THE TEMPTATIONS

GETREADY

Secret Seven.Produce Seven covers (one for each artist, or your own selection).

Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey - The Temptations - Get Ready - Stooges - Search & Destroy - Sound

Garden - Black Hole Sun - Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights - Camille - Gospel With No Lord - New Order - Blue

Monday - Visage - Fade To Grey - Nick Drake - Fruit Tree - Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy - David

Bowie - Heroes - Skepta - Shutdown.

Your design must not include the artist's name or the song title.

Include Design inspiration info insert to the finished mock ups.

MIND MAP

Want to add a pop art feel to the work, using line drawing an block colouring of the images. Have an advert from routeones half price sale, with a halftone effect. Want to apply this to the images.

Suggests this idea of going through a process, going to use a photosheet, and change the images to realte to the process of making a song, from band prep, to writing, to recording to live shows.

The song was written in 1966 by Smokey Robinson. It was a soul classsic of its time.

The bands name Temptations , instantly brings alot of ideas. Using what tempts me and playing on that. Thought about perhaps using imagery of women , and playing on there assets as temptations, but thought this was to out the box. To controversial.

Playing on the era. 1960s using very bold bright block colours, swirly text and neon. Taking inspiration from the colours of the era.

Using the original illustration of the term , was going to take it back an redraw the illustration, without the lyrics inside the bomb. See whether people would recognise or known the connection.

There album covers consists of mainly a group shot, big typography, taking over alot of the album. Big bold colours.

Using the lyrics ' Look out baby 'cause here I come '. Playing on that using the lead singer, as the enticement for the viewer.

The term Get Ready, symbolises the act of preparing. Going to experiemnet with this act, using the lead singer from the Temptations, will show him getting ready, to go out, perform, etc.

INFLUENCES

Keith Harring. A street graffiti artist. Who had heavy social influence through his work, Influenced me through his cartoons, use of colours.

Stephen Bliss was an illistrator involved in the Vice City GTA games by Rockstar. Highly recognized style of artwork that was involved in the game. Influence through the pop art style, as it fits the era of the song.

This is an advert from RouteOne clothing. It was fror there may bank holiday sale. Took inspiration from the halftone textures, and colour scheme, to impement to the temptations get ready.

ORIGINAL COVERS

This cover realtes more to the era of the sixties, the use of this video game style typography, this combination of this pattern encapsulating the band, it all fits, the colours are coordinated, it heightens the image, drawing your eye to it. The colours will influence the first idea of the covers. WIll take eyedrops of the exact colour and implemnt them in, bringing a new feel to the old cover. Taken bits from the orginal and alternating them.

ORIGINAL COVERS

The album was realesed on Gordy and Motown records. Very simple cover, follows the second idea for the alubm cover. Use of big bold typography. Not a huge fan of the varying typefaces, think it confuses the cover. Stylized wihtin the era, use of the keyhole imagery, looking through at the band as they get ready. The plaque in which it states the songs names, links to the door plaquem building up this sense of excitment as your about to listen to them. Want to expand on the colours, brighten them up, yet keep a black and white tone to the images.

GET READY

LYRICS

I never met a girl who makes me feel the way that

you do. (You're alright)Whenever I'm asked who makes my dreams real, I

say that you do. (You're outta sight)

So, fee-fi-fo-fumLook out baby, 'cause here I

come.

And I'm bringing you a love that's true.

So get ready, so get ready.I'm gonna try to make you

love me too.So get ready, so get ready

'cause here I come.

(Get ready 'cause here I come) I'm on my way.

(Get ready 'cause here I come)

If you wanna play hide and seek with love, let me

remind you (It's alright)But the lovin' you're gonna

miss and the time it takes to find you (It's outta sight)

So, fiddley-dee, fiddley-dumLook out baby, 'cause here I

come.

And I'm bringing you a love that's true.

So get ready, so get ready.I'm gonna try to make you

love me too.So get ready, so get ready

'cause here I come.

(Get ready 'cause here I come) I'm on my way.

(Get ready 'cause here I come)(Get ready)

If all my friends should want you too, I'll understand it. (Be

alright)I hope I get to you before they do, the way I planned it. (Be

outta sight)

So tiddley-dee, tiddley-dumLook out baby, 'cause here I

come.

And I'm bringing you a love that's true.

So get ready, so get ready.I'm gonna try to make you

love me too.So get ready, so get ready

'cause here I come.

Get ready 'cayse here i come

IDEA ONE

First idea involved the title of the song Get Ready. It was all about how anyone would get ready to go out. This temptation to doll ourselves up, look the best we could be and impress others. The era the song was written in was orientated around big block colouring, outrageous contrasts. Wanted to play on this love for colour. Using the influences that i had gathered and what the song brought back for me, decided to go down this GTA style of illustrating a character. Using pop art to influence. Taking elements from the

era the song was written and using them to draw influence.

