ancillary tasks

POSTER
when doing a simple search on google for posters for a newspaper or magazine i found that very few useful images came up, so instead i looked closely at the front covers of magazines, which can look very much like posters. Examples can be seen in my magazine research.
For the poster i wanted it to be simple however have all the information that i needed on it as well as some sort of picture.




This is a sketch of a few ideas that i had for the poster; the first idea was to create an image using the four individual photos i had taken of each member of the band similar to the icon blur album cover.

However i found that when i tried to place the text and information that i wanted onto this background images there were too many different colours so the text couldn't be seen clearly enough.







I like the way that the main image over laps some of the text and the title of the newsaper i believe that this makes the image and the information blend well and is something i want to use for my poser.

From looking at magazines covers i decided to use a band picture on the poster one that i used in the magazine, at the bottom of the poster and have the logo and text and information above it however i felt that this didn't look very professional and the poster as an image had too many straight edges and that the information and image didn't blend very well.

To solve this i edited it in photoshop to get rid of the background and only showing the band and what they were sitting on, this allowed me to more easily layer the text that i needed, it also allowed the text to be visible which it wouldn't have been due to the different contrasts in colours in the background in idea 1 and how the photo of the band was displayed in idea 2.



WEBSITE
when looking for examples to base ideas from for the website i again looked at magazine websites because i felt that newspaper websites were very informative and i don't think that this aspect of a newspaper appeals to my target audience however the websites of magazines are informative in a way that would be appealing to my target audience as well as being entertaining.





I think that the main difference between the newspaper website and the magazine website is the use of images, although there is relatively the same amount of text the use of images, videos and nme radio on nme.com appeals to my target audience and is something that i want too try to duplicate on a simpler level.



For the first idea for the layout of my website i took alot of inspiration from the NME website, i liked to large and artist photographs as well as the videos and music players however because of my limited knowledge i didn't know how to ad a music player and with a limit time constraint i would be able to create a video and put it onto the website.



i think that this layout is more appropriate because i can use much of my existing content that i have already used in the newspaper which creates a link between both the newspaper and the website and because of the way i want this idea to be layed out it is easy to navigate.



Basic layout of my website
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