Photoshoot for social media

To help with the social media side of our project, Sarah and I took a lesson to focus on getting photos for the artists Instagram and also some possible photos for the inside cover of the digipak.  

Second draft/outcome

This is my most recent draft of the digipak and the possible final outcome as I feel it has reached its full potential. After a lot of changes on the back page, I am much happier with the result and feel the page makes more sense in terms of its composition, font, colour of text and meaning behind the test. 

Fist draft outcome

Over the course of this lesson I was working on my first draft, manipulating the photos I had been taking to crate an image for the from and back of the digipak. I was happy with this first outcome of the digipak but still felt their was a lot of areas that needed improving.  

To Improve the overall appearance of the digipak I needed to work majorly of the back page. For me the back page didn't look professional at all and lacked the correct composition that would make it visually pleasing. Furthermore, I also needed to work of the font and sizing of the text as this is a big part of the digipak that changes the whole atmosphere and reflects what type of artist is portrayed.  

Photoshoot for digipak

Here, Sarah and I are trying to replicate the reference photo from Pinterest to see if the pose is actually achievable and looks visually right. However, we found that this pose was in fact hard to pull off and therefore we would have to make some changes but still trying to keep it as close to the pose I wanted.

When properly setting up the back drop I took this difficulty into mind and resulted in using a chair for the model to sit on the help her achieve the same long, sprawled out pose but with more ease. I further set up a Gel wall behind her, enabling what ever light I chose to be places behind this and shine through the sheet, lighting her up. For the bold statement wall I used this red brick wall which fitted perfectly with the whole look. I tried to keep the background simple to feed into the minimalistic idea but also holding some detail to keep it from appearing boring.

These were the most successful outcomes from the photoshoot and will most likely be used for the from cover of the digipak. I am very happy with their appearances and feel like fit the criteria of what I have been planning very well.

Draft inside pages of digipak

 

To start with the draft of the inside page of the digipak, I decided of taking very rough photos of Kiera as the reference photos were very hard to edit. This way I would get an idea of the page but not waste time trying to get the perfect photo right away. 

After assembling the inside cover, I realised that these pages would have to have a lot more work done to them ignorer for the page to fit the previous ones and also look a lot more professional. Taking more thought out photos in terms of lighting and design would help this but I also has to think about if I actually now wanted two photos in the inside, with non of the writing or edited Disk, to reverse the amateur look to a convincing digipak.

Draft feedback

 After finishing the first two pages of the digipak draft, I received feed back from my teacher and classmates of what worked well and what rot improve next time. I was told that the coherent colour scheme, velvet textured wall and costume choice all worked well within the pages. 

However, there were many areas I still could improve on. they felt that overall the images were too large, filling too much of the cover, disrupting the aim of creating a minimalistic look. This can be solved when initially when taking the photos, to make sure there in enough background space and the model is further away in the photo and furthermore, making all the font smaller, ensuring more empty space. Moreover, the digipak begins to look more amateur and not very convincing when the images are cut out from their original background and stuck onto another. This flattens the professional look to the images and it would appear much better if the photos are taken with the desirable background already in the shot. 

lastly, when looking at the digipak I was mainly taking reference off of nd a couple of others that also use this minimalistic approach, I realised that they had a common ground of all using one photo for the front of the digipak and leaving the back page plain, to keep the pages simplistic. this is something I would like to achieve when creating the real Digipak. 

Initial digipak draft

As I am still in the process of finding out what exactly I want to do for my digipak design I started with finding reference photos off of Pinterest which I felt would work well on the cover of our digipak. I made sure the photos were along the lines of what I desired but also achievable in terms of taking them in the studio and the costumes we have access too. 

To prepare myself for the construction of the digipak I began with taking the reference photos I found and editing them to see how they would look together. I chose the theme of red and black to consistently show throughout the digipak, linking all the pages together. I edited the exposure, colour palette and brightness to ensure the photos fit with the temporary backgrounds I chose.