Ancillary Text: Poster Process of Development

Here I am going to show the process of how I created my ancillary texts and show you how I developed through out the process.

I first began thinking of ideas that link with my Digi Pak so there is a link between the two. At first I wanted to carry the same colours across of the dark grey and the lighter grey. Further more the iconic pulse across the page I have filled in a pure white an then duplicated and added an effect to show a after shock. This is to imitate a music pulse/ wave you get from loud pumping music.

I then added the name of the artist and the title of the Digi Pak I am promoting. I used a lighter colour and on a large scale as its the first element I want the audience to see. this is because it sells straight away as they know what its about before even reading all of it. Its a quick way to get the message across.

Here is the final for this type of style design. I have added the final elements such as the record company, sell date, website and other information. 

The Opacity tool fades the image selected into the background, the higher the percentage the higher the higher the image is visible and vice versa.









Here I have turned down the opacity to make the pulse a little less in your face and bright. This is so the focus can be more on the content of what is being promoted then the actual design on it.




But I knew I could improve it by adding more colour or an image. So that is what I developed onto next.

From looking at other posters which are promoting the album i found that a lot of the time they used an image from the album cover ( not always) but some do.
I thought this would be a good idea for me as it then is sticking to one main image and either it seen on CD or poster the audience will know what artist it is.

I began by getting the image from my Digi Pak, (all edited the same) and placed the pulse over it. I then used the 'opacity tool' and turned it down so it faded into the background more.









I then duplicated the 'diclosure' text and put on the effect 'colour burn' which created this type of engaging design.

This is my other final design for a different design. Here I have just changed the colour of the fonts to make them visible to read as its the most important information.

I chose this type of typography because its bold and emphasizes each word clearly. This is from the spacing of the letters from each other and that its printed in capitals.

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