Adaptations to Ancillary Texts - Second Photoshoot and 3rd Draft

I didn't think some of my photographs in my first few shoots were very successful or eye catching. I decided to take an approach which are quite popular in the photography scene at the moment. I looked into an artist called Brooke Brooke Shaden who looks into the genre of fantasy of photography. Here are some examples of what inspired me. 

As I don't have the correct facilities to produces such good photographs, I will attempt to produce work with the same levitation concept.

To suit the genre, I will add a dark texture to the image to create depth and atmosphere. 

Shoot Plan screen shot

Photographs

This photograph is how I would begin to make my model to look as if she was levitating by composing her in graceful poses. 

I thought that using this as a album cover and poster, it would help promote my final product - that being a music video. By this I am talking about linking a scene in the way my model is composed to the album cover. When I film underwater I plan to film my main talent sinking to the bottom in a similar pose and this is how they link together.

By having my model dressed in plain clothes, the aspect of the photograph drawing attention is the abnormal levitation effect and the pose of my model. 

This is how the studio was set up. I would conduct my model/main talent to perform movements and poses which I would then attempt to capture. By using a single box light I have created shadows which will then show/give the impression of realism to my target audience. 

To produce the final outcomes below, I cropped the image down so no studio surroundings were present. Following that, I corrected the levels in the image and used the quick selection too on the chair and then once selected, erase the chair from the image leaving plain white where it was. Finally, I used the clone stamp tool to clone the white black drop over the white sections which are then filled in with this tool and looks as if my model is floating. (This was a very long process - the final step taking up to an hour)

I also added a texted image and used different blending tools to create different effects. I found this textured image on google images. 

This was another way of presenting my edited images. 

Selection of my edits images by Slidely Slideshow

This photograph above is one out of a few I may use on my album cover/poster

This photograph above is one out of a few I may use on my album cover/poster

This photograph above is one out of a few I may use on my album cover/poster

This photograph above is one out of a few I may use on my album cover/poster

This photograph above is one out of a few I may use on my album cover/poster

I created these iamges above using some of the following tools I've hightlighted on this print screen below.

The tool I used the most throughout this would be the clone stamp tool and the spot healing tool to remove the chair along with the blending tools located on the right to blend in the texture to the image.



Draft 3

This is my favourite one of my drafts so far as I think these images compliment each other and work better then draft 1 and 2 do. I could place text on the CD sticker itself to possible improve this draft. From here I think I will draft different layouts of text of the CD from looking back to my ancillary text research.

I have included Atlantic records logo, a bar code, Facebook and Twitter links/names so that fans will follow the band on these social networking websites. By doing this, I am creating verisimilitude and realism to my product as existing media texts have these conventions.

I decided to call the band "About Jodee" as the original name is "the black rebel motorcycle club" which is a long enough name in itself. I was struggling to think of names or phrases and I just thought to call them "About Jodee". The song was originally called the devils tattoo and I included Jodee's tattoo in my video to allow more aspects of the song to relate to her as a character. However, as I couldn't keep the song name the same, I used a different lyric "needle through". which is used at the end of the song just before the lyrics "the devils tattoo" are said.