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Studio Brief 01 - Secret 7: Self Evaluation

Overall, during this brief I personally had a sceptical experience with this brief. This is 
because I believe I wasn’t very fond with brief Eventhough I did like how it was quite an 
open brief, that us the students could design whatever we wanted for the chosen artist, 
but the live brief was quite strict like not being able to use the artists name nor the
title of the song.

I found it quite difficult to come up with ideas for this brief, thus making me lose my time 
mangement for the designing stage. I believe I stuggled with this brief as I couldn’t really
make up my mind which designs were best and suitable for the artist. Again I was being 
very indecisive during this brief. I was very indecisive whenever deciding to chose my 
physical drawing or my digital drawings but after few trials and errors. I finally got the 
results I was looking or.  

My Secret 7 record sleeve design is based on, the song ‘Clearest Blue’ by the artist Chvrches. The design of this record sleeve that I have created is inspired by the lyric music video and the lyrics within the song ‘Clearest Blue’. The chosen line from the lyrics of the song I chose was  ‘You were the perfect star’.  To me personally the song portrays to me an image of a cry dance image; because of this my main focus of the sleeve was the broken, smashed star as it implies that this person or potential lover is no longer this ideal figure. I wanted the star to have a sort of abstract blue gradient effect to emphasise the colour of the cry/tear image.  The multiple outlines of the shape enhance the effect of an image of the sound waves.  



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