The first week of production wasn't what I had expected. Firstly, producing the set-ups for my DPS and Front cover took longer than I thought. This was because I had to measure the margins, the length and width of a magazine that appealed to my target audience, so that I had something to base my product off. The Photoshoot set-up also took longer than I had expected as well because I wasn't as organised as I thought. Due to the fact that I had props, these took a while to create and caused me to be flustered whilst carrying out the Photoshoot. This meant that it took longer for me to get images of my model. However, I felt that I was good at knowing which images I wanted on my Front cover and DPS which made the Photoshoot easier. I think that I should have booked my Photoshoot earlier than I did so that I had time to produce the Front cover and DPS with the images; to give me more of an idea of the final product as well as how to adapt it to suit my target audience.
The Photoshoot was the main task that I carried out on the first week of production. When I reviewed the images, I found that some images were out of focus. These were mainly the images on the white back-drop, wich caused complications because I wanted these white images as my main front cover image as well as my main DPS image. The black photos however were extremely good quality and were in-focus.
This is an example of a slightly out-of-focus shot that I had taken. This image would not work well on my front cover as it wasn't the precise facial expression and body language that I had wanted, as well as the shot being out-of-focus.
This was going to be the DPS image that I was going to use. However, I found that the shot was slightly out of focus. Due to my poor eye-sight, I couldn't see this when I was reviewing the shots in the Photoshoot. However, I asked my peers as well as my teacher about their view and they felt that it was an out-of-focus shot. This must have been a combination of rushing as well as my eye-sight. I felt that these images have let me down. Although, I don't have time to book another Photoshoot as it was late on anyways. I will have to work with the high-standard images that I have gained to produce a professional media product.
Within the photoshoot, I also forgot a marker pen which was vital for the masking tape. I was meant to write' SAY NO!' on the masking tape so that the image was co-herant with my header on the DPS. However, this was wrote in pencil so I will have to edit this in Photoshop to make it bolder.
From the photoshoot I did get the high-standard black images. I don't think I will use all of them as there are a few images that were spontaneously done in the photoshoot. I learnt from this experience that you have to have the viewfinder very close to your eye to take a good shot as well as using the focusing ring to get various zoomed shots.
I felt that the black back-drop images conveyed more emotion and consequently were good images to symbolise the short-term affects of alcohol.
I didn't expect these images to be largely focused on in my final product but due to the fact that most of the white back-drop images are poor quality, this is going to happen. I didn't prepare for this before hand so I didn't bring alternative clothes for my model that contrasted the back-drop. This means that the image slightly blends in with the model which may be bad depending on which images I use in my final Unit 3 Project.I also feel that I need to concentrate on re-writing my article as I don't think it is a very strong journalistic piece. I think this because when reading through it in the first week of production, I identified several errors. I also started to edit the article so that it suited my target audience more. Firstly, I as well as my teacher felt that it was too elliptical and cut-up. For example, in the introduction I included, '...that’s for an adult, not a teen like us. Our bodies take longer...No-one does. Everyone should, considering what I know now. You need to know too. Read on to find out why.' These are many short, simple sentences that I originally added to cause dramatic affect and tension to make the audience read on. However, I felt when I read through it that the short sentences were too informal and weren't as affective as I had added too many. Thus, I transformed them into more complex sentences with still a few simple sentences to grab the audiences attention. For example, 'No-one ever thinks of the consequences but you need to know. Read on to find out why.' This is a a part of the transformed introduction of the article that I have changed and you can see that I have kept the simple sentence of 'Read on to find out why' at the end to cause enigma.
When re-reading the article, I also felt that the lexis was too informal which meant that the article almost seemed patronising to the young, educated audience. I hope to edit this language in the second week of production. In addition to this, my teacher felt that I needed to form a more characterised real-life story in my article and only focus on one rather than two. I agree with this as they don't capture the audience's emotions very well.
As I haven't done that much in the first week of production, I know that the second week of production is going to be compact. This means that I have to produce a well-developed product in a limited amount of time, meaning that I need to be organised and focused. I feel that I have got enough time left to complete my project for the deadline as I have got my flat-plans and initial ideas that I have to base my product off of. In my second week of production, I need to focus on producing and making the product as I now have all of the resources for it.
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