Above- Image for Inside oppositte to the record. I had a recent photo shoot with a few of the skateboarders featured in my video. I wanted one of my vinyl panels to have the profile of a young male on it, and found this quite effective, especially with the shadowing around the profile of the face. I was inspired by the Artic Monkeys 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' black and white album cover above. This image is quite similar to mine in only having one focal point, being the male in the perspective. I think the Artic Monkeys is a good influence in showing how to convey certain messages, smoking which connotes rebellion and this young male referencing youth rebellion.
Above- Back Cover
This image above is one I took whilst shooting the music video for possible images for my digi pack. I manipulated the image by changing the contrast and highlighted certain areas with the burn tool on Photoshop to make its contrast higher to fit with the genre of Ska. From research into the genre of Ska I have found that the sleeves of vinyl often have recurring images repeating and very strong bright contrasting colours, which is the pattern I am aiming to achieve. I want to integrate skateboards, youth and colour into my digi pack and though this image of both the skateboards side by side could be good as it sets up duality, which is common in Ska artists/bands Vinyl.
This second image is of a band member in Smaller Than You and I took it black and white to see the effect. Although I wanted extreme bright colours I think this image works well with my digi pack aiming to a youthful audience. This is because the image is of a young 18-year-old guy who is interested in music himself and listens to Ska on a regular basis. I wanted the image of his profile as it seemed a good angle to shoot. I have found his generic popular haircut is stereotypical in young generations at this time period (having aside shaved of short) and found his appearance perfect for my genre. His long dark coat and tartan scarf creates a Ska-punk image appealing to the target audience.
This is a portrait image I took of a band member, and changed the contrast like the one above to bright and used the colour balance on portrait to magenta and cyan to create this authentic colour effect. I cropped the sides of the image to give it more length and though it also creates the image I wanted to portray through my did pack. This could be a possible back cover of my vinyl. I want to integrate close up shots of band members and skaters who feature in my video to promote the band and it's genre to the audience.
This was my first draft of a front cover but though it turned out quite tacky and uncreative. I wanted to use repeated images on the front cover and to enhance the extreme bright colours of the skateboards with the use of the burn tool and the brightness and contrast tool.
This image below is one of my final possible front covers for my vinyl digi pack. I like the duality and spilt between the image and how it says 'Smaller Than You' behind the two skaters ho feature in my music video. I think the boys appearance is especially significant as it portrays youthful skaters. The skater on the left has a tattoo on his arm and a Guns And Roses authentic -shirt applying an intertextual reference to the front cover. During the shoot i drew on both the skateboards, one having the bands name and the name of the single to promote themselves everywhere to the audience. On the second skateboard I put my name and my groups name as produced the music video. This almost seems like a behind the scenes clip board, where in films they use snap boards to cut and end scenes .I think this will be good for the digi pack front cover as it relates perfectly to Ska and youth, but also is promoting my music video to emphasise audiences to watch.
This last image is of another skater featured in the video and I thought he would be perfect for the didi pack cover. His appearance is also generically youthful and 'indie' as well as Ska. He has the same haircut (the shaved side with a long fringe), which is extremely renowned to young boys at the moment. I took a picture of him in front of a repeated image of Jeremy Kyle, emphasising the media and the parody of youth. I cropped this image so it was just his profile in the shot and changed the contrast and manipulated the image to magenta and cyan using the colour balance on Photoshop.
Above- Back Cover
This image above is one I took whilst shooting the music video for possible images for my digi pack. I manipulated the image by changing the contrast and highlighted certain areas with the burn tool on Photoshop to make its contrast higher to fit with the genre of Ska. From research into the genre of Ska I have found that the sleeves of vinyl often have recurring images repeating and very strong bright contrasting colours, which is the pattern I am aiming to achieve. I want to integrate skateboards, youth and colour into my digi pack and though this image of both the skateboards side by side could be good as it sets up duality, which is common in Ska artists/bands Vinyl.
This second image is of a band member in Smaller Than You and I took it black and white to see the effect. Although I wanted extreme bright colours I think this image works well with my digi pack aiming to a youthful audience. This is because the image is of a young 18-year-old guy who is interested in music himself and listens to Ska on a regular basis. I wanted the image of his profile as it seemed a good angle to shoot. I have found his generic popular haircut is stereotypical in young generations at this time period (having aside shaved of short) and found his appearance perfect for my genre. His long dark coat and tartan scarf creates a Ska-punk image appealing to the target audience.
This is a portrait image I took of a band member, and changed the contrast like the one above to bright and used the colour balance on portrait to magenta and cyan to create this authentic colour effect. I cropped the sides of the image to give it more length and though it also creates the image I wanted to portray through my did pack. This could be a possible back cover of my vinyl. I want to integrate close up shots of band members and skaters who feature in my video to promote the band and it's genre to the audience.
This was my first draft of a front cover but though it turned out quite tacky and uncreative. I wanted to use repeated images on the front cover and to enhance the extreme bright colours of the skateboards with the use of the burn tool and the brightness and contrast tool.
This image below is one of my final possible front covers for my vinyl digi pack. I like the duality and spilt between the image and how it says 'Smaller Than You' behind the two skaters ho feature in my music video. I think the boys appearance is especially significant as it portrays youthful skaters. The skater on the left has a tattoo on his arm and a Guns And Roses authentic -shirt applying an intertextual reference to the front cover. During the shoot i drew on both the skateboards, one having the bands name and the name of the single to promote themselves everywhere to the audience. On the second skateboard I put my name and my groups name as produced the music video. This almost seems like a behind the scenes clip board, where in films they use snap boards to cut and end scenes .I think this will be good for the digi pack front cover as it relates perfectly to Ska and youth, but also is promoting my music video to emphasise audiences to watch.
This last image is of another skater featured in the video and I thought he would be perfect for the didi pack cover. His appearance is also generically youthful and 'indie' as well as Ska. He has the same haircut (the shaved side with a long fringe), which is extremely renowned to young boys at the moment. I took a picture of him in front of a repeated image of Jeremy Kyle, emphasising the media and the parody of youth. I cropped this image so it was just his profile in the shot and changed the contrast and manipulated the image to magenta and cyan using the colour balance on Photoshop. 
Super stuff Hannah. I like the first image - it is a great close up and represents the skate board images throughout the music video. Your other experiments are great too, the final image superimposed on the 1st image would be an interesting experiment.
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