At this stage in the project I have completed my final designs and I am now in the part were I extend on my final piece. By doing this I am pushing my work further and thinking about ways in which my product would be successful if it was to go on sale for real. I think that I went for the obvious thing to start with: T-shirt designs. I used the main final piece and applied it to a simple T-shirt design. I think that these designs are successful because they are visually appealing and I think that the final outcome looks good.
Then I moved on to create some male designs because I don't want this production just to be for girls, I want it to appeal to all teenagers. I started with the simple design to show what it would look like on a different size T-shirt. Then I moved on to experimenting with colour, using various different photoshop tools to change the colour in a subtle but effective way. I like the different colours the photoshop tools create because they make them unique and they bring some more fantasy to my work, which is what I was aiming for.
Then I moved on to creating the tickets, which I feel are not as successful as everything else. They don't have the wow factor and flop in comparison to everything else. So to improve these I would have to experiment with different colour tools.
After the tickets I create backstage passes. I think they are better than the ticket design but still aren't as strong as the rest of the piece's I have created. I think what has made these two better is the tools that I used on photoshop.
After the backstage pass comes the VIP pass, I think these are the most successful out of the ticket range because they do have the wow factor, there full of colour and full of life. I don't think that these need improving but I could design a few more to create a collectors edition. To create the different colours I would have used either the Hue and Saturation tool or Curves tool, I think that these are very effective. When they are used on something like this they bring something new to the composition and they bring new colours in.
Then I moved on to creating some Bag design which I think are every successful because they are all different designs but the same final piece is used in them. I think that one of the things I have learned from this part of the project is just how much you can use a design depending on its purpose. It has given me an insight on how I can use my work in lots of different ways.
Here I have do some CD designs. I think that the final outcome is good because I have created three different designs, therefore everyone who purchases one won't always get the same cover.
Below is a CD case cover by this point I would say that my ideas were running out of steam, so it was quite difficult create the CD case. To create this I have to move the parts around seeing what looked best. Then experimented with colour, here again I feel that these designs aren't as strong or as successful as the whole thing. this is because to me it doesn't have the wow factor. I don't thing that experimenting with colour has helped either.
Lastly I created a DVD case, I think that the first one I ddi was a bit boring but when I started to change the colour it started to improve.
From this part of the project I have learned how simple things can alter the appearance of my work so much and how one piece of work can be change to create a whole direction of things to go with it. Also when creating a publicity pack I could also create a collectors edition but I think is something I will have to use in projects in the future.
