MG: Music Festival Poster

1. Print Production:

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

Photoshop enables creativity due to the fact that it allows you to create, edit and alter images in the ways that you want to. The biggest challenge that I had when using Photoshop was having the patience to use the tools slowly and carefully in order for the product to look the best it could. Often it would go wrong and so I’d had to start from the beginning again but once I became familiar to it, I overcame this problem.

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

The tools that you can use allow you to: change the colour of pictures by changing the hue/saturation, crop and cut out a picture from its background using the ‘magic wand’ tool and create a new background for it by adding a new layer, add text to your product, and many other techniques that can contribute to the creativity of your final product.

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

Overall, I was very proud of my final product. I researched different types of festival posters before I started to create mine and gained my inspiration from them. I felt that I stuck to conventions of a festival poster due to the fact that my title was at the top in the centre in very bold writing and the date was at the bottom in the centre, also very boldly. The acts were listed and my background was very effective.

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

For the digipak and the advert, the advice I would give myself is to research different types of both of these mediums and find some inspiration before I begin. This is because it will help me in making it the best it can be as I will be adhering to the conventions of digipaks and adverts. I will also remind myself to not lose my patience with the programme because I know that it will just make the task more time-consuming.