Newman's Evaluation: Episode four

what have you learnt about technologies from the production of this product?

I have use a wide array of technology such as a DSLR Camera, we did this by hiring it out by using a small independent business that we have recently befriended. We had some difficulty when we were on the photo shoot in the alley with ED Ache. When it was raining and the light was coming from behind the camera; as the camera has automated focus and flash this leaves the camera choosing wheter or not to take the photo. However the light was coming from two different sources behind and infront of the camera, this confused the camera what to focus on and to decide if it needed flash or not (also the rain added another element of difficulty to the operation).We resolved the problem by using an umbrella to shield the light and the rain that was distracting the camera so much.

Another Piece of technology i used for the project is a Apple Macintosh computer. The Macs are specalised in the field of media, thus for: videos, music and pictures. I used the Macs as they are faster, smarter and more reliable than the Microsoft PC's. I feel as i have a mastered the Macs at a basic level with little time to adjust myself to the new technology on account that i can use most of the software on the Computers.

I also used the technology called photoshop on the Macs. I beleive that i have quite a level of skill on photoshop as i have a long time to adjust to the tools on the program however it's formatted differently on the Macs with only having the one click option. I successfully made a beliveable picture of Jay (Kalpesh) floating on a cloud over the City of Manchester. I did this by using an old picture of an ariel picture of Manchester from a previous trip as the background, then used the cloud effect on the 'Effects' tool, then changed the perspective of the cloud to make it look like it was flat, after i then chose the paint brush tool to create the effect of shading on the cloud.I then cut around a picture of Jay (Kalpesh) with a tool then made a new layer. When the layers were aligned, anon I duplicated the layer of Jay (Kalpesh) then removed all of the detail within the layer to create a colourless outline, which later filled in with a solid black colour as the shadow, in it's form I decreased the percentage of the tranparency of the layer to create the illusion of a shadow, which i dragged the layer below the layer of the cut out Jay (Kalpesh).