The only problems I had were choosing between which video clips I was using to base my video on, this was quite difficult for the topic I chose. Due to my topic being sensitive I had to spend quite a lot of time re-doing my video to get it accurate which made it a bit emotionally for people to watch. At first I did not know how many clips I would use to fill up my timer of one minute for my video. All I cared about was that my video clips all suited each other and matched up along side each other.
Another problem I found was the time keeping of one minute as I kept going over it by twoseconds or under it by one second, getting it right took me two. I had to stretch out some of my video clips and edit more of my audio which was hard for me to do as I had never done this before. But I think with more practice I will spend more time on this as it is only there for a draft until I decide what music and audio I will use for my whole video.
A different problem I had was getting the right effects to match my clips as this is what took the longest for me to get it right. I had to practice on using the effects and getting to know which ones were the right ones to fit my video clips. We practiced using these video effects on videos given to us in lesson, which was very helpful I thought as this made us more confident with using the video effects in our own videos.
Thursday, 30 April 2015
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Blog 12 Legal and ethical laws
Legal and ethical laws- copy right law.
When I was copying and using my images I thought very hard about the copyright law and to change the images in such a way that they were not the same as they were when I copied them. There are many different opinions on this and some can be seen as good and bad. Especially when it involves enhancing and highly manipulating an image to make it look better by enhancing features so that it can attract more customers to buy that product. Some people will buy a product even if it doesn't do what it says it should do causing them to have wasted their money. This is highly used in television adverts, magazines, clothing adverts. Images in every day settings are highly manipulated to make them look more appealing.
When I was copying and using my images I thought very hard about the copyright law and to change the images in such a way that they were not the same as they were when I copied them. There are many different opinions on this and some can be seen as good and bad. Especially when it involves enhancing and highly manipulating an image to make it look better by enhancing features so that it can attract more customers to buy that product. Some people will buy a product even if it doesn't do what it says it should do causing them to have wasted their money. This is highly used in television adverts, magazines, clothing adverts. Images in every day settings are highly manipulated to make them look more appealing.
For example any "wrinkle cream adverts" they will go through great lengths to advertise their products and make them look as good as they can. This can bedone by hiding the models wrinkles on their faces which will portrait their product to work even, though they have just use Photoshop editing to hide these. By using younger models as well I think makes the company look desperate as they are not portraying their product on an old enough person who has experienced wrinkles. For that reason making their product look good to customers by using younger models is deceiving I think.
The ethics law has remained in place for companies to think about whether what they are doing is right or wrong for their customers, and whether they are allowed to sell their goods to their clients. When changing images by using Photoshop it is deceiving for customers and the ethics laws stands in place for companies to only be allowed to change certain images but, not so much as the images are no longer the original image. Some companies have been fined and stopped from changing their images.
It is important for companies to have an agreement with the owner of the original image or, the model's permission to change their image as if they don't the company can be sued and get in a lot of trouble. When changing someone's picture the company will need their permission as the copyright law is in place and can get the company in trouble. However if the person is just using the image for messing around with and gaining experience that is fine, as long as the image doesn't go on-line or be used for other people to see. If this happens you must be sure that you have the person's permission, this can be lengthy job and can take time but will be worth it in the end.
I don't really need to think about these laws as I'm using a google image but editing it to make it my own image.
Blog 11 Feedback
After creating my disc label, front page and my back page I received feedback on my work, for how to improve it and what changes I need to make to make it better.
After a few weeks of creating my images I finally decided on an image to place on my DVD cover and case. I was ready for feedback even though I felt like I hadn't done much work and hadn't created my video at this stage and knew for sure I wouldn't get a pass.
We got paired up in class and we took it in turns to look at each other's work and to give feedback on improvements. The given requirements were provided as:
For the given requirements I received the following feedback:
Set up a Photoshop file - Correct Colour. Correct size - Correct size set up DPI - Correct DPI used (300). Selection tools - Selection tools have been used to place and crop images. Filters - No filters used but may be added in at the end. Layers - A few layers used and named accordingly. I suggested using folders to group them and to make workspace more efficient. Layer Transparency - No use of transparency but will be used later. Levels - No use of levels. Guides -Guides are not finished. Effects applied to photos - No effects used. A render in appropriate format - Image has been saved as JPEG.
