P4: Production Materials

 Here you can see my contact sheets that contain all the photos I have taken for my Sheldon Cooper magazine. The images highlighted by the red squares are the ones I will be using for my magazine.

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The first image (20220318_121849.jpg) I have chosen is going to be for my contents page. On my visualisation diagram you can see I have included an image of Sheldon looking at his laptop in the top left corner, therefore I had my Sheldon Cooper model do the same thing with a laptop prop. This is a medium camera shot and I chose this photo because it isn't slanted like some of the other photos and because it is more in focus compared to the others.

I will use photo 20220318_132323.jpg as the double page spread image because my model looks superior and this is a low angle, medium camera shot of Sheldon in front of the train. 

I will also use photo 20220318_132325.jpg and cut out my Sheldon Cooper model to place him on my front cover. I chose this image because my model is looking at the camera and smiling which is what other magazines usually have.

The 20220318_132444 photo I took is for the double page spread image. This is a low angle medium camera shot and I chose this image because my model is smiling and Sheldon loves trains so he would be smiling if he was in the photo.

I am going to use these close up photos of magazine pages I took and collage them together to create a background image for my Sheldon Cooper magazine front cover. I have decided to use the photos Cat 1.jpg, Lizard 3.jpg, The Lizard 4.jpg, Wanda 3.jpg and Xmen 3.jpg because they are clearer and I will find these easier to crop.

After looking at different contents pages, I have chosen to do a full camera shot of Sheldon Cooper instead.

                 Sheldon Cooper magazine DPS Article

What do you think of when you hear the name Sheldon Cooper? A quirky, eccentric man who thinks he is better than everyone. Sheldon always has something to say and he has some very funny moments in the show!

Quirks:

Sheldon Cooper is famous for his eccentric quirks and behaviours. First of all, no one (including you) can sit in Sheldon's spot on the couch. Sheldon explains that "In the winter that seat is close enough to the radiator to remain warm, yet not so close as to cause perspiration. In the summer it's directly in the path of a cross breeze created by open windows there and there. It faces the television at an angle that is neither direct, thus discouraging conversation, nor so far wide as to create a parallax distortion." So if you try and sit in Sheldon's spot, you won't hear the end of it! 

Another quirk of Sheldon's is his repetition of knocking on a door three times. In the show, the other characters have fun with this. In season 9 episode 11, Sheldon goes to Penny's apartment. Penny and Bernadette decided to see what happens if Bernadette says "come in" to Sheldon and he goes silent.

  In the Hot Tub Contamination episode, Sheldon explains that he knocks on the door three times because he accidentally saw his dad cheating because he didn't knock on the door.

We know Sheldon loves to create contracts and documents, yes I'm referring to the roommate agreement. When Leonard first visits the apartment, Sheldon tells him to sign the roommate agreement, a document that contains lots of funny rules such as not changing the temperature of the thermostat and what happens if one of them threatens to destroy Tokyo (the capital of Japan) that Leonard has to follow. Not only does Leonard have to follow a roommate agreement, so does Amy when she eventually moves in with Sheldon.

Leonard or Amy usually drive Sheldon to work. However, in season 2, Leonard started working night shifts so Sheldon had to find other transportation to get to work. The friend group learn that Sheldon can't drive. Sheldon doesn't like buses because there are no seat belts and they won't let him tie himself to the seat with bungie cords. Sheldon annoys Penny about the check engine light in her car and which road to drive down so Penny kicks him out of the car. Howard takes him home on his scooter but Sheldon screams the entire way so he left him in the middle of the road. Raj picks him up and takes him home in his car. The group persuade Sheldon to learn how to drive using a driving simulator but he crashes constantly! Later on in the series we find out that Sheldon got his drivers license eventually but he prefers to be chauffeured around instead.

Relationships with others:

Sheldon is a difficult person to get along with, however he has a close group of friends and eventually a wife. Sheldon has Leonard, Penny, Raj, Bernadette, Amy and Howard.

 

Dr. Sheldon Cooper and Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler present: Dr. Sheldon Cooper's Fun With Flags is an internet show Amy and Sheldon created, they share facts about different flags across the world. Lots of famous celebrities starred in Fun With Flags such as Will Wheaton, LeVar Burton, Penny and Barry Kripke. This is a funny way we see Amy and Sheldon bonding together. Some great moments happen in Fun With Flags such as the Valentines Day episode of the internet show where they went live to see what fun flag questions their fans had, only to listen to Raj and Barry Kripke ask for relationship advice.

Speaking of celebrities, Sheldon had a grudge against Will Wheaton because he didn't show up to sign his Wesley Crusher action figure when he was a child. So when Sheldon finds out Will Wheaton is competing in the Mystic Warlords of Ka'a tornament, he seeks to destroy him. The funny twist happens when Will says his Meemaw died (which was a lie) so Sheldon backs down and loses to Will. Another time Sheldon competed against Will was when they played bowling against each other in their separate teams. Will won again and The Wesley Crushers (named after Will Wheaton's Star Trek character) were defeated. They meet again when Sheldon goes to watch Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark with an extra 21 seconds of the movie. Because of his celebrity status, Will Wheaton and his friends push to the front of the que and this infuriates Sheldon. Sheldon, Leonard, Raj and Howard aren't let in to watch the movie so Sheldon steals the movie and runs away with it while Will Wheaton and other people wanting to watch the movie chase him! The grudge ends when Will Wheaton invites the group to his birthday party and finally signs a Wesley Crusher action figure for Sheldon.

