Changing Ancillary Idea

As our initial ancillary ideas were drawn, we did not plan the vanilla flower ones well. As these flowers are not accessible to us, we would have to photograph a different flower that may look similar, however this would derive from the connotations it represents. Therefore, we decided it would probably be best to change this idea altogether.



Linking to my RMA research, I found that alternative pop album covers commonly feature the face of the artist to gain them public recognition. My new idea would conform to this, as it will feature her face on the front cover to present how she is a new artist. It will feature a photo of her with her guitar which would then link to the magazine advertisement which also features a photograph of her sat with her guitar.





For the inside cover, I had an idea that would feature a close up photo of the girl's hip and guitar as I thought this would seem quite indie.
Linking to my RMA Research, Green Day's 'American Idiot' album cover features a hand holding a grenade shaped as a heart- connoting love and hate.
The close up photo would connote how the journal of our main protagonist's music career is very up close and personal to her, which she made on her own. This would be emphasised by her face not being in the photograph, almost anonymous, and how this album was made solely by her music talent, not her as a person, and how the listeners should judge her music, not her.

All photos in the album digipak would link to key elements in the music video - the main protagonist, her guitar and lyrics. The back cover will be a photo of her guitar, as not only is this a simple back cover photo which are conventionally used, but links to her guitar being important.


Drawn Idea

5/ 3/ 18

Today we took some photos that we could possibly include in our new digipak design. These included a close up photo of the girls hip and part of the guitar, an angled photo of the guitar, and close ups of her holding the guitar.

Possible photos we may use:

15/ 3/ 18

Whilst editing the album digipak, I realised that the guitar photo would not flow well with the other darker coloured photos. I tried to edit the background around the guitar to be plain black, however this looked obviously fake, as part of the image was out of focus, so stood out. Therefore, I decided it would be better to take more photos, but this time prop the guitar against a black backdrop so that it would be easier to crop out on Photoshop.

Some images I took:

Magazine Advertisement

As we had to change our album digipak idea from the vanilla flower, we therefore had to change the magazine advertisement.

Fonts
Our initial idea was to have the album name of 'Vanilla' in capital letters and 'Fickle Friends' in a flowy handwriting-type font. However, after looking at my example RMAs, I found that they all feature the artist's name in a capitalised font and the album name in a different one.

Therefore, to create a successful magazine advertisement, I thought it would be better to switch round the fonts to match my RMAs.