Orginal Images

Orginal Images used for merchandise:
Inside DVD Cover Photograph:


We chose to use this photo for the inside of the DVD where the disc is located because it introduces a different angle of photo to all the other photos. This photograph is taken from a high angle looking down. This makes the band members look innocent. All the band members are laughing and smiling so this improves the image making them look fun and shows that they all bond well as a band. The costume scheme is black and white as the drummer is wearing black and the two boys which are singers and guitar players are wearing white shirts. This is thought through as often the drummer of a band goes unnoticed, therefore the drummer is dressed in black which makes her stand out from the other band members. I also edited this photograph on Photoshop to make it sepia to fit into our colour scheme of the DVD’s. I also edited the skin tones of the band members to make them look more professional. I also chose this photograph to use on the inside of the DVD cover because they are all huddled together looking like a group.

Dvd front cover (inside skulls eye): We decided that on the front cover as well as the image of the skull there should be a small image of the band. As we had the skull as the dominant image we did not want to draw the viewer’s attention away from the skull as this is meant to be the main focus within the DVD cover. Therefore we came up with the idea of having the image of the band edited on photoshop so the band members are closer together, sepia and more ‘ghost like’ in the eye of the skull. I feel this makes the DVD cover look professional as they are edited to a high standard. We took this image from the performance shots in our video as we could have a range of different angles to choose from. I chose this image because all the band are facing the audience and they are all in their places. Such as; Sophie on drums and Connor and James on guitar, this means that when the audience see our music video they will automatically relate this back to the DVD cover. This was also important to us as it shows what roles all the band members have within the band.

Dvd front cover and CD image (hand drawn image):

We chose to use this hand drawn skull because we felt that by taking an image of a skull from Google images or taking a photograph of a real skull wouldn’t look as affective. By hand drawing the image meant that we could get the right shades from the skulls texture and we could have the exact view of the skull in which we wanted, in this case it was straight on, so the skull is facing the viewer. I feel it worked well as no one else in the class hand drew their images. This adds originality and makes the DVD cover look quirky. We decided to use this skull throughout our merchandise. This was in order to make the viewer/audience/fans get familiar with the skull in order to link the skull with the band. We used photoshop elements to edit parts of the drawing that looked too sketchy; however we still wanted it to be obvious to the viewer that this skull was hand drawn.

Dvd back cover:

For this image we grouped the band closely together, either side of the main singer. We felt that the main singers pose needed to play a big role in therefore his stance is with his arms folded and this really stands out and shows his dominance. We kept to the same clothing used for the other photos as well as the performance from our music video as we felt there image should be kept constant throughout. For this image it will be put on the back of the DVD cover underneath the song list, we felt that because we were only going to have a really small image of the band on the front that there needed to be a larger image somewhere else. We will use photoshop skills to remove the background from the image, airbrush it and make it sepia to make it match to the texture and tone of the hand sketched skull.



Dvd album poster:




This is the original image we took for the dvd advertisement, we wanted a close image of the group having ‘fun’, and without making it look odd we put the female band member in the middle of the image slightly lower down with the two males either side. There clothing was all black and white yet I feel in order to follow the style model that the image with be turned to black and white. I will remove the background of this image and place it on top of a black one as well as using Photoshop tools to edit out the thumb as it doesn’t seem to work well as it gives a ‘jokey’ approach. I will turn this all white using the stamp tool so it just looks like his shirt.

Lyrics:

We decided to try something different when it comes to merchandise we decided we would take characters from the music video and use this as a background to the lyrics. We used natural lighting and situated in a forest with the ‘couple’ standing centred in the middle with tree’s either side. The couple are standing either side to one another looking ‘loved’ up by having arms around each other showing a close connection. This will be placed behind lyrics and edited to remove the colour and fit in with other conventions that we have used in the other merchandise.