Blog 10 creating logo for dvd case

I have created images using shapes in Illustrator and decided to use them as my logo on my DVD. This is because my theme is foster care so I wanted to make it a childish theme. I used different shapes and themes to create the perfect logo which took me three attempts to correct and to get it perfect.

I learnt how to create shapes within each other as well as joining shapes together which will help me if I need to join any image together. I did this by placing three different shapes along side each other and then clicking the window option in the top menu bar. Then I clicked on the Path Finder option which allowed me to eliminate the shapes I didn't need or want and enabled me to remove these shapes with the delete button. I would need to keep doing this if I wanted to join different shapes together more. I will in future need to practice using this tool in order to gain greater skill with it.

This is just a rough guess as to what my logo will look like but there may be changes made and it could change completlely

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.