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Showing posts with label Construction: Magazine Advert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Construction: Magazine Advert. Show all posts

Sunday, 28 March 2010

Ancillary Task: Magazine Advert

Whilst i have been working on the four faces of the Digipak, Jake, Jacob and Alex have each been working on separate magazine adverts. Each of them making something completely different to the other's.

Firstly there is Jacob's - Rather than going with the house theme that has been set in the video and Digipak, Jacob decided to use the existing Album cover, and he played about with fonts and layouts. Although it wasn't following the house style, he has managed to create a possible layout for the magazine advert.



Jake, on the other hand, decided to take the photograph that we were originally going to use on the digipak - (the image of a motorway at night, with the car lights blurred.) He found a number of fonts and picture effects and his final piece was a good step towards completing the magazine advert.



After taking the raw image and adding the same image effects that i had used on the digipak, take then found and added some of the text.


I suggested to Jake that he should add some effects to the text, as it was looking slightly flat. He did so, and the end product was this:



Whilst Jake and Jacob were working on theirs Alex had also been doing his own advert.
He used the house style that i had created in the digipak, taking the font that i used on the front and back cover [Before i had changed it], and the colour effects that i had added to the images. His final product was very strong, and as a group we decided to use his final piece.



Feedback from our teacher made us look for a different font to use, as the one in the picture above was too decorative that it would have taken away from the final product. I found a font very similar to one of the fonts i had seen used on some Foo Fighters products, and used this in both the digipak and the final magazine advert.

Thursday, 25 March 2010

Ancillary Task: Magazine Advert

Jake has been working on the Ancillary magazine advert. I had to finish the Digipak front cover before he could continue with the magazine advert.

Jacob found and scanned a number of magazine adverts that we thought would be useful to take into account and analyse prior to the designing of ours.






There are conventions that bands follow in all of their print work. The house style that they create include things such as font styles, band logos and colour schemes. Foo Fighters' logo is used on a lot of their work. This is so that their albums are easily recogniseable to fans that have already bought previous work from the band.

Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Ancillary task - photos

We have found out what is required to take the photo of the motorway with the blurred headlights. In order for it to work effectively you have to change the shutter speed. However the camera must be perfectly still to do this, and i do not have a tripod for it. I have tried to take some practice shots but they have not been successful.



The image brightness is much to high and i will have to find out how i can change this. I would have just used photoshop to take down the brightness however it is so intense that i doubt it would have looked good.