Typefaces

Typefaces

A design for a set of characters. Popular typefaces include Times New Roman, Helvetica, and Courier. The typeface represents one aspect of a font. The font also includes such characteristics as size, weight, italics and more.
These are two general categories of typefaces: serifs and sans serifs. Sans Serif typefaces are composed of simple lines, whereas serif typefaces use small decorative marks to embellish characters and make them easier to read. Helvetica is a sans serif type and Times roman is a serif type.

School Magazine Frontcover

 

 

 



School Magazines

 

 Front Covers:

 

1. Big, bold title

2. Close-ups on students

3. Most of the students are looking straight at the camera

4. Tips about school life

5. Information about what's inside

 

 

Key Terms

Media Codes and Conventions

Technical Codes - Technical Codes are all the ways in which equipment is used to tell the story in a media text, for example the camera work in a film.

Symbolic Codes - Symbolic Codes show what is beneath the surface of what we see. For example, a character's actions show you how the character is feeling.

Conventions - Conventions are the generally accepted ways of doing something. There are general conventions in any medium, such as the use of interviewee quotes in a print article, but conventions are also genre specific.

Denotation - The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.

Connotation - An idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

Mise-en-Scéne - "Placing on stage"- The arrangement of everything that appears in the framing (actors, lighting décor, props, costume, frame and camerawork.)

Brief

Print
Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group.
All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate.

Camera Research

Camera Iris (fstop)
https://www.videosurveillance.com/tech/camera-iris.asp
A camera iris is the part of the camera that controls how much light comes through the lens. If the iris creates a larger opening, more light can get through; a smaller opening allows less light through. The light that the iris allows through hits the image sensor and that light gets recorded as electrical impulses that create the video.

Shutter Speed
https://photographylife.com/what-is-shutter-speed-in-photography
Shutter Speed is one of the three pillars of photography, the other two being ISO and Aperture. Shutter speed is where the other side of the magic happens – it is responsible for creating dramatic effects by either freezing action or blurring motion. In this article, I will try to explain everything I know about shutter speed in very simple language.

ISO (Film Speed)
https://photographylife.com/what-is-iso-in-photography
In very basic terms, ISO is the level of sensitivity of your camera to available light. The lower the ISO number, the less sensitive it is to the light, while a higher ISO number increases the sensitivity of your camera. The component within your camera that can change sensitivity is called “image sensor” or simply “sensor”. It is the most important (and most expensive) part of a camera and it is responsible for gathering light and transforming it into an image. With increased sensitivity, your camera sensor can capture images in low-light environments without having to use a flash. But higher sensitivity comes at an expense – it adds grain or “noise” to the pictures.

Depth of Field (DoF)
http://digital-photography-school.com/understanding-depth-field-beginners/
A basic definition of depth of field is: the zone of acceptable sharpness within a photo that will appear in focus. In every picture there is a certain area of your image in front of, and behind the subject that will appear in focus.
This zone will vary from photo to photo. Some images may have very small zones of focus which is called shallow depth of field. Others may have a very large zone of focus which is called deep depth of field. Three main factors that will affect how you control the depth of field of your images are: aperture (f-stop), distance from the subject to the camera, and focal length of the lens on your camera. Here are some explanations and answers to other common questions concerning depth of field.

Panasonic Lumix LX7
ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/camera/om/dmc-lx7_en_adv_om.pdf

Manual Mode
Align the mode dial correctly to the mode that you want to use, in this case the 'M', which stands for manual.

 Video Mode

Align the mode dial correctly to the mode that you want to use, in this case the illustration of the camcorder with the 'M'.

RAW Mode

Align the mode dial correctly to the mode that you want to use, in this case to RAW.

Changing the ISO, F Stop and Shutter Speed

ISO: Press the ISO button and change the settings on screen.

F Stop: Turn the aperture ring.

Shutter Speed: Turn and press the rear dial.

Zoom

Turn the dial on the rear of the camera until the screen zooms in or out.

Blogger Tutorial

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