meeting the deadlines

today i had finnished my planning folder and it is ready to hand in.


i had just found out today that my blogg is going to be cheaked aswell.
so i have to run home and get typing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

Problems

all of this last week i have been delaying my blogger because of the deadline that i will surely meet. i know that my mediums deadlines are for next week friday and that i might have problems with my blogger due to the ammount of work needed but i will try my best to atleast update it every three days.

Practical work

During this week i shall be attempting to work on my practical, the first idea i will be on photoshop (my clockface medium). I shall be hopefully getting my original images, my text (including the slogan)and working with them in photoshop to make a billboard that will attract my target auidence.

important

deadline=fiday
medium deadlines=next friday

duhh

i borrowed a camara from the sam in the media room overnight, and booked an oppointment to see the doctor to get a photo of the syringe,
once i had turned on the camara i had realised that it was different from the one i had borrowed earlier (so i was literally pretending to take taking photos-as i didnt know how to opperate this camara)
the doctor kept on bombarding me with questions -are you sure that you have taken some photos?
i didnt hear the sound?-

my reply it was on silent.........

it was the longest minutes of my life- i felt like a total idiot

luckily i had y camara phone with me to take one picture of a syringe(quality wasnt so good)

research for my folder

I did research on the internet and printed out some documents. I anotated these documents and then put them in my folder. I also printed out pictures and then anotated them aswell.




i am running out of things to write!!!!!!

changes

i have changed my idea
i am deciding to have only one picture of a clock face (bus shelter poster)
a sand timer(for the billboard)
digital clock/writing inside(flyer)

inconvienence

i have lost my end design of my logo that i had anootated in class (the ironic thing is that i had lost it in class on tuesday week the good thing is that i can remember the final design and that i still have the drafts of the majority of the others so thats what ill be doing today-tuesdays work again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

saturday

I am going to design what i will say in each bit of text at the end (this is because i want to keep my options open to what i will say-along the lines of "time to quit") so i can add it in to all three of my designs as all three mediums will correspond and have a similar lingo-picture). Today i found two newspaper posters based on this topic as it is a charity awareness campaign. Now that i am desinging my billboard on adobe photoshop i have changed my ideas of the colour resemblance, (as blue is going to play a major factor in my campaign i am going to use alot of white to make it stand out more(i decided to use white as white is the most attractive colour to eye - black to me is normall but white you hardly ever come across).
Background=white
Writing=Blue

friday

I have just started on altering my pictures in order to get the right image of what i want (deleting the clock hands from each picture) this took ages as it was the first time i had used adobe photoshop and it was hard to get use to it.

my photos are now on the computer

I uploaded my photos onto the computer now on thursday and adjust them onto photoshop and design my campaign(according to the drafts and sketches i made the night before).

On friday have put my photos onto one sheet printed it off this is so i can analyse and describe to the examiner why i have chosen some over others.

camara

i have all the equiptment i need to produce a few pictures on anti drugs

Alterations

today i will alter all of my brief and planning to fit the guidelines given by sam and i will get all of the equiptment i need for the photos i will be taking tommorow.

Measurements

i am now 100% sure on what sizes i will chose for each one

For my production i will be making a billboard, bus shelter poster and a flyer. The measurements for the billboard will be 480" by 120" (1219.2 cm x 304.8 cm).
The measurements for the bus shelter poster will be 80" by 120" (203.2 cm x 304.8 cm).
The measurements for the flyer will be the dimentions of an a5 piece of paper.

Annotations

I printed out some copies A4 of billboards, bus shelter posters and a leaflet that are related to anti drugs. These will give me ideas of what to include in my camapign. I will be anotating these as part of my planning. i did the same for the logos(about 7 different types-all will be annotated)I will be anotating these copies to give me ideas for what to include in my three mediums.

dwayne chambers

have you heard about the dwayne chambers sinario?

most of the atheletes that participated in the ... believe that dwayne shouldnt compete in the olympics, despite the fact that he has completed his ban from the sport.

below is a article from a news website(http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dwayne-Chambers-Might-Compete-in-Gateshead-25994.shtml)


Dwayne Chambers Might Compete in Gateshead
- After a 2-year ban from the IAAF, the British athlete is ready for the comebackBy: Ovidiu Panzariu, Sports Editor
Maybe you’re wondering what happened with Dwayne Chambers lately. Although he is still training, he hasn’t been in a race for almost two years now. And that happened since the International Athletics Associations Federation (IAAF) decided to give him a two-year ban for using steroids. Unlike other athletes, the British 100m-track runner admitted his mistake and settled with a long period of time outside the sport.

Well, now all of that is about to change. At least that’s his intention, since competing in the next Gateshead meeting seems to be the number one priority for him and his trainers. Although his time of ban did not yet expire, a spokesman of the UK Athletics stated that the IAAF might give him the go-ahead the very next week. One of the encouraging signs of that happening is that the international body already eased up on Chambers, asking only 140.000 Euros from the 2003 earnings, instead of 190.000 – the sum that the Brit won during the time he was using banned substances."We are close to an agreement with some minor outstanding issues pending but I am very optimistic that he will run this weekend. We are working around the clock towards that. We're still waiting for confirmation of an agreement between Chambers and the IAAF", said a spokesman for the British athlete.He has been training intensively in the last year, with the help of current record holder Asafa Powell and former 2003 World Champ Kim Collins. Coach Glem Mills has stated that his pupil is doing very well and that he is fit for a new competition, after almost 2 years of inactivity. Still, Cubie Seegobin – the athlete’s agent - said that people should not expect Chambers to make a very convincing comeback, since, he hasn’t run in a competitive race for a long time: "He has trained hard, but people should not expect the Dwain Chambers of the past, at least not for the moment, and give him time to shake off the rust".



personally i believe that he shouldnt compete in the sport as he is setting a bad example to the young sports- (the media believe that message he has giving of is is that the people cannot win the olympics without drugs-he said that-this motivates the young to use drugs).

