Photoshoot Analysis: Selected and Rejected Images

For our digipak, we needed to take pictures of the painting and for the front cover, we also needed an image of the artist to establish star image. While we took pictures of the artist on the third day of shooting our music video, the pictures of the painting were taken later, outside, using the sun as our source of light.

Selected Images

We selected this image as it best fits the persona and star image we're building. The glasses and the head tilt gives off a stylish yet laid back attitude, almost characteristic of indie artists. The slightly casual dishevelment of her hair distinguishes her from the picture perfect pop icons. The green shirt will attract the eye as it is a sudden deviation from the primary colour scheme that is prevalent in our work.

This picture was selected since its a clear shot with appropriate lighting, easily croppable and adjustable for the purposes of the digipak design.

This picture was taken with the back cover kept in mind. It is a clear shot and turned out exactly how we imagined.

This shot was taken, keeping the CD design in mind. It captures the textures of the painting well which is why we want to use it

Rejected Images

We wanted the artist to be somewhat in the middle of the frame so we can create a pleasing symmetry in the digipak which is why we rejected this shot.

The glasses were a bit tilted off of her face, so we decided to use another shot.

This picture had to be rejected since the shadow of the person holding it up could be seen.

This picture was rejected due to it being tilted.

Comments

Second Cut (Final Music Video)

Once the first cut was done all the footage was laid out in the required order, the second cut was for adding all the effects and animations to make the video more visually pleasing. While shooting we relied on the sunlight as our main source of lighting and since the shoot took place over three shooting days with varying levels of light on certain scenes, this lead to some unpleasing discoloration to certain sections of the footage where the camera picked up odd muddy tones instead of the vibrant primary colours. In this first half of colour correction Mahnoor basically tried to match all the footage to a equal level of brightness and correct all the discoloration and try to match them on intensity and saturation of colour as well. In the image above you can see her correcting the dull greenish hues on the original video to a the required soft vibrant yellow. She wanted to match all the colours so when she would further apply filters there would be no miss match. After basi...

Website (Final)

Though we all gave her input and went over various options and versions together, Mahum was the one who actually constructed the website. She created it from scratch, starting off with a blank template. The team looked at existing websites of renowned artist, in order to find out the codes and conventions existing in websites (Website Analysis). Following this, Mahum looked at different templates on wix to get a better idea of the options available on the platform. Understanding the Website Editor was a little tricky for her but she managed to do it. For the menu page she did not want to add alot of things, inspired by the minimalist styles some indie websites are using.She wanted to keep it simple. She added a menu bar, customized it to her liking in accordance to the colour scheme that we had decided and above that added our Logo designed by Mahnoor. On the top right she added a sign in button customized with our decided colour scheme and on th...

Indie Pop Albums

As important as the music videos are the album covers. It's important to take a look at the trends and the codes and conventions in indie pop albums covers so team SAD?? can make the final project digipack with these aspects in mind. Symbolic Codes Indie pop album covers seem to either be really bright and colourful or monochrome. Most of the albums utilising bold colours in their albums, mute the colours. However, popular exceptions to these conventions exist, Indie pop album covers frequent the use of caricatures, human subjects and even just scenic views. Album covers can also be a combination of any of the aforementioned. The album covers also seem to generally aid a narrative of the album more than focusing on the star image. Technical Codes There are no conventional shots and angles for indie pop albums. Shots range from close ups to long shots and all angles are deployed though there is a higher percentage of eye-level angle being used in these alb...

Eman's Media Portfolio

Search This Blog