Photos and Show Ideas #1

Unfortunately, I have not been able to arrange a time for the people I have chosen to be the 'cast members' for Ayre You Ready?, so I have instead thought about other show ideas and images I could take to advertise them on our website. 

One of the ideas I came up with was a documentary on the danger of drugs. The reason I chose this for a show our channel would feature, is that drugs are an ever increasing problem amongst young people and young adults, and the more awareness made about them, the better. Our research showed that our target audience were interested in documentaries, so I felt this would be a good choice of show to include. 

As I work in a pharmacy, I was easily able to access drugs (prescription drugs), to take photographs of. I spoke to my boss and he allowed me to use out of date capsules and some returned movicol (powder laxative), along with various other props to use for the images. I displayed them on the worktop in the dispensary, and took enough pictures to have a good variety. 

Although I took over 80 photos, I have only uploaded and edited the ones I thought were best, and the ones I felt would be most likely to be put on the website. 

Image 1

Image 2

Image 3

Image 4

I took the photos using my Canon camera, then uploaded them on to my computer. I regularly use the phone app 'instagram' to edit photos I have taken for personal interests, and find it very effective. I chose to use this method of editing for my images, and transferred the images from the laptop to my phone. I am very pleased with how they have turned out, and think they would make a good advertisement for a drugs documentary.

I have chosen to use image 2 for the final image to be used on the website's homepage. Using Microsoft Powerpoint, I added the words 'The Dark Side of Drugs', which will be the title of the documentary. I feel the white text against the dark background is a good contrast, and allows the title to stand out. Being at the top, where there is nothing of importance, it does not draw attention away from the main content of the image; the drugs.

Completed Image 

Image on the homepage