Cd Cover, Website and Poster

We also have to include a CD cover, Poster, or a Website. The two that I have chosen to use are the Magazine Poster and The website. I feel more confident in these areas because last year we produced our own magazine front covers and worked with photoshop. The website would be easy for me to create because I am a daily facebook and myspace user and I know how the site works.

I have begun my poster drafts and here are some examples:

I thought that maybe a collage of different emotions, and the different band memebers could be a great way to promote the band, because they each have individuality and their poses can refelect their personalitys. I want to keep the desired rock n roll image but with a twist of indie and maybe vintage. I think the black and white gives the images more emotion as the light and contrast convey different vibes.

Altough this image does not show the actual band members, I like the use of lighting and the way the hands are locked together which symbolizes to me unity and embracing the moment. This could maybe be more of a potenial album front cover rather than a poster, because It dosnt really get across that its a band. If I edited it in photoshop and maybe added lyrics to one of the songs, underneath the sun then it would create more of a band feel to it. I could even try and add an image or logo of the band somewhere to show people that its a band.

This image was inspired by everyday magazines, you usually see the stars done up and looking their best, with a little tagline or quote underneath representing their band. I like the use of the text and the way I positioned it as if words were being spoken from her mouth, because she is the lead singer. Again I used black and white to create more effect and give it a draker edge, while also using small elements fo color on her fingernails to keep and femine tone to the whole thing. I think to improve this I could maybe add some of the lyrics to the song in quotations at the bottome such as "colour me your colour darling" which could also link into the different colours of the fingernails.

I think maybe I should consider using a group shot, and create a scene that relates to the song im using such as, them looking at a phone waiting for it to ring, having a pillow fight, getting ready ect. basically capture them doing femine things, to relate to my target audience.

here is the link to the website:

http://www.myspace.com/batteriesnotincludeddd

I've created it from Batteries Not Included's point of view, because that way I can use the band members as the focus of my posters and album covers ect. and I'll have time to take pictures and gather all the resources I need in order to make it look authentic. I'm not sure if this is how the website is ment to look, but it's how I wanted to do it, and I feel confident using sites like myspace and facebook.