All Planning

After allot of thought i have decided that for my video I will be doing the song 'One Last Time' by The Kooks. i have chosen this song because it is an easy song to narrative and perform and it is  not to long so it shouldn't be too difficulty to perform. the song is basically about a girl and a boy breaking up. the kooks are a british band and this song is off of there second album Konk which was realsed in 2009.

PHOTOSHOP VIDEO

evaluation

Logo evaluation by

Screen grabs of Logos

 These are my first group of screen grabs to show the steps I have taken in creating my logo, first of all I started with the circles, creating 3 different colored circles and then writing the word pulse in the middle of the circles. I then though it would be a good idea to draw lines coming out of the circles so it would look like the lines on a heart beat monitor.

This is the first
Circle I have made for my logo and it is the biggest one of them all it will be the base for my logo and I have chosen to do it in purple so that it can fade in-woods into blue then into a light blue.  I used the shape to to make the shape.

This is my smaller circle and it is the darker blue, this will fade into a lighter blue.

Her is my smallest circle and it the lightest colored circle out of the three circles there will not be anymore circles .

Now I have entered my text the text I have chosen is a text that I downloaded from dafont and it is called 'acid'. I didn't think that it would stand out enough just colored in purple so I decided to put an outline on the text in black this made it stand out a lot more and made the text look more striking which is what wanted.

In the last two screen grabs it shows i have put the heart beat monitor line coming from the the logo to the outside of the logo into the white space, then to add effect added a line coming through the text all of these lines show what i want them to show because i want to link the logo to the name which is pulse and these lines are seen in hospitals monitoring peoples pulses/heart beats.  

This is my second group of screen grabs for my logos this one is My VIP logo, I previously wrote out the word VIP in fireworks then edited the text in there , I then put it into photoshop and began on working into it. I fiddled with the contrast and brightness to try and make it look more firry. I then put a border around the out side of the logo to finish it off.

This is the word VIP that I edited in fireworks, I have put the effect on it so that it looks like it is on fire because I feel this is something that links with the the radio, I think that the radio is meant to be fresh and hot so this is something I have tried to demonstrate with the text. 

Once I have imported the text I edited the contrast and brightness of the text, then I decided it would look even better if I added something to the outside of the text. So I add a border and edited that by putting shadow and bevel onto it.




This is my final group of screenshots and it is for my SHRED logo. Shred to me meant heavy metal to I got a blacked out guitar and set to work, I fist added the word shred to the guitar to make it look like it was the neck of the guitar. Then to make the logo look professional I used tools to edit the text so it fitted in well with the guitar its self, so I added a bored a textured the text.

Here is the first stage for my logo creation for the radio station 'shred,' I have added some text and a picture of the body of a black guitar. I have done this because I want the logo to form the shape of a guitar and I think this does it nicely. 

Then I have decided that I will add some effects onto the text to make it blend in more with he guitar, so I added an outline onto the outside of the text and put a texture fill over it it make it look more rugged.

This is the final outcome for my shred logo I have edited  the text and guitar body a bit more. On the guitar body I have used the clone tamp tool to get rid of all the reflecting light bits, so that now it looks all black. Also I have added in a red guitar pic which could be the place to add in the frequency for the radio station.

Peer evaluations

These are all three of my finished logos on screen, I left them to be evaluated by two of my peers. When we are being evaluated on are logos we have 4 different criteria to be marked on they are, real media products, appealing to target audience, family and use of photoshop skills. Once I was evaluated I print screened it so I could upload it on to blogger as evidence that I have had some evaluation done on my logos. 

I have looked and taken on bored what my peers have said to me and will try to improve my Logos so that all the target areas are complete and met the right standard. 

These are my first 3 drawings of possible ideas, they link through the colours i have used, red orange and yellow. The pulse logo is meant to look like a ripple in the water, the shred is meant to  be a cut in the skin with blood on and the vip in meant to be bold and glittery to show its important

These are my second draft of possiblie ideas, these ones do not link as well as he other ones and do not shar much in common, the pulse logo is a speaker with a 'pulse' coming out of it with pulse written on the lie. The shred logo is a guitar whit the word shred making p the neck of the guitar. The finally the VIP is meant to be the word VIP on a red carpet to show its a VIP.

My final idea are my best drawn out ones, I have pulse coming through a a water pulse. I have shred being written on a devils guitar pic and vip is a VIP badge. 

This the brain storm that i did to help me decided what my 3 logo plans needed to look like. I have written key words and circled the best ones.

File  types and why you would save it as that. 

Letter Head. 

When I create my logo to be a letter head I think I will save it as a .JPG (JPEG). I would save it as that because it is the most suitable for going on the top of a letter. It will flatten all the layers and would be of a good enough quality to be put as a small logo at the top of a letter. 

