Website

Since my last website post I have decided to change the home screen. I have taken inspiration from the Lady GaGa website, using a similar colour scheme, echoing the image style with the faded out edges. Still sticking with the bright colours and image of the artist, however I have decided to make the background the front cover image as it is extremely eye catching and helps to promote the product, much like with Lady GaGa's website and many other websites in the pop genre.

Album Cover

Digipack

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album art

Here is my progress on some practices of my back cover. I was thinking of doing the image above to link to the space theme or I was also considering just taking a picture of the back of the artists head. Since the front is going to be an image of her face, I thought this might indicate that the album is symbolic of the inside of her head - her thoughts and feelings. However, my worry is that a simple image of the back of the artists head might not be very visually interesting and people might not understand what it's meant to mean. Therefore I thought this image might be better as it is very striking and still links to all of the themes throughout.

Album Art

Original Image

Today I started working on the inside pages of my digipack starting with a picture of Katy pouring tea. I overlayed it onto a larger image in order to create space for lyrics, however I felt that the artist should not also be overlayed so I created a mask of the artist and the tea and overlayed the two photos not including the artist in a sepia tone. Then I felt that the artist should should stand out more from the filter so I made the mask of the artist remain in colour, I also tried to make the background a bit brighter as I felt the darkness of the picture did not fit the genre. I finally settled upon a faded brown colour for the background (to stick to the genre but to still portray the old looking style I wanted the photo to be in) I also feathered the mask in order to make it look a little more soft.

I then worked on the other pages, repeating the mask of the artist style to make her stand out from the overlayed background, I also increased the saturation of the photo to make the colours brighter and more vivid especially highlighting the eye shadow and the powder paint. I then just added the I Love It lyrics in a simple style just to get a feel for what it would look like (I will most likely change the lyrics on this page later).  

I then added the lyrics to the second page choosing a song that I felt would match the somewhat girl power feel we have given to the artist, continuing the same fonts from the first page.

Finally I worked on a double page increasing the saturation of the graffiti, the artists jeans, lip stick, coloured eyeliner and eyes. I then added two songs which again I felt suited our artists image. I tried to make the title How To Be A Heartbreaker look as though it was written on the poles and the lyrics following the lines of the poles. Similarly I tried to make Bad Girls look like it's written on the step and the lyrics look as though they were on the ground. I thought this would help to make the double page look more visually interesting to the audience. I would say I am most pleased with this page, however there are a few things I should go back and fix just to make it look a little better (e.g. 'how' is curved incorrectly).

Powder paint filming

Today we filmed the powder paint scene. We did this simply in a park. We got more footage than we needed which will be good for editing as we will have a wide spread of shots to chose from. There were a few issues with light fading and rain, but we managed to get everything filmed and it was a lot of fun.

Draft of website (progress)

Here's my progress so far with my website. I am currently unhappy with the way it looks as I feel it doesn't look as smooth as I wanted it to; the image of the artist doesn't look in sync enough with the website- it looks as if shes has been plastered onto the page.