UNIT 3 Evaluation

UNIT 3 Evaluation

The first task we did for unit 3 was research, this was on the most 3 popular decades in history; 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s. For the research we had to create a visual diary for each of the decades. This included musicians, photographers and the fashion from them. We had to use two or more sources for our research which included us using the library and internet.

 The next task included me having to choose two of the three decades that I had previously researched. 
The terms to this was that I had to select at least one band/musician for each decade. The next part of this task was to find the albums that they had created in the decades that I had chosen, I had to select one for each decade and create an album cover for each of them. I then had to list the songs from both of the albums and put them next to the albums art cover. My choice was Queens Live Killers and Journey’s Greatest Hits.

 My next task was ideas and planning, this consisted of me planning out what time I would shoot, what props I would use, what lighting would be shot and the location of each shoot. This helped a great deal especially when shooting because all I had to do was shoot the way I planned. My next task included me doing risk assessments for each of my shoots. For example the kind of risks I would have in each of the environments that I would shoot in.

Task 3a was to edit our photos for the 12” vinyl covers that we had shot previously. This was probably one of the easier tasks because all I had to do was crop my images to 12”x12”. 

Task 3b was about typography, which is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language readable, legible and appealing when displayed. This was another research task in which I had to research and analyse four or more type of fonts/typography for each of my two chosen decades. For this task I used the website www.fontsinuse.com and www.dafont.com for both of my decades. I created a list of four for each of my decades; I tried to either find them or find ones similar to the typography used in those decades with photoshop.

Task 4 I had to research and write about photographers from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. The word count was set at 500 words or above for this task. I had to also write about the key issues as well around the time of those decades; such as the miner’s strike or the Vietnam War.  For my final task I had to prepare my images for ProAm. This meant I had to change the resolution from 300 dpi to 402 dpi so that it could be printed out properly. After that I had to convert my files profile to Fuji_DP2_Proam.icm and set the jpegs quality to 8. Then I sent my images to ProAm to be printed out. 
 

Task 5 is comparing and evaluating my images. In this case I had to look at both of my images, one from ProAm and another from the laser printer. I had to evaluate both images and had to compare their highlights, shadows, colour reproduction, quality and paper quality also.  After that I had to do my evaluation which is this. In conclusion all tasks were fairly easy to complete but I have learnt something in all of them.