadline. as you can see the quality of the picture is very strong so when i edit it you will still se it standing out.

This is the image edited on photoshop. I only highlighted around the picture using the famous ‘brush tool’ but the fuzzball brush tool type. I highlighted it all the way around in a dull yellow color and then with the black over-lapping the yellow.

This is the picture of the guitar i took from the studio. You can see the background is dark, which would tell you that i will edit something dark about it.

This is the picture of the guitar that i edited on adobe photoshop. One of the The main editing i did on this picture was cropping out the original background using the ‘quick selection tool’. After cropping out the image i then use the brush tool again but the ‘hard round’ type and highlighted it in black. The red and yellow stars around it is the brush tool but the ‘star flowing’ type.

My picture of two very big trees around the back of the school. For this picture i had to zoom in quite far and it is this picture that is being used as my main background.

This is my background picture edited on adobe photoshop. I never did much morphing but i did a lot of adjusting to it. I used the hue/saturates coloring tool to change up the background to the colors i said i wanted it to be. Parts of the trees are red and parts of the trees are green, you can also see little specs of yellow if you look carefully.

This is a picture of James, Reece and Tanjiana. I made them do the these types of posing because i want it to look like they are dancing there lives away in a club.

I edited the picture of the three friends in photoshop. I resized the picture then crop out the original background picture. This picture was actually placed at the top left of my design.

This is a picture of the keyboard mixer i wanted in my design. I went to the studio and took three different pictures but it was this one that was taken the best.

I edited this picture on photoshop using the resize tool to make it smaller and straight after i cropped out everything else in the original picture and left the mixer. This picture was place right in the middle, under the image of me.

This is the edited picture of my drum- set. You are able to see that i cropped most of it out with it looking in a shambles. I also brightened the white part of the drum using the photo filter effect. Even though it looks in pieces, i can guarantee that it fits together with the other images i took.

Evaluation of Unit 4-Creating a Record.

1. The actual atmosphere of Batman is dark, shadowy, mysterious, scary and highly tense.

Batman is a night time superhero who is unlikely to make an appearance in broad daylight. Batman is the type of hero that dislikes talking a lot or showing off. He is highly smart and always prefers to work alone on almost every occasion. Even though Batman does not have any super powers like super strength or super speed, his intelligents and close combat is a powerful force for the villains in the city of Gotham.

2. The musical ideas i have chosen to begin this work with was;

The shimmering- effect to give the the opening musical idea a dark and fierce feeling.

Underwater bass- to bring more drama to the musical idea.

Pop piano- this brings in the melody to the whole musical and also makes my musical atmosphere more sinister.

Dark pluming- this idea brought a the dark bit of the atmosphere and made the musical build up with suspense.

Pop strings smooth- this was the leading sound in the musical, it is the sound you will hear in the background all the way through.

I did actually rejected some things like the Blasting lasers. this was because i thought it would be a good idea at first but after watching the Batman opening over and over again i decided it was Un- necessary, i was not able to see anything to do with lasers throughout the opening.

3. I had to make some tough choices when doing this, because i kept changing the different number of tracks to the batman piece mainly to the fact i could not make my mind up on all the different types of sounds i wanted in it. I used 9 tracks separate with 4 consisting of the drop in the music piece, 3 for the starting and two for the ending of it.

I did end up taking out the bass piano track which was when my track numbers went to 9. My teacher MSM came straight away to my help the moment i asked for it. He helped me put the beats in the separate tracks more together, so the whole music piece can sound like a official recording.

4. The way i created my batman theme is by doing one note after the other at certain points, it used mainly 5 notes to get the riddim to it. It started going up first then in the middle it started going down then right back up.

5. At the end of the gotham city scene, there was a random sound playing and just 2 second after it finish that sound slowly faded out. The sound at the end was kin of the same has the sound in the beginning but more calmer.

