I created a board on Pinterest to get inspiration for my ideas. You can find it here.
The first set of images I found were the exterior of houses. This is an idea for my album cover. Taking inspiration from Mumford and Sons, the idea is to have an image of the front of the house the cover as in my next video edit, the first thing we see is the house during daylight and the video will end with the shot of the house at night. To make the image of the house as the front cover, it will create a strong tie between the music video and the digipack. I also plan to make this image the design for the advert as well as this will tie all three products together. Much like in Mumford and Sons', the advert image is the same as the image used for the cover but is extended so we see more of the scene - this is what I plan to do with my products too.
The next image is the interior of a room with a window looking outside. This is another idea I've taken from Mumford and Sons' as the image they've used for the track list is of an inside of the building seen in the album cover, but it's a window looking outside. Although the window doesn't show us any scene, it is obvious that the two images are linked. My idea is to take a shot of the window from the living room which is the last interior scene we see in the video. This will be my track list image. Another idea is to take a similar shot but from the windows of a bedroom as the setting is slightly different. I will practise with these ideas and design each one to see which is more preferable. This will either be done through a focus group or a survey.
The next image is of some woodlands which will be used in my digipack for the inside, either on the CD or just on the inside panel. This is so that there is more connection with my music video because I filmed in woodland areas. The use of woodland is another trait to my genre as well as the english countryside is a huge characteristic of the folk indie genre. So, when my audience sees the album they'll be able to see some clues as to what genre my artists are.
The other images are sunrise and night sky scenes. My plan is too edit this into the album cover as this will make it more eye catching. Ideally I'd like to use the sunrise images as the front cover will be of the house during daylight. However, I would also like to design it so that the front cover is the house at night with the night sky edited in. I will test both images and see which is more effective for my target audience.
Here are some test shots I've already taken of the woodlands when I was first filming back in October:
These are just some test shots and are by no means the final images I will use. These are just ideas as to what it could look like.
I will have a go at creating some mock ups when I return after the holidays as | don't have access to photoshop at this moment.
Until next time,
Toni
Good stuff. Might be helpful to include some general comments about some of the pictures, just to explain their significance.
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