Assignment/Activity
Title— Weekly World News
Year—
Freshman
Skill— Creative
Portfolio Category— Media & Comm.
This assignment was to create the
cover page of a newspaper, such as the Weekly
World News (WWN). The WWN focuses on out of this world topics, much like
tabloids. Our assignment
was to take pictures, and use the techniques we had learned from CAP Photo to
effectively Photoshop different, crazy scenarios onto the page. We also had to
edit the layout, coloring, and text to make it seem like a professional front
page of a paper or magazine.
I chose to do multiple images. As my main
story, I took a picture of my friend on the ground, in such a position it
looked like he was crawling forward. I took the image at an angle. When I rotated it
in Photoshop, it looked like he was climbing the face of a building. I had to
utilize techniques I learned to cut the leaves and twigs out of the image, to
make it look like a grey building.
As my lower image, I had a picture
of myself wearing a fake mustache. I Photoshop-ped myself into an image of
a ghetto, but as Mr. Bustillos
eventually pointed out, it was more of a Jewish ghetto from WWII times. I obviously
couldn’t use that, so I was forced just to blur the background of the original
picture and caption it ‘Local Gangster Seen Hanging Around High School.’
In this project, I had to work with
composition and designing the page, including manipulating text. I had to
change various fonts and sizes to match the background: white on black v. black
on white. I also had to manipulate text boxes and different designs in order to
compose a professional looking, well-lay out front page.
This project taught me that I like
working with cameras and angles. This project illustrated my strengths in that I
have a creative mind, and I was able to use it. With the magic of Photoshop,
there’s no situation out of reach. The only obstacle is that I have issues
with working near other people, and I frequently found myself off-topic,
chatting, instead of doing work. I realized that this might not be the best idea
when I need to get work done, so I isolated myself and listened to music –
effectively blocking out other conversations and allowing me to finish my work.
This shows that although it is
important to socialize, it’s also an imperative that you manage to finish your
work at any means necessary. For me, finishing my work on time for the grade was
definitely worth the sacrifice of losing a few minutes of social time.
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