6. To make my work more representative i would need to change up my ending, to a way that would get the examiner thinking, i would make it sound more like there is a mystery. I would also develop the way the whole flow of the music is, there is some out of tune parts in it.

Unit 4 record- The Batman 21/10/2009 Information

The Batman 1989 is a film created in 1989 in the United States and was released on June 23rd during 1989.
The director of this film was Tim Burton and Peter Guber, Jon Peters, Michael Uslan and Benjamin Melniker were the producers of this film, they did a successful job earning a film budjet of up to $48 million .

The film stars Michael Keaton as Batman and Jack Nicholson as the Joker who is the greatest enemy of the batman. The film started filming firstly in October 1988 at a place called Pinewood Studios.

Bruce Wayne (Batman/Keaton) at a young age saw his parents murdered right in front of him. While growing up he vowed to avenge his parents death by taking the role as the night time vigilante Batman, who is always watching out for the people in the city of Gotham. His main enemy The Joker, is the so called joker in Gotham but he ain't the type of clown that just laughs and pull practical jokes. The Joker is making people laugh to death in the city of Gotham and it is up to The Batman to stop him before Joker accomplish his mission.

The Movies Editor allows the common mortal to make their own costume/sets/props by editing the existing ones found in the game. The editor takes number of shots wether it is photo or video and at the end tries and edit it to produce a well accomplished piece.

There are two types of best boys. Best boy grip and best boy electric they are responsible for running the lighting and grip department.

A gaffer is the head of the lighting department, responsible for the designs and the executions taking place, or to be taking place.

this is my final idea for the front of my CD cover. you would recognize that i use a lot of red, green, yellow and black colors for both my front and back cover of my Cd. the reason for choosing these colors is because, it is eye-catching, bright and it also gives you the idea straight away that it is something to do with Bob Marley or Jamaica

Unit 4 record- music work today on the 19/10/09

In the music lesson today with Mr. Smith i continued and was able to almost fully complete my melodic piece for my Batman work. It was difficult at first because i started getting confused on how a melody should sound but at the end i managed to pull something off.

my graphic design

This is my final idea for the back of my Cd cover which is fully completed. What i really like about it is the drawing i did of Bob Marley, because i did this drawing using a drawing pad and i think i was able to bring it to a good standard for the finish. I have never used a drawing pad before so considering it was my first time i am well satisfied with it. What i think i should just about change is the color of the title at the back 'Love Is True Life' i think i should make it more effective by changing it red, as we know red symbolizes love. There is only one thing i am not happy with about the picture and that is the fact that the music titles are a bit too close to the edge of the cover. If i was able to edit the text before i merged it with everything else, then i would have been able to space it out away from the edge. My overall conclusion of the back cover is that it is really well finished to my satisfaction.

Unit 4 record- Music work today

This morning in the music lesson i finished recording my batman beginning and moved on to my NCFE Sequence. i firstly made a copy of my batman audio clip and started creating a new melody, using the actual keyboards to play is a lot more easier than using the computer keyboard itself. i managed to produce a good piece of melody so far that is going to contribute to my work

Unit 4 Record- Definition

TO CREATE INFORMATION IN MEDIA TO COMMUNICATE WITH OTHERS.

Document- this can be used to provide evidence or information of an event that took place in the past.

Painting- produce a painting of anything and place it at a certain place for people to view it. museum etc.

Criminal Record- This provides information on crimes a some-one did in the past.

Photographer- Taking high resolution pictures that can be used for comics, magazines etc.

Myspace Home Page- you use myspace to show off your images or music for people added to your friends list. There could be videos of performances you did on stage where family and friend can view.

Graphic Design- play computer games, cartoons are made then watched by young children.

The news- to give information to everyone of what is going on in the world.

Birth Certificate- To show information on a person for when they were born, the time and place.

Maladministration- describes the action of the government body.