INFLUENCES

Key influence was from the Grand Theft Auto Vice City game. Stephen Bliss was involved in the character illustrations. As the senior designer at the time with Rockstar games, he heavily influenced the highly stylized characters as we know it. Drawing from the use of bold colours, and heavy stroke lines. Using these halftone film grain effects, to add texture to the pictures., ageing them somewhat to fit into the choosen era. The game itslef would have influenced the designers direction, again due to the era and time. The music involved in the game would have also played apart on the deisgn, as to what the fasion would have been at the time. they all influence one another.. It was a huge pop culture sensation, which linked into the temptations as a band, there where at the top of there soul game,get ready proved to be a hit.Another influencial artist again linking into the era was Keith

Harring, he was well known for visual graffiti work. His work provided very poinent messages, working to help others and provide a stable platoform through which his art would connect. The street art style he brought, allowed this down to earth artist to connect with varying soical groups. The use of block colurs, very precise lines to his paintings, heightened his work from street graffiti to art. Having a cartoon like feel to it, helped bring out the fun.

In all my work there is some degree of content that is more obvious, communicating a specific or a general idea that people will get. But a lot of times the work is ambiguous enough that it can interpreted by whoever."

Keith Harring.

Quote.

http://www.theartstory.org/artist-haring-keith.htm

Keith Harring.

http://www.haring.com

Stephen Bliss.

http://www.stephenbliss.com

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DEVELOPMENT

Using an image found from the following source www.eurweb.com. The photo already has a slight halftone effect added. This is what i intended as to link inwith my influences. It gives the photo an aged look. Would use the front man as the main imagery for the album covers. After have altered the image using photoshop. The image already portrays that feeling of wanting to get ready and go out. There all suited and bootedm which i also would like to play on in the album covers.

Opened the original image into photoshop.

Using the magnetic lasso tool. Traced around the font

man in the image.

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Tracing around the image, so we can cut it out and add effects.

After cut the image out, we then applied it into a new document.

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Placed into a new document. We can then adjust and apply different effects to the image we

have selected

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Turning the image into a black and white, allows use to see the

effects and control the adjustment levels more. As we want to add

colour to the image, we saturated it first.

This is the film grain effect, think it doesnt quite fit in with the pop art or era we are working with.

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The image we are going to work with, is the halftone effect. It adds

a nice texture that can be seen throughout the image. The size of the dots was three the contrast eleven, and the effect was dots.

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Using the pen tool i drew around each segment of the suit. First of

all the right side blazer, then so on until the suit was penned out.

After selected each part of the suit we then coloured it using the selection of colours that we had

got from one of the original album covers.

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Using the colour pallete we had created, then started to piece

tpgether some suit colours, which ones worked and which ones

didnt.

The first colour arrangement of the suit was taken from the

inspiration of GTA vice city.

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The yellow and purple suit, stands out. The colours dont contrast.

They bring out the era od the song

The yellow and green, pretty nasty colour combination.

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Lighter green and the purple. Purple and the pink alternated.

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The decided to change it a little what would it look like without

that key figure, would people still be able to recognise the song and

the meanings.

Yellow and green with no figure.

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Green and purple with no figure, it works you can still get the jist

of wanting to go out and get suited and booted.

Purple and pink.

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Take the image right back to basics yaking out all the colour,

and just leaving the suit pocket to reflect the colours.

Yellow pocket.

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Green pocket. Purple pocket.

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After altering the image to black and white i didnt like the look of it, so we changed the original image to halftone and adjust the lebels to add the original colour back. It then looked right. The colours where to opposing for it to work.

The original image with a slight halftone pattern attahced. The

colours seem to work better there not so contrasting. Yet within pop art the contrast was the highlight

of the image. May use the black and white, shall ask for feedback and see which one is liked more.

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TYPOGRAPHY

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Using lyrics fomr the song enhances the recognisability of the album cover, allowing the voyer to take it in. Wanted to chose something that was in connection with this almost sleezy looking chracter in a vibrant suit. Wihtin the song there is a line, look our baby cause here i

come. Felt that fited perfectly with what trying to get across. Suited and booted and ready for the night, it says everything the image is encapsulating.

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ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

MEXCELLENT FONT

http://www.dafont.com/mexcellent.font

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Look out baby 'cause

here I come

The font choosen was called Mexellent. It was a free font from dafont.com. Felt the disco nature of the font fitted in with the era and the song.

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INSERTS

Had to create an insert that would sit inside the record sleeve. It could cotain up to hudred and forty characters to describe the album cover and your ideas. Have done that on a very minimal skope. This then follows the rest of the inserts have created giving a

nice flow between the record covers. Just desribed

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Had to create an insert that would sit inside the record sleeve. It could cotain up to hudred and forty characters to describe the album cover and your ideas. Have done that on a very minimal skope. Have written - Blue Monday. The need to leave those worries

behind and fly away from it all. Was going to place two inserts, as the full instructions for making the plane arent displayed on the cover, so have made the rest of the instructions along with a backplate so you can make the plane, with the same colour scheme. Have

added a pattern to the paper just to give the plane more texture. Hopefully the size of the record sleeve wont effect the plane, allowing the user to make it.

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