Photoshoot Collage

Here is a collage of the best photos from my Photoshoot.

Monitoring Log 31st January

Unfortunately, this week has been rocked by the fact the game between Spraire Lads Elite and Northallerton Juniors was called off due to poor weather conditions. Therefore, because of this, I have been creating my contents page, bringing its production forward.

Due to these changes I am going to amend my schedule to ensure I have something organised to follow - I will do this during a study period during college hours later today.

When creating my contents page I have been faced with many difficulties - one was the fact I saved the product as a Jpeg and forgot to as a Photoshop document in case of any errors, as there was as i later found some spelling errors!I have, however, since revised this and created a much better contents page than before.

Below are a few mock-ups of the contents page that i created, taking a lot of inspiration from a unique, A5 football magazine with low quality paper.

Here is the contents page that had the spelling mistakes, the current contents page is under creation and hasn't been saved as a Jpeg yet due to a lack of time, I am just awaiting the chance to add some text.

Below is the magazine that I used as inspiration:

Front Cover.                                                             Contents Page.

Risk Assessment 4

Risk Assessment 3

Risk Assessment 2

Risk Assessment 1

Call Sheets

Here are my call sheets:

Recce

Here are my Recces for my locations of photography:

Consent Forms

Here are my consent forms, I am currently missing the forms from the Spraire Lads Elite parents, and Kader Athletic Manager because the game is yet to take place. This was arranged because the game between Spraire Lads and Northallerton was abandoned due to poor weather conditions, forcing me to change my schedule.

Explaining my product before gaining consent

Below is the text message that I sent to all of the parents at Darlington Spraire Lads Elite in regards to gaining consent to take photos and use names of children.

Hi everyone, as part of my A2 media coursework we are making a short magazine of which I have decided to base upon grassroots football, therefore I plan to use our team for the magazine. I will be writing a match report, an interview article and a review of a coaching drill. 
The idea of this coursework is to create a local magazine that would be distributed through the Northern Echo (it won't actually). Basically, images of the children and their names will be used in my magazine so I need consent from you all. The images and names will be published on the internet through my media blog which is how the magazine will be examined by the examiner. 
I plan to use the Northallerton game (26th) as my match report so will be taking photos. I will also be taking photos in a training session up at Hummersknott of a training drill. I will pass a consent form around at the game against Middleton this Sunday. I need written permission you see as I will have to scan the document onto my blog or else I could face big problems with my coursework. I will take it as though I haven't gained consent for certain children if their row isn't signed. 
Thanks for the cooperation. See you all tomorrow,
Ben.

Weekend Monitoring Log 24th-26th

Over the weekend, my aims were to attend a grassroots football match, take photos, and record notes from the match that would enable me to begin writing a match report article the following week, however, during the game, it was called off to heavy rain - this also meant I couldn't get the camera out to take photographs.

This therefore means that I will have to push this article creation backwards, bringing forward my review article.

24th January - Monitoring Log

24^th January.

Monitoring Log

According to my schedule, I was meant to have completed writing my interview article, however, it is taking longer than expected due to the length of my interview (1 hour, 1 minute) which has taken a long while to fully transcribe.

Apart from the struggle of transcribing my interview, I have slightly been on schedule, and I have some free periods this afternoon in which I will continue with my article.

On Monday I began to transcribe my interview, which again flowed over to the Tuesday. With some hard work outside of lessons, I finally finished transcribing the interview on the third lesson of the week – Thursday. Outside of college I began to write my interview article, which I continued throughout the Friday lesson (now).

Unfortunately, due to the length of my interview, the whole process of writing this interview article has been a struggle, especially since the transcription was very time consuming. Now, I am finding it hard to extract all of the bets material from my interview article.

Fortunately, though, I haven’t had to use any contingency planning – as of yet anyway.

When writing my interview article, I decided to highlight the transcript to give references to different key parts that will help me structure my article. For example, the red refers to my interviewee’s American Football team, and the blue refers to his football team, the Spraire Lads Panthers.

