Music Video Assignment: Addendum

Your music video assignment, once completed with your individually written reports will also require a wee bit of marketing.
Your assignment (see handout) is to create a large promotional poster to advertise the release of the album or song by the artist you chose. You will be required to create an original image, either a graphic that is created on the computer (Illustrator or Photoshop) or an original photograph, or a combination. However, since this is a large poster, you must make sure that you are working with an appropriate resolution for your end product, which must be printable in CMYK colour mode.

Here is an article on image resolution to refresh your memory or give you a more in depth look at image resolution.
Here is an article on colour modes from adobe. Here is another from a graphic design perspective

Keep in mind, you will have no problem creating an image using the D3100 that can be printed up to 11x14" at 300 p.p.i, however the D50s will only allow printing up to 12x8" at 300 p.p.i.  It is often stated that one can print at  240 p.p.i, however professionals still always use 300.

While you may feel that you don't need to read these articles, please do, as the information covered in them will be on the final exam. I will be reviewing this ahead of time, but make sure you read the articles and take notes, summarizing the key information. We will review it in class next week.


Links to articles on good poster design
Posterdesigners

This one is quite good and gives 27 tips on good poster design

ASSIGNMENT: For a research assignment, find 3 posters you think are really well designed and using the 27 tips from the 3rd article, critique the posters designs.