Reading week

The weeks tasks so far have been enjoyable, first of all Monday morning I emailed Steve for the days task. The first task was to find logos on major company’s and annotate them. I found this quite easy as there are lots of different company’s out there which vary in their designs, so I found lots of inspiring logo designs.

The second task was to listen to our Cd which mine was “Slim”, I listened to it a few time before starting the first task which was to create spider diagrams of what the music suggested to me. At first I didn't really like the Album as it came across as dark and depressing, so I broke down my spider diagrams in to scenery, key words, emotions, genre and musical instruments so that I was able to implement ideas into different categories. After this, the fourth task was to create a positive review on our Cd encouraging people to buy it. I then did some research on the artist so that I was able to find more ideas and reviews of the Cd so that I could add this to my spider diagram. I then wrote from my ideas my Cd review. I didn't think that I would be able to write a review for the Cd as I haven’t done one before, but when I started the task I then began to enjoy it and come up with a well written review. Today I emailed Steve again to ask for today's tasks. My first task was to create mood boards that related to my music using the spider diagrams that I created yesterday. First of all I listened to my Cd again before starting the task. I really enjoyed this task as it allowed me to get creative. First of all I broke down different categories for my spider diagrams so that I was able to create 4 different individual mood boards. After this I then looked through magazines and the Internet for things that I could put on the mood board. I found loads of good pictures which fitted well with the category of each board.

The second task was to collect more logos of record company’s that represented my Cd. I didn’t think that they would be lots of logos on this type of music but I found lots on my Genre of music and also added a few different record labels to give variation.

The third task was to create spider diagrams and mood boards about the word “Emit”. I researched what the company was about before starting my spider diagrams. There wasn’t much information on “Emit” but I found enough out to create my spider diagrams. I then moved on to create the mood boards from my spider diagrams. There where lots of pictures on the emit site which I added in to my mood boards which I created 3 mood boards.

So overall all I feel that this as been a really productive week so far and feel that I have learnt a lot.