Evaluation

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Album Cover

This is my final development of my album cover. I have not changed the image from the last upload, however I have added on the writing. I used Adobe Illustrator to do this because it enabled me to use the structure of an album cover so that my image did not become distorted. The font that I have used for this is called 'Sante Le Fait', I really like this font as I feel that it is quite qwerky and can appeal to both male and female. As well as adding the font I also played around with the angle, on Illustrator they have tool that allows you to make the writing into an arch, by doing this is allowed my to adjust the angle and the position of the words, I fell that this has made it slightly more interesting. Although my album cover is very simple, this is exactly what I wanted, I feel as though the audience can immediately look at the image and capture a mood. I did not add much writing on to the album cover because I feel that it was not necessary and may look like I had tried to cram to much on, the writing in the corner enables an  audience to be immediately drawn to the image, once looking at the image they can then find the text. As I have already said I have not edited this image from my last upload, however in my first upload i cropped the image so that it had a closer proximity so that it capture more of the mood I also converted the image into sepia and adjusted the levels of contrast and brightness, in the final touches of the image development I faded the image so that it would have a slight antique look, I feel that by doing this to the writing as well it enables the image to be very subtle and clear but still giving it a very modern and contemporary finish.

Development of ideas for album cover

 These are all images which I have print screened from my music video, I did take pictures throughout my video but i do not feel that they are as good as these. The three images that I have uploaded are all for the the album cover, I have chose these as I feel that they all mold into the same theme that runs through my music video. I thought that this first image may have been appropriate because the way in which the character stares directly into the camera makes it quite chilling and personal, it allows the audience to read the persons thoughts. I did slightly edit this image on Photoshop to crop it so that the image had a closer proximity enabling it to capture the emotion and mood.

This is the second screen shot, I thought that this would be appropriate because it is very simple yet it leaves the audience intrigued, for example why is the character on the right wearing pajamas? Although I like this image I do not think that I will use it for my final piece as I do not think that it is powerful enough, it doesn't capture the mood of the video.








This is my third and final development, and it is my favorite! Again this is a screen shot from my video,  I love the proximity and how clear the image is. I think that this will be the image that I use for my final album cover as I think it is very strong, it allows an audience to view it and straightaway capture a mood. I feel that the image will also intrigue an audience to lead them to wanting to watch the video. I have slightly edited this image into a sepia effect and altered the levels of brightness, I feel that this also adds to the mood of the image.  

Link for my own music video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaQwS4MDFiA

Front Cover

This is the final front cover, I have not edited this image from the last upload, however I have added on the text. When choosing the text I knew that I wanted to use the same font as I did on my album cover so that they both relate to each other. Although I liked the way that the font looked on the album cover I thought that the black writing would get lost amongst the dark colors on this image So I decided to use white instead. I feel that by using the white color it has enabled the writing to be seen yet it does not stand out so that it takes over the image. One of the main reasons why I chose this image to be my front cover was because it reflects how isolated from society the two characters are, the fact that you can see the long road ahead of them helps to emphasis this.

Front cover development

 This is the original screen shot from my video, I have not edited this is at all. I knew as soon as I had screenshot this image I was going to use for my front cover, I feel that it is very simple yet sends out a strong mood, it also leaves the audience intrigued. I also really like the fact that it shows the character in the pajamas being behind her, this is something that I wanted to show throughout the film (that the girl in the pajamas was haunting the other character). However If I had to take this image again I think that I would have tried to capture it so that you can see them walking towards the camera as this would have captured their emotion.

 This is my first development of the original image, I decided to use  IPhoto this time to edit my images. As I wanted the front cover and the Album cover to reflect the same theme, in this image I converted it into sepia (like I did for the album cover), however this time I made the edges blurry. Although I like this image a lot I do not think that I will use it for my front cover as I do not think that it is strong enough, also I think that the writing would get lost amongst the picture.  

 This is the third development, I do not like this edit at all, I feel that the black outer edge shadows the whole image, If I were to have put text on this image it would have been very difficult to see. Also I feel as though I could have made the black edging far more subtle, as at the moment it is too drastic.

This is my final development of the original image and it is my favorite! I converted the image into sepia and adjusted the brightness and contrast so that it would have quite a dramatic effect, hopefully reflecting the dark and mysterious mood. I also blurred the edges around, I feel as though this gives the image a more haunting effect, it also allows the characters to be more visible as they are very clear and focused.  I will use the same font that I used for my album cover on this so that they relate back to each other, however this time instead of using black as the font color I will use white as I think that it will be far more visible.

Album cover analsysis