MC: Music Festival Poster + Reflection

2. Reflect on your use of Photoshop.  How does it enable creativity?  What were the challenges?  How did you overcome them?

Photoshop enables creativity as layers can be smoothly added and merged to create a complex, full design. There are many readily-available effects for both text and pictures and so modifications and alterations can be made with ease, adding variety and spice to the source images and text.

I found difficultly with creating shapes within the programme and easily modifying them to keep all of them the same size; as well as finding difficulty over the placing these borders around images. It was also a task to fit plenty of information onto the piece while retaining a clear, readable, poster design.

3. List the techniques used in Photoshop.  To what effect?

The magic wand tool was used to remove the excess from the mask pictures.

The text tool was used for the festival name, date, location and artist names.

Colour editing was used to change the border colours, as well as the pictures to monochrome.

The scale function and crop was used to adjust and resize image sizes.
 

4. Evaluate your finished product in terms of the brief.  How successful were you?

The music festival poster is noticeably bleak, but its simplicity and stock colours draw attention to the striking overall image and vital information is easily accessible due to its clear and large font. There is a nightclub and underground feel from the dark colouring, and a tropical dance feel from the multiple masks featured, as well as the other colours used. The bands featured are similar, and likely of the date, and place, and so in terms of the brief, it is successful in the way that it is a realistic festival (poster).

5. Moving on to print production for the digipak and advert.  What advice would you give yourself?

Always have the brief in your mind. Utilise photoshop and realise its potential – with it you can meet the criteria with a modernised, stylish design. Furthermore, understand simplicity, as well as packing the digipack/advert chock-full with ideas and themes.