First Edits to Initial Photos

3D Poster Experimentation

This is my 3D experimentation which I think I will add on to my final outcome poster because I think that it adds another dimension to any image. This 3D effect is made by duplicating the original image and then changing those images into red and blue variants and angled them in specific angles to get them on both sides of the image.

Analysis of Typography based J Cole Poster

The artwork makes me feel very calm and collected with a smooth edge is necessary when making a poster that it has some flair and an edge which can keep a passer by interested in the poster long enough to want to know what it is about. This is a typography poster for J Cole which is promoting the album coming out. The music is hip hop and a calm and smooth style and this is reflected in the type through the shapes, styles and colours used. The audience being targeted are not only people that are fans of the artist but general hip hop fans because J Cole is one of the most higher followed hip hop artist of this generation which means all hip hop fans will listen to his album. The poster has to reflect that fact so it will try to cater to all.
The typography is very reflective of the genre it is representing, and has been designed to be easily representative of the hip hop culture especially as J Cole is a highly respected hip hop artist the feel of his posters should feel very authentic.
The styles used are very aesthetically pleasing, using a spirograph technique which is in a clipping mask for bold typography. The spirograph creates a calm mood through the curves and smooth edges used. The techniques used are clipping mask and spirograph which have been merged together and work well together. The spirograph is designed and created and then placed underneath the shape that is going to use the image in this case it is J Cole typography extreme bolded to allow for a better view of the spirograph underneath. Underneath the spirograph clipping mask there is additional typography in a west coast style which is another hip hop style which is relational to the genre that J Cole delves into.
The J Cole typography is easily the largest and most poignant part of entire piece and this makes sense as it is the name of the artist the poster is promoting and is therefore the important thing on the poster. It is laid out in this way purposely to make the artist name the focal point for obvious reasons. This poster also includes the record label clearly at the bottom which is in a stand out colour and is used to represent the artists affiliation to the group as a whole. Altogether I do really like this poster, i like it because as well as covering the main concepts of a merchandising poster, it adds something new through the spirograph element which is original and interesting aesthetically. This will influence my ideas in terms of typography very much as I will know try and incorporate an abstract and different element to my typography and remember the importance when designing.

Analysis of J Cole Tour Poster

This is a very conservative piece compared to tour posters by other rap artists especially artists of the same genre which are usually very loud and have a lot of layering of images to add depth to the image.

This makes the viewer feel very mellow and calm as most of J Coles music does, so in that way it suites   him and his audience perfectly. J Cole is a rapper from North Carolina he has very lyrical and laid back, skippy flow which is attractive to the ear and has gained him a very large following. The target audience for this tour and in turn this piece is core hip hop fans that enjoy hip hop music. The imageries' biggest relation to the music is the colours used, yellow ochre which is the only actual colour used and is very mellifluous the black and white image of the artist which represents him in a calm way along with the very quiescent emotion on his face which relates to the motion and flow of his music.

The artist has been photographed in an almost film noir style, using the shadows to cover half the face of the artist but highlighting the front profile. This photographic style gives an almost angelic look to the  artist which suites him. The position and pose of the artist is quite a powerful one and could be interpreted as inspirational which I think was deliberate as there is no other objects or imagery to distract away from the artist as the main attraction for the piece. This made sure that the powerful pose is enough to make the poster still stand out and other things do not consume the artist on the page; this also leads back to the colour usage which is very basic and bland to allow the image of the artist to stand out.

This poster was most likely created in Photoshop using a photograph taken in a film noir style and the levels of the image have been adjusted to make the light aspects lighter and the darker section darker creating this impressive and immersive image. The typography aspects are all fairly basic and conventional except the artist name which is quite large and is the only type which is in colour, which makes sense that it is the artist name which is in colour and largest as it is the most important part as it most important that viewers know who the tour is for. The poster is laid out in a basic way but in an intelligent way, keeping the artist name, location, time and date at the top of the image as the first point of contact for the passing viewer. Lower down, but larger than location, time and date is the presenters and the price which are are also very important to the success of the poster.

I do really like the poster and choose it out of a selection specifically as i like the direction in photography and design that it took. This will probably effect the way I approach my own poster and I will definitely take inspiration from it for my own pieces especially the photographic style and I will take into account the style and sizes of the typography elements.

Flame Editing Experiments

This piece of experimentation was to test and element of editing that I will bring into the the final piece and I used a tutorial that I found from my personal study to create because I already knew what I wanted to create but not how to develop some of the elements needed to make it as best as possible. I had looked through many different tutorials on flame techniques and decided besides the amount of time it took to get this quality that it was worth it to get the best quality outcome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgTJ-lfKmMU

Potential Tour Names

Watercolour Editing Experiments

This experimental piece is a piece which I thought I could use in my earlier ideas for my outcome and I used and tutorial for the basis of the experiment but once I got the hang of it I tried out other ways of producing a similar effect. This was made using different texturing layers and and a photo using the dark parts of the image as a canvas to edit on top of.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSMSTcq2a8A