Deyes High contents page

This is a picture of my contents page for my Deyes High newsletter that I completed for my prelim task. I completed this using publisher for my newsletter and photshop for my photo's.

Deyes High front cover

This is a picture of the first cover of my deye high newsletter that I completed for my prelim task. I designed this using microsoft publisher and edited my own photo's on photoshop.

Theories

Laura mulveys male gaze theories
The concept of the gaze is one that deals with how an audience views the people presented.
For feminists it can be thought of in 3 ways;

1.  how men look at women.
2. how women look at themselves.
3. how women look at other women.

 Mulvey came up with the gaze theory in 1975. She believes that in films, audiences have to view characters from the perspective of a heterosexual male.

Features of the male gaze
the camera lingers on the curves of the female body, and events which occur to women are presented largely in the context of a man's reaction to these events.
Relegates women to the status of objects. The female viewer must experience the narrative secondarily, by identification with the male.
Example: Scouting for girls: "I love the way she fills her clothes, she looks just like them girls in vogue" This is again discussing the curves and figure of a women which can be regarded as quite discriminative.

Music magazine genres

There are all different genres of music, but there is not a music magazine specified to every genre.
The most popular music magazines tend to be on hip-hop or R&B.


R&B:               Raw roots, Vibe, URB, Spine magazine,












Rock and pop: Black velvet, American hit network, kerrang, crawdaddy,
                         mojo, NME, Q magazine

























Blues: blues&rythem, blues bytes, jazz and blues reports, blues
audience, blues revue.

Classical: All things strings, classical singer, Czech music quartly, fanfaire,
                 muso, strad, the.











Country: country weekly, Nashville country, take country back, women of
               country, country music.


       

Jazz: All about jazz, JAM, jazz online, jazz review, jazz.com, jazzwest,
         Mister lucky, sounds of timeless jazz, smooth jazz.


























General: Alternative press, Billboard, glide, mojo, music box, music arts monthly, NME.












                       
Opera: classical singer community, opera, opera now, opera opera, opera
            today, US opera, web, vocal images.




                              

                    

Newsletter mock-up

This newsletter mock-up is what I hope to achieve by the end of my prelim task. I hope to achieve something similar to this if not the same. Where I have left room for my photographs I will be taking my own for them. I will edit my photo's for this via Photoshop in order to achieve a professional look. This mock up I believe contains features of a magazine for example, it will contain  a large dominating image in the centre of the page, It will have some secondary text of what will be portrayed in
my newsletter, it will contain a puff and logo. It will contain the contents
 of issues as well. I will however, make changes in order to apply it to a newsletter for example; I will use the same colour scheme throughout, academic specialised vocabulary and appropriate imagery.

Media prelim pictures

These are the chosen pictures for my Media coursework prelim task. I will edit them further through Photoshop in order to achieve a more professional take on them. I took these pictures myself as every picture must be from your own camera throughout this coursework. There was no problems when taking my photo's only that some never took as well as others, I will aim to take more pictures on my next lesson for my contents page. I will use the image of the footballers for my main image as my main article will be discussing the footballs teams victory of finishing first place in the sefton cup. I chose this image out of the rest as I believe it looks the most natural and spontaneous.

Photoshop Lesson

The images above show the pre-hand Photoshop task and what it looks like after. I have used the clone-stamp tool in order to achieve my finished piece. This tool allows you to clone a certain area and then cover over the desired area you wish to remove. This is how I achieved the removal of the remaining 5 bottles. When doing this you have to be careful what area you choose as it has to be exact to the area you are covering or it will not look real. This is why I chose different parts of the greenery in the background to make it look more realistic and as though there was nothing there to begin with.

For this image I used the polygonal Lasso tool, this should only be used on areas with a straight edge which was achievable here as we wanted a rectangle shape. Once I had selected by area i chose the black and white effect on the chosen area. I found this task especially simple as the polygonal lasso tool helped me achieve a straight edge unlike the lasso tool which was extremely hard in perfecting.

For this image I used the spot healing brush tool. I also used the Clone stamp tool to remove the shine of some areas, for this I selected an area of his skin with no shine to it and then cloned it on top of the unwanted area. For the spot healing brush tool, you have to get your circle just slightly bigger than the chosen spot and then click onto it to remove it. I found this task the easiest to do as it did not require any special skill.

The images below are a before and after shot of some work I done on Photoshop. The image on the right was the final product. I used the clone stamp to create this piece and remove the other 5 bottles. When using the clone stamp I was sure to use different shades of greenery to ensure it didn't look to unrealistic or one block colour. I also did this for the wood, as some was shaded and some wasn't.