22 January 2015
Back cover - Digipak
Experimenting for the Album cover -digipak
After deciding that we were all happy with the artwork (lungs and flowers), we experimented on different types of backgrounds.
Firstly, we chose the title font and position, as well as the font for the artist and position.
We then began to change background styles, and we are still deciding on which one to choose
Designing the front cover - digipak
The following was created.
Technical difficulties
- It took long to figure out how to merge the flowers into the lung picture
We will now work on the typography
Creating the album cover - digipak
Upon designing the Digipak, we agreed that Algwyne would be the one to design/use the photo shop as he has experience using it upon taking a Graphic Design class. Rishi and Oliwia would pitch in ideas and as a group, ultimately create the digipak
We decided to try a skull (using the bone/rib cage theme) with flowers (using the nature theme) inside of it.
However we agreed as a group that it would not work for our artist and we wanted to stick with our original idea - a rib cage
Instead we decided to use this as the inside cover of our digipak as it fits with the nature theme
Inspirations for DigiPak Cover
For our DigiPak cover we looked/researched existing album artwork which covered the theme of flowers/nature
John Legend's album cover, used a very minimalist approach. He has a dirty white background colour, with three flowers coming out from the side. The flowers are red and therefore connote love and lust. This therefore works with his music as his songs are slow r&b, about love and heartbreak.
Beyonce's Rise Up song, has the artwork from the animated film epic. The character shown on the front cover is the character Beyonce uses her voice for. The cover is bright and eye catching. The flowers in the cover are at the back of the cover yet they dominate it.
Another John Legend artwork is for the song 'Who Do We Think We Are Ft. Rick Ross' the song is taken from the album shown above. He therefore uses the same theme of flowers. In this cover there is a close up of a flower which is distorted; there is also a piece ripped out. The artwork has a grey filter over it making the vibrant red colour a more dull one. The artwork connotes heartbreak, sadness and gives a sense of gloominess, which is also the feeling you get when listening to the song therefore the artwork works for that particular song.
Passenger's album cover for 'All the little lights' is what seems to be a drawn bush with a tree. Inside the bush there are little shiny lights which is literally showing 'The little lights' connected with the album name.
The sky is a dark blue which sets the mood of a relaxed, night time...etc
Passenger's songs are slow, and instrumental which once again works really well with the relaxing album cover.
Another album cover which uses flowers is Sleater- Kinnery. Again a very minimalist art piece with a dirty white background and a bunch of wilted flowers. The cover gives a feeling of lifeless and connotes a sense of 'giving up'.
However it looks great with the dirty white background and the album name/artist in black... capitals at the top.
This album cover by Sonic Youth, uses nature as a main theme of the artwork. It is unusual with two girls underneath a blue net who are in a bush of small leaves. You are able to see the sky in between the trees which is neither bright or dull. It is more in the middle, a simple white sky. The trees have bright green leaves.
John Legend's album cover, used a very minimalist approach. He has a dirty white background colour, with three flowers coming out from the side. The flowers are red and therefore connote love and lust. This therefore works with his music as his songs are slow r&b, about love and heartbreak.
Beyonce's Rise Up song, has the artwork from the animated film epic. The character shown on the front cover is the character Beyonce uses her voice for. The cover is bright and eye catching. The flowers in the cover are at the back of the cover yet they dominate it.
Another John Legend artwork is for the song 'Who Do We Think We Are Ft. Rick Ross' the song is taken from the album shown above. He therefore uses the same theme of flowers. In this cover there is a close up of a flower which is distorted; there is also a piece ripped out. The artwork has a grey filter over it making the vibrant red colour a more dull one. The artwork connotes heartbreak, sadness and gives a sense of gloominess, which is also the feeling you get when listening to the song therefore the artwork works for that particular song.
Passenger's album cover for 'All the little lights' is what seems to be a drawn bush with a tree. Inside the bush there are little shiny lights which is literally showing 'The little lights' connected with the album name.The sky is a dark blue which sets the mood of a relaxed, night time...etc
Passenger's songs are slow, and instrumental which once again works really well with the relaxing album cover.
Another album cover which uses flowers is Sleater- Kinnery. Again a very minimalist art piece with a dirty white background and a bunch of wilted flowers. The cover gives a feeling of lifeless and connotes a sense of 'giving up'.However it looks great with the dirty white background and the album name/artist in black... capitals at the top.
This album cover by Sonic Youth, uses nature as a main theme of the artwork. It is unusual with two girls underneath a blue net who are in a bush of small leaves. You are able to see the sky in between the trees which is neither bright or dull. It is more in the middle, a simple white sky. The trees have bright green leaves.
7 January 2015
Shooting- 17/12/14
On the 17/12/14 we decided to re-shoot the narrative aspect of our music video, as we believe that the narrative footage we did have was not enough compared to the performance shots.
Unfortunately we could not get hold of the original actress, therefore we chose a new one, and decided to re- shoot all the narrative shots.
Location - Golders Green/High Street
Actress -Cooney
We decided to use Golders Green as the high street was the perfect location and Algwyne the performer knew the area well.
we decided to use this cafe as a vital location for the narrative; this is because stereotypically cafes are a place couples go to, and therefore using a couple in our narrative worked well
What went well?
Unfortunately we could not get hold of the original actress, therefore we chose a new one, and decided to re- shoot all the narrative shots.
Location - Golders Green/High Street
Actress -Cooney
We decided to use Golders Green as the high street was the perfect location and Algwyne the performer knew the area well.
we decided to use this cafe as a vital location for the narrative; this is because stereotypically cafes are a place couples go to, and therefore using a couple in our narrative worked well
What went well?
- Timming went well, as we started early and finished in time
- We got extra footage, and some improvised shots so if we feel that a particualr shot doesn't work during editing then we still have other footage to use
- The weather made the day look dull, so some footage looks dull
1 January 2015
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