Skilled used in my FMP

For my FMP I am writing a book so skills I would need is:


Imagination-Because I'm using a theme (21st century) I need to come up with a story based on that theme as well as a story to go with it that I'll like writing. So for my book I join 21st century with the paranormal because I like the paranormal and since I'm writing it I want to add something that I like to it.


Grammar & synonym-With writing I know for a fact that I am not good with grammar so I'll be using a grammar checker to help and double check my work in case something of mistakes or something that does make sense. Grammar check website- This is the one I use.

Another thing in my story is that I want to try to use different words when one of the character has a speaking part, like instead of saying. she said or say's, So I used Synonym website so that I can write in a word and get words relating to that word but more interesting. Synonym website This is the one I use.


Camera/Photos- I'm also going to need to create the book cover and that includes taking photos. So for the cover I need to get all the right materials for the photo (Like a pentagram, hooded cloak blood and a model) The next thing is the area I need to take the photos since it's based in the woods, so that includes looking for an area full of tree's. The next is to schedule a day that me and Conna was free to do the photoshoot, Sat 7th May was the day we did the the photoshop. Lucky for me I had my own camera so I used that to take pictures.


Chapter timeline-I need to figure out whats going to happen on each chapter and and how many chapters there's going to be in the book. It also helps me know whats done and what been grammar checked so that I don't need to checked it again. Also if I ended up joining chapters and need to delete chapters if that happened.  (started with 18 chapters ended up with 15 chapters)


Second reader-When I've done all my writing and it's all been checked through, I'm going to need a another person to read and go through it to make sure somethings make sense or what I need to improve on or cut out. With the first chapter I showed mum, she pointed things out to me that didn't need to be in there as well as what could be a bit better, So that definitely showed me that I do need a second person opinion and I think mum is the perfect person because she loves reading so she can definitely point out any areas and comment what need to be change. (Not looking forward to that)


Skills that I already have

Photography - The photography I used to take my front cover photo I already knew from this course when we did some photography at the beginning.

Writing/Imagination- Because I've already done writing like fanfic and my own stories at home I already knew I could easily come up with some some and since we had to write a script including two themes that needed to be in script, I knew I could find ways to include 21st century into the story.

Book cover for FMP/ location

For my Book cover I needed to get picture for my cover which involving finding a wooded area and a model.

This is the wooded are I use for my photoshoot, it's next to a field with other wooded area around the field with a park. It's along Newton Road which is where my nan lived so it was one of the reason I used this area.

Walking into the woods, it was safe because of the pathway, but trying shoot the picture I had to go off the path, which wasn't bad but I had to be carefully of the sticks and stinging nettle. Again this was the same for Conna (model). The area was near a motorway but there was a fence blocking the it since we were on a hill so it would have stopped us falling, but we weren't near the fence so we didn't need to worry about that.



This was the tree I used in my picture. I took this after the photoshoot, so you can still see  some of the fake blood on the tree. I choose this tree because the background was just right, you couldn't see any of the field or the park in the background, the other side of the forest there were fences and they were very visible.













This was the pentagram I made, It's really just a metal circle ring which I wrapped brown string around it then I used twigs from my nan's garden at use them to make a pentagram which  I superglued it onto the circle. My mum then tied the pentagram to the tree using the same string we used for the circle.

 I took two picture from differ angles and without the blood.























Then I took another two pictures with blood.

(Above, Is the one I used for my book cover)

The model in these pictures is my cousin Conna Webb, He helped out by dressing up as the cult for me and letting me take pictures. At the end of the shoot he was left with a red stain hand from the fake blood. I also had help from my other cousin Jenna (his sister) and my mum who help with the costume and cape and gave me some of their opinions.


BOOK COVER

BEFORE

AFTER 

For the first picture to look like the second the picture I had to use Photoshop to help with changing daytime to nighttime and to make the picture more darker so it actually looks like it was taken at night, then how to brighten up the blood and the pentagram on the tree. I ended up using google a bit to find tutorials for most of it. If I could do it again it would be that I take some portrait photos, would have made getting the cover size better. 

Secondary research covers

Book cover that has something relating to what I'll be having on my book cover.



With this cover it has the forest and the nighttime sky and thats something that i want for my cover. In the background it's going to be the inside of a forest where should be able so see some of the sky.

In this cover it has the tree which is the main picture in this cover and will be the main thing on my cover. On the cover the tree will have a pentagram hanging from the trunk and a person standing behind it.

 This cover has the pentagram which again is the main thing on my book cover because it will be hanging on the tree. The only thing is that the pentagram won't have the picture in that pentagram on my cover.

This cover has the person wearing the cloak which is just what I want, It's not showing the whole body just like what i want to have for my cover and it shows a bit of the guys face which again is what I want for my cover.


















Each book has something I want for my book both picture, lighting and the day setting which is awesome because it shows me what it would look like and I think it will look cool.

FMP Reflect on Primary and Secondary Research

Primary research

Primary research is when people write out survey's or questionnaire and send it to random people using media like Facebook and twitter which can be shared out to other people get different aged or gender taking the questionnaire.



Secondary research

Secondary research is when people get into a small group and s them question's and getting different opinion or different answers. This could be people of different ages and different gender or different religions all in the same room giving different answers to the question being asked.



The importance's of both Primary and Secondary is that their both done in different ways, With primary they use question to get people to answer question being asked and the person could be anybody. With Secondary research you're asking people face to face and with this they could be people who has something relating to the question being asked then someone who has nothing to do with the question, like if it was something to do with driving they could get people who drive to come and give their opinion in a small group.

This is the game we did in class, we had to put the right information under the right research in are pairs. 

This is a primary research since I made a survey.

These's are the results from my survey. The questions was all related to books like what genres, where they buy and how they read them. It's all related to my FMP since my is books so I needed to know what people read and how, so that I know whether to do a paper back or an ebook.

Bookcover drawing

This is my drawing of the cover I want my book to have. As you can see it will be set in a wooded area with someone wearing a black cloak. On the tree there is a carving of a pentagram covered in blood, obviously I'm wouldn't be aloud to actually carve anything into the tree so it'll be ever photoshop or crafted. 

My reason for this cover is because it has a purpose in the story, It's the source to a mystery.

I've got an area in minds, the only thing is I don't have a cloak, so I might need to either borrow one o buy one.

FMP 21st century, Public Opinion, Retro Future, Time

For the FMP I want to base it on 21st Century. It'll be publishing and I'll be writing a story (book)
Making it 21st Century I'll be writing thing stuff that we have in the 21st Century. It's based on paranormal. So far it has 18 chapter it could change, but that's how many chapters I have.

Update on chapters
I've finished writing my story and it's now gone down to 15 chapters. Also From what I've written I would say that I also have a bit of Time cause in the story it does look important in the story so it's both 21st century and time.

FMP

For the FMP I would like to use moving images because I find it easier and it's more fun. But I would consider writing because it's something that i'm really interested in.