Ancillary Task Photoshoots

Shoot 1: Forest/Autumn Scene: For both my website and my Digipak, I need various different shots of trees, leaves etc. to use as background images. To represent the natural themes to the song and the album as a whole, I want nature to be a big feature with my ancillary tasks in order to reflect the style of the music. Requirements: Location: Park behind college; forest opposite Asda. People: N/A. Hair, make-up, costume: N/A. Lighting: bright and natural, plenty of sunlight to enhance strong colours. Shots needed: plenty of close-ups of leaves, branches etc. Long shots to capture the entire location 'establishing'. 

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For this image, I edited the levels and curves like I would any normal photo, but then I also adjusted the saturation and brightness to bring out and enhance the natural colour of the leaves more. The leaves weren't as autumnal as I had hoped, so I then applied a Photo Filter to my photo, a slight orange colour, to give the image more warmth and the appearance of a true autumnal sunset. This image may make up part of my website and my Digipak.

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Shoot 2: Hands: For the front cover of my Digipak, I want a shot of a girl's open hands to represent the idea of happiness and positivity which is reflected in the title of the album, '+' which is often pronounced by fans as either 'plus' or 'postitive'. The overall vibe for the album is quite happy, positive but mixed with emotion, hence why I wanted to use the hands as a symbol for the front cover. This idea came a lot from my research of Digipaks, and I was inspired by the artwork for The Script's second album 'Science and Faith'. On their album cover are two people holding hands, symbolic of relationships and power which is heavily featured within their songs. Also, with the artwork for their singles from said album, the same hands feature but in different positions/gestures to represent different themes in the songs, which I think is a really effective idea and builds a sense of brand identity. Requirements: Location: Studio, black background up. People: Rhiannon; she has very pale/fair skin which I felt was perfect for representing the idea of purity. Hair, make-up, costume: N/A. Lighting: Studio lights close up to the subject to show shadows and highlights. Also to show contrast against background to make editing easier. Shots needed: Close-ups of the hands with the hands in a slight cupped position.

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Shoot 3: Nature/textures: For the Digipak insert, I wanted a variety of different images for the backgrounds of each page to also show the change in song from page to page. However, with different images, I wanted to also have a recurring theme so that every piece of design work for this project interlinked and created a sense of brand identity. For this shoot I basically wanted to shoot some close-up shots of various flowers, plants, leaves etc to make subtle backgrounds for each lyric page. It didn't matter what colour the subject was as I will change them to black and white during the editing process anyway. 

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Shoot 4: Website images and merchandise: For the website I want every page and element to work and be realistic. Therefore, I wanted some images of merchandise and relating objects to place as icons for various pages on the website, as well as for the 'merchandise' page. I know that I myself have some Ed Sheeran merchandise at home, as well as a guitar, so I will photograph them in clear, close-up shots to follow showcase the subject - shots that won't require much editing and will fill most of the frame.

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