Final album

Today's work

To finish the back of the album cover i will change the font of the title of the songs as this doesn't suit the theme and looks unprofessional.

To finish the CD i need to change the background colour to white.

This is going to be the back cover for my album.

This will be the image of my CD

Progress

Today I air brushed the front cover image to brighten his eye using this tutorial:

Today I also started to place the title and subtitle of the album onto the front cover, when doing this I used similar fonts to my mock ups.

progress

Today I picked the photo I will use for my front cover of the album, taking into consideration the audiences feedback.

I chose this the feedback shows these close ups are engaging due to the direct mode of address, the half face was inspired by my case study Rae Sremmurd for their album Sremmurd life. This also fits to the conventions of rap as he is wearing diamond earrings showing wealth. He is wearing a black hat and du-rag as well as a black bomber jacket the colour black makes it easy to decide what colour scheme I want as black goes with a lot of colours.  

This is the original picture, using a app on my phone called Light room cc I started to edit the picture. I aim was to:

-Make the artist skin tone even

-Mae his eye white

- Make the back drop white/ Grey to see which suited better  

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Infogram

Here I changed the exposure to negative to make it darker as well as the contrast and highlight. I didn't add any undertone colours as I wanted it to look monotone.

This is the draft of using the editing app:

After getting this, I still wanted to play around I wanted his face to e more bright to attract the audience more whilst keeping the background dark.

 

Here I did the opposite, increasing exposure and moving the highlights further along. I also added a tint of colour in attempts to make the star more golden as the connotations of it that I spoke about in my case studies.

This is my second draft of the same image using Lightroom cc:

After saving both versions I showed

photoshoot feedback

We asked a range of  people who fit the demographics of or rap genre. We did this as it will give us a accurate representation of our target audience and their view to validate this we made charts (using info gram)which u can see down below where their answered yes and no agreeing and disagreeing to the views. Letting us make the album covers, CD and posters be more attractive to be successful. 

The Questions

1) What picture(s) caught your eye and why?
2) What pictures do you feel is not suitable for a rap album cover, CD and poster?
3) Using photo-shop / special effects how do you think we should improve the images?
4)What picture most relates to the word addict and its connotations of of addicts ?
5) What do you think of the pictures we have picked out?
6) Any other feedback you would like to give?

photoshoot

 

The photo shoot took place at a later time than the intend time which was 3:00, so we had less time to take a lot of pictures. we had around 50 shots but we only uploaded 34 pictures as they was in focus (strong depth of field ) and they were not slips of the star. We also had not had a camera lesson since we was taught at AS as well as how to use the lighting equipment so I made sure to read over my AS notes on that lesson. Before the actual shoot my partner and I took some practice shots and here is a small sample of them.

When we first got the camera the exposure was too dark so we brightened that up, this was shown in the forth picture as you will see in in the picture below this as to show the dark side of the connotation addicts. After that we put it up too high which is shown in the third image and we used the flash of the lights we put the number on three.  Next we was playing around we found out how to turn all the white bits to orange we liked the concept of this despite not planning it. Finally we got the right balance changing the white balance to shade, putting the exposure down and these pictures in the first two.

The photos that my partner and I were looking at potential images for the front cover of the album we liked them because