Composition photography images

Composition photography images

The composition of a photograph can effect the way that a person will interpret those images, this is because specific cinematography connotes certain elements to audiences. here are some examples of photographs that i have taken which display this different suggestions.

Framing

The framing of a photograph is how much open space or closed spacing an image has, an image with a closed frame often connotes ideas of entrapment and worry, this is due to the smaller amount of the model's body we can see. Whereas and open frame image gives the opposite connotations, it suggests freedom and happiness. 

Here is an example of a closed framing image:

Closed Framing

As we can see this image reduces that amount of open space between the camera and the model, making the model seem entrapped and smaller in status.

Shot Distance

The shot distance of an image can connote many different elements to the audience, usually an image which has a large distance between the model and the camera is one which suggests isolation and makes the audience disengage with the model, not relating with them, this can be a useful tool when trying to separate someone from a group of people

Long shot

An image with a medium distance between the camera and the model is generally used to present the models body as well as their body language and facial expressions, this is the most commonly used for magazine front covers, and is most likely going to be the type of shot i will be using for my own magazine front cover as i will want to display both body language, costume and facial expression of the model.

Medium shot

An image with a small distance between the camera and the model is used to draw more attention to the models face rather than their body or costume, this is also commonly used for magazines, but instead as article caption images, rather than a front cover image. i am likely to be using this shot in connect to the article of my magazine, to visually show and connote features to the younger undereducated audience, as they are likely to appeal to the visual entertainment and learning style.

Close up

Rule of Thirds
The rule of thirds is the idea that an image can be split into 3 different section, a top frame, middle frame and bottom frame each of these having their own effects and connotations a model in the top part of a frame is seen as more dominant with a medium amount of focus being on the models body and facial expression, a model being placed in the middle of a frame loses the connotation of either being powerful or weak but gains the feature of being the most upfront model and so had the most attention attracted to themselves, i will likely be using this frame in my own product as i want to show the models costume, body language and facial features on my front cover, lastly a model placed in the bottom of a frame is seen as the weakest and has the least attention on themselves due to use reading from a young age top to bottom of a page this can be used when displaying negative connotations, i am likely going to use this at some point in my magazine as i will have to talk about the bad parts of social networking sites, so this frame may provide useful in reflecting weak and negative connotations. the same applies for the idea of having a model on the right or left side of a shot. The left side is generally seen as dominant and powerful since it is the first part which is viewed due to us reading top left to bottom right

For example this image shows two models both in different thirds frames one is higher in the frame and on the left hand side, making the model appear a lot more powerful and dominant then the model on both the bottom frame and the right hand side of the shot.

This shot shows a model in the top frame, this shows and display connotations of her as being strong, powerful and confident

 Top of frame

in comparison we have a shot with the model in the middle of the frame, this put attention on the characters facial expression and if wanted also the costume of the character. because i may have to use this shot in my own magazine i must practice getting the model into the middle of the frame while also displaying their costume, as i feel i struggled to do that in this example.

Middle of Frame

Lastly we have a shot with the model in the bottom frame of the shot as we can see the model appears to be a lot less dominant in comparison to the first top frame image, we are also less concentrated on the models facial expression and costume as it is barely visible.

Bottom of frame

Shot angle
The angle of a shot has its own connotations to readers, when we refer to the angle of a shot we are speaking of either level angle, high angle or low angle. but we are talking about it in perspective of where the camera is, rather the the models position, so an image which is take from low down looking up, is a low angled shot and a shot taken looking down at a model is a high angle shot.
A high angle shot has connotations of isolation and weakness due to the model appearing smaller in the frame, i am unlikely to be using this shot within my magazine as i am more likely to want the audience to relate with the model, so i will bring attention to the model rather than isolate them. A low angle shot has connotations of power and makes the model appear more dominant, i am use this shot as i will need to make some figures within my imagery appear more powerful then others.
Lastly a level angle shot has very little connotations but is used to make the viewer relate with the model more as they are in an eye to eye level with the camera giving the effect of a sort of "conversation angle" in which we are used to while listening to someone or reading something.

As we can see from this image the model is standing above the camera and so appears to be alot more powerful and dominant.

