weekly update

As we didnt manage to finish our music video before the christmas holidays me, Laura and Viki came in on the first monday of the christmas holidays, however Steph could not make it due to the bad weather conditions. During this session we finished editing our music video and started our digipack, which we will finish along with the poster when we return to college after the christmas holidays.

Experimenting With Backgrounds For Our Album Cover

In this post we have experimented with various tools from PhotoShop to use for our album cover. Here are some examples which I think proved very effective.

Case Study for Album Covers without the artist

In this task we will plan and investigate a range of album covers which haven't got the artists actually contained on the front cover or in the centre folds etc. From this task we wish to gain more of an understanding as to why this happens and reference these discoveries to our task.
One example of the absence of artists on album covers could be:
Coldplay's "Viva La Vida"

Coldplay’s Viva la vida, released on the 11^th June 2008. The album’s title “Viva La Vida” is a Spanish phrase which translates to “Long Live Life”. This is appropriate as the album cover shows life, death and war so the message of “Long Live Life” is a message of hope against today’s society of somewhat despair. The album cover essentially expresses the bands combined creativity and results in this. The album’s art cover is an 1830’s painting created by Eugène Delacroix. He named the piece as Liberty.

Below is the album cover which offers an alternative message in the album name to the artwork used.

 

In conclusion to the post, we can see that some artists may not use themselves in the album cover as they wish to use a more significant image to demonstrate the connotations of the album which is shown above.

Weekly Update Post

This week we plan to begin the ancillary task and have it finished by next week. For this we need to have photos obtained from our video footage and will now finish any posts relating to Digipax and CD covers.

Raw shots for our

Here are the raw shots before we have edited them for the inside cover our digipak

Digipack ancillary task Mock Up

Feedback

You would do well to do a bit of housekeeping with your posts - some need a little re-ordering to make the research sit together and the planning after it. Can you also check the labelling is accurate - I can't believe all the joint posts have actually been done jointly.

You also need to get moving with your video - get the rest of your footage and work at it, as it is worth 40% of the available marks! As well as this, you need to be getting on with the print tasks.