1. initial plans

1. Initial Plans
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2. Initial Reaction
• As part of my brief I have been given the opportunity to create any product in any medium of my choosing; video
game, movie, print or film. I could create a magazine, posters, podcast as examples, I could even create a group of
products for a fake business created. I have eight weeks to create this project. I aim to look at digital art in this
project as this is where my strengths lie and is the project I enjoyed doing most this year, the genres available to
me are advertisements for an event, a cover for a video game or music cover. I am also drawn to this because I do
photography outside of college time which I'm alright and enjoy, so I could incorporate this into my project. I
didn’t enjoy the editing when it came to film making and animation as I found it tedious so I'm not drawn to do
any video work, even though my video game animation was one of my stronger projects. I also have the software
at home to do graphics as I have Photoshop and Lightroom, which I am reasonably skilled at both, whereas I do
not have any video editing software as I have never been very interested which means I am very lacking in skill.
Other software that I will use in my FMP is Word and PowerPoint, these will help me to document my research
and project planning and evaluation, this will be useful as I will be able to refer back to these documents in my
production to see what I need to do to make the project better. I will not have to borrow any hardware as I have
my own, the only real hardware I would need is a camera as I am currently more drawn to doing a print project.
When it comes to the development of the project my production is where my strengths lie as am able to use basic
features in most adobe programs, which are the programs we use in class. However my research and planning
often isn’t as strong, especially my planning. It is often lacking in depth, this means when it comes to production I
often don’t follow a structured path and the final product can be very different from what I planned. So when I
come to scheduling my project I will allow myself more time to do planning before I rush to do production, as this
will allow me to have a more structured development. I could manage my time by creating my schedule that
allocates me time to do certain tasks, I could also create a Gantt chart to block out time as well, this would me
more useful when working in hours rather than days. Reflection in this project will be important for my FMP as I
will be able to see what is good and bad about my project, and I will be able to go back and edit things that I
dislike about the project.
• In conclusion my overall reaction is to make a print project, this will loosely be based around music, however I do
not know entirely what I will create.

3. Mind Map

4. Mind Map

5. Mood Board

6. Mood Board Analysis
In the images I have collected the colours often look quite bright but
also very matte, this creates quite an intriguing artistic looking poster.
However lots still use contrasting colours to catch the audience which I
could use in my project. Fonts are also quite large so that it is easy to
read at a distance, fonts also often fit the bands overall style, for
example the Katy Perry poster is bright and colourful as you would
imagine a POP song. CD cases often involve a picture of the band or
artist, this will influence my design because I don’t want to follow this
trend and have a more artistic cover. The band tickets are often bright
and colourful, I intend to copy this design aspect as it makes tickets
more presentable and makes them seem more valuable. They have
key information like the band name, type of ticket, date and time.
Band merchandise has a very dark appeal and often has the bands
name, I will make the design brighter however intend to keep it
fashionable as possible and not too outlandish.