Low angle shot

We can see in this image that there is very little connotations coming from the angle that the model has been placed in, but we are on an eye to eye level with her and so is much more relatable to an audience then someone in a different angled shot.

 Standard angle shot

Lastly we have a shot high angle shot, this has made the model appear much weaker then in the previous low angle shot as less of her is within the frame and she physically appears smaller.

High angle shot

Additional work

Film studies story board images and edits:
All of the edits for my film studies story board are examples of both contrast changing and the use of grey scale features.

As can be seen all of these images have used contrast and grey scale to adapt the shadows within the shot and to change where the light sources of a shot appear to come from.

I feel these images could be improved if i took into consideration more, outdoor shots as there is a large amount of light within these images reducing the quality of them to a state where they need large editing to be visible.

Unit 3 progression and revised front cover

Production progression

Week 1:

So far i have been working on my products double page spread, i have added all of the text that will be appearing within the articles and the break-out boxes and have changed some of the text to the desired font, size and colour.
i used the colour scheme of red blue and yellow within my double page spread because they are all very bright, unisex colours the brightness of the colours appeals to a younger audience while the fact that there is a mix of sexual orientated colouring maintains my full audience of both male and female.

I still need to add some more features to the DPS such as speech bubbles for specific quotes and i still have to create my title on photoshop and insert it into the DPS, i must also conduct my photo-shoot on friday 14th march to get images onto my DPS.

Week 2:

I continued to work on my double page spread for 2 hours in week 2, within this time i managed to add a quote with its own break-out box to the article. i added a article title and also added an article introduction, Lastly i added some extra background images of simple speech bubbles to remove some of the dull space in the background of the article, this is to make it look less empty to the audience and also because of the young target audience the visual stimulation keeps attention onto the magazine.

My DPS will be finished after i add image which i create during my photo shoot later today, these images may need some photoshop edits but will be the finishing touch to my double page spread i must now work on my front cover next week and hopefully come close to finishing it.

Week 3:

I started work on my magazine front cover, conducted my photo-shoot and began to edit and retrieve the images from it. While working on my magazine front cover i managed to complete a verity of tasks which i wanted in my front cover, some of these tasks were: Add masthead, add sell lines, add background imagery, add a special offer sticker and finish the colour scheme for the front cover.

Within the last week of production i will be finishing off editing some of my photographs for my DPS, and adding the final touches to my magazine's front cover, these will involve some changes to the size of the font, introduce a new font, more suitable spacing and the introduction of more sell lanes

Extra edits

After receiving some advice, i decided to continue to make edits on my work, even after my evaluation to improve it further, this is the final product after my final edits:

I decided to make a couple of changes to both my front cover and my DPS for multiple reasons, the main one being that i thought it could use some re organising and some of the improvements suggested were easy to conduct.

i decided to scrap having 2 separate pictures on the second page and instead have a larger more eye-catching one to bring in the audience, i also wanted to re arrange some of the text locations as it was very clumped together before making it seem unappealing to a low socioeconomic and age audience, so now i have made it a lot more spacious on the second page, making the text amount seem lower and more appealing for the TA

I felt with my front cover that some of the fonts i used for the sub sell lines actually demeaned the mast head and main sell line, to fix this i reduced the amount of sell lines on the page and gave them a duller font, to make the main sell line stand out more.

i also added a few features to make sure it was understood that the magazine was a tech related one, as this was some advice given to me which i mention in my evaluation. i also made the phone visible on the front covers image so that it also connotes the tech part of the magazine.

i now feel my product has been organised a lot more clearly and more appropriately for my target audience, and specifically feel that the improvements to my front cover make it look a lot more appealing and eye catching.

Sell lines and Mast head Font edits

This was my my attempt of manipulating fonts on photoshop to allow special effect looks on my masthead and sell lines on my finished product, as can be seen from the multiple attempts i change specific features about the text, for example specifically on the last attempt in which i modified the expanded text to give a spray paint effect rather then completely colour filling the image, this was done with the "feathering" tool which lowers how thick the fill paint will be applied to the text.

After making some of these examples i feel like i will be using the "Coalition" font due to the fact that it gives a more impactful and eye-catching feeling then any of the mastheads made on these examples, i also feel that the "coalition" font has a more technological appeal to it, which will connote the genre of the magazine and specifically will also appeal to the young target audience.

