Production of Digi-Pack

I decided to make a 4 panel digipack instead of 6 because I thought it would be easier to create a more exciting Digi-Pack this way, as there would be less space to fill, I created this on Adobe Photoshop CS4.

We met up with the artist, George Bills on Wednesday the 21st of November, and took photographs of him in our home town Cleobury Mortimer which is where we plan on shooting the video. We took the shots in a small variety of places, such as a thin road, an alley way, and the church yard. Taking the shots at night meant it linked to the video, as we wanted a dark theme throughout the video. To take the photographs we made sure that George looked the part, and used props such as his guitar to influence the acoustic theme of his music with the album cover, so they connected with each other. We also made sure we took them in a safe environment, and risk assessed the place we wanted to go before hand. We also used a digital SLR camera which we borrowed from college, and two LED lights to capture our images, with the lighting we added some yellow gels to make George's face more warm to the camera, again relating to the music video itself. 

Some of the images we took can be shown below:

As a group, we used lots of warm tones by altering the shutter speed on the SLR, and using the orange gels on the LED lights to increase the colour intensity on his face. We also tried to incorporate the headlights and street lamps in the background of the images, as we though it would give the photographs a more realistic look. We took a number of images with the LED lights, however we also experimented by not using the LED's, and just using the light from the moon and the street lights however this gave us the opportunity to see that the lighting is very important, within the shoot, as the others looked very 'fake'. We also took some photographs of him walking away from the camera, with his guitar on his back, as this gave us a variation of different shots to use.