Production Log #1

23/10/2014 - Testshots

On Thursday me and Liam decided to get some test shots for the digipak and poster before breaking up for half term. We decided to do this because we needed black rooms/space which we thought would be difficult to find outside of school as in school we have drama production rooms and gallery rooms. We decided to go for a theme of a black background behind someone due to the influence of other indie rock bands. One example of this being done is an Arctic Monkeys cover and another album which a similar idea to it is a Kings Of Leon album cover.

We used a studio light to shine upon our band member's face, which for this testshot was Liam himself. When turning on the light we realised it was too bright for the image we was going for so out of black card we created a cover for it with a slit in the middle. The middle slit was aimed to go onto the eyes and less on other facial features. This idea unfortunately did not work but it was a good experience to try and create someone like this for future preparations.

We successfully got an image that we both liked. We took this into Photoshop and added lighting and filters onto it. I think playing around with different effects at this stage was helpful to create an idea for what we both want for our digipaks.

These are the two album cover ideas we both ended up with. The first has the lightening enhanced on it. This edit of our image reminds me of the Arctic Monkeys' album cover "Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not". The similarities of both would be the central image of a person. Both give a edgy and not a friendly image which could be connoted with the genre of indie rock being quite urban. The dark colours are also an obvious similarity however I feel like the black and white would not look as good with our image like it does with Arctic Monkey's cover. We decided to add our chosen band logo to the image to see if it would look correct together. I feel like the logo could be improved by adding a box of a contrasting colour behind it like the Arctic Monkeys' one. This would make our logo more clearer which is needed as a band is being portrayed as a new upcoming band. The Arctic Monkeys' cover also doesn't contain the album name but for my digipak cover I would want to contain that as they are an upcoming band and this is their first album.