Client Project - background ideas

Shaun said to our group to think about more background imagery for our final site and because the wood and brick theme was successful so I thought that I would play around with some different ideas to see what I effect I could achieve.



For the range of images above I was trying to create a messy art scene, I thought that having different textures, colours and shapes would make quite a good background. I tried experimenting with the settings on my camera to get warmer and cooler colour filters to see if it made any different impact. Out of the image I like how the green and the orange really stands out. I also added some ripped red card in to add colour; what I like about the red is that I did not use a large amount and so it does not draw the users attention away from the whole image.

I do wonder whether I could make the images messier i.e. paint sploges to really give out that 'arty' theme but I feel that I have a good idea with this so am going to experiment a bit more with the paper theme, however I feel that it looks a bit too packed and with the content added will it be draw the users attention away from the main art work? So when I work with this again I will add messy pieces but take some of the textures out (not so much paper)


When I created some previous designs I was already working with everyday surfaces like brick walls so whilst I had my camera out I thought that I would continue with this idea and snap some more surfaces. Above are a few examples of some surfaces, taking two separate images one close up and one further away. I took more images of bricks, mainly because they have some different colours and textures depending on how new or old they are. I would use this idea for the artist profile pages (a poster effect)

The next images are images of a garden fence and wood, again taking a close up image and a standard shot. I like the textures that show from each surface but like my previous images I think that I need to create a more arty effect. However I wanted to see what the design would look like so I added some images, and I think that it looks good. I added a slight shadow to give a 3D effect and I feel that this really brings out the images.



The final ideas shown here were some of my initial ideas that I thought of before our client meeting but, as we chose our ideas whilst in the client meeting I thought that they wouldn't be of any use. When Shaun said to come up with another theme for the site I immediately came up with the thought of using things that we see everyday i.e. plants, sky sunlight etc I feel that I should show these ideas because even though they will not be used they are still apart of the group work ideas.

I actually like the effect that has been created, I tried to merge the logo within the photo to make it look more interesting and think that it really works well however, this is not the root that client or our group has chosen so I just wanted to show some of my ideas.

I am going to try and create some design ideas with some of the images that I have here because I don't think that I can really get an impression from just the photo's alone.