Draft 5 – ancillary photos and editing trials

trial: 1

Testing the concept

Trial: 2

Costume

• The actors will be wearing these t-shirts with different social media logos on them, and some text below explaining the site.

• The person running away from social media will wear this chequered shirt as they are popular amongst youth and our target audience will be able to relate.

Actors

Actors

Location

• We chose a location with grass and greenery as it was neutral and not distracting from the actors/concept.

Double page spread

• These photos were poor as there was too much awkward spacing and the purpose of the people behind was not clear as they were out of focus.

• Doesn’t look like person is being chased, so the whole concept is lost.

Newspaper advert

• Framing is poor and different in each photo.

• The wires and brick colours are distracting and take away from the image.

• The lighting is too dark and text on shirts is not readable.

• Not enough room for the logo.

Newspaper advert

Seductive: Fighting:

Trial: 3

Double page spread

• Out of focus.

• Too far away.

• Too much awkward space. • Poor framing.

Newspaper Advert

• The framing is poor as the side of her arm is cut off.

• Awkward framing at the top.

Newspaper advert

• The tennis court in the background is too distracting from the image and pulls away focus from the concept.

Newspaper advert

• The framing leaves enough room for the channel 4 logo.

• However the wires are too distracting.

• Too much sunlight.

• Too much shadow.

Newspaper advert

• Background too cluttered and distracting.

• No room for the logo.

• Awkward spacing.

Fighting concept:

Newspaper advert‘Seductive’ concept:

Trial : 4

Double page spread

• Poor framing.

• Too much sunlight in the corner takes away from the image/concept.

• Cant see t-shirt and they don’t look like they are chasing the person.

Double page spread

• It is not clear what the t-shirts have on them.

• Poor framing, face is cut off.

Double page spread

• Too much sunlight.

Newspaper advert

Newspaper advert

• The wall appears to be a different colour in the second batch due to lighting.

Newspaper advert

• The green grass at the bottom creates a contrast which distracts from the image.

Trial : 5

New location – trial 5• After looking over the photos we realised the location wasn’t

working.

• The wires and poles on the fence were too distracting.

• The greenery in the background represented nature too much.

• So we decided to go with a plain brick wall and concrete floor.

Props

• We decided to make signs saying ‘Pick Me’ for the actors to hold in the newspaper advert

• This will emphasis that social media is manipulative, to the audience.

Double page spread Layout: Centre of the page

• We decided to try putting the person running away, in the centre and the chasers behind for a more dynamic layout.

Indesign trial • Too much awkward space.

• Text clashes with light background.

• Black sub-title looks plain.

• People too close together.

• Too distracting from image.

Double page spread

Double page spread

Double page spread

Double page spread

Double page spread

Final chosen photos

• We narrowed it down to these three photos because:

- They had the best framing.

- Place for title and sub-title

- Place for text

- Logos on t-shirts were clear

Trial on Indesign

• Title on bottom right corner didn’t work as it got lost in the image.

• This fact box made the page look too cluttered and was distracting.

• We decided to replace the box with the heading. • Dark blue font was too

distracting.

Trial on Indesign

• Dark blue sub-title • Light blue sub-title

• We altered the background on Photoshop and got rid of the blue door.

• We also made the wall a more pale colour to stop it dominating the image.

• Blue drop cap.

Newspaper advert

Editing on Photoshop

• After looking over the newspaper advert images, we saw that the colours of the background were too bold and distracted you from the image and took away from the concept.

• To fix this problem we edited the images on ‘Photoshop’.

Before: After:

• We altered the colour of the brick wall.

• We lightened the bottom of the image.

Newspaper advert

• We tested out the logo placement by putting at the top, middle and bottom.

Logo placement:

• We decided in the centre worked best and this is also wear channel 4 usually place it.

Newspaper advert

Orange Channel 4 logo:

• As we decided to go with an orange box for the information on the group photo and the titles on the double page spread, we tried out the same colour logo.

Newspaper advert

White Channel 4 logo:

• We then also tested out a white logo, however this would have to go with a white box for the text as channel 4 always match them.

Newspaper advert

White Channel 4 logo:

• Finally we tried out a black logo.

• We decided to go with black as our text box is orange, and black worked best of all the colours.

• White and orange was too distracting from the image.

People, costumes, props and location

Actors/people:

Costume:

Props:

Locations:

The people chasing: T-shirts with logos

Person being chased: Chequered shirt

Gledis, Kaya, Rahel, Abigail, Maria, Debbie, Qauana, Luara, Nichole and Machala

‘Pick Me’ signs – trial : 5

Trials: 1-4 : Grass area

Trial: 5 : Brick wall (tennis court)