College Magazine Contents Page!

Here on the Contents page I used a house style by having the background as Brown.

To start I added 3 Purple circles and placed them down the left hand side. I added Page numbers inside the circles but made it yellow to stand out  over the purple circle background.

With each page number I added a short sentence next to each just to briefly explain what to see inside.

After this I added a self taken class image which shows 3 people working in a relaxed way. This dark image is moved over the text then moved the layers so the text is visible upon the image. The BLACK text was not clear over the dark image so like the page numbers, I created the text to be yellow over the image but I made it BOLD to look a little different. To add a little extra I again like the cover added the red + to tell what the reader could miss out on if enrolling in a different school. To finish, adding a new layer and simply adding the title "CONTENTS." BOLD yellow over the BROWN BACKGROUND.

Collage Magazine Cover!

I created a very basic collage magazine called "THE HEENAN LIFE" to try improve my photoshop skills. First I started with a starter layer named 'Background'. I changed the plain starter white layer background to brown.

Next I added a new layer for text. I drew out the text box and wrote "THE HEENAN LIFE". Then moved it towards the top. I glanced at the straight title and immediately thought that with nothing else it was plain. I Clicked free transform and and slanted the text box to get a leaning effect. I was happy with this change.

I created a circle and changed it to purple. Then added a text box and typed in "Teams to join, Areas to study, Places to relax" in yellow writing so it would stand out over the purple background circle. I tilted the writing so it was different to the bottom of the magazine. Next in a larger size of text I wrote "PLUS" in yellow so again it stood out over the purple. I created a "+" in red and made it a little bit bigger than the "PLUS" writing so it would stand out but instead changed it to red.

After this I inserted the main image which was of Tom Whittaker on the Apple Mac doing work. I simple square picture was not appealing so i drew a dircle around it, clicked select inverse and then deleted Tom's surroundings. Then I placed Tom and his work in the centre of the magazine.

Next, the same thing I done with the purple circle I done again but instead made a rectangle. I drew a text box over the purple rectangle and wrote what the magazine includes inside. I changed the font to Pink so it was a little bit different over the purple backing.

Feminism in Hollyoaks

The male gaze can happen pretty much everywhere. Not just in the music industry but even in Hollyoaks. In the clip below is a collection of scenes to show how the male gaze is inflected in just one episode. It is focused on the character Mitzeee Minniver's and her first ever entrance to her start of Hollyoaks.



The first clip is a low angle shot of Mitzeee walking down the street with a short tight dress on turning the peoples heads around her to gaze at her. Even one woman looks her up and down. Eventually her dress starts to pull up about half way through the scene so she sexually pulls it down in a way that isn't needed. Along with the people around staring at her, the camera pans behind her and follows her in a way to show that the audience now are also applying the male gaze by watching her walk.

After her gazing walk down the street, she quickly stops and turns at a shop, the camera slowly moves to her face as she takes her sunglasses off and reveals her face for the first time, she fixes her self up and answers a phone call, the camera is now a close up on her face so we can understand the type of person she is.

Throughout the rest of the scenes Mitzeee is with one or more men. She acts in a seducing way towards each one in each scene when eventually changes clip to her on stage with a water gun getting wet. In only the first scene there is music. The song is called "She wants to move" which straight away is exactlly what she's doing to get everyones attention.

Photoshop Introduction.

I used photoshop to show a basic understanding of how to use photoshop and to show my basic skills and understanding of it.

The above image was my starter image and my base background before I recreated the image to my own. I used two other images to replace Ben Johnston and James Johnston. Ben on the right and James on the left and kept Simon Neil in the centre.

I replaced James with Ed Sheeran on the right. I took out the background of Ed Sheerans image and blended the colour of the sky from Biffy Clyros image into the Ed Sheeran image. Hopefully this would help the image look more believable to the people who have seen the image for the first time. The image was now Simon Neil, James Johnston & Ed Sheeran.

                                                           Next, I done the same thing as I done with Ben and Ed but instead I put Liam Gallagher's body into the image to replace James Johnston on the left side of Simon Neil. After doing so I moved the layers around so that like the usual picture, Simon Neil was the main person at the front and centre of the image. With Liam's plain blue background I cropped it out and again blended Biffy Clyros background with Liam Gallagher so it looked more realistic. I duplicated the main image 4 times to get the background to look correct in order to class it as finished. It took me 7 layers to complete the task and about 2 hours to completely finish altogether.

This is the final image of my photoshop experiment....