When we entered the CLC, our mouths literally dropped...the suite was amazing! We had a really helpful instructor that talked us through a step by step guide in editing our photos sufficiently. Through photoshop, we were taught how to manipulate photos. As a photography student, I already had basic knowledge about photoshop. Sidonie and I immediately had thoughts on what we wanted to do to our images. I found the CLC trip very useful, because it improved my technology skills on software like Photoshop, it also encouraged me to experiment more, until I'm happy with my product.
I took a photo fron a tilted angle, of a sign that said "water hazard" on it, we hung the disco ball on the side of it. We wanted to create an abstract image.
Front Cover:
Before:
During Editing:
We used an eraser tool by copying ans pasting the plain yellow parts of the sign ontop of the water' part, to look as though it only said "hazard".
This was extremely time consuming, but we really wanted this as our album cover!
We replaced the empty space with black text that said "Disco", we would've used blue text to match the blue disco ball...but it wouldn't have shown up properly.
This was extremely time consuming, but we really wanted this as our album cover!
We replaced the empty space with black text that said "Disco", we would've used blue text to match the blue disco ball...but it wouldn't have shown up properly.
Inserts:
We increased the contrast to make the disco ball the centre of attention, the main focus - so the element of disco remains cohesive in the project.
For our second insert (dedications) - we cropped a long shot photograph of the bowler hat with the disco ball. We thought the two props worked well together, and the bowler hat is instantly recognizable - like our trademark.
We wanted to create a dedications page that actually reflected (what we thought) the band would say ; such as the croft and their manager Skip Curtis. We have a strong bond with them, and we thought it would only be fair if we did them justice.
Again, we've used the two elements of the video - the concept of disco and the bowler hat. We wanted the text to be blue, to correlate with the blue ball.
We experimented with different font colours during our photoshop session, we wanted to make the best album cover and back to suit our energetic image,
We increased the contrast to make the disco ball the centre of attention, the main focus - so the element of disco remains cohesive in the project.
For our second insert (dedications) - we cropped a long shot photograph of the bowler hat with the disco ball. We thought the two props worked well together, and the bowler hat is instantly recognizable - like our trademark.
We wanted to create a dedications page that actually reflected (what we thought) the band would say ; such as the croft and their manager Skip Curtis. We have a strong bond with them, and we thought it would only be fair if we did them justice.
Again, we've used the two elements of the video - the concept of disco and the bowler hat. We wanted the text to be blue, to correlate with the blue ball.
We experimented with different font colours during our photoshop session, we wanted to make the best album cover and back to suit our energetic image,
We originally used an orangey brown colour text, but it clashed with the business of the trees, this benefited us - because we still carried on with the theme of blue.
For our advertisement, we tried to make a collage of pictures, to make an emphasis on the amount of things he did in his youthful day, not only was this time-consuming - but very tricky. We didn't want to use the band's picture in the advertisement, because a portrait shot would not fit into our image of a care-free band, with a simple message - to enjoy life. I feel that that doesn't fit into the conventions of an young indie band.
We ended up going home without an advertisement, but we knew what we had to do in our own spare tinme.
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