Photography studio photos

CD case studies and Magazine adverts

response to CD feedback

From the feedback I got from my mock up designs of my album. It seems that the black and white colour scheme was ok with some people, however it also felt odd as we did not include black and white scenes in our music video and the album was black and white. So I have thought about adding some colour to my album instead of doing it all in black and white. Also some of the font placement seemed odd because it would overlap the artists in an odd way and a different font would have been better to use for the CD cover. Also the company logo was included in the front and could have been removed and put on the back of the album instead. 

From the feedback I got from my pitch I have decided to add a bit more colour to my album as the black and white colour scheme did not seem to work well with my mock up design.

Props won’t be used in the photoshoot or the album cover. For many Jay Park albums the picture of him on the album is usually him looking away. Therefore the poses the model will make will be of him looking away and looking like he does not care. A close up will be used on the album cover to see the model’s face clearer and to show that this is their album.

For the font I have decided to use a serif font as I think it will work well with the genre of the album, which is hip hop.

For the back of the album I will use a block colour for the background with the track list, as this is how it was done from the case studies I looked at.

For my advert I will use the same colour scheme as my album cover and I will include a mid-shot of the artist. I will use a studio shot to keep it consistent with the album. The album name and date will be added at the bottom of the advert so as not to cover the picture of the artist. The artist will pose in a way as if he doesn’t care and not face or look directly into the camera. 

Research and Planning the CD/DVD Cover and Advert

CD pitch & feedback

Creating mock up design

I started making a mock up of how I want my album to look like on photoshop. I have used a black and white theme on this album cover. 

Album cover case studies task

We were introduced to our new task which is to do a case study on album covers and album adverts which we can use to help us with our album designs. 

Final finished music video

editing

We used the editing software Premier Pro to edit our music video. We stored the files on a hard drive which we had to book to use whenever we wanted to do some editing in our own time. We placed our footage over the audio of the song we had in the timeline and would cut the footage to match the lip sync and to make it look smoother when transitioning to another shot. Some of the footage we had was a bit shaky, so we used an effect in premier Pro called Warp Stabiliser which made the shakiness of the footage smoother. So, of the footage’s lighting was also over exposed or too dark so we used a three-way colour corrector on the program to change the lighting and brightness of the footage. 

Leicester Square and Trafalgar Square Call Sheet

Re-shooting Footage

From the feedback we got we realised that the footage we had was not good enough to finish the whole music video with, therefore we decided that we needed to re-shoot some location footage. Luckily for us the actor was free before the filming deadline so we were able to re-film footage for our music video and produce better quality footage.