Update!

These last two weeks have crept up on us incredibly fast and a heck of a lot needs to be refined for our final submission of work. This isn't an excuse of course, it's been the same for everyone, but it certainly hasn't been a breeze!!

This week we've been working more on the ancillary task, working on fonts and editing picture which will eventually make the magazine advert. We still have some footage left to film which is the biggest issue, because we have all six of us to think of when scheduling times, places and things to film, we're struggling to fit it into our time limit a little.

Naturally, we're doing our best and hope to get all of this sorted and edited by the holidays. Tomorrow we have a media lesson in college, so we'll be working on the digipak, making the changes that we need to make it better. We'll also be planning out another filming session in order to start editing our video as soon as possible.

Poster Mock-Ups (3)

Mock Up 3: this concept is the one closest to my original. We have a much more obvious patchwork of photos which is more interesting and motivating visually. Though the gap at the bottom is smaller and doesn't have as much room for details as the first mock-up, there is still enough room for everything needed, and it can all be arranged so that nothing looks squashed. The point of this being there's more space for pictures of the band, this creates a link with the viewer because they are getting picture evidence of the product in front of them, and a clearer image of what they'd be buying into.

Poster Mock-Ups (2)

Mock Up 2: This poster incorporates more images of the band members to create more space for them to be seen, in reality these images wouldn't be repeated, we'd use new images with shades corresponding to the other photos of that member. For example, Jordan's photos would have different shades of purple in the background, while Dan would have shades of pink, and Matt shades of green. However, the final and official colours have not been chosen as of yet.

Poster Mock-Ups

I've been working on some mock-ups for my poster idea, they're very simple layouts but will hopefully give us a general idea of which idea we want to persue for definite. 

 


Mock-Up 1: Sadly this image has been slightly distorted, but nonetheless we can see what's meant to be going on. We have individual photos of each band member, a space for the album cover, and space for the band's logo and realease details. Criticisms of this design are how it look a little sparse, there isn't too much going on, so we'd need to develop it visually.



Fonts/logos!

We have looked into different styles of fonts as this is extremely important because it is our brand image and logo therefore will need to fit with our current brand image and be memorable and iconic for the target audience. We have chosen these fonts as they are all messy, modern and a bit different which fits with our brand image. We will now try out each of these fonts on the digipak to see which looks the best and the fits most for the purpose.

Digipak Editing

After our first draft of the digipak, we could look at what we'd done and make some criticisms. We're going to change the font of the band's name on the front cover; we'll work on this today, looking on dafont.com. After this we'll look at moving the tracklisting to the back cover, instead of an inside panel.

We want to change the font because the original wasn't very visually attractive, it didn't have a distinct appeal and stand true to the genre and brand image of The Shame. We needed something more bold, and more daring, that in effect acts as a logo. (Similarly to the font Katy Perry has on her albums and The Prodigy.)

Posters and Photoshop

To create a professional look for our ancillary tasks we have had to edit our pictures, firstly we have cut the body of our main man Dan, as the original image had other cast members and an uneven background with shadows. We did this for all of our ancillary task photos to make them consistent throughout the products. For the magazine advertisement we had the idea of having coloured backgrounds to create a patchwork look....

The idea of nine pictures with brightly coloured backgrounds and a banner at the bottom of the poster, was meant to depict a Post-Modern, contemporary aura for the band. The patchwork idea brings colour, and attracts attention; allowing more than one focal point. This means that when someone comes across the poster, they'll stop to look at it because of the eye-drawing colour scheme; leading to them paying attention to the actual topic of the poster: The Shame.