Storyboard - The Ugly Duckling

CD Cover

Storyboard

I don't have access to a scanner at the moment. So I will have to upload it later, sorry.

Design Brief

I got a bit carried away with my design brief, I didn't really understand what we were so supposed to do, so I just went crazy!

GLITCH:

Melbourne Underground

Profile:

Glitch is a group of Melbourne musicians and producers aiming to create a network or community for those interested in the growing genre of glitch and other similar electronic music.

The website is the beginning of an exciting new project, designed to bring together creative talent in the underground music scene of Melbourne. It will serve as both a means of contact with other likeminded artists and as an information hub, providing general information about current and upcoming activities, events and musicians and also displaying some local talent in the area.

The project will be a non-profit community project and worked on by volunteers. Revenue will be raised by donations only, and the website will not host advertisements. Budget will be used only for publishing, advertising and maintaining the website.

Project Objectives:

• Create interest and popularity in the subject.

• Create a smooth working platform for artists to brand, advertise and distribute their work.

• A website which is simple and easy to use.

• An active forum.

Target audience: musicians, youth oriented, public audience.

Design: the design should be simple and aesthetic, with a modern and edgy appearance. A simple and uncluttered page is desired, with clear links and images, making it easy to the eye. The colour scheme will be mainly grey scale.

• layout: simple, (heading with logo on left, column on left for menu and a body)

• heading: futuristic style

• button font: futuristic style, same/similar to heading

• text: simple and readable

• embedded audio player?

Project Management:

Project manager: Angus Cody Green

Schedule – 8 weeks

• 1^st week: layout and logo

• 2^nd week: design and implement heading and menu

• 3^rd week: complete basic design

• 4^th and 5^th week: implement links and embedded elements

• 6^th week: create text

• 7^th and 8^th week: finalise an go over finished project. Publish.

Budget: $5000

• publishing: $550 (for five years)

• advertising: $2500

• maintaining: $1950 (plus any donations later on)

Issues and Constraints:

Schedule: as the project is worked on by volunteers only, the schedule may be difficult to keep depending upon the availability of the workers.

Consistency: keeping a consistent procedure may be difficult due to the need for several developers because of time constraints for volunteers.

Maintaining: the website is an ongoing project, requiring a developer to be working on it full time, assessing and repairing glitches and updating links and other elements. They will also need to manage the forum.

Publicity: the low budget makes publicity difficult. The best possible solution will be to spread the project by gaining support from popular musicians.

Design Brief

Will upload it soon. However I am not sure how to put it on here . . .

Advertisement

I have the photoshop file too but I am not sure how to upload it . . .

Illustration with a Social Conscience

I have done two illustrations. One a poster and the other a flier. They are both advertising a concert/rally to fight racism.

The poster is a simple design, influenced by the Jamaican reggae culture. Reggae is a genre of music that began it's roots in black Jamaican culture, and along with it's often peaceful discourse is a perfect reference for an anti-racism poster. It also incorporates the Black power fist.

The second illustration is a flier, which is influenced by 1970's/80's poster art.

Tutorial - Week 5 - Working with Motion.

Tutorial - Week 5 - Working with Motion.

This week in the visual design tutorial we used Motion to edit a short video.

We took a short length of film, shot against a green screen, and edited the green screen out to replace it with our own background.

Playing with Photoshop Animation

Short animation made on photoshop. Could be a logo for a company or something similar.

Rubbish Font

Rubbish Font - Cigarettes

My font design looks at the amount of waste created from cigarette butts that are constantly thrown into the streets and gutters, and usually end up in the sea, or somewhere else where they don't do any good. Admittedly I don't help this situation, being a not quite so thoughtful smoker myself.
I created the font by rolling and shaping cigarettes into characters, photographing them, then editing them in Gimp, resulting in a messy and generally pretty shoddy outcome. Either Gimp sucks, or I just have no idea how to use it. I desperately need Photoshop! Originally my design was going to be using cigarette butts alone to shape the letters, however firstly I couldn't collect enough cigarette butts, and secondly I decided it would have looked even messy then my final outcome. I have also uploaded the original images of the letters, which probably look a whole lot better than the finished image.
In conclusion. Definitely not the greatest outcome!

Vignette

Vignette ---->

1. Duplicate background image
2. On the copy select 'Multiply' underneath the layers section.
3. Create a new new 'Overlay' layer

4. Select the bucket tool, and using a darker colour (eg gray) fill the overlay later.

25 things about me.

1. I moved to Melbourne one week ago from the country.
2. I live in Fitzroy.
3. I produce electronic music.
4. I DJ.
5. I have used the program Ableton Live for one and a half years now to create music.
6. I used to live in a small town called Bega, on the south east coast of NSW.
7. I bodyboard.
8. I love music in all it's forms, as long as it is creative and not just about a brand.
9. I love fashion.
10. I am addicted to Op Shops.
11. I am poor!
12. Uni was a split decision, I only found out I was going two weeks ago.
13. I play piano.
14. I am six feet and four inches tall.
15. I love art.
16. I can't think on the spot very well, it's getting hard for me to think of anything else about myself . . .
17. I was born in Canberra but moved to Perth shortly aftwerwards.
18. I am turning 19 in a month.
19. I went to steiner primary school.
20. I am a bit of a computer nerd.
21. I just bought a cool pair of vintage Adidas bowling shoes . . .
22. I bought a Macbook Pro today so I can keep making my music.
23. I have about 2 months worth of music on my hard drive.
24. I love reading.
25. I love cider after moving to Melbourne!