campaigning blog 2 :)

We spent most of this morning researching commercials we could use for our research report and beginning our reports. I used some of the wesbites suggested on the sheet, and looked up adverts from different times. i took screenshots of the main parts of the advertisements and put notes about it beside it, for example one of the commercials was advertising toothpaste, and i wrote notes about how it used jolly, catchy music, matching colours to the colour of the product, and oldfashioned cartoon animation.

Later in the day we were put into groups and told to take as many good pictures we could with the objects. All the objects were quite boring so it was difficult to think of ideas. At first we got a lamp, so decided to go outside and take closeups of the lamp in a bush so there were leaves around it to make it a more interesting image. I remembered the grid and that we should have the object on a crossing of the grid as it is seen as the strongest part of the picture. After we had taken about 20 pictures we went back to the classroom and looked at eachothers photos. The teacher pointed out that some of the really closeup pictures came out very blurry, so told us to press the Macro button on the camera when taking a closeup photo. We also noticed after seeing the pictures again, that alot of them had wrong explosure, and i noticed on one of our pictures the lamp was really dark while the background was very bright.

After knowing what we did wrong, we swapped objects and took pictures with a long plastic pipe instead. These were some of the pictures we took with it...


Next week we are going to parkside instead and getting our breif from Shaking Moo's. Im looking forward to finding out what we will be doing in this unit and learning more skills to do with graphics and advertising.