Blog 9 3D art

Today I have learnt how to create a 3D picture in illustrator and make it into more of  a 3D picture. I didn't do much on this as my computer froze and I couldn't complete this task but, thought I would still put it on here as it was good evidence of my attempt at trying 3D art.

Blog 8 creating DVD case

I have designed and drawn the lay out of my front page and back page DVD cover. The mind maps below show what was needed to be placed onto my DVD cover.  I have done this so I can check off what I need to so I don't miss anything out.

It took me a while to decide what to place on my front page and back page as I had to look at what things were on other DVD's covers to help me decide what to place on my DVD cover. I think I have followed what is needed to be placed on my DVD cover.

Day 7 creating my DVD case

I have started to create my front page cover for my DVD  case and have used a picture of Google images but then placed it into Photoshop and changed it so it follows the Copyright laws. It took me awhile to pick the right picture as I wanted to get it right and for it fit in with the Copyright law as well as be fun and not have any children face in the picture.

When I decided on picking animated pictures which I thought would fit my preference better than a normal picture of someone's face. After picking the right animated picture, I view this picture in full view, I then right clicked on the image and clicked on snip tool which cut around the edges of the picture creating it into my own image.  I then placed this into Photoshop and changed the colour background of my front cover. 

To make it feel more original and more like my own work I also added a background colour to my front page and back page. The colours I have chosen will make the logo picture stand out out for the user's eyes and will catch their attention.

I have uploaded a recent picture of my final piece of my front page and back page that i chose to finally stay with.  I will not be making any more changes to my front page or back page and I  feel pretty comfortable with this final piece.

Blog 6 information about foster care

I have now decided and gathered some ideas on how to make my DVD cover and am still gathering images I would like to use on my DVD. As my topic is a sensitive one and not many people know a lot about foster care, it can be misunderstood and misplaced as something bad when infact it can help improve someone's life.

Foster care only started in the 19th century but there were no laws created about it until the 20th century in the UK. It was called back then "boarding out" and just like many other countries foster care, adoption or short term care was always an option for people. Admittedly it has got a lot better over the years as there have been more laws created for the child's protection.

For those who don't know foster care, it is a way of providing a safe and welcome home for a child/young person (up to the age of 18) where they are looked after until they are ready To leave or when an court order has ran out.  Not all reasons for foster placements to end are because the court order ends, it can be because of it being short placement. This is where their placement is for a short period of time and can be between 1 night to 6 months. Short placement is an emergency accommodation.

There are different reasons for people going into foster care but no matter how hard the situation is for the child/young, there will always be a room waiting for them to keep them safe and secure. All foster children/young people have different situations and it's the foster carers job role to keep them safe and secure and to treat them like their own daughters/sons.

The longer the foster child/young person stays with their foster carer they are more likely to feel attachment; it can be heartbreaking for the foster carer to have to say goodbye to the foster child/young person.  Some foster children/young person can have different experiences of foster care depending on which foster company they are with, as different foster company have different rules and do things differently.

References:

Wikipedia (2015) Forster Care. Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_care (Accessed: 13 February 2015).

International Foster Care Organisation (2015) What Is Foster Care. Available at: http://www.ifco.info/foster-carers/what-is-foster-care (Accessed: 13 February 2015).

Blog 5 filter colours, colour reference, patch tool, heal tool, spot healing brush

I have learnt today in class Thursday 12th February 2015 to filter the colours and change our own colour reference. I also learnt how to use the patch tool and heal tool along with the spot healing brush tool.

We had a picture of two people sat on a beach and we had to deleted one of them, and use the patch tool to cover the space with sea background so it all looked the same. I also used the spot healing brush tool to make sure all of their body was gone so there was no evidence of this person existing.

When the person was gone I then used the patch tool again to convert the empty space to match the background of the picture so that there was no empty space in the picture.

Blog 4 video's ideas

I have still decided to stick with my foster care idea and have decided to go with the genres of drama and comedy which I've brain stormed in the mind map seen below. This will help me to create my DVD cover case as I will know what to base my DVD cover on. It will help me to also plan what target audience I am going for and will help with the age rating of my movie.

I will need to develop this idea more and think of how I will create the Photoshop image for my logo and front and back pages. I chose this idea because I know a lot about foster care as I've lived through it so want to make this topic not personal but fun and loving and not emotional.

I will need to decide what picture, colour and effects I will now use on my DVD case. Once I have finally made my mind up I will then start creating my front page, back page and logo for my DVD.

Blog 3 using crop tool, burn tool, dodge tool, colours layers, magic wand

On Thursday 5th February  in lesson I started to learn how to use photoshop tools on an imagne.  I learned how to use the burn tool, dodge tool, different colours layers,  magic wand and crop tool. This helped me develop my skills using photoshop and will encourage to do more research on photoshop tools which I will need these for the images on my dvd case and logo in the future.

To improve my skills and knowledge of photoshop I was given an imagne of a person in lesson to edit in Photoshop and to make him look younger.  To do this I used the crop tool, dodge tool, burn tool, different colours along with heal hand. This let me experiment with the different Photoshop tools. I will attach a photo of the imagne I edited. I will need these tools to use on my images and photos along with editing videos.

By using these tools it made me feel more confident about using them further on in my assignment when adding imagnes into my video and for my logo, front page and back page. This will definely come in handy when creating my back page and inserting different logo's on my back page.

Blog 2 original ideas planning started

I have had a sit down and thought about some ideas and sketched ideas for thr two but eventually chosen to do DVD case as it is more interesting to me. I have attached my images that I've drawn today and will be creating them in Photoshop. My images will have different filters, layers, colours and effects to create the best photo possible to fit on my DVD case. 

I was told to choose a topic that I know well and know a lot about so I've decided to do my about foster care. This was a tough decision for me as my original idea was about animals and I came to realise I didn't know much about animals. 

In my picture I have drawn all my ideas of what types of video games I would based my cover on. Also I have drawn all my ideas for what I need to use in my DVD case wrap, and have come up with the conclusion it is more interesting to me to create a DVD case wrap.

Blog 1 Project starts

I have been given an assignment to create a DVD package for a film or video game of my choice. I first decided to choose a video game but thought that would be too complicated to create so have now stuck with creating a DVD package. This will be created and made in Photoshop and will contain limited amounts of copyright pictures and information. 

I don't have any ideas yet but will consider some over the weekend and should have a sketch idea of what I'm creating and making for my DVD cover. My image will have different layers of colours and filters along with different effects. It will also help develop my strengths of using the featured tools in Photoshop which will help me in the future for when I next use Photoshop.  I will upload pictures and drawings of my ideas.  I will also upload an image of my DVD cover.

I need to also create a DVD disc label which will be created in Photoshop and contain a logo.  I will have to demonstrate using pen tool,  type tool,  placing images,  brushes,  clipping masks,  guides, layers, transparencies, text wrap. I will submit this in the correct format when I've completed it.

I need to create a short video as well which will be edited in Premiere. I am allowed to import previous elements or short clippings from different videos which can be edited through using photoshop or illustrator.