Back of CD development

From left to right:

I started off by putting the photograph on the far left because it looked best that way. I felt that after I had put down the names of the songs and the barcode, etc, that something was needed in the top right hand corner. I tested putting a big swirly blob in the corner just to give it an extra something but after looking at it for some time, I didn't think it looked as good as it does without. The last two examples have been changed slightly from the others. My group members alerted me that the top example does not have much continuity with the front cover because the colour looks too bright, so we lassooed the eyes and the lips so they werent involved in the dulling of the photograph as a whole and as you can see both photos look more similar now:

Developing the Inside and Back Cover

This is the photograph that I have decided to use for the inside cover of our digipack. The photo in the far left is the original, I then cut out the right side which showed behind the sheet to make it mash in with the white sheet. I made her look a little brighter so that he skin matches the flawlessness of her skin on the front cover of the CD.

The two photos below are to show the link between the colour I have chosen for the writing on the inside cover of our digipack. I lassood her lips and eyes to keep the colour of them whilst I brightened up the rest of the photo. I also made the lips and eyes brighter to give more of an effect. The font I've chosen for the writing on the inside cover is exactly the same as the font of 'IGNORANCE' on the front cd cover which is being displayed underneath this photo. I wanted to keep a sense of continuity through the fonts and colours, hence why I have used the colour of the lips throughout.

Creating the digipack: CD COVER

 I began first by deciding on a font. The font I have used for 'Elle' is a font I found in the photoshop font book. The research I have done into fonts from 'dafont' were too difficult to acquire, so I have resulted into using simple fonts from photoshop. I have come up with a collaboration of colours in order to show different ways of displaying the font. The top left font is blue like her eyes, however I find this rather hard to read as the background is also a light blue. The font on the top right matches the colour of her hair which I actually think worked quite well. The bottom left font is black to match her dress, which is my favourite because it does not clash with her hair or the background and the bottom right matches her lips which I also think works rather well as there is a clear connection but it does not clash with the colours already there.

After deliberating the font for 'Elle', I moved on to begin playing around with the colour for the name of the album: 'Ignorance'. The top left one is black like 'Elle', which I think personally looks a little boring. Top right is the colour of her hair, which again I believe clashes with her hair too much. Bottom left is the colour of her eyes which I think is almost unreadable due to the very light blue background behind her. Bottom right is my favourite, which is the red font displaying the word 'Ignorance', matching perfectly with her lips and is easy to read.

Beginnings Of CD Cover

To start with, I have created a mash up of photographs that Sarah, Zoe and Sarah have taken for our ancillary tasks. As I have not been able to attend most recording sessions, I have taken it upon myself to begin the ancillary tasks. We wanted Ellie to look moody in most of these photographs which I think we have done rather well. We also tried a crazy kind of shot to mimick our research into Kesha, who usually goes for that sort of style.

USING PHOTOSHOP: CD COVER.

I have begun to photoshop the first photograph of Ellie, which I believe would work best on the CD cover. At first, I triedbright colours, wanting her to look vibrant. But after playing around with photoshop for sometime, I decided to make her look rather icy. In the lower photos of this example, I have made the photo a little less vibrant and less saturated. The whole photo went rather pale at this point, so to add clarity, I lassooed Ellie's lips to keep them the same vibrant red that they were in the original photo and also lassooed her eyes to give them a more dazzling blue colour.

Rough Cut

Ancillary Task Font Research

We have decided as a group that we want to specifically focus on Kesha's style as a basis for our own character and digipack.

The photo below represents a CD front cover of one of Kesha's albums. The colours (the blue and yellow effect) reflect the font used in 'Kesha'. The font used depicts the characteristics of Kesha and how she is portrayed through means of colour and the effectvie rip down the middle of the photo. The rip reflects the craziness of Kesha's character which is what we will aim for in our digipack.

The 'ABCD' font on the right of this photo collaboration is a font I found on the internet that suppopsedly reflects Kesha's writing by its zig zag effect, giving it a very crazy, wild feel. We will aim to use this type of font when doing our own magazine.

Here is a collaboration of a few fonts that I found that are similar to that of Kesha's font. They are all spikey and give an impression of wildness and rebellious nature:

All eight are very similar but you can see the definite similarity between these examples and the font on the Kesha album, which is frequently used in any of her merchandise.

General Research on Ancillary Tasks

To help us with our ancillary tasks, Sarah took it upon herself to research into the kind of facial expressions and hairstyles that are popular in CD cases and magazine adverts. Here is an annotiation of a few photographs of singers:

We researched into the type of poses that these singers do in order to attain a certain look or attitude. Kesha (the annotations on the top left) has always been the singer who we aspire to copy and base the character in our film on because of her fiesty attitude and fun, messy style.

To obtain this style, we need to make Ellie look mysterious, reckless and messy. This is quite easy to do, even as amateur film makers, we can make Ellie look like this by using dark make up, backcombing her hair to make her look slightly more messy.