Festival Posters

These are 6 festival posters that have all taken place in Bristol, I wanted to se what sort of festivals are held in Bristol and see if there was a certain theme to them. 

These are some posters that I liked the imagery and illustration used on them, I really like how some of them feature objects that fit the theme of the festival, such as the tickets made into a heart or the film reel used in two of the posters. 

These are some posters that I found that just used text as the focus and no images. I really like the way that they have placed the font to make it look like objects/people but have found that you have to be very careful when doing so because it can sometimes change the font so much that the text is hard to read and not legible which won't work for a poster based on font. 

These are music festival posters that I decided to look at and analyse. I found that the majority of music posters listed the acts that would be featured at the festival so the audience would know who they were paying to see, I think this is a good idea but needs to be done and placed well so it doesn't just look like a poster full of text. Not a lot of music posters used illustration and the ones that did, did it so it was surrounding the text. 

These are some fonts that I have been looking at for my poster. I have decided to create a music festival that plays Metal and Rock bands, much like download. I have decided to name it infamous as its short and rememberable and simply means a bad reputation which is something metal artists and people who listen to metal are often thought as having. So far my favourite fonts here are Wallowxenon, Broken Glass and Kill Em All. I think these three fonts are the best ones I have found as they suit the genre of the festival and are both decorative but also legible. They are quite bold texts and think they would stand out from a busy poster. It has been important to look at fonts that both look good and give the poster a decorative feel as there won't be much illustration on the poster, but also make sure it can still be read no matter what colour it is or even what size and placement it has. To find these fonts I had to go on Dafont.com and search things such as Horror, Grunge, Stencil, Bold, ect to find these chosen 12. There were many that could have been picked but think these ones will be the ones that are most suitable and will transfer well onto a poster.

These are some hand rendered fonts that I made as some inspiration for possible fonts used on my final posters. I think the melting type face and the glass shattering typefaces would work best and be more suitable, I want the font to be decorative and appealing but don't want it to be too illustrative that it distracts the audiences attention away from the rest of the poster as the name shouldn't be the main focal point. 

These are some thumbnail designs I came up with for the poster ideas. These are just quick sketches that provide a glimpse of what the possible idea will look like and what works well and what doesn't. I find thumbnail designs very useful as it lets me see what I should develop or what needs to be changed before spending a lot of time designing something that simply won't work.

These are 4 brief development images I drew, these are a few selected thumbnail designs that I have developed and enhanced, I made them bigger, added more detail and even introduced some colour. As I'm making two posters I developed 4 of the thumbnails to get an even better idea of what the potential final posters will look like and how they will turn out, this also shows me what works and what doesn't, saving me more time before taking the designs to the computer and seeing that the designs don't work or look good.

Because I wanted to use the bands actual logos I had to make them into PNG files on photoshop and remove the background of the image so just the logo would remain on the poster. To do this I went onto photoshop, opened the image of the logo, use the magic eraser to make the background/deleted areas transparent rather than white and then save them as PNG files, and place them onto the illustrator festival poster file. I had to repeat the process for each of the logos.

I decided to place them fairly centred and in the order of with the bands would play, first column  the friday, second the saturday and the third, sunday. I placed the bigger acts of the festival at the top of the page so they are the first thing the audience notices. I wanted the logos to be white so they would contrast off of the black background and would stand out and be legible from a distance.

I thought the logos looked a bit lost and random on the background as there was a lot of empty space, it made the poster look to empty. Because I felt the poster looked too plain I decided to add a shape in the background that the majority of the logos would fit into. I still wanted to see the background image so lowered the opacity of the shape so it wasn't as obvious and this actually made the shape darker which allowed a higher contrast for the logos to stand out. 

After adding the logos of the band, I decided to add the name of the festival as the header of the poster and added other information about the festival as well. I went for the colour scheme of red, black, grey and white as I feel they best suit the theme and genre of the heavy metal and rock music genre, this may be sterotypical but I think it works well and other colour schemes wouldn't have been appropriate for the festival.

For the second poster I wanted to go for a different style but wanted to keep it fairly similar to the first poster, this is why i kept the same font style, and colour scheme. First I made a black background and started adding varied sized circles which followed the same colour scheme.

After placing the circles on I started to add all the band logos and put them in the middle of the biggest circle on the page, making it the main focal feature of the page. I placed the name of the logo on the top of the page and started adding all other information needed and the social media and sponsor logos on the bottom of the page, just like the first poster.

       

This is the first poster I made for my festival. I decided to use an image as the background instead of having a plain background and adding illustrations. For the names of the acts featured in the festival I decided to use the bands actual logos as they would be more recognisable to the fans and would look a lot better than just using the same font for each band. I included some information such as the dates, the address and the festivals website so people would know when and where the festival would be placed and where people can get more information about the festival that isn't on the poster and where the tickets are sold online. I'm really pleased with how this has turned out and think it looks like a professional music festival poster. I think the use of the bands logos makes the poster look much more interesting and professional as its something that professional festivals do on their posters. 

This is my second poster, I wanted to keep it fairly similar to the previous poster so the audience could see that they belonged together but also make them different so they wouldn't look the same. I went for a very different style approach and decided not to add actual images like the background of the original poster. I kept things such as the band logos, the typefaces, social network sites and sponsor logos on the bottom of the page. I think the actual band logos and the sponsors and social network logos give the posters a more professional and realistic look. I'm really pleased with how these posters turned out and think I was successful in creating professional festival posters. To make these I used illustrator and feel this was the best platform to create my work on.