FMP - recent SAM meeting

The last meeting before today was a bit rushed, and I was a bit unprepared, workings still in tracing form etc... This was followed by an amazing singing lesson, courtesy of SAM, which really got me motivated and was a great insight to the cause I am promoting.

This meeting was a little more productive, and very positive... Although there is plenty of idea development to do I decided to start using the computer to produce taster work for SAM. This went down very well as we are getting closer in the way of thinking - My ideas are starting to go where they would like them and vice versa...
I firstly showed them rough illustrations of Paul Roberts (ex long term 'The Stranglers' frontman) as a puppeteer to be used for the 'Band management' workshop SAM offers. Although I used an image of Paul with slightly longer hair, I was told he wouldn't be offended, if anything it would be a complement. So that went down well - We decided out of the body variations I presented, on using a portrait tall stance, which leaves plenty of room for type information and would house a silhouette of a band neatly in the middle with "your band here" in white... The puppeteers strings will be 're-jigged' in place of the band.

I next showed them rough photoshop work using their logo in different themed situations, for possible future developement - They really liked these for the various things they offer.

Next were illustrator based experiments with musical objects, vinyl case patterns etc for the SAM logo and different themes to tie in within. A cassette idea was one that could possibly be used as a flyer or elements of it could be used, mainly the label 'index' to use with different titles of say the posters. All nice ideas that can be played about with and either used or scrapped in the long run.

last but not least were some VERY rough ideas for the bumper sticker Ben wanted for a lot of his friends. It could be very good promotion of the company... The flame idea needs a lot of work, they look to fat/generic/precise, and Ben described the look he wanted to be that of a 'pimp my ride' car he had seen, with paint layers almost melting/burning/peeling off with the force of speed... My current rough ideas don't give the impression of speed or do any of the design justice so this will need a lot of experimenting and fine tweaking...

It has been decided that the utmost priority are the rock school posters, as a Worthing school has shown incredibly enthusiastic interest in SAM - So the posters will be put to the top of my list - All the artwork can be used and tweaked for everything else - and this also gives me another nice twist in the project, a new piece of work... The rock school posters, but for 'RAW' - 'Rock at Worthing'. So it's 'SAM @ RAW'.

Should be fun!

Ashley