Club Logos Concept Board

Club Questions

1)what is the purpose of vocal club?/what does the club in intend to provide?

2)what symbol or idea do you think is the best representation of the club?

3)what is your favorite part of the club?

4)Who can join? Any past experience needed?
5)what message do you hope to send with vocal club?
6)what are the goals of the club?

The purpose of vocal club is create a safe environment for the student body to express themselves through singing. Its goal is to provide a stress-free area, so at the end of academics students can go to vocal club to release stress. There is not experience needed. Students must have interest in singing because members are sincerely intrigued by vocal music. This is not to say that the club is limited to what students can do as  long as it is related to singing. What makes vocal club different is that it is not competitive, rather over time, there are is friendships created. Symbols that most represent the club are the microphone and music notes because with the goal of performing at the showcase, microphone symbolizes the we intend to come in contact with to perform. A music note represent music, it does not have to be instrumental but also vocal because like the high and low notes of instruments there are high and low notes of the vocals. There is not favorite part of the because the club as a whole is the favorite club. Moments include sing ing a song like "Lean On Me" as a group as well as singing to the club and receiving feedback. Both strengthens the connections we have. Overall, as a club we want the school to know that if you are interested in singing and want to share your talent or just have a good time singing, vocal cub is the right place to go, for it is a no-judgement area; feedback we offer to song performances are critical but non-judgmental. Dont' worry, ff you mess up, we encourage you to go on!

What's my Typeface?

I think this typeface represents me because it is simple yet kind of quirky which is similar to my personality. I like simple things in life and like my work and life organized. This font is upright and created a sense of organization because it can clean and straight edges. However, specific letters like the "g," "e," "f," and "k," illustrates the quirkiness in the font because it is unusual. I feel like these two aspects of the type integrates well with my personality. ;)

Logos I Like

The logo to the left is the album color of a korean band, Big Bang. I find this clever because they have always been an edgy group with a very strong color blocking style. In the album there is also a theme of snow. The local displays the edginess of the group with sharp corners of the logo and contrasting colors. The theme of winter/snow is displayed the the stone like back ground and blue log on top because together it seems "stone cold." In the album, each song has a separate logo, one being Fantastic Baby(right). Big Bang was able to maintain its edgy and color blocking style which I really like.I like this logo because it is able to incorporate its ideas into the organization's name. This emblem logo includes symbols/pictures that represent "motion" which I find really clever. The contrast between bright pink and white is very simplistic, putting focus on the actual logo. Not only is the name unique but the logo is unique as well.

Portrait Transformation

Before: 

After:

I started with the image of the subject and changed its dimensions and ppi. Then I added many layer masks(curves) to achieve the effect of natural lighting shining on her right side. I also made her left side dark to create the contrast. Then I used the the magnetic lasso tool (adding to and subtracting from selection) to cut her out of the original. After finding the background picture, I decided I needed other adjustments like changing the brightness. I copied and pasted the cut out image/subject onto the background and changed her size, opacity to erase her and made it seem like she is hiding. I repeated this four more times.

My concept is nature and becoming part of nature. The peekaboo action was meant to make nature look fun. The subject is really comfortable in nature and therefore is sort of playing hide and go seek with the audience. Her size does not overpower the background image, therefore not taking away it influence. Her being encompassed in grass and trees makes the environment seem very friendly and welcoming.

GIF

     A frustrating aspect of the Photoshop program was how tedious you had to be. When duplicating layers I always had to turn off the visible button and sometimes turn back on the visible button to see what I have changed which made it very confusing because sometimes I would have more than one layer visible and it would make me think that I have done something wrong when in reality it was only because there was visibility to more than one layer. Also I was frustrated in all the buttons I had to click to create a picture or make changes to a layer. For example when I had to paint, I used black and then I used the teardrop tool to pick a shade of yellow. However picking the yellow made it a background color and I always had to switch the background and foreground color. Also, when wanting to use the magnetic lasso tool, and in general any tool,  I would have to deselect something selected previously in order to select something else. Sometimes I would forget, and it would be frustrating to have to look around and waste time only to find that I had to deselect. However this is probably only because I am unfamiliar with Photoshop. I was frustrated with the project because I had to keep fluidity. I made sure that my transitions between each layer was smooth however this took a lot of changing visibility of layers so I could refer to the previous layers for what changes I've made.

     After completing the project, I feel most confident with the paint brush tool. This is because I used the tool the most; I created the head for the symbol's headphones and music notes by drawing and erasing,  which gave me a lot of practice with the paint brush tool. To me, the paint brush tool is a helpful tool and changing its paint brush size and opacity was easy. I also learned to color hard to reach places in my symbol by simply putting the paint brush on top of a specific area and clicking the mouse a couple of time to get a dark enough colour. I did this very often for my own symbol.  Also, I understood that the paint brush tool is very tedious to use, so I found that making short strokes helps a lot more than making a continuous long stroke because when you make a mistake and undo the mistake, it will undo the entire line that you have spent time trying to perfect. Overall I feel like I am most confident using the paint brush tool because it is easy to understand and I have used it for most of my symbol.

     I wish I were better at the pen tool. I did use it a few times to create the straight lines for the music sheets next to the earphones however it was a struggle for me because I did not know how to create lines that were equal in size nor did I completely understand the usage of the new layers added. In terms of the layers, I learned to merge them to create one layer that I wanted. But in terms of creating a straight line, I am still struggling to achieve what I wanted to achieve. I thought that it would be easier to create these music sheet minds, however, it took me long time to understand how the pen tool is used and I am still now having trouble understanding how you can create one straight line without pressing another area and having the two- dots connect with a curve.

     I would like to create a picture from various images on Photoshop. I have seen online of very interesting pictures of images that seem to have been pasted on another background image to create a new emotion or idea. I find this very interesting and would like to see how one can achieve this. Right now, I am thinking, in order to achieve this type of image you would have to use the lasso tool. But I do not know how to take the background off of an image. And would like to learn how to do so.

The concept of my symbol is music. This is shown with the headphones because we use headphones to listen to music. But a deeper idea I want to convey is that music can bring people together and does not discriminate. I show this by starting the project with a circle. Rather than using a rectangle or triangle, or angular shapes, a circle is a shape that seems like it can hold on to everyone and gather everyone so that no one is left out in a corner. I also wanted to show that music inspire others. I showed this by having a small music sheet come out of the headphones, showing that music not only are in your ears but goes out into the world because it affects not only you but also others. Lastly,  a personal concept that I decided to include was that music brings me happiness. With the smile I wished to convey that music brings happiness to me. This is because songs are able to speak out my emotions and make me feel like there's someone who understands my emotions. This, makes me feel happy.I also enjoy singing, so when I listen to music I relate it to positive thoughts. Lastly, my choice of the color, yellow, was also to express the emotion of happiness. I felt that yellow was bright and brings a warm tone because it reminds me of the sun. So I felt like yellow was the most appropriate color for my symbol, whether it was for the smile or the music notes.

I felt like this project taught me a lot about Photoshop, which I have always been wondering about.

GIFs Exploration

Just some doodles...

credit to my sister for the idea