Album Poster

This is the album poster for our MV; we analysed various album posters and found the type of information we needed to include. We decided on a slightly 'blocky' type of font because it is assertive, thereby paralleling the song and its lyrics. The photo in the poster represents not only the dark side of the music video (namely the song) through the use of black and white, but also the fun, comical side through the expressions of the band. The font is green because that is the typical colour associated with Godzilla and we wanted to link the poster to the title of the song ('We Are Godzilla, You Are Japan').

How we produced the poster using the software 'Gimp' (step by step):

1. We imported the photograph we took into gimp as a layer. This allowed us to put more layers behind the photo and in front.

2. We added the desaturate effect to the photo so it was black and white.

3. We then went into the colour tab and went into 'levels' this allowed us to brighten and darken some aspects of the photo. We did this to emphasise some bits of the photo for example the rims of their eyes are very dark (Gothic look) and their faces are very light, creating a large contrast and eye catching effect.

4. Then we cropped the photo mainly because we wanted to focus in on their faces (emphasising the detail). Although this meant that the photo was the wrong shape for a poster so we added a black background that showed through at the bottom and top. We were easily able to do this because we imported the photo as a layer so we could send the black background to the back and have the photo layered on top.

5. Lastly we added the writing, we used the font tool already on there and chose a quite bold but Gothic styled font. We choose the green colour that has been used throughout the digipak, so they linked together. The writing was added as a layer and layered on top of the background and photograph layer, and then positioned.