Dillon King's End of Year Project

Full rundown of my brief for my Advanced Graphic Design project for HND Visual Communication 

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End of Year Show Day

Today is the final day of the project - The End of Year show starts at 7pm tonight, will post pics of the board later :)

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Day Before the End of Year Show Today I plan to add my own sticker to my copy of Gloria Estefan’s Cut Both Ways. Decimating what is likely a 30 year old record. Whoops

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Lead up to End of Year Show Here’s the first look at both the CD and the Vinyl release of my bands album, Threat of Joy. For the cover I used a picture taken in the 90’s of my dad. I really liked the minimalistic approach taken.

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Reece and Taylor.jpg

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Taylor.jpg

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Jordan.jpg

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Hola Mi Amigos - 29th May

This week has been dedicated to the booklet and organising all of the graphics for the posters. I made a sweet logo and plan on printing everything this week. I’ll do a graphics dump later tonight if everything i have :)

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Update - May 25th

Sorry for the late update it’s been a busy week, all the photos are done so I’ve just got to edit the pictures to give it the retro vibe I’m looking for, all in all successful week :)

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A series of experiments using filters on my guitarist and model, Cameron.

The key was to inspire a retro vibe

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Update - 21st May 2018

So long story short the double exposure might not work, after doing some research I came to the decision it’s quite a cliche effect, which is something I’m eager to avoid, that and when I experimented with it the final outcome was honestly shockingly bad. 

Today I’m working on sketches for my album cover and some photo editing, one of my friends took some pictures yesterday so I currently have 1/4 band members, yipee. 

Days until End of Year show : 22

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Daily Update - 16th May

Today has been spent experimenting with a double exposure effect, which I will post tomorrow.

The photoshoot is scheduled for the Sunday and from there the project should be in full go.

That’s all.

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Daily Update 15th May

So today we have the dates confirmed for the end of year show, which is to be the 12th of June, so everything needs to be done by then, yipee. 

Today has been spent researching different band’s vinyls and what they wear. Currently I’m in the process of setting up my fake band for a photoshoot, and we’ll go from there. 

That’s about it for now, I’m currently rolling without a schedule, which needs to be drawn up, like asap.

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The Brief

Okay so I was postponed releasing this, but here we are, the brief for the End of Year Show:

London based Indie Rock band ‘Black Creek’ have written and recorded their second album titled ‘Threat of Joy’. The band are interested in a minimalistic approach, potentially taking advantage of photography and the like and with them being an indie band, they want quite a hipster feel to their photography, utilising things like vintage filters and different exposures.

Their first album was popular amongst teens and young adults and the band are comfortable with keeping that same audience and there’s no need for an explicit content sticker.

The band desire a CD with an accompanying CD booklet and case, a vinyl album design with an alternative cover to the CD, accompanied with a sleeve, a booklet or sheet with song lyrics and a 12” Vinyl album. They also want at least 4 A3 posters to advertise the band or their album, in the same style as the vinyl and CD. They don’t have a logo yet, but they’re open to the idea.

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Update #3

The brief will be posted at 12pm tomorrow. The hype is real.

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Update #2

Project is still in pre production and my brief is being written as I type this. Mega excited to release it as it’s such a cool concept. Won’t say too much right now other than how ‘sound’ it is. Check back Friday

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Official Beginning

Helloooo, this is the first update since last week and it’s just to say the project is in pre-production, not really got much of a clue whats going on just yet, but I will be updating daily with research, ideas and hopefully by Friday the brief will be released. Exciting stuff.