Edited Photos

By changing the colors and saturation we have achieved the type of image we were hoping for. These pictures really have a nature feel to them, which complements the video.

 We particularly love the colors of the leaves and the colors of Olivia eyes in these images. We feel they give her a star image.

 Again we love how the focus is on the nature and our artist. Below is the editied leaves in which we will be using we love the change of the colors.

 We obviously cant use all of our images but we think our photo shoot was very successful and found it really difficult to choose our main images.

 By editing all our images we feel we have gave our arstist a star image as she looks beautiful on each image as well as the nature in the background.

Media Concepts

Key media concepts from BethandVicMedia

Album artwork moodboard

In order for us to create our own digipak, we need to know an overall understanding of digipak conventions. We also need to take inspiration from more specific album artwork within our chosen genre of pop. Above I have collected some existing album artwork to create a mood board, which will hopefully help to give us idea's when we are creating our digipak.

We have looked at both female and male artist's that fit into the pop genre, as it would be irrelevant to look at other genre's as this wouldn't fit in well with our work.

After researching a variety of digipaks, I have noticed that the majority of the ''pop'' artists utilise their name at the top of the album artwork and the title of the album underneath this. By placing the artist's name at the top, this focuses all attention on the artist's and represents them as the 'star'. Most pop genre album artwork also uses an image of the pop singer - like Ellie Goulding - Halcyon album and Beyonce - 4 album which are shown above. Whereas others, such as the script album has been kept plain and simple, identifying the bands name and title of the album but not presenting their appearance. This may have been done because The Script are a male band and they are less focused on image, unlike female artist's. The band maybe wanting to present themselves as being 'low key' and 'mysterious'. The text which has been used to present their band name however, is bold and large which makes the digipak easy to be recognized.

On our own album artwork, we hope to use an image of our artist - Olivia Shotton. This image will mainly use an extreme/close up shot of the artist which will initially draw all attention and make her the main focus of the product. We will then present the artist's name and the album title on the front of the album cover too.

From all of the research which I have carried out when putting this album artwork mood board together, I have noticed that all the digipak's have been created and designed very neat and tidy. Most digipak trends use things which are positioned in the centre of the frame or in line with other elements of the CD. All of the albums have a distinctive 'star icon' representation about them, which matches not only the artist, but the individual album itself. To present the 'star icon' image, many factors contribute to this such as; use of colour, visual effects, pose that the artist is portraying and many more.

Every album artwork have a carefully considered colour scheme, which complement certain aspects of the product. For example, in Beyonce's album '4' the black fur clothing which she is presented in, complements the use of the black text in the artist's name and title of the album. Which makes the album more eye catching to the audience as it stands out well. Rihanna's album 'Loud' uses a very bright shade of red - which is presented through hair colour and also lipstick, which may link to the album name as this colour is can be labelled as 'loud'. This bright red colour which has been used, gives the album a sophisticated, fun look and presents her as a down to earth female.

Mock Digipak

Without Cd 

Rough Cut 1

               
This is our first rough cut of our music video. There are a lot of things to change about and to add to it such a transitions ect. This cut has a lot of sloppy and choppy transitions which dont go well with the song we hope to create smooth transitions between shots to flow with the song. We also hope to add some different effects to make the video visually interesting.

Animatic

This is our animatic for the planning of our music video. Although the visual doesn't match the song exactly, this is roughly the story board that we would like to follow. Our story board includes, what shots we aim to use and what will be going on at each part of the song.

Contact Sheet

Contact Sheet from BethandVicMedia

These are the photo's we have took of our artist to feature on both the digipak and our advert. Obviously there are some which worked better than others, we managed to take a lot of varying photos so we can pick and choose which we feel are the most appropriate for our final products.

These photos haven't yet been edited they have just been pulled straight from the camera. We both were a bit apprehensive about the photo shoot as non of us are photography students. Although this is the case we are both quite creative this aided us in our shoot.

Our artist - Olivia Shotton wore an outfit which portrayed our simplistic look that we were trying to achieve. We wanted our artist to present an upset girl, which she did brilliantly. Our photo shoot relates to our video as the facial expressions, locations, makeup, costume are very similar.

We used auto settings on the camera as we felt this would give us the most accurate photos, we had in mind our final images could be edited.

The main issue we had during our photo shoot was that some images turned out slightly blurry such as DSC_0461, when this happened we just re shot that particular image. We played a lot of attention to the scenery in the background of the images, we wanted to incorporate as much greenery and nature as possible without taking the attention away from Olivia. Most of the shots were close-ups or medium shots, fitting perfectly with what is required for both the digipak and advert. However we took a few portrait shots as we will need to use one of these for our advert.

We particularly like the photos DSC_0434 to DSC_0439 due to the orange leaves in the background. Another favorite our ours are the images in Wnyard Hall, due to the leaves following over the walls and bridge.

Chosen Images

                                                                      Front of Digipak

                                                                

                                                                      Inside of Digipak

                                                                  Back of Digipak

                                                                           CD Tray

                      

                                                                                  CD

These are our final images which will be used. Although these images will be edited slightly we feel all our chosen images are appropriate and relevant.