My other comments of improvements were guides need to be set up so that you can see where the edge and spine of the cover should be. For the back cover take a look at how the other movie covers look and try to implement it in to you final production design.
Then came the feedback for my DVD disc label cover.
The given requirements were:
For the given requirements I received the following feedback;
Pen tool - No will consider using this.
Type tool - Used for logo (text)
Placing images - Yes a few images were placed on disc
Brushes - Wasn't used
Clipping mask - Not used
Guides - Guides were set up correctly.
Layers - Layers were used for images and adjustments. Also have named them correctly.
Transparencies - No but will consider it.
Text wrap - No but will consider using it.
A render in an appropriate format - Not yet.
I can see now that I have alot of improvements to do as I didn't do much work then but think I have progressed onwards and made my changes to improve my work. My comments for my DVD disc label were that the DVD cover image can be used as background for the CD. Also logo can be improved a bit more to show the use of different features and effects.
The person marking our work was looking for things in what we had used and where we had used them.
I was given 29% and said that little evidence of use of learning resources. No self direction, with little evidence of contribution to team work. Very weak academic/intellectual skills and significant difficulties with structure/expression. Little evidence of practical/professional skills. I agree with being given this grade but am hoping that I can improve my work and make the changes I need to make to up my grade.
After a few weeks of creating my images I finally decided on an image to place on my DVD cover and case. I was ready for feedback even though I felt like I hadn't done much work and hadn't created my video at this stage and knew for sure I wouldn't get a pass.
We got paired up in class and we took it in turns to look at each other's work and to give feedback on improvements. The given requirements were provided as:
- Set up the correct Photoshop File
- Correct size
- DPI
- Selection tools
- Filters
- Layers (named well and organised well)
- Layer transparency
- Levels
- Guides
- Effects applied to photos
- A render in an appropriate format
For the given requirements I received the following feedback:
Set up a Photoshop file - Correct Colour. Correct size - Correct size set up DPI - Correct DPI used (300). Selection tools - Selection tools have been used to place and crop images. Filters - No filters used but may be added in at the end. Layers - A few layers used and named accordingly. I suggested using folders to group them and to make workspace more efficient. Layer Transparency - No use of transparency but will be used later. Levels - No use of levels. Guides -Guides are not finished. Effects applied to photos - No effects used. A render in appropriate format - Image has been saved as JPEG.
My other comments of improvements were guides need to be set up so that you can see where the edge and spine of the cover should be. For the back cover take a look at how the other movie covers look and try to implement it in to you final production design.
Then came the feedback for my DVD disc label cover.
The given requirements were:
- Pen tool
- Type tool
- Placing images
- Brushes
- Clipping masks
- Guides
- Layers
- Transparencies
- Text wrap
- A render in an appropriate format
For the given requirements I received the following feedback;
Pen tool - No will consider using this.
Type tool - Used for logo (text)
Placing images - Yes a few images were placed on disc
Brushes - Wasn't used
Clipping mask - Not used
Guides - Guides were set up correctly.
Layers - Layers were used for images and adjustments. Also have named them correctly.
Transparencies - No but will consider it.
Text wrap - No but will consider using it.
A render in an appropriate format - Not yet.
I can see now that I have alot of improvements to do as I didn't do much work then but think I have progressed onwards and made my changes to improve my work. My comments for my DVD disc label were that the DVD cover image can be used as background for the CD. Also logo can be improved a bit more to show the use of different features and effects.
The person marking our work was looking for things in what we had used and where we had used them.
I was given 29% and said that little evidence of use of learning resources. No self direction, with little evidence of contribution to team work. Very weak academic/intellectual skills and significant difficulties with structure/expression. Little evidence of practical/professional skills. I agree with being given this grade but am hoping that I can improve my work and make the changes I need to make to up my grade.
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