Monday, 16 December 2013

The Jewellers - Waving Lady [Album Poster]

Hello all,
So I finally finished my album poster. It was a fun fun fun thing to make, and I made sure I improved from the last one, so lets have a look:
So, at the top you can see I put the band name with the signature font. I made sure to do that as the eye journey normally looks from top to bottom and it's crucial the audience see who the band are, obviously as they can't see our faces.
Below that I put the album name Waving Lady. I made this text bigger than the band name as the album is what the poster is advertising, not the band.
Below that I put two key reviews, one from Kerrang and one from Mojo. I put the quote itself above the name as that's normally how it goes on quotes for album posters.
Finally I put the album cover image at the bottom. One because if I didn't we would be floating and I hate that. I've also seen past students do that and it looks rather ridiculous. The other reason being it makes sense to have us at the bottom because all the album poster research I did I saw a lot of other artists put the text at the top, and the image/album at the bottom.
For effects I changed the 'A's' into a diamond for synergy that links to our song and video, but for the poster I cut the diamonds in half to differ from the album cover, but not obvious, subtle.
I changed the 'O' in Phenomenal for a fingerprint because I wanted something else special for the poster but I didn't want to overcrowd the poster, so I went with playing on the words like the diamond. The fingerprint goes with the crime theme we have i.e. jewel thieves.
Originally I wasn't going to have the fingerprints for the 'O', I was going to have them over the band members faces, but I didn't like that, so I put them over the Band Name and Album Title, but very faintly because then I used it for the  'O' and I didn't want to go overkill of fingerprints.
I changed the mugshot / line-up boards for the release date of the album, I thought that was nice and meant I didn't have to put more text over the lines, or the band themselves.

Overall I'm happy with this. If there's something I've missed I'll happily add / remove it,  but I can't think of anything else; but I'm definitely happy with this compared to my last two:




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