Photoshop/Creativity blog

Today the task in media was to learn basic skills by using photoshop. This activity was to help us practise and grasp the basic skills of usig layers to copy and paste images, use the tools to make the same image appear a number of times and move them into the correct position on the screen and link the texts to the next page , so in affect create the front page and following slides of the website. I found it really hard to follow the steps and got stuck on the different layers. I was trying to complicate from the actuall task and create what I wanted which was the ideas in my head about the website page for the film. It was important that I grasped the basics of photoshop but it was also good that I have learnt how to work it because of the problems and frustration i was having with the programme. It will help me remember the mistakes and not to make them again. With some more practise with the same images I think i will become much more able and used to using photoshop by the time I have to start creating my website. I have lots of ideas about colour schemes and images that I want to use which I have got from learning about sign systems that audiences are used to being exposed to,and what they represent about genres of films. For exampe "chick flick" style of films are often associated with the colour pink and girl band styles of music. My creativity has developed alot since starting the Media course about a year ago, I have become more aware of the ways in which media texts like magazines target specific audiences through colours, images, words, headlines, music genres, specific celebrities interviewed and diet regimes all play a big part in identities and representation created through the Media.