The panels

There are four panels for our album cover;

This will be the front cover when improved.

This is a mockup of the front cover inside panel.

This will be the inside panel of the back cover.

This is a mock up of the back cover.

Progress.

At the moment, we only have a handful of ideas but they seem to be working well. Here is an image of our work at this time and how we improved it.

We will have an image of Matthew sat on one of the graves to help reflect the idea of our song choice and music video. For this, we will use the green screen.

We want to keep the same idea throughout our album and so we have to keep the same style, colour and type of images.

Back cover.

For our back cover, we will use an image from our video and put some effects onto it such as the ripple effect and colour corrector.
The other song titles on the back cover are a mixture of Matthew's own songs titles and a few made up ones.
This is a mock up of the back cover

This would be useful to use but we would have to improve it. The font is a good size and style and fits in with our chosen genre.

We will take the text down more to the centre and possibly undo the distortion a little bit to see the image behind more clearly.

Another idea for our back cover which relates more to our video, is this;

It is an image taken from some footage of Alex and we can add song titles and improve it using photoshop.

Mock up of front cover.

Here are a couple of mock-ups for our front cover of the album.

We like the colour and effects on the second image but will have to change it if we use it and improve the text .

Plans for the ancillary tasks.

We would like to incorporate Rob Zombie's album art into our own but again make it unique. His albums usually feature him as the main image and dark lettering with alternative imagery behind, next to him or non al all. A lot of the time it only focuses on him.

Also, he uses a handful of symbols on his album covers but we do not wish to do this and hope to create our own personal style but something which will mirror the work of our case study.


The back cover of his albums are as interesting as the front for example,

For our album, the colour will be dark and abstract. We will be having the members of the band on the front cover against an abstract background.
For the inside panels, we will possibly have an image of Courtney or Alex with a dark background colour scheme which will hold the ideology of death as most metal album art does.
For the back cover of the album, we will have a list of songs and again some abstract imagery.
Because we will have to make our own artwork etc, we are going to use an image taken from our video which we use for the background. The graveyard shots and have members of the band on it either sat down or standing.

Or something more like this which also looks similar to something you would find in a Rob Zombie music video.

For our other ancillary task we have to create an advertisement for our album which are usually featured in music magazines such as Metal Hammer and Kerrang.
Our advert will be dark in colour and will consist of Alex as a zombie, holding the album up in his hand.

Or we have thought about using our poster idea from our video, in which Courtney is seen in and instead, placing the band there for our advert.

We could also use both ideas as we can place the band inside the poster while Alex peers over the top or from another angle.














Other ideas for our front cover are that we can use a still shot of Alex's hand when he is rising from the ground and colour correct it. Then on the inside of the front cover, we will have a shot of the whole band  in costume and possibly no instruments but we will try both to see which looks more professional. On the inside of the back cover we will have a still shot of courtney in her poster and for the back a distorted image of a graveyard shot we filmed.

Feedback

This is progressing nicely and I like your font choice. Don't forget to upload your plans for the ancillary tasks!

Feedback

This is the font that we prefer and as we found, it was also the most effective as it gained 8 votes whereas the others had non apart from  the font shown below it which had 5 votes.
The first image is the best font to use as it gives off the metal genre and it is effective. However, we will alternate it through photoshop and then use it for our album.

Ancillary tasks

We are now in the process of planning our digipacks. this will consist of an album cover (including four panels for the inside of the CD) and an advert for the poster.
We will require photos of the band members and alternate them to suite our album and we will get these by friday.
At the moment, we are working on the best fonts to use and to do this, we have decided to pick a handful of fonts and show them to the class to gain feedback to see which one is the most effective.
These are some ideas that we have come up with,
We will show these to the class and see which one is the best to use.

The album will be named 'Memoirs of a dead man' which will possibly be in scratched font like this.

For the font we want a gothic style like the kind Rob Zombie uses but with our own personal touch to it and for this we are going to use photoshop. We want to portray a kind of unreal image which mirrors the genre and as most metal bands use a dark font and it tends to be scratchy in most cases, we will use one similar.

Weather warnings

Due to the bad weather in the area, the college has been closed and so we have not been able to edit or obtain footage by our deadline. This creates a problem but hopefully workshops after college will help us make the time that we lost up.