Finishing our prospectus

Today was our last day to finish off our prospectus but luckily i had been working on my prospectus in my free time. However i didnt save my prospectus as a JPEG so i was unable to print it off so i will need to get a technician in to help me next lesson. Overall i think my prospectus went really well especially as it was my first time using photoshop.
Hopefully when i design my music magazine my photoshop skills will be a lot better.

We are on photoshop again and my prospectus is starting to get better. I have changed my background, added the schools name and also added in a few pictures and edited them as they were too light and they needed to look more professional.
I was getting really frustated as i couldnt work out how to use the layers and ended it up deleting some things so i had to ask some of my friends for help.

Sophie Harten.

Todays lesson we uploaded our pictures onto photoshop and i found it so hard to use and i didnt know how to use some of the software. I was getting really frustrated and barely got anything done where i had to keep starting again as i was getting things wrong but this also helped me to learn whilst doing it.
Hopefully fridays lesson will be better and more successful.

Sophie Harten.

Today we went out and took photos for the prospectus that we are designing. In my group there was me, Ricky Lawrence, Jack Halliday, Daniel Munden, Bradley Stokes and Maxwell Mbofana. We managed to take all of the pictures that we wanted. The pictures that i needed for my prospectus were the front office and it has recently been refurbished and the St.Marks sign is new. I also took a picture of the new sixth form block so that children coming to the school would know what the sixth form lookes like as impressions are a main thing. I also took pictures of school children working so that it shows that the sixth form is a good atmosphere.

Miss Breen handed out pieces of A3 paper to the class so that we were able to brainstorm ideas about our prospectus. This helped me as i came up with various ideas that i could use and after i had finished that i had a clear idea what i wanted my prospectus to look like.
I then designed the front cover of my prospectus on the other side of the paper where i positioned where i wanted everything to be. I had to decide what pictures i would want and specify what camera angles i would be using. The main things that i needed to include were the school name and also if it was to be a sixth form prospectus or not. I thought i planned the front cover of my prospectus well and it was all very detailed as it included the pictures and camera angles, name of school and also the logo of what the school is specialised for and also a quote from ofsted.

In todays media lesson Miss Breen brought up some of the school prospectus' that the school use. Miss also showed a variety of school prospectus' off of the internet so this helped us when thinking about planning our own.
We then discussed the target audience, images, language, content, attracting the audience, format, iconography and the house style. Looking at the schools prospectus made it a lot easier when thinking about planning my own. After having a class discussion about the schools prospectus Miss then asked us to design briefly what we would like our prospectus to look like which we could then build on when designing it properly.

Sophie Harten.

This is our second lesson of media today and we are getting a tutorial on photoshop. Its so hard as i haven't used photoshop properly before and I didn't really understand. The technician gave us the tutorial and i thought he went too quick so I got lost and had to ask Jack Halliday and Alex Sodimu.
The main skills we were shown were lasso, text, paint bucket tool and eraser.
We had a go at lassoing random pictures so we could test out some of the tools and get used to using them.After the technician had finished the tutorial it was near the end of the lesson so I didn't get to ask the questions that i wanted to.

Sophie Harten.

In our media lesson today we were told about the preliminary task we would be doing which is to deisgn a front page of a magazine of any type of music genre that we wanted. Miss explained to us that we would need to use our own photos and ideas, she also showed us some examples of last years music magazines designs which helped us to think of what we would want to do.
After lunch we are going to have a tutorial on photoshop.

Sophie Harten.