NEA Planning Part 3 - Product Profile

 Introduction

In this task I plan on highlighting the importance of sketching and planning by practicing and developing my style of photography and undertaking practical, creative tasks in order to start my magazine cover to create a style and sense of aesthetic. 

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Prototype images




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Plenary

This step really allowed me to narrow down the approach to take when deciding how to approach my style and how to go about taking the pictures for a magazine. It helped me decide on adjusting aspects such as lighting and props (along with various other aspects of mis-en-scene such as clothing and background) to enable for a more genuine and professional experience.

Peer feedback ultimately enabled me to concentrate on aspects of my work that I want to show in ways which present my ideas fully with more details. It helped my focus on aspects such as media language and semiotics to give a more thorough idea as to, for example, I plan to incorporate background to give of an impression of sophistication and connotations of business - something unachievable at the local park. An example of peer feedback that helped was the idea to annotate my drawings in order to give a more physical representation of the setting to make up for my lack of drawing skills. 

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