HALF TERM HOMEWORK

To the right is a photo that I chose as one that I feel accurately represents the star persona of our lead singer. It is also the image I am currently working on to produce a mock-up magazine add.


1. Our star persona is meant to represent a modern youth in a relatively general sense. This is communicated through the combination of quite smart, casual and 'vintage' looking clothing; contrasting with the slightly messy hair, the cigarette and the slightly lopsided stance. Our star persona, to me, represents materialism and youth. we were never trying to create a persona with any behavioural extremities, i.e. not a binge drinker or 'bad boy' and not notably studious or well mannered. This persona also works well with the lyrics, although the song itself - without context - may imply a sort of culture of binge drinking and partying, we are providing a context (through techniques in the music video, digipack etc.) in which our lead works in collaboration with our choice of song.

2. The general idea for maintaining continuity is firstly by making sure we do not get to influenced by the lyrics of the song, as this would lead to all of our products relating directly to track which would make our overall project less convincing.

3. Digi-pack cover

- Bold design: our chosen song is very upbeat, with a simple and catchy riff. I think this should be represented through a very simple, bold and possibly colourful design.

- All members of the band should be in some way noted or referenced in the digi-pack, as apposed to in the magazine add where I would argue that our lead singer would effectively communicate the band's image himself.

Magazine add

update 2 on magazine cover mock-up

- This is a basic idea I had for the magazine add (unfinished)

- As mentioned previously, I feel that our lead communicates the image of the band himself, and can act almost as a band representative in magazine add.

- I used an opaque black paint brush to create dark faded affect around him, using fewer strokes as i got toward the middle, in an attempt to highlight him and make him stand out.



- I also used 'darken' on the layer to make him sit nicely on the white background as well as rubbing out with an opaque rubber, areas where the jagged outline of the image clashed with the background.





- I tampered with the levels of the image to make him further defined.

- I used the layer filter 'paint daubs' to give him a slightly more 'vintage' look