Creating Gig poster

Rebecca asked some audience feedback from her friends and from some people in the sixth form what they thought and will expect to see on a metal-core album cover. Most people liked the idea of Robynne and James walking, "FUCK" and the image of fire for magazine  advertisement and album covers, but were all against the idea of using a live footage for a cover. They suggested that we should use the live footage to make gig poster instead as the band performance a lot at the Fleece Bristol. Rebecca asked me to do this and with some help and confirmation from the rest of the group, we all decided what we should include.

I used Photoshop again to do this and open a new document. We were undeceive of what to include on the post and where each information should be on the page. We used the same information from the magazine advertisement and include at the bottom of the gig poster. We decided to leave the name of the band at the top of the page. Adding the colour was a bit tricky because the natural background colours of the image were darkish and muted. We settled on red at last because it is one of the colours we used through out our print work so it will make the poster cohesive to the the album cover. We also used red because it was a different colour from the stage lighting and so stands out. The text colour we choosed was  R: 168 .

                                        Choosing a suitable text colour.

We also wanted to keep the font of the band consitent through out our print work, so we used Handwriting Dakota font.

                                                       Handwriting Dakota font

I did two poster; one of which the band is not fully fitted on the page and the other is the one we decided to use and the band is well fitted on the page. I did a half fitted picture because I thought writing on the white background will be better rather than using different colours through out the poster. However, Rebecca did not like it because she felt it looked unprofessional and so wanted the picture to be fully fitted on the  page.


Below are the posters we made;

White borders 
                                                                                                                    Full fitted image.

We choose the full fitted poster because it is cohesive to the print work and music idea. It also looks better generally.