Drafts

Today I had done my photos in rough on paper. I elaborated on my idea and changed it to become more simpler as i believe it will be more effective(more people will understand-aimed at the young, if it is easy to understand then more will and atleast think twice about the campaign). I decided to use a clock and put apparatus of drugs and fake drugs(cannabis-flour……). I decided to draw both a medium shot and a close up in order to see which will be more effective (conclusion=medium close).

what sizes i am planning on using

there are a few sizes that i have to consider about for my billboard
(do i use a area of 240"- 120" or 320"-120" or 480"-120") i am stuck on which on to use as i believe that the bigger the billboard the more people it will attract- but the less easy it will be to look at and understand.
i have a fixed size on my bus shelter poster as i will have it at size a3-
and the flyer will be about the size of an an a5 sized sheet

planning

i have to give in my planning tommorow, likily i have already done it-just a few alterations to make -hopefully i dont forget it tommorow safe.

brief

i have been given back my brief and i have been told how to alter it.

Questionnaire

1)have you ever used any drugs before in your life? -discluding prescriptions
2)do you understand effects of drugs? (short term and long term)
3)if you use drugs-how often do you use drugs?
4)

i am planning on using a website for pictures and information on the main drugs in each catogary(a-class, b-class,c-class ect).
http://www.talktofrank.com/drugs
this website is fenominal as it contains all the information i need---this is going to be my major research website.

Research

gladly i have brought my laptop with me so i dont fall behind


i done alot of research -two broadsheet newspapers (no tabloid as they are don't give information on drugs-mainly on sports, celebrities and sexually orientated-nothing on drugs) i used the Guardian and the Times as (got it off my dad reads them) as it gives alot more specific information on not really read about aspects (drug abuses, crime ect). today it didn't have much apart from a little article on drugs but its not on a direct approach on what i wanted it was on about drugs and sport (Drugs cheat wants to run in Beijing) and the nhs drugs (not exactly what I was looking for).

perhaps tommorows newspapers..........................

Questionnaire

at home i am designing a useful questionnaire in which i will post onto my blog on Monday and ask the class to spare some of their valuable time in filling out my questionnaire.

hopefully!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Useful statistics on drug abuse

One of my cousins gave me a useful website they knew on drug statistics: the website i found it on was the -

(http://www.ic.nhs.uk/news-and-media/press-releases/november-2006/statistics-on-use-of-drugs-in-hospitals)

Figures show that 38 % of 15 and 16 year olds in the UK had tried cannabis – one of the highest rates in European. On average there is a ratio of teenagers that drug abuse at the age of 15-18 (male/female=3:1).

Men are more likely to take illegal drugs than women, last year on account of the people caught in action-an average was made from the national health service that (men= 13.7%, women =7.4%.)- the ratio here is just under 2:1(not as frequent for the females compared to the female teenagers). The main statistic I found is that 25.2% of England and Wales population have taken drugs that just over a quarter of the population 11.75% of which is teenagers.

billboard

I have a sort of template= background of my billboard
like i said on the previous blog i am going for the more suitable approach-cops
(i will be able to use an image similar to this one as adults and children will both be able to view this).
I cannot use images of dead people/gravestones with info of drugs on it as a billboard as it not suitable for the younger viewers.
so instead of using a more exaggerated approach in the billboard i will instead use the more exaggerated approach in the panflets-specified age viewers (15+)

wicked

Big..........
i have thought of an idea of what i am going to im going to my campaign on drugs and their effects but also i will adding moral ethics of a police man. as working with the police force will make me more successful in my campaign as the police=safety of the citizens.

shocking

aboslutely shocking
i seriously can not believe it THERE ARE ACTUAL WEBSITES THAT CREATE HUMOR FOR DRUGS- in my opinion this is horrific as this would only drive teenagers to see and explore the effects of drugs

In the one im about to show you it give the users ideas and ways into using it

as you can see the image is not availble unless you purchase it so i will leave the website details below so you can check it for yourself sam

http://www.allposters.co.uk/-sp/Le-Poem-de-Pot-Posters_i1021_.htm

anti drugs

i just reached manchester last night (my cousin wedding reception is in about three hours- im trying to finish at least three blog updates for today).

I have just recieved some good ideas ideas in where to put my poster-in manchester they laminate their posters and put the posters in containers-similar to the bus time tables they put up. this is brilliant as i have been told by my cousin that they put it in the most frequently used bus shelters for school and college students.

here is an example of a couple of them i saw

anti drugs

It took me about three hours to find a picture with a teenager prefably a woman (in my brief i said i was aiming my drugs campaign on young adults. This is a effective poster to me as it has alot of colour and simply and as i wanted to do in my poster go along using the approach of exaggeration and sympathy vote.

Perfect...................