Poster research/deconstructions

Ideas for shooting poster images

In my flat plans which are earlier entries of my blog, I have written ideas about how I'd like and plan for my poster to look. Before taking my images straight away, I have experimented with lighting and depth of field on lights so I'm more prepared for when I take my potential poster images. Below are some of the photos I've taken and how they will help me.

New CD cover revised draft

Back cover

We kept the back cover simple also, using the same font as on the CD front cover. I created the background by using the brush function on Photoshop and the opacity tool to fade in and out. I chose this for my background, as it’s similar to the style I am going to use for my poster, which is out of focus lights. This creates a link between the two. I will also use this background in my CD booklet.

The only problem I had with my back cover was the 'productions' name; on our original cover we made our own record label up to make our product as unique as possible. We took the first letter of our names and came up with MCA. We later discovered there is already a company named MCA records Ltd. And so we changed ours to ACM.

New CD cover first draft

New flat plans

Flat plans and ideas for new cd covers (include audience feedback etc- why i've changed what i have)

Changes I am going to make to improve my production.

Although we wanted our CD cover and poster to be simple, I realised it was too simplistic and the images used didn't serve any purpose and weren't dramatic enough. After more research and looking back over the Duffy cover that helped us create our first CD cover, I noticed her CD cover worked well due to composition and careful framing of the image, which is where ours lacked. I chose to re-shoot some images, without using the male in frame, mainly because I didn't feel he was needed, although he appears in the video, the song is in fact from the woman’s point of view, so it makes sense to focus on her and capture her emotions in a still, before the music video has even been viewed, giving the audience a feel of what the whole narrative is about.
I took a series of shots (show below) but chose to use this one... I like the composition and think I've managed to capture an essence of sadness within the shot, both by using sombre colours but also as the girl has her face turned from the camera as though she's hiding her face from the viewer. Comparing this cover to the cover I had previously produced, I can see more potential with this version, also I feel it looks a lot more professional, still simple but affective as the image used has more meaning behind it.

I have also chosen to change the name ‘Rhianna’ featured on the front of the CD and poster, as Rhianna is a well-known artist and I wanted to make my work as unique as possible and so have come up with a new ‘band’ name. I have used the name Sweet Confusion for the band name of my music video. I like this name and think it sounds like a believable name of this genre, also the words fit with the narrative of the music video and lyrics, as it is about a couple who love each other but are always fighting, resulting in confusion.

I decided upon this font or my band name as it stood out and wanted to create a logo with the words, so it was obvious this was the name of the band. I’d noticed many other music artists do this also, for example Eminem’s name has been made into a recognisable logo