Editing the Lightning Logo

As part of the digipak we made a record label logo in order to secure the authenticity of the product once again. As the record label that we have associated the artist 'Jem' with throughout the process has been 'Lightning Records', I decided to simply to take a photo of a lightning bolt as the base for the logo. I decided to use the simplest design possible with minimal colour for many reasons; one being that from research, I could see that the logo was often very simple in order for people to recognise, and the other being that because it is being attached to the digipak and will be on a very small scale, the details still need need to be prominent.

Designing merchandise for the store!

Over the past few days I have been using Vistaprint to design merhandise for my store on the website.  I have been designing t-shirts, hoodies and posters etc so the fans will be able to purchase merchandise. I have been uploading the images I have taken and placing them on the items. These images may have come from the photographs from the film camera (which I developed in the dark room and scanned in) or from the digital shoot I did. 

Uploading the photographs to my website

I scanned my film images in and uploaded the onto I photo. I adjusted the noir in the image and on Photoshop dodged and burned to lighten and darken certain aspects of the image. Instead of using the plain contact sheet I decided to tear it up and scan it torn which looked more edgy and interesting; rather than a basic contact sheet. Here is the outcome of the main page:

Today's lesson: Planning our evaluation

In lesson today we were putting together our personal evaluation's to join and make our group one. We decided on four different creative and dynamic ways to film it, including doing an interview, a screen flow, recording it like a weather forecast infant of a screen and lastly to have drawings whilst we were speaking.

Keeping Instagram and Facebook up to date

Throughout the process of doing my ancillary task I am making sure to constantly be updating my social media. The process of taking images for the digipak and website were important so I have photographed from beginning to the end result so you can see the step by step process. Heres an update of the Instagram and Facebook page so far: 

The outcome of my prints and deciding my layout

The Darkroom

Today, I worked in the dark room and printed my contact sheet which I will be using for my ancillary task. It was really enjoyable and the photographs looked really good which I was really happy with. Here are some images of where I was working and what I produced:

Me deciding on what images to use and where to place them

My contact sheet drying 

Processing my film in the darkroom

Here is the image of the sheet I have been working from today in the dark room. I had to process my black and white film and it took around half an hour to get everything done; the process is time consuming but worth it once you get these amazing images. Although we have the modern materials to produce images on digital cameras it is nice do keep it authentic and organic sometimes.