Project management and monitoring log - January 30th

Lesson 1 
For monday's lesson, I continued developing my first DPS; this didn't go according to my schedule plan as I was still making alterations when I should have completed it last week. Although, I have been making more improvements on this outside of lessons, I now think that my first DPS is more or less finished; although I will first get feedback from Becky and my class mates to see if any more improvements can be made.

This lesson I have successfully changed my DPS layout. Firstly, I needed to create enough space on the right page for all of my article (as this is the new layout I wanted to change it to) to do this, I changed the font size of the text to 10 instead of 12, this worked and fit on the page well. Additionally, this has made changes to my initial idea from my treatment and DPS layout flat plan; the DPS now contains the article on the right page.

Lesson 2 

This lesson, I used the hour and a half lesson to complete my photo shoot. This was successful as I have roughly 70 photos for two of my DPS'; one of which was False Faces And Phoney Figures. For this I my model was Charlotte Copeland and had to look expressionless (slightly upset and miserable in order to link in with the article) with the "Hello my name is...Photoshop" stuck to her chest. This changed my initial plans for this photo shoot, as I what I stated in my treatment was different. However, some of these could have been better through lighting; the lighting on some photos was darker or lighter than others, to improve this I could have kept consistent lighting.

The second DPS was Stressed? Relax, breathe and Read On. For this, I needed the photos to target her expressions and emotions through her face, therefore I took mostly long medium shots. In order to link with the article of stress, the model needed to present connotations of anger, unhappiness and anxiety; the shots I got were what I needed, such as biting her nails, putting her hands over her head and face etc.

After the photoshoot, I transferred all of the photos on to the computer and chose two of the best ones for my False Faces DPS; the only thing that needed to be slightly adjusted was the lighting, which I did over Photoshop. From this lesson, I have learnt more about operating the lights in the studio and how to adjust them according what mood and genre a photo is supposed to be.

I have chosen to use the two photos below for my False Faces DPS; I think that these present the best connotations for my article and to the audience, they also contain consistent lighting, emphasising the expressions on the models face. The first picture will be used to fill the entire left page, whereas the second image will be used on the right page in order to break up text. 

Lesson 3 
During Friday's lesson, I planned to write my monitoring log for my activity this week. However this did not go to plan as there was a problem with my email address on blogger.Therefore, instead of writing my monitoring log, I continued creating my second DPS layout (False Faces and Phony Figures) This was successful as I applied my photos taken in the studio onto my article.