Elizabeth King A2 media blog

I have collected some images that have inspired me for my own print productions, these images have inspired with there fonts, colours, compostion, generic ska images, (use of) etc.

I like the lighting of this images as it highlights the instrument, the use of brass instruments is also generic to the ska genre.

I like the black and white used in this photo, it makes the image very strong, as the man stongly stands out in the images, this could be an idea for possibably considered if I took photographs of band members for my print productions. I also like his comical/ theatrical pose.

The black and white used again in this image strengthens the image, black and white is also generic to the ska genre. This image of three ska fans skanking is again generic as too is their clothing, I think the compostion of this images is very good two as it focuses well on three fans amongst a crowd.

What has become an iconic image of ska and the band 'Madness'

I like the font used in this gig poster, it's large and the chuncky font makes it impactual, it stands out to it proposed audience, ska fans.

Gwen Stafani, 'No Doubt. The angle and compostion of this photograph is great, it fully captures the artist, as both a performer and role model to fans. The black white again makes it a strong image, and the lighting used creates some good shadows.

I like the idea of maybe incorpriating a hand into my print production, linking it to the theme of our bands song which is money grabbing. I was thinking of drawing a had possibably creating a design which could then be developed in 'Photoshop'.

I love the colours and font used in this vinyl cover, the font looks very retro and the capital characters make the words stand out. I also like the slim line text. I think it would be intresting to experiment with taken some inspiration from old ska/reggae vinyl covers and incorpriating elements of them into my designs.

It could be intresting on the inside panals of the digipack to have an image like this in the style of a diagram, and maybe with the definition of rudeboy, rudegirl underneath.

Maybe incorpriate some images I have already taken into my ideas/ digipack

I like the compostion of this photo, it fits in all the band members well, I think a fish eye lense has been used to take the image.

Another old image of ska fans, it could be intresting to include some archive images (drawn) on the panals of the digipack.

Generic image of ska, rudeboy and rudegirl, black and white, checkered.

It could be intresting to recreate this image but include the bands name on a lable.The c.ds are genreic of the genre, and this could prove an innovative way of approaching my digipack.

Another iconic ska image/ slogan/ badge.

Ska compilation album 'Ska Mania' was released in 2009, and the album coversd incorpriates generic image of checkers, and heavy font. The cover is fairly simple but clearly shows its ska roots/ influences, and would appeal to a ska fan.

I like this image because it's quite fun, the illistrative style also appealed to me, I would like to include some illistrated work into my design.

Generic ska image - brass instrument - saxophone with checkered detail, and rudeboy decal.

Another vinyl cover, incorpriating the black and white checks. I really love the illistration of the cover, it's comical and very ska! Thid has defiantly influenced me on the kind on illistrations I could incorpriate in my digipack designs.

I like the illistration used in this album cover, it's generic to the genre, fun and appealing to ska fans.

I love the retro look of this album cover from 'Tokyo Ska Paradise' the font and geremetic shapes remind me very much of 1930's-50's print productions.

I like the use of four different poses/ images of marilyn are used her to create a quad of images, it's very eyecatching, and arranging in this kind of way could be very affective on my digipack

Ska gig posters

Ska vinyl sleeves and album covers

A reggae / ska compliations vinyl. I like the strong vibrant colours of the artwork and they illistrated style of the girl.

The Toasters
This cover features illistrated versions of the band members. I think this cover works well because it is fun, appeals to ska fans and carrys generic images of ska. This kind of illistration coupled with the font used reminds me of a comic strip.

Trojan Ska Rarites box set
This covers features the Tojan logo. The font used looks quite retro, vintage as if taken fans back to the roots of ska/ reggae. This cover is simple and works well, I like the small colour detail at the bottom - colours of the Jamican flag, it stands out effectively. A fan buying this ablum would be fimilar with the Trojan lable.

N.Y. Beat! Ska/ reggae compliation vinyl

I like the comical illistrations used on this cover, the font used is very comic book style.

The Toasters - Beat up

Simple clear bold font, which stands out and is impactual. Another illistration based cover, I like the checkered trousers! This would defiantly appeal to ska fans, and is very much generic of the genre, fun and quirky.

Bad Manners
I like how the images on this cover look like they have been cut out, like a collage. There are several layers of images to used to build up this affect. I like the background image of the band members lined up in their suits, it looks fun, and appeals to ska fans. The font used is a generic font used by the band, bold font using capital characters.

The Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom
I like how on this cover photographic images of the bands heads have been put on cartoon bodies. The cover is black and white, generic of the ska genre, the green hightlights details, such as the band members ties, and also the font. The font used by The Beat is very anglier fitting with the 'rocksteady' image.

1960's posters/ music art

I like the compostion of this piece of poster artwork, the font is layed out well on the poster, and looks good grouped together, this way it draws attention to the text, the bold, slim text is also very eyecatching itself.

Reggae art

Israelites - Desmond Decker
I like the retro patterns used on the album art, it has a 60's feel about it. The posterised image in the middle kind of reminds me of pop art. The shapes used are also quite tribal.

Political art/ propeganda & protest graphics

Protest poster created by 38Degrees, a protest organisation. The poster depicks Geogre Osbourne as The Artful Dodger. The poster clevely uses a picture of said person and comicially makes him look the The Artful Dodger.

We strongly used reflections in our thriller production and found using reflections in production makes a strong visual images. Having looked at the music video, 'The Beat - Mirror in The Bathroom' I really liked the use of mirrors in the music video. When shooting the lead singers part in the music videos I decided to use a mirror and film behind Issy singer, filming her reflection. Although these shots are very static I think they are still make a strong visual impact. The use of Mirrors also appears in 'Madness - Our House', where there is a shot of one of the band members gelling over their hair and putting a hat on, influenced by this idea when constructed a similar shot of one of the band members looking in a mirror and doing his hair. This idea then developed further we began to think about showing someone getting ready, a ska fan putting on there braces etc, this would both establish the generic image of ska as well as appealing to the target audience. We used a shot of Issy get ready in a mirror, and put this at the beginning of the video.