 

 Another celebrity Sheldon is friends with is James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader. Sheldon didn't want to go to Comic Con by himself so he decided he would create his own. Sheldon found James Earl Jones from a tweet that said he was at his favourite Sushi restaurant and they became best friends. They went for ice cream, go to a fun fair and on a ferris wheel, sing Lion Sleeps Tonight at karaoke, they pressed the bell on Carrie Fisher's door and ran away and they went to a sauna where James offers to take Sheldon and his friends to Comic Con with him. Other celebrities Sheldon has met are Stephen Hawking, William Shatner, Stan Lee, Steve Wozniak, Bill Nye, Mark Hamill and Adam West.

Other funny or great moments between Sheldon and the other characters are when Sheldon marries Amy and they win the Nobel Prize for Physics by revolutionising String Theory. Sheldon consistantly mocks Howard for not having a PHD when he is an engineer "I have never said that you are not good at what you do, its just that what you do is not worth doing", when Penny takes Sheldon to Disneyland and they become best friends, Penny and Leonard even acts like a parental figure to Sheldon sometimes. We find out that Sheldon is afraid of Goofy and has nightmares about him. Leonard and Sheldon decided to visit George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch. They are stopped and told they cannot enter, however Sheldon decides to run in anyway and gets tased.

 

Funny moments:

The Big Bang Theory has no shortage of funny moments, especially from Sheldon Cooper. 

While trying to solve a physics problem about atoms, Sheldon gets so determined to solve the physics question that he wasn't sleeping. To help get a visual model to answer his Physics problem, Sheldon goes to a ball pit in a shopping centre late at night. Leonard is called by the security guard to take Sheldon home but Sheldon won't leave so Leonard tries to drag Sheldon out of the ball pit. Sheldon hides in the ball pit and shouts "BAZINGA!" when he jumps up from the ball pit as Leonard tries to get to Sheldon. Bazinga is a word Sheldon created for after he says a joke to show he was joking.

Soft Kitty is a song Sheldon's mum used to sing to him when he was little and sick. This song has been used on lots of TBBT merchandise and it is usually Penny that sings the song to Sheldon. This is also a memorable song in the series and we all love it.

The Xbox vs Play Station argument has been around forever and we get to see Sheldon plagued with this decision in season 7 episode 19. Amy takes Sheldon to the Best Buy store and Sheldon tries to decide which games console, The Xbox 1 or PS4, he should buy. Sheldon takes way too long to decide so Amy offers to buy him both but he only has room for one games console. The store closes down so Amy and Sheldon are kicked out leaving us to wonder which games console Sheldon bought in the end.

 When Sheldon won an award, he was asked to peform a speech. Sheldon is afraid of public speaking so Penny gives him alcohol to help him relax. This backfires for Sheldon as he gets drunk and makes inappropriate jokes. In the morning Leonard and Penny show Sheldon a YouTube video of the night before and we see that Sheldon took his trousers off and talked about mooning the people watching!

For those of you who love The Big Bang Bang Theory, why not watch Young Sheldon and see how Sheldon has developed into the man he is today.

Quotes that I will put around the DPS pages:

 

"BAZINGA!"

 

"I'm not crazy my mother had me tested"

 

"one cries because one is sad, I cry because other people make me sad"

 

 "Soft kitty

Warm Kitty

Little ball of fur

Happy kitty

Sleepy kitty

Purr purr purr"

 "I have never said that you are not good at what you do, its just that what you do is not worth doing"

                  Setting up my equipment

                                   

Here you can see I am setting up my photography equipment to take my photos of my model Noah Lawton. I eventually chose to do the photohoot inside with a normal camera lense with the Cannon E0S 250D camera. I placed this on a tripod to get a stable photo.

 

 

 

                                        Creating Assets

I have used Adobe Illustrator to create the graphics and masthead for my Sheldon Cooper magazine. Adobe Illustrator uses a vector format (shape based) instead of a bitmap format (pixels based). This means I can easily scale my graphics without losing quality.

Here is my TV Fanatics masthead that I created in Adobe Illustrator. To create the TV, I downloaded a T.V. royalty free font from DaFont. I then typed which TV I wanted to use. I used the rectangle tool, duplicated these and changed the lengths of them. I decided to use the colours blue, green, red and purple since they are the colours of famous t-shirts that Sheldon Cooper wears. I used the paint bucket tool to change these colours. I then placed these on the layer over the TV. Using the Glitch Inside font that I downloaded from DaFont, I typed TV Fanatics and used the spacing tool to space out the two words. I then used this in my work. Iwill use this on my magazine front cover and contents page.

 

 

This is my The Flash vector graphic. I used the images below as a template for how the logo should look. I used the ellipse tool to create the circles and the paint bucket tool and RGB code to colour them in. I drew the lightning bolt and the shadow using the pen tool. I will use this graphic on my DPS.

This is a speech bubble and I created this using the pen tool and a reference. I then duplicated the bubble, used the paint bucket tool and used the colour black to create a comic book style shadow.

I have used the pen tool and I drew around the template. This is a famous t-shirt design that Sheldon Cooper wears on the show.

Here you can see I have used images I took myself using a camera and created a collage background in Adobe Photoshop. I did this by removing the borders using the quick selection tool and deleting it. I then arranged these to get the final product.