Secondhand Smoke PSA

PSA Analysis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRQipHrkdyU&feature

This PSA is about secondhand smoking. The PSA shows a group of people talking to each other and they are all drinking water. Then it switches to a scene where one of them is smoking. The part where there is one smoker in the group is the most effective because everyone else's facial expression changes as they look at the smoker. There is music playing in the background as if they were at a party. It is effective to show where secondhand smoking happens despite the black blackground. There is no voice script in the PSA, but the people are shown talking amongst themselves. These decisions make the message effective because of it compares something rude to something deadly. As the smoke went into everybody's faces, it showed facts about secondhand smoking. I thought it got the message across well, and the timing of the messages shown and how to show them was effective.

CD Cover Assignment

Cosmosomas


Cosmosomas is a hardcore techno band. The CD is called “Our Snap Judgements”. The front cover is a picture of a skull inside a stereo speaker taken by me. I chose to take a picture of my stereo so that it represents loudness. Its yellow outlining is supposed to be the flaming of a star. I decided to use this as the front cover and back cover to represent the core of the music and the party-hard personality of the band.
On each side of the inside of the CD, is a picture of Cosmo somas. Written inside is a definition of Cosmo somas. I chose to put these pictures in to represent their interest in space and to represent their intergalactic sound. On the other side, there is a quote, “shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you’ll land among the stars” by Brian Littrell. I put the quote in because it shows their determination and inspiration to make music, also because it relates to the theme of the CD and their band name.
The traycard with the Milky Way image and the Cosmo somas are also used to personify their heavy electronic bass because of the way the Milky Way’s waves look like which can be interpreted as sound waves. The CD cover’s main colour is black with blue font. I used black to show that Cosmosomas is an aggressive band. The blue font “Machine ITC TT” carries out a futuristic electronic feel.
The band’s name Cosmosomas is curved around the stereo on the front cover to make it more interesting and eye catching. The CD is black with blue font same as it is throughout the booklet. I put Cosmosomas twice on the CD at the top and the bottom. I arched the text to fit the curves of the CD.

CD Booklet Assignment

Band Title: Cosmosomas

Album Title: Our Snap Judgements

Style of Music: Hardcore Techno


This hardcore techno band focuses on their mass bass beats while aggressively adding an edgy melody. Cosmosomas loves to party hard(core) and DJs at clubs regularly. Their goal for each album is to make them even more edgy and fun to dance to. Cosmosomas is fast, catchy, melodic, aggressive and insane.



Samples:

Neophyte is a well known influential hardcore/gabber group formed in 1992 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The three original members are Jeroen Streunding (DJ Neophyte), Danny Greten and Robin van Roon. Robin van Roon left the group for studying and Jarno Butter, a guitarist and friend of Danny joined the group.



A hardcore DJ who performs in a Jason hockey mask. His style of music is respected for its violence and aggresive sound made by extreme bass drums.





The Art of Fighters consists of three guys: Cristian Nardelli, Matteo Pitossi and Luca Lorini. Like Angerfist, this group performs in Jason hockey masks, but they do claim they used it first. Since 2000, their music has grown to the public liking in parties.

Random Album Cover Assignment

This band is called List of Diplomats. The original article was called List of Diplomats from the United Kingdom to the Republic of Genoa. I made the font face Old English Text MT to keep the English descent present.I decided that the band's style of music would be Indie/ Alternative rock. The album title is called " A Fairly Good Time". I assumed the people in the picture were a family at a ski resort having a fairly good time. The album title seems to be relaxed so I kept the background of the picture plain white and all text black. I changed the album title font face to perpetua and made it smaller than the band name to identify what is which.

This second band is called Divya Bhaskar. The name comes from a popular Gujarati newspaper in Gujarat, India. I chose a soft font called Viner Hand ITC that looked like it would represent an exotic place like India.I chose a light green colour for the font to give it, its natural feel. The album title chosen for me for this picture is "Infinite Number of Solutions". Based on these two titles together, I decided to make this band represent an indian style of easy listening music.

The album title has a positive meaning to it, so this band could help someone relax and relieve themselves of stress. The picture is of a waterdrop about to fall of a plant. This represents the naturual beauty of India and the relaxation said above.

"How-to" Photograph Website

http://www.photosecrets.com/tips.html

This website shows resources you can refer to so you know what you can do to take good photographs from the basics. It also provides what equipment you need to take certain photographs.

Photographer's Website

http://www.robertdawson.com/

This is a website for Robert Dawson's photography. He has several projects of photos which i was interested in. I liked the use of people in his photos. I also liked the use of compositional elements such as shape, linear perspective, mood, lines and especially centre of interest.

Magazine Cover

Composition Photos: Linear Perspective and Shape

Linear Perspective by Vincent

Linear Perspective is the distance from the lens of the camera to the scene relative to each other.

I chose to take a picture of this fence because of it stretches over a distance and curves at the end. I angled it close to the fence and left the view of the curve open. The bricks at the bottom also curve and extend at a distance parallel to the fence.










I took a picture of a street across from the school. The road extends a distance to attach to a different road. The two parallel lines exist on both sides of the street. The car driving towards the camera gives us the other perspective of the street. Without the sidewalks it would look like an open road.





Shape by Randi



Shapes of different variety give the viewer something to look at to make it interesting.

Randi took a picture of a water tower because of the height and the shapes that hold the water tower up. It's curved dome is another shape that really stands out.

Randi took a picture of an interesting shape in front of the school. There are two main shapes seen in this picture. There is a solid square and a circle cut into the square.

Photoshop Exercise TGJ2O1

TGJ2O1 Photoshop Exercise

The first thing i did was find a picture of George Clooney, I made sure that he was in a casual pose to make it easier to cut him out of his original picture. I also had to make sure that the clothes he was wearing was contrasted from the background. After opening Photoshop CS, I created a new layer as a copy. After doing that, I selected the background around Clooney to change the background colour. I chose red. After this step, I used the magnetic lasso tool to select George. I carefully traced George Clooney out making sure i got the outline of his body.
I found a picture of a Tarzan background which is random because it is a cartoon and George Clooney is a real person. He isn't even a voice for any of the characters in the movie. After doing this, i created a vector mask. There was a red outline around George Clooney so i had to get rid of it by using the airbrush tool with the colour red. It was the same shade i used to change the background colour of Clooney's original picture. I copied and pasted Clooney into the Tarzan background beside Tarzan to show both individuals. Lastly, i did some finishing touches to Clooney's body. There were still parts that were left from the other background so i had to blend those colours in with the Tarzan background. Then, I changed Clooney's brightness.
This is George Clooney in Tarzan