Task 22: Ancillary Tasks - Poster

Digipak Poster: 

Final Product:

Over all, my poster is quite basic but is also creative and there are obvious similarities carried across from my digipak. Despite being slightly on the "plain" side, I think this works best for my genre. It is bright and colourful, my artist is wearing clothing that promotes the indie side of the genre, and the scratches give the poster a "dirty/damaged" kind of look.

The Wave Effect: 

One of my favourite ways of distorting an image is by using the wave effect. 

The effect can be found in the filter tab, in the distort tab. 

When clicking wave, It will load this small window. From here you can edit how you "wave" the image. I usually only change the number of generators and the wave length in order to get the perfect distortion. I never go above 15 for number of generators - this is because it distorts the image beyond recognition or scatters the image, and this did not look good. 

Text: 

Name of the album: I wanted the name of the digipak to match the font used on the poster. This is because it makes it easier for my audience to make a link between the digipak and the poster as they share the same font. The font I used is called Hacked. I chose this font because it is similar to my poster/digipak as it features distortion of the text. Other fonts I looked at looked too glitchy (as in technology glitch) and often had numbers or symbols. This is not the effect I am trying to portray. I want my poster to look vintage, like a distorted VHS. 

For the website links/twitter handle I used a simple bold font. This is so it will be easy to see and read. The basic font stick out as it is very simple compared to the poster itself. By making the text stick out, I'm hoping it would draw more attention to the website and twitter hashtag.

Feedback: 

I got some feedback from a friend, however he did not have much criticism to give my poster. This made if harder for me to make changes, however it gave me confidence that it appeals to my audience.
Poster Feedback from Charlotte Bancroft on Vimeo.

I decided to the edit a few things and add extra text to make it seem more like it was advertising a future release: