Editing pictures

For my billboard supporting piece I am currently creating I have decided to go with the concept of Sam Sturt doing a flip and showing the different stages of. I have decided to do this as it clearly shows the documentary will be related to the 2012 Olympics. Along with this there will be some brief information on the documentary and text saying "Welcome to London".

After I took the pictures of Sam I had to edit them in order to create the effect that I was hoping for. For this I mainly used Paint as I could easily cut out the sections of the image and then fill in the areas for a better look. Once I had done this I went onto Windows Photo Gallery where I could fix the photo by changing the exposure and colour. I decided to go with changing the pictures to black and white as I wanted a grainy effect so that the picture looked distorted.

I will need go through this process again with the two other pictures I have taken too.

Using dafont

For our ancillary pieces I have decided to use dafont. Dafont is a website which gives a variety of different fonts. I will be using this for my ancillary pieces so that I can choose the best fonts for both of the pieces I am going to be making. Dafont gives me a huge choice of different fonts for different themes so it makes it easy for me to choose what font will go best with each of the supporting pieces.

The way dafont works is that I will choose a particular font and then insert the text. The text will appear in that particular font and then it has to be copied and pasted then cropped to size in a separate document as the text cannot be downloaded.

Ancillary pictures

Yesterday i managed to take some pictures of Sam whilst he was in training so that we can use them in out ancillary pieces. Once I have picked the pictures that I decide to use for the billboard and magazine article i will crop and edit them to try and create an effect that is appropriate for what I am trying to create.

Magazine article progress

As part of out joint ancillary piece we have decided to do a magazine article which involved an interview. So far we have managed to write out and insert the article into the layout we have chosen.

The next stage is to take some pictures of Sam in training so that we can use them in the article. We will also need to go on DaFont so we choose the appropriate font for the title too.

We managed to get the of the layout from a magazine we found in class where there was an interview on David Cameron. We liked the look of the layout to start with and then this further backed up our choice as there was an interview too making us realise that this was the best layout for an interviewed article.

Once we have completed this joint piece of work Chris and I need to create our own separate pieces. Chris has decided to make a poster advertising the documentary and I have decided to make a billboard.

Evaluation-Prezi

A requirement for the course is to create an evaluation on our documentary. Each individual has to make a presentation on this to the class showing them the documentary by evaluating it and looking into it in more detail.

I have managed to start my evaluation by covering the 4 areas:

How our production develops or challenges traditional documentary forms?

How effective is the comber-nation of production and ancillary pieces?

What have I learnt from audience feedback?

How did we use the media technologies?

As the evaluation needs to be in the form of a presentation, instead of using Microsoft Power point I decided to use an on-line software called Prezi. Prezi is a different presentation software to Microsoft Power point but it looks more attractive making it more interesting towards the viewers.

Voice over

Today we managed to get the first stage of voice over recording for our documentary. We still need to record more voice over parts with more facts and statistics on the Olympics.

We recorded strait in Imovie as this was the easiest option because we could record the voice over strait into the edited clip.

By having a voice over in our production this means the documentary has more purpose and follows the traditional documentary forms. It also gives the viewers more information and tells the audience what is going too.