First Monitoring Log

1.   How have you organised your schedule? Why has it been organised this way?

I have organised my schedule very carefully in that I have tried to allow myself enough time to complete tasks. I found it easy to plan that I would create a DPS in just one session, however, to be plausible I had to make sure I evaluated past experiences and times in which it took me to create a product. This has allowed me to create a schedule that is very precise with times, hopefully ensuring that I do not spend to long on one aspect of production, leaving me with little time for the others.

2.   Is your schedule realistic?

I would say that my schedule is realistic because I have evaluated the free time I have in terms of homework, and I have also allowed myself plausible times to do things as I could have given myself just one hour to create a front cover, where in reality, I would need much longer to create a good product.

3.   Discuss any contingency time you have built in to your schedule. Why have you done this?

Towards the end of the schedule I have allowed myself some time to go back over my products which may have not been finished in the allocated time, or may not be up to scratch. I felt I should do this because if worst comes to worst, I have a few days to fall back on, potentially allowing me to make improvements.

4.   What are going to be the big challenges in your schedule?

Without a doubt, the biggest challenges I will face in regards to my schedule, will be sticking to it because it is natural for anyone to rush the boring parts of production in eagerness of creating front covers etc. I feel that with my organised personality, this shouldn’t cause too much of a problem, but there is the chance of straying from the schedule in which should be kept to carefully in order to meet my deadline with a great product. 

I feel that this week has gone really well as I have covered a lot of things. The first few days have gone really well because I have handed out consent forms, conducted Reece's, done my photoshoot plans, completed a schedule, began conducting my risk assessments and seem to be on top of everything so far.

Photoshoot plans

Photo shoot planning document

Date and time of photo shoot:

Material to be shot: Model sitting at a school desk twiddling his thumbs with an American Football helmet and a Wilson football on his left, and football boots and a Mitre football on his right.

           

What personnel do you need?

Lighting assistant: 1

Makeup assistant: N/A

Models: 1 (Male)

What props will you need?

1 x American Football Helmet

1 x American Football

1 x Pair of Football boots

1 x Football

1 x Spraire Lads Coaching attire

      Coaching books, and whiteboard

Describe in detail your make-up & costume needs. (Include reference material to illustrate your needs)

My model will not wear make-up because of the magazine genre (football) tending not to be based around fashion nor appearance. The costume I intend on my model wearing will consist of a black polo shirt.

Studio shoots: what kind of lighting?

(include reference material to illustrate your needs)

I will use broad lighting so that the side of the face closet to the camera is lit, whilst the more hidden side is shady. I would like to do this because it can show the contrasting emotions of coaching football through the imagery and lighting.

Backdrop:  White

Lighting equipment needs:

Drawing of studio layout:

