Image Ideas

These are some image ideas that we may use in our ancillary products, either in the CD packaging in some way, or on the music advert. All of these images are natural, and have not been edited at all yet, and hopefully won't even need to be edited much at all. This is because our group had decided to go for the-low key, conventional approach of realism and the naturalistic representations that are so popular throughout this genre.

I personally quite like this image. I feel that the use of natural lighting in the form of the sun is fairly effective, as it accentuates all the colours and tones of the image, making it more aesthetically pleasing as well as playing to the generic conventions. The way her hair is tousled by the breeze conveys the pretty young girl image that we were aiming for in representations. This image is highly unconventional for this genre as you can't see the girls face. Normally, there would be a close up shot of the girl with particular emphasis on her face, in order to promote her image and create a sense of recognition and familiarity with the audience. As you cannot see her face here, it creates an element of mystery, perhaps adding music more of a dynamic to the product and subsequently the artist. This image poses the question of why she is facing away from the camera, and where she is going or the significance of what she is looking towards. There is no evidence of male gaze theory, and the image is not sexualised in any way - in fact there is minimal focus on the female form, as the guitar dominated most of the foreground, perhaps implying that the music is more important than the image of the artist, very much in line with typical folk music values. I think this image would work effectively as an album cover, as is both a conventional and unconventional representation on the artist and the genre, which makes for an interesting narrative behind the image, creating a story that is deciphered entirely by the audience. I don't think we would have to do much by means of editing to this image, apart from perhaps cropping it, and using slight effects to enhance the image to it's full potential - adding the slightest bit of contrast for example in order to bring out the colourings of the image more. Furthermore, it would create the right level of cohesion between the narrative and the CD cover, as it is not an image sourced directly from the narrative, but there are still many visible connections that would be able to seamlessly link the products together.

This is an image of the female actor lying in the grass, with her hair deliberately fanned out behind her, dominating a significant section of the frame. This is one of the few conventional, close up shots we took of her showing her face. It is again quite representative of the whole innocence idea, and is in no way sexualised, instead playing on the idea of the cute young girl. This may be good to use somewhere within our CD case or booklet to aid cohesion between the generic representations and the already establish representations in Gabrielle Aplin's previous products, making it look like it could be a real life media product.

This is an interesting shot, taken from quite an unusual and unconventional angle. This could again be used as representative of the music being more important, or at least more of e focal aspect that the image of the artist something further supported by the use of lighting in this image, brightly lighting and drawing attention to the guitar, and casting her in shadow. It also again serve to create an element of mystery, as all you can see of the girl is her hands, and her body is silhouetted by her leaning stance. This makes the audience question who she is, and her significance, intriguing and enticing them into wanted to know more.

This shot may be quite effective to use inside our CD package, perhaps as an inlay or inside to booklet. It is a shot Hannah took at home of Scrabble tiles, spelling out the words 'More Than Friends'. This serves to create a strong visual link and cohesion with the name of the track and the ancillary product that we choose to use this image on. The dim lighting in this shot extends the feeling of romanticism that we were trying to achieve in this scene, emphasising it's effect and reinforcing the synergy between products.