Reflection:
What worked well? This brief challenged me a lot and it's often valuable to be pushed out of one's own comfort zone to learn new skills and not settle into a place of complacency. This brief surprised me in what I was able to achieve. I struggled at first to deliver a logo or concept. I wanted to do something with "throwing the horns," which is at the heart of everything rock and metal - but trying different approaching, reducing the shapes, and so on, made it become unreadable. It's also an, admittedly, unoriginal idea that has been overdone in the industry. My greatest success was listening to the playlist and responding to each song individually with charcoal - capturing the sounds through movements which I could then use as individual frames, almost telling a story and narrating the show.
What could be better? If I had the time, I could have explored the font more and even created my own. I enjoyed making my own font last year in the Dracula brief as I traced around my hands and nails to created claw-like shapes. It was both accessible with my level of vision and successful in being legible. What could I have achieved with more time in this brief? I settled with using a royalty-free version of Iron Maiden's font - one of the most recognisable band logos in the world. It is important to note that this is from dafont.com and is for personal use only, not to be used on any sort of commercial products which should be fine for a small podcast.
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