Story in 5 frames.

Basically, this very afternoon, we were split into pairs and were given  a short amount of times to come up with a story that can be told in five photographs. I think everyone's initial thoughts were panic! Coming up with an idea for s story is hard enough, but having to tell it within 5 photographs seemed impossible. 

Although, it proved to be easier than I thought.

My partner and I, Becca, went into a computer room, and i basically said, pretend you're watching a funny film, and fall back on your chair. Pretty simple. But IT worked pretty well. It was quite a funny experience having to get Becca to lie on the floor as if she had just fallen of a chair though, especially as people kept coming in to the room, and looking as if we were mad.

So here it is.

I have cropped some of the images to bring out some of more important details such as the computer screen.

Typical

Not surprisingly I woke up and felt like my throat was on fire and couldn't attend the lectures.

I did however have all the time in the world to work on editing some of the pictures I had taken for todays lesson

I took these two images and decided to incorporate them together. I really like overlapping images, and playing with layers. I do think I may have gone over the top with the editing, but when I start, I can't seem to stop. I do like the intensity of the skyline in contrast to the softness of the overlapped image.

In the image below, I had a go at replacing the sky as in the original it seemed like quite a dull image, so with one easy edit you can completely change the mood to picture, which is what i LOVE about Photoshop.

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I then started with this image because I felt I could have fun just using brightness, contrast, and hue.

 
          I changed the hue and brightness, and added
    an 'omni' lighting effect to bring out the brightness                                                                        I tried something different and replaced
               of the sun behind the silhouette.                                                                                              the sky with a completely different
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When It Rains

Really wish this rain would stop. A car drove past me earlier and squirted a huge puddle all over me. I was NOT amused, as some of you now probably will be at the thought. 

So on the way home and looking at the photo's I'd taken for tomorrow Digital Tools lesson I realised that the wasn't particularly a strong image I could creatively edit or manipulate so I headed off and took a couple more.

So this is a sign post along the prom in New Brighton.

I actually had to take these images on my smartphone because well, I had to give the SONY back to my friend :(

Although I actually think the compositions came up nicely. I love the silhouette in the second image and the colours in the background.

I ALMOST FORGOT TO MENTION


We got to attend a talk off some people from the BBC who were talking about the College of Production website. Initially some of the talk was for the Journalism students, but having been into writing myself it was quite interesting to hear about some of the different tips they had. The website seemed to be extremely useful to me, and will definitely be looking at it later on to browse some of the videos.

Sunday Morning

I say Sunday morning because I still haven't touched my bed or slept yet!

I thought I'd post some of the photo's I've taken for Tuesdays Digital Tools lesson.

The task was

Take a photo of something you walk by every day without noticing.

So these are the photos I took!

The Giant Rooster! So i saw this whilst walking past someones garden, I just loved how it looked so out of place. I also sort of like how the light is over exposed to the right of the image.

Footprint in concrete. Its not something you'd typically notice whilst walking but I just quite liked the simplicity of it.

So I've been loosing my mind trying to think what these things are even called! So I'm settling for a sewer grate. I actually looked at several of these but this one seemed to stand out.  It just looked so bold and dominating in contrast to the ground around it. 

This is maybe one of my favourites simply because of the out of focus regions. Surprisingly it was by accident whilst messing around with the different settings on my camera. 

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So I was thankfully able to borrow my friends SONY DSLR which I'm hoping to buy myself at Christmas! 

I was actually in Liverpool when I took these over the weekend by St Johns Gardens. I love the sharp focus these cameras give

I played around with different angles and felt that this was definitely quite interested, as it also plays with depth of field, the background being extremely blurred and then the sharpness of the foreground 

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The colours of leaves is what I love most about Autumn! The warming colours int he background made this lamp so alluring to me. The complete boldness of the black against the brightness of the leaves would make this quite difficult to edit, because in my opinion the image does itself justice without any manipulation.

I have ALWAYS loved the Liverpool Skyline, and luckily its right on my doorstep! Liverpool has so many iconic buildings, and usually I never take a minute to appreciate the view.

Ideas, ideas, and more ideas

Today was just idea over lode in our Creativity and Concept Development lesson.

We were asked the question: 

'How would you change this Teaching room if you had unlimited money and resources?'. 

Naturally I'm looking around the room and thinking 'What WOULD I do to this room?'

Change the colour of the walls and flooring, add a couple of Television screens and comfier seats. But as soon as you really put your mind to it, you can really go over the top.

I mean who would think of edible walls? or a weather machine? 

I loved that most people came up with having a bar, or a a food bar, a relaxing area, Huge cinema screens, a mini planetarium!

I mean who would even want to leave the place to o home if it had all these different things in.

Some of the ideas were just brilliant! I really surprised myself at the amount of great things my partner and I came up with, and it was fun!

I think practical lessons like that, were you can really think creatively and out of the box,, really helps push your limits.

Happy Days

Well in this weeks Contemporary Media Issues we had to use Prezi. OH JOY. A little part of me died a little inside at the thought of it. I've used it so many times before in the past, and having previously used it at A-Level to present my work on a blog I'd grown to thoroughly hate it.

I mean the whole concept of it is brilliant, don't get me wrong, and when I was first introduced to it I loved it. Although when you're the time of person who likes to have everything perfect and goes over the top with design, which Prezi offers, you find yourself spending hours upon hours on it, and that's not even including putting text onto it.

Our task was to bring in an object that hold some kind of meaning or significance to us. After racking my mind and searching my room for anything, I end up with the two things on my wrist that i wear almost all the time.
The two bracelets, however stereotypical of girl, meant a lot to me. They were bought off friends as a memento of our friendship over the years as we were all separating to go to different universities. 

We then got into groups and had to link together our objects into topics. All of them seemed to hold memories of different places or people, so that is what we went for.

The link to our Prezi presentation

http://prezi.com/1cnl9daob1dv/significant-objects/