Unit 3: Create a media product

                   Legal and Ethical Issues There are lots of different laws, regulations, legal and ethical issues that I have to consider when creating my It's All About Sheldon Cooper TV magazine. If I didn't follow or consider these things I could be fined, sued, go to prison, offend people and cause contraversy or asked to take my magazine down. In this report, I will write in detail about the different things I have to consider while creating my magazine.                         Copyright and Creative Commons  Copyright is a law that states any intellectual property (music, photos, videos, film, graphics...) created by someone is automatically protected unless they say otherwise, by copyright. Copyright stops others from using the artist's work without permission, if they did the artist could take legal action against ...

        Codes and Conventions of a Magazine For this report, I will be writing about the code and conventions of industry magazines. I will explain how my It's All About Sheldon Cooper TV magazine, including my assets, follows the unwritten rules of magazines and their layouts. The repetition and difference genre theory by Steve Neale (1988): Genres must all contain some instances of repetition and some instances of difference, difference is essential to the economy of the genre. To relate to this theory, I am following conventions of TV magazines that are already out there (which is the repetition/similarities), but I am creating the magazine on the character Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory which hasn't been done before (this is the difference).      This is my masthead for my Sheldon Cooper TV magazine. A masthead is the brand name of my magazine, TV Fanatics. I decided to use this name because it clearly states the genre of my maga...

              P5: Post-production Techniques This is the original unedited photo that I edited to use for my Sheldon Cooper magazine front cover.       I chose to edit all my photos in Adobe Lightroom because the main purpose of the software is to edit photos to make them look great for photography. The first thing I did was edit the levels of the photo. This will make the photo look better. Next, I decided to remove any blemishes from my model's face, I have seen professionals do this for their magazines so I decided to follow. I did this by using the spot healing tool and the healing brush. I also removed eye bags.   Here you can see I have brightened my model's eyes using the spot healing brush and the options.             Here you can see I have exported my photo so I can place in Photoshop. Here I have used Adobe Photoshop to create my Sheldon Cooper magazine...