sophiemarina

12/13/2011

Evaluation of my media product

Evaluation

Evaluation of my media product

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12/13/2011

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12/10/2011

Editing in Photoshop

Before editing in Photoshop

After editing in Photoshop

Above you can see the image that I used as the central photo on my contents page. The original image was shot in the studio with a black backdrop and hot lights. In order to use this photograph on my contents page, I had to cut around the subject using the magnetic lasso tool and then cut and paste the cut-out onto a new raster layer which has no background. Once I had done this, I made some other changes to the image. I smoothed out the skin tone of my subject using the clone stamp tool and the blur tool, I adjusted the curves to give the colours in the photo more depth and I changed my subject’s hair colour to give it a more red tone. This is because Elly Jackson has red hair. In order to change the hair colour of my subject, I traced around her hair using the magnetic lasso tool again. I then created a new raster layer and filled the selected area with a bright orange colour. Once I had done this, I changed the style of this raster layer to “Soft light” and set the opacity to 75%. In order to get the shadow around my model I merged all visible layers and selected the entire image so that my model was selected. I then added a shadow around her and saved my image as a PNG file to ensure that the image had no background.

12/10/2011

Double page spread article development

Articles/interviews I gathered information from

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/may/23/la-roux-interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JgmjCXiF2Q&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBK5X96eBV4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elly_Jackson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLWpVlUFjck&feature=related

In order to write my article on Elly Jackson, I had to do some research on her. I decided that the best way to gather true information straight from the woman herself would be to watch interviews with her that had been posted on YouTube. Three of the links above will take you to youtube videos and the others will take you to articles/web pages that I found useful when gathering information.

Whilst watching the interviews on YouTube and reading the articles, I wrote out some bullet points on Microsoft Word which I later developed and used for my article. You can readthe bullet points that I wrote up below…

ELLY JACKSON

Eleanor Kate “Elly” Jackson was born in South London on 12^th March 1988.
First interest in music revolved around folk music which she says her dad played when she was a young girl. He was into music and taught himself to play guitar in his young teens; he wanted to give Elly the pleasure of being able to play as well.
He played a lot of folk music when Elly was young such as Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell, and Carole King.
Met Ben, who is her partner in the band “La Roux” at a New Years Eve party in Brixton where she was singing for Jason Bacon who phoned Ben and told him that he needed to listen to Elly.
Likes to create music using acoustic instruments although La Roux’s music is very techno.
In her teens, Elly’s taste in music changed when she became involved in the rave scene. She likes artists such as David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Madonna, Prince and The Knife and is influenced by these artists. She says that she didn’t want to go down the road of ‘singer-songwriter’, she fell out of love with folk music and began to dislike the sound of the acoustic guitar in her music. Because of this, her music is much more electronic.
Elly doesn’t like what is perceived as ‘normal’ in fashion. She likes to experiment with fashion and her style has been described by many as androgynous. Jackson opposes being made to look more feminine by stylists.
First album “La Roux” was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2009.
It took, from beginning to end, 5 years to create the first album.

12/06/2011

Shooting for my magazine

Shooting for ‘Amp’ magazine

In order to take the photographs for my front cover and double page spread I asked my friend, Rosie, to model for me as Elly Jackson from La Roux. Me and three of my classmates decided to rent out the photo stuido in our college for two hours in order to take our cover and double page spread photographs. We helped each other by modelling for one another and helping with costumes and styling. As a photography student, I had some previous knowledge of using the studio and college equipment which was quite helpful.

We decided on a time and day that we were all available to work in the studio and we booked out the time. On the day we each spent 30 minutes to take our photographs and as there were four of us, this took two hours to complete.

I decided to use the hot lights that are attached to the cieling in the studio and I also set up two hot lights on stands which I was able to move around. I set up a black backdrop behind my subject as I decided that I wanted to use a black background for my front cover. This is because the genre of my magazine is indie rock and I wanted it to fit with this genre.

11/24/2011

'Amp' contents page