The document describes the process of editing images for an album cover and ancillary tasks. Photos were taken of the music video character against a graffiti wall and edited in Photoshop to be black and white with blue graffiti revealed. This color scheme was continued across tasks. Inside images were mirrored and text was dragged out on foldouts. Experiments with slow shutter speeds included blurring, shapes from light movement, and smoke blended with a portrait. An unexpected black and white sketch effect with smoke was chosen for the magazine advert.

1. Backgrounds/editing images
(ancillary tasks)

2. Album cover
For my ancillary tasks I did a shoot on the canal in Ladbroke grove of the
character in my music video against a wall of graffiti. I did this to match the
conventions of the theme. These are a few of the images I took :
I decided I didn’t really like the images in colour, I felt they
were too bright and I wanted a more subtle/edgier cover
than just the image alone. With the chosen image I decided
to use Photoshop to make it black and white. I then revealed
the blue colours on the wall of graffiti to stand out, I then
continued the black, white and blue theme throughout my
ancillary tasks.

3. Inside album cover
I edited this image in the same way,
making it black and white and revealing
the blue/green colours. This image
wasn’t wide enough to be the whole
inside as I wanted so I mirrored it. I
really like how this looked so decided to
use it across the whole inside.

4. Album fold outs
For one side of the fold out I did a took some images
using a slow shutter speed to blur them, I really like
how these images turned out so I decided to
experiment with one of the images in different ways.
I put the same image three times next to each other
and decided whether to keep it in colour (as it has
blue and green in it so follows the theme), make just
the boy black and white or make the whole image
black and white apart from the logo on the hat.
I decided to choose the one with only the
logo on the hat highlighted as I felt it added a
slight pop to the image but was also subtle.
For the background of the other side of the foldout I wanted to
edit the image a lot more as the other side was more plain. I
dragged out the image from the centre creating a spotlight affect.
I also edited it in the same way as the others, making it black and
white and revealing the blue shades. Over this image I put some
text and I also dragged that out towards the edges, this looked a
lot better than just putting the text over it normally.

5. Magazine advert
For my magazine advert I did a shoot using a
slow shutter speed and a light moving it in
certain directions to create shapes and letters.
These are a few of the images
I tried to create an ‘L’ for Logic and an ‘N’ for
Nikki but it turned out to be a lot harder than I
thought so I didn’t end up using any of the
images.
Afterwards I took some pictures of
smoke against a wall and decided to
blend it with a portrait screenshot from
my video. I then put a black and white
sketch effect on it, I didn’t expect to like
it but seeing it afterwards with the
smoke coming in from the side I actually
really liked it. The white area inbetween
the smoke and face allowed for the
writing to really stand out.