Photography Evaluation

Recently I was given a task involving me pitching some pictures to a magazine. I had to do a bit of photography research, make a mind map and create a mood board and then take the pictures and pitch them.

At first I didn't really know what style of photography was most interested in after making my mind map so i decided to look online on and in magazines for pictures that inspired me. During my research I noticed that I was really drawn to pictures related to food or pictures of dishes from restaurant menu's. I then decided that the food photography style was how I was going to shoot my pictures and was most achievable.

I then started thinking of ways I could make sense of the food pictures and that's when the idea of incorporating my new diet in with the project. I decided that it would be a good way to show off the benefits of my diet and at the same time, show off my photography skills and narrow down my choices of magazines I could pitch my pictures to.

After establishing what pictures I would be taking I started taking them. I took the pictures of the course of 4 days. There wasn't any specific routine I followed, taking pictures was simply a case of taking of picture of a meal I was eating if my camera was near by. After taking the pictures, I realized that most of the things I shoot originally came from Tesco with the exception of roughly 3 pictures. I then came up with the idea to pitch the pictures to Tesco magazine and made my video pitch.

I thing I should have color corrected some of the photos to match the style of the photos I saw in the Tesco magazine and maybe added a suitable back ground for some of the pictures. I did get an idea to shoot my video pitch out side in a garden of some sort as my video pitch and photos was slightly themed to life style but due to the lac of time and help, I had to use the easiest option which was my room. Also I think establishing the magazine I wanted to pitch to before taking the pictures would have given me a better chance of achieving photos to a certain standard.  

Although some of the pictures could have been better with a bit of color correcting, I think they came out well and the project over all came together pretty nicely. I enjoyed taking pictures of my meals and showing them to my friends and family so I would say the idea I came up with went very well. Also I was able to teach a few of my friends what a Pescatarian diet was.

Planning to make a DVD

Photography video pitch

Film Comparison Review Presentation

Photography Magazine project mind map

Food Photography Magazine project

Is DVD Dead? UNIT 58 DVD MENU DESIGN and Authoring

CDs were invented by Sony and Phillips in 1980 and from CD's, later on in 1998, Dvds were invented. in the US and Europe and also sold publicly around that time as well. They then became popular around 2001 but still people rented video cassettes around then. Later on in 2003 to 2006 Blu ray discs started to come into publicity and were released with the Play stations 3 consoles on the 11th of November in 2006. DVDs still exist till this present day but there are signs that indicate to DVDs loosing its popularity and disappearing.

DVDs are the thin circle CD disc's used in DVD players and game consoles mostly these days to watch films. DVD The word DVD originally meant digital versatile disc. People have always use DVD discs to store data which is why we are able to watch films and shows on them.

When you put a DVD into a DVD player you always have options to chose from whether its to watch the film or check out the special features of the film that may also be on the disc. You can also skip scenes and go straight to where you left off with the scene selection option and also you often have the ability to turn on subtitles.

DVDs can be found almost anywhere these days whether its in shops or online. Media stores like HMV are filled with both Blu ray DVD discs and normal DVD discs. DVDs are also sold in convenient stores such as ASDA, Tesco, Morrison and sometimes even corner shops.

Although DVDs are still currently quiet popular, Online movies and entertainment in general is always evolving and slowly dominating. The new generations of students and young adults are more familiar with the new evolving technologies such as the internet and pocket portable devices which can hold way more data than an common DVD can hold allowing them to be able to stream and watch things anywhere. Also with the DVD portable devices, you have to have a disc drive and a screen in proportion to the device and disc drive which would probably take up a lot of space in order for you to be able to watch something. It is simply easier to stream watch things on to things like android phones and tablets as well as consoles at home these days which is why DVDs are loosing their popularity and businesses and stores like HMV are loosing money.

I personally think that DVDs in the next 15 years will be the equivalent to video cassettes and that the next main form of data storing will be on memory chips. an example of what it could possibly be like would be Nintendo 64 game cartridges or game boy cartridges depending on the size of the device. The reason why I think that will be the result is because of things like USB's and SD cards. The interesting things they both have in common is that they are both very portable, currant students and younger generations are used to memory card storage for data and have the potential to store lots of data.