Article introduction examples

Article introduction examples for my magazine article:

Shock/Horror intro with Questioning the reader: Research concludes that 2/3 children have witnessed or been a victim of cyber bullying! Is your child one of these and can you help?

Quote intro:  "I text about 250 times a day" says a young girl at a local high school!

Anecdote/shock/horror intro: 15 year old Amanda Todd life ended after being brought into drug and alcohol abuse through cyber bullying. Read the shocking story here!

First, second and third person narrative examples

1st/2nd person informal, range of youth/northern language

Most of you lads and lasses probably know of the dangers that are on social networking sites like Facebook. But do you know ways to stop these dangers from happenin to you? It's pretty simple like, and really quick to do. One way to stop those creepers is by restricting the amount of information you give out about you, not every one wants to know your home address love. By doin this you can stop them creepers from findin out too much about you. Another way to keep your ass safe is by making sure you don't give out too much information while you banter with your mates, I know some lads who are stupid enough that they could give out their bank details during a good online banter. So i'm sure you will be fine with your mate not knowing every little thing about you.

3rd person formal, use of longer sentences and more educated language, use of facts and figures.

One of the biggest threats for todays youth is something which no-one would of expected, after a study conducted by PEW research centre which concluded that more then two thirds of people aged 12-22 have been bullied or witnessed some form of bullying through social networking sites. This is a relatively new type of bullying which occurs online called "cyber bullying" and can consist of many different forms of bullying from simple name calling to disgusting death threats.

I am most likely to be using a 1st/2nd person informal narrative within my magazine, as it appeals to a younger audience due to the casual nature of the writing, this will make the audience relate to and be entertained by the text within the magazine more, thus successfully applying my magazine to the target audience's preferences.

In-Design work

This is my first attempt at using the in-design program which we will be using later on to create our final magazine project, in this first time i was practicing adding images, adding text, text manipulation, text wrapping around images and text wrapping around text boxes

I added images on in-design by creating an image box the size i wanted the image and placed the image inside, the only problem with this is that you cannot edit the image on the program itself, so i had to crop it down to the right size on photoshop first before placing it into the image box.
I added text by creating text boxes within the designated areas where i wanted to place text, i then pasted some text into the box and linked the text boxes together so the texted followed onto each next box.
i could manipulate this text using the toolbar at the top of the software, this allowed me to change the colour of the writing, size of the writing and also allowed me to add special word art effects onto the titles of the draft, i could also manipulate the text within a text box by using the same tool bar or by control clicking the box this allowed me to put specific text with different coloured background, for example in the quote box i used a lighter shade of black.
Text wrapping was one of the harder tasks to perform as the way the text is wrapped is often awkward making it hard to manipulate correctly, but after a few tries i learnt how to do it correctly, through the use of the same toolbar which manipulates text boxes i can wrap other text around it, for example on the quote box, i made sure the text moved around the box rather then overlapping or going under the quote box. I also did the same to the large image on the right side of the magazine draft which allowed the text to freely wrap around the image.
Lastly i used the anchor link tool to allow me to edit the image on the right, the tool allowed me to cut out specific parts of the image, i did it to get rid of a white background the image had and also to smooth the image out all together and allow it to fit into the magazine draft better. i used the tool by selecting a variety of lines to which i used to accurately cut around the image, i felt this tool was hard to use but after a few tries i got used to it.

The colour scheme of what i will use in my actual magazine will be very similar to these displayed in this work, the use of black, white and red will be used often as my images will be using a mix of high and low key lighting, so the black and white colours match the lighting on the images.

†he font i have used for the text does not exactly match the desired font which i would like to use on my final product, but i will be making sure to use a sans serif font style as it tends to appeal to a younger target audience and makes the text more informal and casual. But i want to change the positioning for some of the text on the DPS and add a break out box for additional text.

The images used within this design work do not accurately represent what i want to have in my final product as i was just learning how to insert and manipulate the images within this example, instead i wish to have my images with a range of camera shots such as a mix between close ups and medium long shots, i also wish to position the images in a different position on the DPS.