Turps Magazine

Turps Magazine is a free monthly magazine based in Newcastle, UK, which includes artwork, writing, photography, comics, reviews and music. Its aim is to promote and distribute work by artists who might not otherwise have a platform. They accept contributions from anyone who wants to be involved and everything they are sent will be considered. The magazine itself is available in bars shops and cinemas around the North East and also in Leeds, London and for order.

Ive recently become involved with the production and running of this Magazine. Its a great way to get your work seen on a larger scale. Ill be working on a new logo and website over the next few weeks. Also issue 4 is in the making which i have a few pieces in.

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Issue 2:

Explosion

I came across this illustration of ffffound.com. I think this is a fantastic style and uses amazing bright colours to protray the meaning. I think if i had more time i would like to attempt an illustration like this that was for 4Mations. I could imaging the Robot looking great in this style.

Banner

This is the art work for the banner i designed to advertise 4MATIONS >

4MATIONS Logo / Website

4MATIONS Logo >

Website >

Chennel4: StarTrek Pre-loader / Sting

Pre-loader

This is a 30 second preloader for Film4 and their Star Trek weekend. First thing I noticed was the intense red colour that has always been a trademark of Film4. The darker edges draw the viewer in and create more depth in, otherwise, a quite flat ident. Further more depth is created by smaller visuals of the main feature being scattered around. These do not take any focus away from the main feature that takes a few seconds to appear. Another trick used is the glare of a bright light on the right of the screen, which I think is to look like the glare of the sun on a camera, this directly links to the Film4 channel.

The main feature itself is directly linked to Star Trek with out loosing any of its loyalty to Film4. Lots of bright white lines fall down the screen and slowly, line by line materialise the Film4 logo. This is obviously a recreation of the Teleporter in the film and acts as a cleaver stall of the appearance of the logo. This is done in the opposite action to finish off the feature. The sound in the background helps the ident out alot. Its a noise to sound like the Teleporter with some other sci-fi noises surrounding it. I think this ident could work with out sound but is twice as good with it.

The ident also is created in a way to look like the camera is slightly panning around the feature. This also is a small feature which helps this very simplistic ident look much more intelligent than it is.

I feel this indent remains true to itself while taking on a simple and fun path advertise its product, which is the Star Trek films.

Sting

This is the sting to compliment the pre-loader, this lasts a mear 5 seconds and i feel is very impacting for the shot time it is viewed. This sting again uses the deep red associated with Film4 and darkened edges. The camera glare is actually inside the 4 and is more prominent as it extends around the whole screen.

The idea behind this sting again follows the StarTrek theme. This is based on the famous Star Trek doors which open and close with intense speed with a recognizable noise. This sting I feel relies a lot on the noise that the doors make but as a double act are unmistakable. The frame of the logo creates a square which is simply closed in a horizontal fashion to create the look of the Star Trek doors.

ITV Pre-loader

Itv2 have 4 different idents all based around green logo. The Itv2 logo extends to reveal the number 2, which is the ITV2

logo. This then stays static as the different idents continue around it.

Then this ident continues in to many different pairs of feet dancing in wildly colored shoes. The angle in which you see the dancers changes so this is all happening around a still ITV2 logo that seems to be part of the sceen.

I really like the bright colours used in the different clothes especially against the white background, which also is part of the ITV2 brand. I also have realised that the shoes change colour, they fade in between greens and blues to reds and oranges. This is subtle but is a very graphical additive to the ident. The whole screen shakes when one of the dancers jumps close to the camera that I think is a very nice touch adding reality to the video. Some of the dancers blend in to one another that gives the quite jerky video a bit of smoothness and a cleaver link between each other.

I think this ident would be used on a Friday and Saturday night before exciting live shows rather teatime on a Tuesday. The ident is very lively, helped along by the unusual party music. I like the idea behind this idea and is pulled off very well. My only concern is as far as the ITV2 logo is a little lost throughout the video; maybe the colours used for the dancers could have been a palette of warm colours or something to compliment the green logo, instead of competing with it.

Pre-loader Storyboard

Here are my storyboards for the 4Mations pre-loader. The idea behind it is all about the 4Mations Robot. He is basically really clumsy and gets in to all kinds of trouble.

1: In this sketch the idea is: Channel 4 get there new 'branding' delivered to there studios.

2: But its actually the 4Mations Robot who breaks out of the box and smashes up the studio by accident

3: He them finds a button that says "do not push"... so he pushes it.

4: Theirs an explosion which reveals the Robot and then the logo.