Schedule

Production Schedule and monitoring document

Week	Date	Activity
1	13th Jan	1 Schedule Creation: this week I will make sure that I create a realistic schedule to enable me to submit a completed project for the 15th February in accordance with the objectives outlined in my treatment. The schedule will be realistic, detailed and will contain 3 meaningful activities to complete as homework. Homework activities should take up four hours additional study time per week. 2 Schedule Creation: Today I will look at other commitments I have in my other A Levels including scheduled exams – this will enable me to produce a realistic schedule. In order to do this I will need to ask my other subject teachers about deadlines for homework/coursework during the next six weeks. 3. Fill out Risk assessments and Recce for locations in which I plan to photograph throughout production. This will include visiting Hummersknott Academy, South Park playing fields, and my interviewee’s homes, as well as the college photo shoot room. 4 Project Monitoring & update blog with all necessary documents such as scanned in risk assessments. Homework 1: Ensure that all risk assessments and recces are done before the fourth lesson of the week. Homework 2: Create some questions for my interview article, as I will be conducting the interview on the weekend. Homework 3: Sunday – I will conduct my interview at my interviewee’s house. Exams/other subject deadlines: Mock Exams will take place next week so I will also need to find some time to revise and complete any outstanding homework has been given to me.
2	20th Jan	1 Transcribe my interview before selecting all of the best, and most interesting pieces that will be used for the article. 2 Begin to write my interview article using the transcriptions. 3 By the third lesson of the week, my interview article should be complete; however, I will re-read the text to ensure that it is the best it can be. 4 On the Friday of this week, my interviewee will be coming in for the photoshoot. This will take around one and a half hours, as I will need to arrange all of my props such as a table. Homework 1: Wednesday – I will gain consent from my model before conducting the photo-shoot. Whilst at it, I will also gain consent from him to take prospective photos of his children as well as gaining contribution consent from him in regards to photos that he may supply me with from his earlier playing days. Homework 2: Saturday – Gain consent from the parents of Spraire Lads Elite for the upcoming match. As well as this, I will gain prior consent from the Northallerton manager on behalf of his team’s parents before receiving a signature on the day *(Sunday). Homework 3: I will take photographs of my interviewee with his children with them wrapped in cotton wool. This will take approximately one hour. Homework 4: Sunday – Today I will be taking notes on the game between Spraire Lads Under 11’s Elite and Northallerton at the South Park. As well as this I will be taking photographs of the match. Exams/other subject deadlines: Homework may be given to me from my other teachers; however, it is unexpected due to internal mock exam week.
3	27stJan	1. Today I will begin to write my match report article, and this shouldn’t take too long as I have written match reports for professional football blogs via the internet before. 2. On the Tuesday I will re-read my match report article before selecting all of the best images from the game, editing those that need editing. 3. I will begin to write my review article based on my personal opinion of a coaching drill ‘see it, do it’. 4. Project Monitoring & I will also update my blog with all of the scanned in consent forms, and articles that have been written thus far. As well as this, I will put my chosen images on the blog stating why I liked them and why I will use them. Homework 1: On Thursday I will take photos of a training session with Spraire Lads Elite at Hummersknott Academy. Homework2: I will select the best photos from the training session and put them onto a memory stick as well as emailing them to myself in order to edit them in the following week at college. Homework 3: I will update my blog with everything I have done so far, for example, I will put all of my photographs onto the blog as well as the completed articles. Exams/other subject deadlines: I expect to be given homework in English and psychology, so shall try to get that done when possible.
4	3rd   Feb	1. In this lesson I will complete my review article based on a training drill as well as photo-shopping any images from the training session. 2. Today I will edit all of my photos from the photo-shoot if needs be, as well as those of my interviewee. I will create three folders for images to put the images into in order to keep myself organized. 3. This lesson should be on Thursday where I will edit all of my images for the match report. 4 Project Monitoring & I will allow myself this last lesson of the week to edit and complete any outstanding work that may have not been completed in the past weeks. Homework 1: In some of my free periods I plan on beginning my contents page, using some images that have been edited in the week. Homework 2: In another free period I plan on fully completing my contents page. Exams/other subject deadlines: As always, I plan on getting homework, so will leave some time for other studies
5	10th  Feb	1. Today I will begin creating the double page spread for my first DPS, the match report. 2. Today I will continue with the production of my first double page spread, and hope to finish it by then due to past mock-ups giving good audience feedback. 3. Today I will begin creating my second double page spread which is my interview and this could take considerably longer than the first DPS. 4 Project Monitoring & Continue with production of second double page spread. Homework 1: In my free periods I will continue with my second double page spread. As well as this I will choose my four advertisements and apply them into production. One may have to be omitted, as the second DPS may have to span over an extra page. Homework 2: Continue with second DPS. Homework 3: update blog by putting my chosen adverts on. Exams/other subject deadlines: I will be sure to receive homework from Psychology and English, as well as revision for upcoming exams.
Half term	17th Feb	Homework: Complete Monitoring and make sure that blog elements are complete
6	24th	1. Create third DPS, and I will be working in my free periods to get this done! 2. On Tuesday I will continue to create my third DPS, which shouldn’t take too, long because my flat-plans are detailed. 3. Today I will begin to produce my front cover, and will take huge care in making this perfect. 4 Project Monitoring & I will also continue with the production of my front cover. Hopefully, it won’t take too long but I want to allow myself some time to complete all of my products well. Homework 1/2: I will allow this time to complete any DPS’s/my front cover to be completed Exams/other subject deadlines: I will be doing a lot of revision leading up to my A2 exams.
	3rd  Mar	Audience/Assessor Review Week 1 Create Audience review questionnaire 2 Teacher assessment of project 3 & 4 Complete prep work for evaluation E exam Unit 5 Blog Deadline 7th March