Completing my Album Cover

 

Here is the first mock up i have created on photoshop, it includes my choosen photograph of Grace in a woods, with her foot perched on a tree and her looking fiesty and rebellious with her statement look and her arm leaned down so her piercings and body is on show and she looks confident and her body language shows that she is fully open and looks fierce and effective. I have added the font, which is bold Cooper STD, and i think the font being bold reflects her personality and also stands out, its quite a fun pop art like font and is clearly visible on top of the photo and i have kept it consistent as 'Gra e' is also in the same font. I plan to take a photo of Graces lip and replace the 'C' with her pout, i think this will be effective and different and will give her a trademark feel to her name and will show on her albums and whenever she is mentioned, i have also made a 'Parental Advisory' symbol

 

 

 

Here is my finished CD cover, im very happy with the outcome and i think it looks professional yet fiesty. It shows her electic side with the 'parental advisory' symbol i made, but edgy with the funky pop art like font and her own lips replacing the 'C' in her name. I believe this looks unique and recognisable and relates to her image and attuitude, (like Rihanna). I need to see what my target audience thinks of it and want to get there opinion so my next step is to show it to them and get some feedback.

 

 

 

 

 

This is the first draft of my CD that i have created, on photoshop i cropped and moved the photo in a certain way so her piercing above her lip is on show and her teeth and bared and looking fierce. This connotes with her edgy style as her chain is also on show and the wired fence is the background and that relates to the consistency throughout as its in my actual music video. I believe this image fully supports her edgy style and will look fully professional when my album is all put together. I will also show this to a group of girls that would be in my target audience to get there opinions and views on how i can improve it and what is good about it.

 

 

Collecting Some more feedback and some Final Decision Making

Here are some emails from some of my peers and also my target audience, i asked for some positive feedback and some improvements i can make to enhance my music video and improve it further and fix any problems or faults that are still not working. From these emails, it shows i need to fix my lip syncing and make sure its completley in sync and not lacking or out of time. All 3 emails say how they like the clothing choices, the locations and the transitions which is very nice to hear and makes me feel confident about the transistions i have recently choosen.

 

I have been having second thoughts about the image i was going to use for my CD digipak and my advertisment. After browsing through some of the photos i previously edited i came across this image and realised the amount of potential it holds. I asked some fellow students in my class about there opinions of the photo and asked them a word that sprung to mind when they saw it. Edgy, Rebilious, Fiesty, Angry, Cool were all words that they used to describe the image and its exactly how Grace my artist should be portrayed, and is how i want my target audience to look at her.
The forest background connotes with the music video as it has that 'wild, natural' feel to it and im going to fade around her and make it less noticiable but still visible of her whereabouts, her grunge boots and big chain portray her 'edgy' image well in this photo and i think its very appealing to use for my anciliary tasks.
I want to place her name with a trademark kiss (lips) replacing the 'C' in her name and angle it so it looks like she is above it and her foot is placed just over it. And i will put the name of the album ' pour it up' above her so it shows the album name straight away and feels as if the album is actually in the edgy forest aswell.

 

This is the image i have choosen to have in place underneath where the actual album disk will be. I want to zoom in slightly so its just her main facial features on the album with the chain in sight aswell. I think this will look effective as the actual CD will be on top of her face and when the CD is removed her fierce facial expression will be on show.

 

 

 

This is image i am going to use for the insert booklet inside the actual CD, i want to include a short message personally from Grace to give it a personal touch with her trademark lip mark in her name to keep it consistent and im not going to include the song lyrics, just like Rihanna doesnt, in Graces message i want her to include something cheeky to her consumers saying how they should know the lyrics and they shouldnt need the words printed there for them, this would also bring out her fiesty side.

 

 

For the back of my CD im going to have the wires that Grace is shown infront of and behind alot during the video and in photos i have taken. This keeps consistentacy throughout the ancilary tasks and my actual video which i feel is important. I am then going to have the other songs on the album listed on the wired fence and then have the parental advisory logo i made at the bottom with the label companys and the website to get her merchadise from. As Graces album will be explicit it feels neccesary to include my logo and it shows how fiesty she is and that shes that much of  a 'rebel' there will be swearing on some of her tracks.

 

 

 

 

Changing and Editing my video.

I collected more feedback from my target audience and took all comments into consideration. To improve my video i decided to add some transistions and animations and make them look more effective. I have also been editing and cutting clips to make the lip syncing as intact as possible as the majority of my negative feedback was about this issue. Many postive comments were about the clothing and scenery which was nice to hear and before i had a few comments about my artist poking her tongue out to much. Although this is a statement pose i wanted her to pull off, i took there comments into consideration and took out a few of the clips were she was poking her tongue out.

I have made my second draft of the video and am now going to post it onto youtube. After that i will upload and process it on to the correct software 'Premiere' and made some last final changes, and then after that my video should then be complete.

 

This shot shows me adding animations on to some of my clips. I carefully selected approriate animations that emphasis my video and make it look more appealing and interesting to watch.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6s8cleBPJ8&feature=youtu.be

 

Heres the link from my music video, this is the second time i have posted it on to youtube. With the changes made from my audience feedback. 

 

 

Here is my video that i have imported on to the premiere programme, this shows that i am still editing and using a seperate software to experiment and try out different effects and transistions.