Having a go, and making a practice tour poster.
Heading into making a country and western tour poster I sourced some real tour posters to give myself a sense of what moods I need to achieve and what tones I need to produce. Doing research on this music genre (country & western) guided me into using the colour palettes and typography I eventually used because I wanted my poster to be conventional to the genre and follow the brief given. Considering AIDA when composing the layout of my magazine benefitted the final product hugely. Evidently, each designer considered AIDA when making the posters on my mood-board and it shows. It shows because every image and piece of text work with each-other. The media producers blend what needs to be blended and highlight what needs to be highlighted, which is the important features, the images, the tones and the texts.
My use of colours fonts and images convey a narrative. I added the route 66 logo to carry across that I, the singer in question, am travelling up the route 66 touring. This is a classical example of what a country and western singer would tour along. My costume gives the narrative a rugged feel. I am not concentrating on if my collar is up or down i’m focused on the open road and my music.
looking onward, I will use mood boards to nail briefs in future. In the industry, if I decide to take media through to a career I could be given a brief I have no knowledge or interest in. Research in this instance is vital when making media. In addition I will hold AIDA close when making designing future media projects.
Working from my mood board, own knowledge and research, I had a go and made a tour poster of the country and western genre on photoshop and indesign to help me put some skills to use and learn additional magazine making methods. I’m quite happy with my result for a first go. However there is always room for improvements. For example, In my feedback I spoke about how I felt I used too many different typefaces and that It made my work look unprofessional and uncomplimentary to the genre’s conventions.
