Planning: Album Cover

This is my initial cover idea, I want the girl in the music video to be shooting the paint cannon around her, with the title of the album hidden in the smoke. I really like this idea, and think it will go really well with the music video and the colour scheme.

Analysing an Album Cover

I decided to look at the album cover for Halsey's Badlands album. I chose this cover because of the pink and blue colour scheme. I really like the way the the bright blue turquoise contrast with the light baby pink and how there are actually only two colours in the entire cover.

I also really like the contrast between the harsh rock in the background and the soft float material of the coat that she is wearing. I also really like the way the outside frame of the cover is like ripped paper or a type of Polaroid frame. 

When making my own album cover I am going to use the blue and pink colours, I also really like the bold font that has been used also. I want to try to incorporate the boldness in my font and the lightness through the use of the colours.

Album Covers

When thinking about my favourite kinds of CD covers, I chose a wide range of examples to use as inspiration for my own. From this group you can see very plain and minimal covers in comparison to covers with or without the artist on.
From looking at this group I decided that I wanted a fairly minimal cover but with small pops of colour. I also decided that I wouldn't have Polly (my artist) on the frontcover due to her not being in my music video.
A lot of these album covers don't relate to the music videos because they represent a full album, however for the EP cover for 'They Are' I decided that I wanted to use graphics from the music video in the cover to keep up with the bright and pastel motif throughout. I am also doing this so that my three products are completely cohesive.

Post-Production: Bloopers

These are the outtakes from my music video shoot for the song 'They Are'.

Post-Production: Editing

Here are a few screenshots from the editing process of my music video, as you can see I used a number of straight cuts between clips, as well as overlapping the sparkle image over the top of my footage. I also used filters on top of the first section of the video, I did this to enhance the melancholy mood the character was in which then changed when she finds the balloon.

These screenshots are of the footage I took. As you can see from the orange lines, I didn't use a lot of the footage I had. This was partly because there were aspects of these clips, I was unhappy with, but also because I had filmed a lot more than I had actually needed. This amount of footage, therefore made it easy for me to pick out the best bits, and have a wide range of choices.

This screenshot below is of the track over the top of my video. I got to a point with editing when I felt that the song was way too long, so I decided to cut a small section out and stick it back together. When watching this back, I was very pleased as you couldn't hear the cut at all.

Post-Production: Importing the Clips

I am now in post-production so will be starting editing now that I have imported my work onto iMovie. I am using iMovie because it is an easy to use and accessible program that I am extremely used to as I have been using it for many years.


Creating a new movie to start editing my clips.

Importing the media ready for editing.

I had around 100 clips and other media for my film.

Equipment needed for filming.

For my video I need 2 Powder Paint Canons. I am going to use the colours Blue and Pink to carry on with the theme for my poster and Digipak. I also chose this option, in case there was a failure with the first paint canon and I had a second one to use.

I am also using a Pink balloon in my music video, as this is what appears in front of the girl in the video. I want to use the pink to again fit in with the chosen colour scheme of my video, together with with the pink and blue of the paint cannons.