Production Monitoring Blog 14th March 2011

Last week I achieved a lot within my production. On the Monday I did my photo shoot for 45 minutes, 9:00-9:45. In this time I photographed the images for my front cover and my double page spread articles. Here is a shot of two of the photos that I took, which are also the photo’s that I will be using for my front cover and one of my articles. On the second day I uploaded my images and decided which ones I would use for what. I decided this by looking at the exposure, lightening, expressions and other characteristics of the photos. 
On Wednesday I then began to design my front cover by looking at my flat plan of my front cover which had my main idea’s on and then taking it further to eventually placing my main image in the middle of the page and then editing this to make it look right. The next day, Thursday I added more smaller images onto the page that would relate to the subheadings of my double page spread.  Everything went to plan in my schedule and especially in my photo shoot because I got every picture that I needed and I achieved this in the time that I had without any problems.
However it took me a lot longer to edit my photos than I expected because my photo shop skills have degraded in time because of the lack of use with it. This slowed down my schedule quite a lot. I also had some problems with my model that I used in the photo shoot because she was not wearing the correct costume that I needed her to wear on her bottom part of her body. I then had to only photograph the top half of her and zoomed in on her with the camera which then changed my plan of what I needed.
I have also learnt more skills on Photoshop and how to upload different fonts on to it from websites. I have also learnt how to place images onto other images using Photoshop. In my photo shoot, I learned how to use the backdrop properly and background lights within the studio. This week I need to complete all of my front cover and edit it all to the right standards that I need. On the Monday I will make sure all the photos are edited correctly and I will also finish my front cover and make sure everything is placed where it should be. 
On Tuesday I will start my double page spread starting my first article. I will pick all the images that I will use in the articles. On Wednesday I will start writing the first article and on Thursday I will start writing the second article. To do this I will use my schedule for next week. I will use m Photoshop skills within this.

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