A few days ago Corey Vidal contacted me about designing a teaser graphic for a documentary he’s producing with ShayCarl, I’m Vlogging Here. I really admire everything ShayCarl has done over the last couple of years, and the documentary sounds fantastic, so of course I was happy to help.
Since the documentary is about creators of online video rather than consumers of it, I wanted the color scheme to use the blue found in creator tools of YouTube rather than going the usual black/white/red route. Corey wanted to keep the design very professional and classy, since this will be a big, high-quality production, so I went with a simple bold sans-serif for all of the text. Then for the credits at the bottom, I thought it would be cool to put them inside the YouTube upload bar, which, fun fact, I actually worked on while I was a designer at YouTube. The noise in the background both mimics the noise you’d find on a television and just adds some visual interest to the graphic, since we don’t have any official photos or graphics to work with yet.
Thanks so much for reading, and if you want to donate, the IndieGoGo page is live for 12 more days. I’m really curious to see how this all turns out!
