Storyboard Of Idea

Contact Sheets Of Images Taken For Print Productions

Jungle Doctors Album Covers

Testing Shots With Panorama



I visited Lowestoft beach (the location of our music video) with my stills camera, and focused on aspects which are in our video:

·         Beach Huts

·         Arcade

·         Sea

·         Beach

·         Sun Setting

·         Seagulls

As I want the inside of my album cover to have a panorama effect, I completed some of these images at the beach. As I am the lead character in the music video, I found it hard to produce images with myself in, but I managed to work through it with a tri pod and the timer setting. But as our video is a montage, I don’t want to primarily focus on my character, but the surroundings and location, regarding my print productions.

After studying my images, I thought it best to analyse each one and discuss the positives and negatives, and decide whether I need to produce more images with the same idea. 

Once studying my panorama images, I came to the conclusion that the shots were more professional looking when I was not in the image, as I could direct the image properly. I think that they were well presented in the fact of identifying location, however I feel that the image could include that of a boat, as the song is called 'Boat Song', so as a result I have decided to do another shoots, at the boating broads which some of mine and Annas music video was shot. Also I would like to try out Panorama shots in the sunset.

Practicing With Photoshop

To get ready for the making of our print productions, we had a tutorial on how to use Photoshop. Although being a photography student, I found the lesson helpful and rewarding. I showcased the original image and my own edited version.

The magnetic Lasso tool was a big key concept regarding the editing of both these images, I was glad to get some practice with using it as before I struggled to control it and my images began to look unprofessional and jagged. I can now use this tool without trouble and hopefully it will help me produce far more professional looking print productions. 

At first I was a bit unsure of how to approach the edits, although using photoshop for photography, I feel it is used in a different way when regarding print productions, as adding a font and extra imagery is needed. However by the end of the lesson I was capable of using all the tools, and in fact now use some in my photography work. Resulting in the lesson being rewarding and effective. 

Studying Artists Print Productions

Before planning my own print productions I felt it would be a fantastic idea, to study relevant print productions of artists in the same genre group as Jungle Doctors. I immediately noticed that none of the album covers were simple looking, they have all clearly been worked on in Photoshop. They do not have a normal sense about them, with aspects that make no sense but produce an interesting and eye catching cover. For example, Two Door Cinema Clubs cover exhibits a women's legs coming out of the ceiling of a house. The albums are also very colourful and eye catching which some artists to not tend to show. As Jungle Doctors genre is indie, the colour is understandable for that genre, for example if they were rock band, the obvious colours would be dark colours (black), this can be seen in the rock band, Fall Out Boy, album.




To start off in my own planning for the album artwork, I approached images I had taken at the location of our shoots (I felt by producing images at the shoot, I would benefit when making my print productions). It is a clear aspect that I have focused on the idea of the beach and boats as the main points for my print productions, this is because 'Boat song' is set at the beach and boats are relevant to the name of the song. I also feel that a relaxing subtle paradise vibe of album artwork, will attract the target audience and will look far from tacky and unprofessional. I do not plan on using these images as a final choice, but I felt developing and using primary images as inspiration would be more suitable. I plan to possibly have a photography shoot sometime in the next few weeks, as I am thinking of testing out different effects (panorama) and shot types. I prefer the sunset images, as the silhouette of the boats and clouds are very effective and give the dream like state, which is what we did try and portray in some of our editing of our music video.