Along with the music video we also have to produce the digipak for the band, the pack will consist of four pictures. One on the front and back and two in the inside of the cover, therefore it is vitally important that we take a large amount of photos for each of the four pictures, we will obviously have to base the photos around the band and also around the concept and the imagery in our music video. For example the rose, that is used frequently in the video.
We will be taking the pictures when we film, for obvious reasons this will be the best time to take the pictures for many reasons. We are all going to be together, Claire and myself will be in the necessary clothing and in the characters we play. We can use Charlotte's white wall to take the majority of pictures, we can then just edit the pictures in Photoshop, I would really like the majority of our pictures in black and white, seeing as the song is called The Funeral. But then i think we would like Claire to be holding a rose in her hand or pinned into her top, then just make the rose really red and vibrant. We could also take pictures of gravestones with Claire behind it, then possibly blur Claire behind the gravestone to make her look like a ghost. We could take pictures of the suicide note and also the pills that she kills her self with. Our video is mainly based around the issue of cyber bullying. Bullying on the internet, using text messages and also Facebook. So an idea we had for one of the pictures is to write horrible and abusive messages on our characters Facebook page, to emphasize the whole cyber bullying issue, which in my opinion is the video's main theme!
I personally don't think that each page of the video should use the image of Claire or myself, I think the front page and one of the inside pages should, but I think some interesting graphic effects on Photoshop could make the back page look really modern, yet still keep the indie/rock effect that we are hoping for within the video. The song is called The Funeral, so I think a black and white graveyard with a dull cloudy sky could work really well with the theme of our video.
I think the three CD covers that I have chosen types of front covers that we should be considering, when it comes to taking our pictures. For example cover above (Bombay Bicycle Club) have just gone with something they like, quite an extraordinary picture that fits their style and their feelings on their album.
This one is The XX's album cover, clearly they have gone with simplicity and boldness, I do actually like the cover, it's clear, precise and the single X on it's own look's very sophisticated, however i don't think we could use this type of layout for cover, I don't think it would fit with the style we are trying to achieve with ours, I don't think any of the group would have the boldness and courage to just lay down a single letter for our cover.
The last album cover I have chosen is Lil Wayne's Dedication III. The reason why I have chosen this cover is because I love the effects used in and around the artist, it looks like he owns the city behind him, with the way he's standing in front of it. The way his name and the city is lit, with the three dominant colours red, white and yellow I also really like, and something that my self and the group can pull of in Photoshop!
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