Draft Music Ad Posters

I drafted some music advertisement posters as part of my ancillary texts. I used the same font style, colours and images from the shoot as those on my album digipak drafts. This showed continuity; linking both texts together. It would also be recognisable to the target audience.

Draft Album Covers

I experimented with drafting just the front of the album cover to try different designs and photographs out. I like each design individually because I think they show an interesting but simple style to demonstrate the song/album title. They also link to the video by using photographs from a mix of locations in the film shoots. I think this is important because it would show the audience the link between the cover art and music video. 

Drafts of Album Case

This is the first draft of my digipak album case, using images from the first film shoot. I looked at existing album covers, analysing the conventional text and image position along with the structure and layout of each panel. I edited each photograph used on Photoshop to improve the quality and enhance areas of the photo where appropriate. I used a similar font style to the band, Imagine Dragons found on dafont. I included the band name, song title and track listing, all in the font deciding to use them on the front, back and spine covers. I used a minimal colour scheme, using colours that would show up against the green of the background tree photos, including red and white. I also added a thanks from the band to the fans and website addresses shown in a smaller font size to locate key information. I decided to present the album case in an EP style, which is why I only added a small track listing from the actual album, Night Visions. 
I thought this draft was hard to make, as it took time to look original and get each placement of the text and photographs right. I am looking forward to making the next draft to show my improvements and developments, which I have made from this one.

By the second draft I had got the hang of the conventional layout and features of ancillary texts, making my own product look more professional than the first draft. I included a mix of images from the different locations and changed the font colour and style into something recognisable and easily read. I also gave the CDs an image, to make it more realistic. I changed the band name to something I was more happy with, after researching more ancillary texts.

Music Video First Draft

This is the first draft of my music video which shows a section of my filming that had been put together and edited with the music. The section of video follows my storyboard which I found helpful to follow when editing. I am pleased with this draft even if it's early days in presenting the video as a whole and hopefully the rest of the video will follow my theme.

 I could develop my draft by using faster edits to follow the pace of the music and keep the audience interested. I am also changing location for the next set of shots, to further develop the narrative. 

Album Poster Draft 1

This is the first draft of my ancillary poster text. I chose a photograph which linked to the first part of filming and based the text around similar existing imagine dragons album posters. I chose a colour scheme of 3 colours; white, black and yellow. It was important to keep the conventions of a media page that I had learned in AS level, because not only does a load of colours make the text look messy and hard to read, the overall look is more professional and easier to look at. For the title of the band and song, I found the original Imagine Dragons text on dafont and copied the words I needed for the poster. I think this poster draft is an improvement from the very first rough draft, but I still could improve the poster to make it look more original and convincing. 

This is the 3 colours used for the album poster colour scheme. I chose neutral colours that would blend well together.

I updated my first draft of the album poster by adding small text, consisting of web addresses for the band and iTunes as well as a note at the top using their record label. I did this because it is a conventional feature of the posters I have already looked at to include relevant information for the audience to follow. I also wanted to make the draft looked as professional as possible and by doing this I think it fits into the conventional advertisement structure, not looking quite out of place.

Rough Draft of Album Poster

I created my first rough draft of the album poster included in the digipak with the brief. I created a rough outline of the type of conventions involved in creating a poster. There are many features which I used from last years course in creating the poster, including the font site, dafont, where I found the appropriate font that my chosen band use as their logo. When looking at inspiration from previous real texts of existing album posters, the text position varies. I chose to spread the information out so the whole of the poster catches the attention of the viewer. I also used a photograph, that I went on to edit within Photoshop, from the location of filming. This is to show the link between the poster and the music video once finalized together. I think this first draft shows the potential of how the album poster can improve as well as a rough idea into what it's going to look like when the final draft is chosen.

The poster could be improved by firstly addressing the colour scheme and deciding which colours stand out over the chosen photograph. I like the red and black theme, as i think they go well together, but the black is washed out by the image behind, making the text less visible then how I wanted.