Logo design.

Here is an image that I made for another possible logo design:


I took the idea of using a treble cleff music note and mine and Sadie's initials for the logo idea and instead of a black image it is just the text so we can place it onto any background and it will blend in.

Class feedback.

Unfortunately because assembly ran over time, I missed the class feedback that we were given on our ancillary tasks.


Sadie has informed me that the class said they prefer this style of design with a blurred background:

Rather than this style of design with a sky background:

By using the background of the blurred crowd shows more technological ability to distort and add effects to images.

Other feedback we were given was that the class liked the colour scheme we have used for the cd cover and think that we should keep this throughout the whole package.

Class feedback :)

In today's lesson we looked at everyone's work so far and gave feed back.
We showed our print work, people really liked our front CD cover and said we should keep those colour themes throughout the inside and on the back.

The only thing Miss Somel said was that the left handside image looked slightly more set back than the right hand one so it is a minor adjustment that we need to do, to just move him forward a little and get it completely even.

We showed our three choices for our posters and every one except for one person voted for our original poster design. They said it looked more original and effective, our teacher also agreed and said that the first poster looked a lot more technical.

So this is our final poster design:

Obviously we need to take our own background picture but this is definitely the design we will use.

We also showed both our design of logo's and the class voted again, it was a majority vote again for our first logo design as people said it fitted in more with the other real company logo's that we had looked at and it looked more proffessional.

So this is our logo that we will use on all our products:

We need to get feedback on our main task after all our editing is finished but so far people who have seen the shots we have have given us good comments.

x

Update Blog for cd cover lesson.

I hadnt posted a seperate blog to Sadie based on our cd covers because we did a joint one instead so as to not repeat ourselves by doing two seperate ones.


I think the repeated image of Joel works really well as it makes the cover less simple and gives it a quirky edge. I'm glad we chose to use a framing effect around the image to make Joel stand out more. We are still deciding on which logo to use.


I am really happy with our final design:

Posters and logo's.

We decided to make another version of our poster background using another picture of ours just out of imterest so then we can see which the class prefer as they would fit into our target audience.

This is our other option:

The sky background gives it a soft look to it and would fit in with his style. The large image of him is eye catching and a good photo. If we chose this we would obviosuly add the other deatails to it about the album launch.

We also changed the logo in it so we can show both logo's to the class and see which they think looks the most proffessional and suitable for our production.

Our first:

Our Second:

Next lesson our class will vote which poster background and which logo they preferr. I think our first logo is more proffessional looking but we need to see what our target audience think. I really like both posters so it will be helpful for us to know which would appeal to the majority of our audience.

x

Last lesson - 9/12/09.

Last lesson, I developed this design:

We used an image from google to get an image of blurred crowds to fit with our original hand drawn poster and then used an image that we already had of Joel to go infront. We chose this idea because it fits with the narrative of our music video, as if time is moving faster and Joel is going nowhere.

I tried different effects and ideas on photoshop to develop that idea as the image of Joel doesnt fit with the rest of the poster. I also changed the logo so that it blended with the background of the poster more.

This is my design:

I prefer this design as it is simple and looks more professional, I think on the first design, because we used an image from google as the background, Joel doesnt look part of the picture whereas everything fits together nicely on the second design. We still need to include some information on the cd/launch night so it doesnt look so bare and then we will get peoples opinions on the two designs to see which style they like best.
However, we still need to take two proper images, one of a crowd of peolpe walking, which we want to get from Leicester town, and one of Joel walking so that we can come up with a proper design with our own images, rather than ones from google or that we already had.

Poster. JOINT BLOG.

We have worked more on our draft of our poster and done it pretty much exactly how our real one will look, including our logo.

This poster relates to our video as he looks alone and people are passing him by. It is really eye catching and has all the information on it for his album launch.

x

Logo

Today I came into the macs to make our logo, we had designs and had talked about how we wanted it to look. This is what I think we will use, looking at other music company logos's they are best simple and just with the name, i added a music symbol though to make it more relative to our genre of production.

x

Basic draft of our poster.

We havent taken the photo that we want to use for our poster yet but we have made a mock up using a background image from google so we can see how we will want it to look and then take the pictures this weekend.
This is our mock up;

x

Story Board.

Storyboard Presentation

View more presentations from SadieDaisy.

x

Editing. JOINT BLOG.

This lesson we have been editing the shots that we have and making them all black and white and lighter because they were too dark and we think this lightning is more effective and makes the shot less boring. We also added our track onto it to get the miming in time. We still need to do our outside shots and also add some more inside shots to use a more varied amount of angles, particularly the first shot of Joel singing in the kitchen.

The bedroom shots we did, looking at them again we aren't happy. They are too dark and the bedding doesn't fit with the rest of the mise en scene even though it was still in his friends house. So we are going to use his bedroom at Sadie's house because it is pretty simple and much lighter and then it will be easier to do all the other shots we want when we are free for afew hours instead of having to check we can use the boys house.
Hopefully Joel is home this weekend so we will have a time where we are all free to do those shots and possibly the outside ones if we have time and it is appropriate lighting and weather.
We have made a new shot list and to do list of everything we need to do, shots and editing wise. Until then we can focus on our poster.

For our poster ideas we are still trying to decide whether or not to use a blurred shot of a crowd of people in the background and a focussed picture of Joel infront. We have played around with a few images to practise and see what looks good and we will then apply our ideas to our final photos.

x

CD cover - Final Draft. JOINT BLOG.

We then decided to make it look a bit more interesting and less simple, even though we still want that simple effect, we decided it looked better with adding the lines and changing the background just behind Joel to give a framing effect.

It now looks like this:
We changed the font to a dark grey with the cream background, we thought it looked more professional and different, simple but more eye catching. Using the lines to frame him made it better to use just the top half of his body instead of how we were going to use a full length shot. We put 'Joel Owen' over the line so it looks like the line goes through the 'L' of Joel, we used a script font to make it look like Joel has signed the cd cover, we thought this would give it a quirky effect.


This should be pretty much our final draft, we will just need feedback from our teachers to see what they think and if there is anything we can improve on.

x