Lauren Crick Advanced Portfolio

I have selected to do my coursework this year on the brief that requires me to make a extract from a documentary which lasts 5 minutes. I have to create 2 other pieces along side my documentary and these can be; Radio Trailer for the documentary. Double-page spread from a listings magazine focused in the documentary. Newspaper Advertisement for the documentary. For my ancillary tasks I am going to do the double page spread from a listings magazine because I would like to be able to write about my project and give text because people may not fully understand the angle I am going for within my documentary. Also, I think that people would read about it and it would make them watch it. For the second ancillary task I am going to do the newspaper advertisement so I can put my photo-shop skills to use. I will create a film like poster which will need to catch peoples attention and make them want to watch the documentary- I want it to be informative about what the documentary i...

We have been looking at how to use Adobe Audition to produce a radio advert. We got left to see how the tools worked within the software. As you can see below I have inserted a picture that allows you to see the key tools I have used to produce my radio ad.  My radio advert for Lost Oceans colouring book is in the link below- Audio recording >>

We have been looking at how to use the skills in which are needed to use Adobe Photoshop, we need these skills to be able to create movie poster and also magazine pages. For our first try at Photoshop we produced a film poster for a film of our choice. I decided to do a movie poster for 'Peaky Blinders' The tools I used within making this movie poster were the Polygonal Lasso Tool to cut out the background of the two main characters in the posters then I played around the the effects on the images and added a inner glow to give the characters better edges as my edges around them were not perfect.  The other tool I used a lot was the tool that allowed me to move everything around which was the button which said 'Show Transformation Controls' it allows me to move all the images and text anywhere on the page where I would like. This allowed me to layer things such as put the text over the images.  As I had no previous experience with Photoshop I found a...