Home page of a the website. 

I would save my logo as either one of two possible file formats. If I wanted it to be an animated logo then I would decide to save it as a .Gif  this would allow me to have it animated. Yet if I wanted it to be static then I would save it as a .PNG this would be good to save as because it would be widely  supported on the internet. 

Magazine 

If I was to print a logo for a magazine less it was a huge logo I would choose to print the logo a a JPEG, this is because Jpegs are good to print with because they are not huge files. Yet if you were to print it you should make sure that you had the JPG at its highest quality possible. 

Vector File

When I create my Billboard logo I will defiantly save it as a Vector because to put a logo onto a billboard it will have to be made big. So if you are going to make a huge image file that will be transferred into big sizes you want a file type that will not make our file go pixelated. A vector will not go pixelated because it doesn't save images as pixels , it uses sums and equations so it never loses quality. 

Peer Evaluation: Chloe

WWW:
-Your Ident shows originality and flare because you have made yours unique and different from the rest of the class by using a character to follow by if you were to create more Idents.
-You have taken risks in order to make yours look professional and you have been successful with this. Your work conveys imagination for individuality and preperation, showing that you would be able to create other Idents continining your theme.
-To me, I don't think you asked many questions, only technical difficulties with the speed of the software you was using. You demonstrated independence and professional expectations.

EBI: 
-The only thing I spotted is that your Ident could run smoother.

Final Review of Ident

When I first came up with my new idea I wasn’t sure how I was going to set it, but then I decided I would try and make it look like the TV was in a corner of a room on the wall. I showed this by having the background as some wallpaper that you might see in a normal house. The way I did it was; get a picture of wallpaper then enlarge it into Photoshop on my background layer, then I just worked over it.

One of the more creative parts of making my ident was making the logo and the characters. First of all I decided to make the logo and because the channels is ‘the grid’ I thought it would be a good idea to make the logo a grid. I did this by going onto adobe firewall. I then added the text, which was hard because I had to choose a colour that would be easy enough to see over the grid.  Then back in Photoshop I had I to make my characters, which were a splodge and a shark like character. These characters were easy to make, I made them by just manipulating different shapes and putting them together. The shark character was the hardest to make because it originally looked a lot like Pac man so I had to work to make it look original and fresh.

The hardest part of the task was animating the ident and making it work, I found it most difficult because I accidently make my canvas size bigger then it was meant to be and therefore when making new frames it became very slow and crashed on some occasions. Apart from the speed of Photoshop I found it okay and I thought that the way I animated the ident was very smooth in places and showed a good understanding.

I created my own music for my ident in ‘garage band’, which is very good and easy to use software that helps you to create your own music. It didn’t take me long to make but when making it I think I got carried away and the final out come possibly didn’t match up to the ident as well as it could have if I had used different instruments.

When I finally found a computer that wouldn’t freeze when I opened my Photoshop ident it was very easy to export and open up into final cut. In final cut I tweaked it and made it more realistic and better. Then when exporting it from final cut I had to fiddle with the canvas size and resolutions but with help from Mr. Winter and I found this very easy.

Final Ident

New PowerPoint with improvements

Graphics

This is my first graphic and it is the TV splodge, this little creature comes out to play every-time our TVs are off and our backs are turned. This little character is harmless but hunted by another nasty graphic. 

This is the TV shark a nasty creature who stalks down the splodge in an attempt to eat him and feed. This character  unfortunately comes out at the same time as TV splodge which makes thing very interesting. 

New presentation and new idea

After my first presentation I was told I would have to present my idea again. When re-making and re-writing my presentation I realised that I had stronger ideas that would probably get me more marks so I changed my idea. My new idea was all to do with creatures that live in our technology but we can never see them, this idea would be good because it could lead into a series of Idents not just one on its own.

Ident Powerpoint

Shooting Schedules

LOGO

Using Photoshop I created my logo for the grid, I downloaded new fonts.  I will defiantly be using this logo in the final Ident that I do. 

Super Stickman

This is a hand drawn graphic I have drawn out and will use in my Ident. It is just a stickman but it's a super hero of the Stickman World. I have chosen to hand draw him because he will be hand drawn in the final Ident. 

Stickman Warrior.

This is my third idea and it is all about two stickmen who appear in a phone and begin to fight. 

Squish

This is my second Ident idea and it involves two splats that live inside of a computer screen but they get squished by The Grid logo after heavy green rain. 

Stickman Ident Idea

These are the story boards for my first Ident idea which is , about a stickman a text book. 

This is some of my early planing for my Ident for the Grid. I have brainstormed lots of different starting points and have created a spider diagram to help me come up with a good theme for my idents. 

This is my spider diagram with all my ideas and starting points.

Starting point brainstorm.