yesterday, we continued to film our footage for the film and film trailer. we now have all of our footage and are therefore editing it. this is what we will continue to do for the remaining lesson time we have left before the project needs to be given in.

today i have completed my magazine front cover, which i am really pleased with. i have developed my skills on Photoshop and eventually put the straplines and other images or text onto my front cover using Photoshop rather than a Publishing programme. i have improved my skills by being able to edit fonts more effectively; positioning, size, style etc. however, a new thing which i have learnt today is how to insert shapes onto the cover. at first i had some difficulty getting a filled circle onto the cover, as each time i then clicked off it to insert text into it, it would dissappear. i then experimented with the various tools on Photoshop and managed to choose the right tool which made a cirlce template, which i then filled in purple to match the title of 'Empire'. i am overall really happy with the outcome of my front cover.

this week i have used both a digital camera and the video camera. i used a digital camera which has a macro and fisheye lense, which will provide the photographs for the magazine front cover and the poster. we used the video camera to film our short film (for film studies) which we will then rearrange and crop to provide the film trailor.

when taking the photos of 'Penelope' for the magazine front cover and the poster, i used the fisheye lense on the camera to continue the theme of surrealism which is in the film. the photographs show 'Penelope' and the pen, which is the main theme within the film and therefore extremely important. 'Penelope' is positioned infront of a pink and silver wallpapered wall, which is in the room where she intially discovers the power of the pen, therefore it is significant. i will put the image on the magazine cover in wednesdays lesson, and the poster will be made so we will therefore have the remaining time to complete the film trailer.

today i have completed the storyboard for the film trailer, which i will be able to successfully follow once i the filming has been completed today, after the lesson.
i also plan to taking the photo for my magazine front cover using a fish-eye lense on the camera to keep the theme of surrealism going. this will also be the case for the poster.

this week i have used Photoshop, in order to begin my magazine front cover. as it will be an issue of Empire magazine, i inserted a cover of the magazine into Photoshop and used thw wand tool to copy and paste each letter of Empire, onto a new page which would be the start of my own cover. once i had inserted each letter, i positioned them correctly, following the conventions of the other Empire covers. my cover was now beginning to look like the other Empire magazines. from this stage, i went on to change the colour of the text. i decided on a dark purple, as it was not too vibrant yet it matched the on going theme of the purple pen which Penelope finds. i finally added some additional text on to the cover; the issue date, the price, the website and a barcode. i now need to take my photograph(s) for my front cover and finalise the straplines i intend on using on the cover.
through doing this, i do not feel that i have developed any skills as everything i have done, i was able to do last year. one problem which i have stumbled upon is a weakness within Photoshop; it is an image manipulation programme, rather than a text programme, such as Publisher. therefore, i am going to wait untill i have my photograph(s) for my magazine front cover, to then save it as a jpeg, and add text on Publishing software.

i have started to create my magazine front cover. so far i have created the title Empire, and added a date, price and the magazine's website. i am following the layout and theme of the other Empire magazines; essentially providing a template for my cover.