Music festival web banner Create and advertise YOUR rave

Web banner objective When you finish this activity, you will be able to: Strategize and implement branding elements Utilize existing photography to communicate a message Practice creating clean cutouts and implementing them into a design

Web banner instructions You will be creating a web banner for a music festival The genre of music and the artists participating are your choice Get creative with the name of your festival: “Karber Klashes Festival”, “Dubstep Mania”, etc.

Web banner instructions The web banner must be created in Photoshop File>New Width: 728 pixels wide; height: 90 pixels Resolution: 72 pixels/inch Color Mode: RGB Color, 8 bit Title it [last name] music festival web banner [class period] Make sure you save it as a Photoshop (PSD) file when you are working on it!

Web banner instructions A minimum of 10 acts must be included in your web banner You must include the name, location, and date(s) of the festival on your banner You may pull artist images (photos or logos) from the web or from any other electronic source that you have access to Organization Create a folder entitled “Music Festival Web Banner” inside your “Photo Journalism” folder on your H drive or flash drive Save each photo you put into this folder as a JPG before editing it in Photoshop. Title each photo that you download as [name of artist] original Take each image into Photoshop to cut out the artist photo or logo All artist images included in your banner MUST have transparent backgrounds

Web banner instructions Save your final web banner as a JPG on your H drive as [your last name] Music Festival Web Banner [class period]and turn it in to Mr. Nigrelli via Google Drive  Assignment is due by the end of class on Friday, September 28th - MAJOR GRADE!

Web Banner Grading Rubric Item Possible Points At least ten artists included 25 Background transparency quality 35 Creative name included 20 Sized 728x90 10 Created in Photoshop   Total 100