Today did not go as planned. Following the events of yesterday, i was scheduled to come in to the primary school that i selected at 3:30 to take pictures of the school. Unfortunately, the camera that i was suppose to use to take these photos was unavailable for me to use. This meant i had to cancel the appointment made with the headteacher of Potter Street Primary School and reschedule for tommorow . I am very disappointed and believe this has wasted time. I am yet to find a solution to having no pupils in my school prospectus either. Today was terrible.

Today, everyone in my media class went out to take photos around the school. I on the other hand stayed in and continued planning as i would not have had enough time to travel to the school of my choice and back in the lesson time. After the lesson i was able to travel to this primary school and attempted to talk to the headteacher. Unfortunately, the headteacher was not available and i was told to come back on Wednesday. Due to the short time i have and bearing in mind I am already behind I improvised by visiting a different primary school. Fortunately i was able to speak the head teacher and booked and appointment to take photos on tomorrow. The only issue i have encountered is that they have told me i am not allowed to take pictures of the children as they all need permission from their parents or careers meaning i have to come after school hours tomorrow. This has left me quite puzzled as to how I will be able to pull of a school prospectus with no pupils included. I am still currently thinking of a solution.

On our last media lesson of the week, which also happens to be my birthday, we have just started planning our school Prospectus. We have had time since last week to think about what we might like to do. Today we were given the chance to sketch out and actually draw up a visual plan of our School Prospectus. In this lesson I decided on what i was going to do my school prospectus on. It seemed that the majority of people in the classes opted to do their prospectus on our school, however in the intention of trying to add uniqueness to my work i decided to do my prospectus on my old primary school. In this lesson i started to draw up the intend layout of my school prospectus as it was bound to be quite different from others secondary school prospectus. My teacher has made clear to me that by taking photos on another school it is likely to make this task slightly harder for me. I have accepted this and am happy to take on  the challenge.

Today we had another lesson just getting used to Photoshop. The good news is that i see some improvement from my first Photoshop lesson. Since Monday I have had one other lesson on Photoshop and have also been playing with the program at home. I have just come out of my Friday media lesson and feel as if improvements are being made. Today I was able to use certain features of the program very successfully. Today i was able to rotate and change the size of a picture while ensuring the picture sustains its clarity by changing its megapixels. I was also able to use different Layers to make a coloured background for my image. Though there are still many features i do not know how to operate i think i have got much better since my first lesson with the program on Monday were i was completely clueless and confused. Hope i can keep up the good work.

Today was my first lesson on Photoshop. We have all just been introduced to the program as a class, some of us have previous experience with the program while others like me have no experience whatsoever. I found it very difficult and challenging in this lesson. i struggled in getting the hang of the program with my basic IT skills and in all honesty found this lesson nothing but confusing. However it does seem like one of those skills that  have to be nurtured and hopefully as i use Photoshop more i will find it easier to use and really get the hang of the program. It wasn't a completely wasted lesson though, some new skills were learnt like the use of layers in Photoshop. this was something i seemed to understand and use, however apart from that i felt the rest of the lesson went dreadful.