My Designed CD Cover

Green and brown colored hair- The reason for making Bob Marleys hair green is because i want it to represent the country he is from which is jamaica and i made it brown as well to show that he has dreadlocks.

(Love Is True Life)- The reason For that title at the back of the Cd cover is because as people may know Bob Marley represents love and is always talking about life. You can also see that the 'love is' part is colored in red, considering a red heart means love as well.

My picture is also filtered to give a real effect that it is an official Cd cover. At the sides of the face you can see the two different color brown to show that there is a light shining on him, one side is darker than the other.

mandy's graphics lesson 12/10/09

in Mandy's graphics lesson we were given new drawing pads to redraw our work we did in class. The new drawing pads are electronic, so whatever we draw will come up on a programme called photoshop. I actually and suprisely managed to produce a good standard peice of art work so far considering i have never used a drawing pad before. To me the drawing pad is hard to use but i think it is a more better way to show how good and how you can manage the way you draw. There is still work left to be done including my Cd cover spine and the front, so next lesson i will be able to complete it.

Unit 4 record- music today

today in my music lesson i worked on my melody piece. i managed to create only 10 seconds of it because of the lack of me knowing what a light motif is. All i need to do now and i will be completely finish is to work more on my melody and make it be up to a certain standard

Lesson with Brian 09/10/09

In todays lesson with brian i was slowly learning to use photoshop better to create my digital picture idea. It was a bit difficult at the start but closely to the end i managed to overcome this difficulty and made t my strong point on photoshop. today i mostly found my background and edited it with the tools on photoshop. it did start to get annoying because i could not think of the effect it could be, but next lesson i should at least be able to finish my background and all the other details added around it.

Unit 4 record- my music work on the 29/09/09

down below is the work i did in music. in this work i had to find out about how music is made and find a few of the few points in music

A scale is a unified collection of notes-which any addition is heard to be extraneous and a selection which is in some sense complete.

the scale must also fulfil the functions demanded of it. There are three principal functions that a scale may be asked to fufil:

1. to serve as a harmonic resource
2. to be tonally effective
3. to serve as a melodic resource

Major scale- The major scale has triads which can be represented numerically as: one, ii, iii IV, vi and Vii which are chords or as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 which are notes.

Between the 7th and 8th degrees and also the 3rd and 4th degrees there are semitones, between all the other adjacent notes there are whole tones. The major scale is strongly effective at producing a tonic function on the major chord that is built on its home note.

Minor scale- the minor scale is well used for classical music, this where it is well know. for minor mode music it is known to be the harmonic foundation. with a minor scale the sixth degree is raised to the seventh by a chromatic semitone. these devices are he ones that transforms the augmented second into a major second.

Aeolian mode- in a aeolian mode there are semitones between the 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th degrees, and leaving whole Tones between all the other degrees. Its cadences are less decisive than the harmonic minor scales so it is generally avoided in the classical music.

Clefs- Clefs are placed on a Grand Staff. The top part of a Grand Staff is called the Treble Clef and The lower half of the Grand staff is called the Bass Clef. Notes appear on a Bass Clef and a Treble Clef. Treble clefs are placed above middle Cs on the piano and Bass clefs are placed below middle C on the piano.

The sharp sign means to play the next key to the right.

The flat sign means to play the next key to the left.

Dynamic signs tells you how loudly or softly to play a piano.

Natural signs cancel a sharp or flat.

FLAT signs

SHARP signs

NATURAL signs

DYNAMIC signs

This is a grand staff.

Unit 4 record- my work in music today 08/10/09

In this lesson today i created another section of beats to add to my 'Batman Opening film' i used the piano bass instrument to get a more effective sound to my batman musical piece. i made sure that the piece goes in time with the other audio tracks that i previously created. i also tried today to start and finish my melody piece that i was told by the teacher to do. i did not completely finish it but it was a good start. Near the beginning of the lesson there were some faults when the computer started automatically freezing, so i never had much time to finish my melody 08/10/09