Creating inlays

For the inlays we wanted to have photos which clearly show all the band members but mainly focus on the lead singer Jordan. We choose this photo because we liked the bright lighting, we also liked hows Jordan was positioned in the middle and higher up compared to the other two making him the main focus.

for the other images on the album we mainly adjusted and changed the levels of the hue/saturation. We wanted to give these photos the same effect as we wanted to continue creating brand identity. We decided to only change the levels of the hue/saturation on only parts of the clothing so that the members stand out more. To do this we carefully selected the clothing using the lasso tool. 

In order to make the red stand out more we had to keep the hue levels the same however, increase the number of saturation levels and decrease the number of lighting levels. We then did the same with the other members clothing.

 

To furthermore make the band stand out we decided to slightly blur the background and make it black and white. The selective colouring made tied in well the the name of the band 'The Colours'.  We noticed that one of the band members wore a t-shirt with Guns and Roses logo, we had no time to re-shoot the photos therefore we decided to make the logo black and white then we used the smugging tool to blur it out. 

Another idea we had was to make the band appear cartoonish, we did this by going into filter then selecting artistic and then choose poster edges. We also thought that it would be a good idea to have the bands name with the letters in different colours. However we realised that the photo looked too childish so we discarded this idea.

This is the picture of the one of the final inlay covers: 

For the second inlay image we wanted to use a photo where the band is looking down at the camera, we choose this as we believed that they appeared friendly.We cut around the photo them placed the image on a sky background however it was difficult to get the background to look realistic as the edges appeared to be cut. We also had the problem with getting rid of Ankits Guns and Roses logo. We tried to add an image in front of it however it was difficult to blend in the image with the shirt. In the end we discarded this image.

In the end we decided to choose a photo where the band appear to be working in the studio, we applied the same effect as the previous inlay to create brand identity.

production log

Today we finally finished shooting the footage for the narrative part of the music video, we have seen all the footage and we think we are ready start editing the storyline together. We only have to shoot the band performing and add it in between the narrative when appropriate.