Experimenting with ancillary

We decided to look at different vinyl sleeves in order to gain a greater understanding of how they looked cosmetically and constructively, but also gain inspiration for our own.

Mr Hudson had possession of a variety of vinyl sleeves for us to look at which provided useful information as we then decided to stick with the black and white theme to integrate with our music video, but also create an insert which gives it more of a modern twist.
We plan to feature a shot of the whole band on the front of the Vinyl and then feature shots of Zaylie (protagonist) as well as some still captures from the music video for versatility.

 











After experimenting with the works of Microsoft Publisher and Paint, we decided using Adobe Photoshop CS4, we would merge two images of our protagonist, Zaylie with our 'boyfriend' figure Jack's arm reaching for her face.
Firstly we began by cropping down Jack's arm in order to make the picture seem more realistic when merged to the other pictured of Zaylie's face.
We changed the opacity of Jack's arm to be more faded, as if depicting an 'afterlife' -which syncs with our video, as we intended to construct our narrative around the protagonists partner dying in war.



When merging this, I realised that the arm seemed really 'bolted-on' as opposed to seeing realistic, this was partially due to the lack of shadow that occurred around Zaylie, so in order to create this verisimilitude, I constructed a shadow-like 'Black and white' formation under Jack's arm to suggest direction of light and his presence.




Our finished article which will feature on our 'insert' to the vinyl sleeve to incorporate some narrative into the ancillary. As well as this, we intend to capture some stills from throughout the video in order to create some synergy between both products. However, we are still in debate over whether to keep the insert in colour, to appeal to a contemporary audience (which is our intention), or whether to in keep with our black and white theme, utilised throughout.

#1 Colour

#2 Greyscale