Choosing Our Front CoverWhen choosing a picture for our front cover of the digipak we planned on looking at Swedish House Mafia’s images online to see how they promoted themselves to their fans and media. We noticed that they were not always out going with their images but used mainly plain backgrounds with their logos giving off a strong image, pragmatically suggesting everyone knows what they do that they no longer need to give off anything more to promote themselves.We decided we needed something more, something that would not only mate a bold statement to who we were promoting but to also keep our chosen audience interested. By this we have a taken a picture of Kieran simply jumping off of a wall and catching him in mid air, giving off a sense of the beat dropping dance music that we are portraying. We thought this photo was affective to use because it doesn’t have to have any words as it is shown by his non verbal communication, also it shows he’s having fun by having him jump off of a wall buy an amusement park suggesting the song is fun.

Our Second Chosen PhotoThis is our chosen second photo on our digipak, We thought this was a good photo because it was laid out in the rule of thirds with Kieran placed directly in the middle. The fountain has been used in our music video and was good because we were able to reverse and add effects to the clip in aid on making it look more festively relating to the genre of house music. As you can see in the distance this photo has been taken in Southend right next to the Southend amusement park and the pier, We thought these were good locations to capture the gloomy depression look we tried to achieve in some parts of our music video.

Our Third Chosen PhotoThis is what our third chosen photo looks like, we took this photo whilst we were filming Kieran walking past different colourful walls. We used these walls to make out that he was walking for ages through different places, everything was changing but he still stayed the same, wearing the same clothes and not ageing. This location was in London, Brick lane. We thought this would be a good photo to use because it was colourful and eye capturing in contrast to his boring coloured clothes technically given off his personality for the character.

Our Forth Chosen PhotoThis is the forth chosen photo, We thought this was another good photo for the digipak because it was dark and mysterious. It makes us ask ourselves a lot of questions like who this character is and where is he going? I might not be able to do a lot of editing to this photo because there’s not much too it but all the editing I can do to it may highlight its main features such as the character walking into the darkness.

Our Fifth Chosen PhotoFor our final photo it is of the girl character walking with fade ins of Southend pier and cars travelling past in the background. This was a good photo as it was different from the male character being used showing we have used more than one person in acting in the music video. Although the photo is faded I can make it more defined when editing the photo and highlight the main features with bright, bold colours.

After editing the photosI edited the chosen five photos on a software found I wasn’t familiar with called Colour Splash, I learnt how to change the effects of the image and add on special effects to make it more realistic that it was coming from a music video. When choosing a colour scheme I kept to the bright colours as it related more to the genre of dance and house music which meant I was keeping to the original plan. When editing the photos I had no idea of what I wanted to come from it but when I finally finished editing them all I was happy with the outcome which just left me to finalise the pictures with text. If I were to edit images again for promotional uses I would use colour splash again or to look on more apps on my phone as I am not limited to the resources found on the web or across apps.

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