Thumbnail Research Post

 The podcast LSD discusses mainly topics that are currently "hot" or relevant in pop culture and the music scene more specifically, my idea was at first to make our logo and font conform to those of other music podcast, an exemplar one being Dissect on Spotify. 

But our survey showed that people did not want a serious tone for our podcast that we decided to name LSD, since we now are forced to conform to a new genre namely to that of a more comedic nature we decided to pull inspiration from other podcasts.

The name LSD being an abbreviation for Lyrics, Sound , Decibels allowed for a logo that resembled that of Ryan Higa's Off the pill, which is mostly comedy.

Our color scheme should not fit that of Spotify interface which is mainly black, in fact my suggestion to make the LSD logo include cold colors (sky blue & tangerine for example) was due to the fact that viewers who scroll through Spotify are more likely to be appealed by logos whose colors stick out like a sore thumb. The logo should not be too complicated, easy enough for a little child to draw from memory.

The format should be similar to the rolling stone logo, where there are 3 main colors, in our podcast instead of the warm colors like Rolling stones we will use Cold colors, we just have to figure out how to fit the LSD pill logo that we based of Off the Pill's logo.

A second draft of the logo was made after i was reminded of a logo by the French youtube channel Konbini that was dedicated to exploring the rap scene in Francophone countries though they do expand to other topics outside of rap as long as it is related to music.

Their logo's color scheme and abstract form i predict could attract viewers on Spotify especially since our audience is so young thus might prefer such logos to more serious looking ones.

 

This format is most likely to be used for our instagram account.

After some processing and having trouble due to my poor drawing skills, our teacher Mr Nick suggested a tie dye shirt color backdrop for the thumbnail since i mentioned i research what people on LSD see which could influence the thumbnail 

Angelo added that our logos might look like this where we feature equipment used for podcasts such as a mixer or a mic , we decided that we did not want too much text or any at all in the Thumbnail.

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We have decided that the thumbnail will be mainly made by Angelo with inputs from others meanwhile i will focus on our social media and Jason gets the editing done,  we have decided to make a thumbnail consistent with the LSD brand, the increasing usage of drugs during the hippie movement has made the tie dye color scheme related to drugs due to their usage by hippies who were known to consume drugs and due to their colorful nature which resembles an acid trip.

Our idea is to put the word LSD on top of a tie dye pattern, approximately like this

(THIS IS NOT THE FINAL RESULT)