Festival Appraisal

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After running through my possibilities I decided on the name “Ocean Bliss Music and Arts Festival”. My thoughts on the festival atmosphere gave me great ideas on the use of colour and line to represent this atmosphere. I began sketching poster designs of things such as the sun setting over the ocean, patterns in the sand and images of general beach scenery. These sketches then gave me inspiration to do a photo shoot at the beach. I took a range of photos but settled with one showing some sand, rocks and trees. This photo had great contrast with the sky and gave a very strong relaxed beach feeling. I then edited the photo in Photoshop giving it a more saturated look and I played around with artistic and textural filters to give at a slightly more animated look. I then took my time to scroll through a series of texts that I felt symbolize my festival but nothing took me strongly so I did some sketches and ended up using the paintbrush tool in Photoshop to create my own font for the heading. The heading is the strongest use of line in the whole poster and our attention is drawn to it straight away. The line in the heading is very wavy and casual and gives you a slight feeling of it being drawn in the sand. The shape of the small cliff face in the background photo gives us a powerful shape that allows our eyes to be guided through the image to the text. This balances the entire poster with the use of negative space that has then been filled with all the festival details. I did not choose a particular colour scheme to work with in this poster however I used the natural colours that are presented to us in the image I photographed. I then used white text to stand out from the image but I turned down the opacity slightly so it also blended subtly with the sky’s colour. I used Photoshop filters to create the textural qualities in the background image for my poster and this gives the overall look of the poster a softer and more dreamlike feel. I felt it was necessary to make the image a little less realistic so that the free flowing text could fit in more suitably.

Final Festival Poster

Festival Information

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I have produced a music festival much like the “Falls Festival” and the “Pyramid Rock Festival”, i.e. a festival that is to run for approximately 3 nights over New Years Eve. My festival is named “Ocean Bliss Music and Arts Festival”. I have envisaged a festival with the main stages set up on the beach/ close to the sand where people are able to experience a range of different art and stalls. There will be plenty of space close to the stages for camping and parking and there will be plenty of sideshows such as circus acts, short film screenings and band autographing. The music at the festival will be rock, folk, electronic and some hip-hop. The music will be appealing to listeners of new music and we will be supporting many independent and upcoming artists. The range of music should cater for all aspects of music appreciators and aim for the age demographic of 18-30. We will be sporting a very free and relaxed atmosphere at “Ocean Bliss” where there is no dress code, people are free to roam anywhere around the festival to experience everything and the camping grounds are open. The festival is an overall celebration of New Years Eve with some good music, a comfortable and relaxed setting alongside the beach with a brilliant line-up and plenty to do.

Poster Inspiration 6

This poster uses a monochromatic colour scheme that gives it a very nice balance. The design is built mostly by text with a few graphics to add to the energy of the design.

Poster Inspiration 5

The complimentary colour scheme in this festival poster gives it most of its appeal. This poster uses a very symmetrical design and line guides our eye through the poster. The image is separated from the colourful festival dates by a simple contrasting band lineup.

Poster Inspiration 4

This poster stresses contrast more than anything, the use of the black foreground against the background of a blurry bright photo from the festival and the plain white text allows this poster to stand out.

Poster Inspiration 3

This poster is appealing due to its use of line and contrast. The use of the solid line on the central image of the tree and the silhouette of the person contrasts against the bright flowing colours behind. This then becomes the focal point of the poster and the negative space around it is able to be filled with the festival information.

Poster Inspiration 2

This poster is effective through its use of colour and contrast. I find that the festival name stands out the most through its use of contrast within its dark and light shading in comparison to the ‘analogous’ colour style of the rest of the poster.

Poster Inspiration 1

This poster stood out through its use of line and negative space. The subtle line of the rising sun effect behind the list of bands gives the entire image a brighter feel contrasted against the solid line of the ground level photo at the bottom of the poster. The negative space of the huge lineup against the solid image at the bottom of the poster also gives it a lot of visual appeal.

This image is also a representation of the silhouette version of my 'Little Red Riding Hood' impression. I find this 'Complimentary' colour scheme to be a bit visually awkward, the colours opposite one another on the colour wheel seem to clash as apposed to blending. however it is an interesting version of the image as it stands out so much.

This image is a reflection of the silhouette image although i have used a monochromatic colour scheme. This is a nice representation of the image i believe because it creates a warm interpretation of the situation and balances the image as a whole.

This is a representation of the previous silhouette image but i replaced the colours in a 'Analogous' colour style. This made for the image to appear more soft, energetic and allowed for all the figures to relate on a similar colour scale.

This is the image i created from my original drawing that represents the figures as silhouettes, i added some differently shaded trees separating the two characters as i thought the two characters on their own was a bit simple.

Red Hood Colour

This is my 'Little Red Riding Hood' image that i edited using a series of brushes and colour mixes in photoshop. I wanted to make the wolf look rather sinister and dark in comparison to the Red Dressed Ballet dancer who was meant to look delicate and bright while the line around her stressed movement.

Colour Corrected Red Hood

This is my drawn 'Little Red Riding Hood' image that i scanned and touched up using contrast, saturation and level adjustments as well as the burn tool.