Ancillary Photos

Photos used on our digipak and magazine advert:

 

 

 

Both of the above photos were taken at our first location, the Victorian era house. We used the first photo on our magazine advert and the second photo on the front of our digipak. We made sure that the photos were all of good quality and we used a Cannon DSLR to assure this. We chose these photos because they suit the atmosphere and mood of our video because the actress is melancholy and has a wistful look. This links strongly to our influencing artist Lana Del Rey who's style is very similar and she often writes songs about lost loves and her look/style displays this. We used the same costume and makeup as in our video and decided that red lips would be a central focus throughout all the products. We will edit the photo to be black and white however keep the red colour of her lips to emphasise this theme. The black and white effect will emphasise our 50s era theme and the antiques used in the video while the pop of colour represents the more modern look of the actress at the beach.  

 

The photo below is used on the back of our digipak and nicely links the ancillary product to our music video because it uses our second location and the actress wearing the second costume:

 

The four photos below were used on the four remaining panels of our digipak. They are all extreme close ups of objects used in our music video and links with the vintage themes in the video. Using these images creates a strong link between the digipak and our video and the images were also made black and white with subtle hints of colour, linking the magazine advert.

Photos we chose not to use:

 We chose to use only one photo of our actress on the beach and this was a long shot of her looking out to sea. We felt that this represented the wistful atmosphere of the video rather than a close up of the actresses face. We also decided to only use a close up of her face on the front of the digipak which is rather conventional of indie-pop album covers. Our group decided that using many extreme close ups of antiques from the video on our digipak, was more effective than long shots of locations. This is because these were very important factors in our music video which created interesting and unique shots inbetween our shots of the actress miming or location shots. Therefore the rest of the photos taken at the beach, which are below, were rejected from our final digipak design. Although the photo of the vintage chair suited our theme, it was not an object used in our music video and also did not suit our theme of extreme close ups on the rest of the panels.