Media Diary Post

This is what I have done so far on my poster design. As I stated in the last diary post, I added little details which are seen in typical, industry standard advertisements. So far, I have added little details such as the name of the band and the name of the track, with a typical remix. So far it looks very good, I like the composition of the design, and it looks a lot better than a design which sits on the middle, parallel on either side. I am glad I looked at the golden as it has really helped me when I have come to manipulating my design as it is easier to know where to put the writing and sections that have not got anything on it.

I have still got the small wing on the bottom right hand side of the design, and I have now chosen to take it out due to it being too eye catching, and I don’t want my design to look too similar to my digipac.

As you can see on the wing, I have taken away sections of the wing. I chose to do this as I wanted the wing to look like it fit on the models back, which is why I have taken some of the wing away instead of it looking like it has been stuck over the model. I think this looks a lot better as it looks more life-like and original, as the wing then looks a little different to the wing on my digipac. I kept two strands of the wing over the model to see if it looked good however, I think I am going to take it off as this looks a little random on my design, so I am going to take it off. I also took away the small, detailed wing at the bottom right of the design which makes my poster look a lot better and more professional. I felt that this wing was too eye catching on the design which is not what I originally wanted.

I also added the typical details which are included in all conventional posters which are: a critic’s rating of the single I am promoting; telling the public that the single is out now and the name of the critic who reviewed the single. On typical reviews, they include a star rating of the single/ album, I felt that stars would be too bold on my design due to their shape, and so I took the wing from my digipac and made it a lot smaller, and then used five of the small wings instead of starts to show the rating. I feel that this little detail makes the design look much better and individual in comparison to other critic reviews, and it is also personal to the band as I have used this wing in the digipac and now the poster.

You can see that I have experimented with both of these designs by moving around the written side of the poster around. I feel that the better poster is the second screen grab as it is not too close to the edge of the poster like the other. The only improvement I feel that I should make is that there is too much writing stacked on top of each other, so, to amend this I will change the composition of the critic’s review, so it is all one sentence instead of two sentences. This will then make then make the text look a lot better due to it looking a lot more spacious and professional.

These two print screens are very similar; the difference between them is the composition of the text which is very important as I am nearly finished editing my poster. The first print screen shows what I have done and how I have changed the composition of the critic’s review. I chose to make it into one sentence as having two sentences took up a lot of important space on my poster design.
The first print screen also shows that I tried to put the text in the centre of the poster, to see what it looked like. I felt that this composition did not fit well to the off- centre composition of the model with the wing. It does also not link well with the golden ration. I then moved on to placing the text to the right of the poster, which I had done before. I feel that this works a lot better than the print screen before as it keeps the viewers eye line at the detailed wing and it is much more appealing to look at.

This is my final design of my poster. The difference between this design and the last is the gradient background. I chose to make it a lot lighter as I wanted my design to look different to the digipac I created and also because I feel that it made a contrast between the lighter background and the black outline of the model, the detailed wing and the text.

I am really glad I have created such a professional and good looking poster as it was fun to create and I also learnt a lot such as how to change the filter on a photograph to make lines bolder or thinner. I feel that this poster does link well with the digipac but not as much as other designs I came up with as I have included a person with wings instead of a simple wing.