Photo Shoot

In this post I will explain the reasoning behind the use of images we have taken and where they have been used. I will also show changes I have made within Photoshop.

We have decided to have a photo shoot, as the images we have taken were used in our Digipaks and adverts we made. The pictures have given the Digipaks and adverts a better visual connection and attraction to the audience. The images we took were used to build a relationship with our audience, as they would be shown on the Digipaks, making the connection by showing the artist to the audience, letting them see the artist himself. we initially took about 8 shots of our artist with different angles and poses, the pictures below are of what i have chosen to include in my Digipaks and Adverts.

Pictures I used:

This is a medium shot of Spencer which is our artist 'Tuscano'. He is looking straight into the camera and we have incorporated this to give a stronger connection with the audience, as he is looking straight at them when they look at the picture, it makes them seem more involved with him as it appears that he is looking straight at them. We have thought about Dyers 'Star' theory, of construction of a star image, and one of them is apparel  the star must be attractive or look well, and here Spencer has his shirt unbuttoned, certainly attracting more of the female audience, It also contains a sense of rebelliousness which is a convention within our genre.

This next picture is a close up of our artists face, once again he is looking straight into the frame and this gives a better connections with the audience, also it is a close up of his face, with a blank background, and this could emphasise that it only Tuscano in the frame and only Tuscano's music is what you will get. Another dance artist which is well known 'Avicci' has made an album with just a close up of his face as the front cover so this would be conventional to the genre too.


Once I took and got these pictures onto a computer, I then manipulated and edited them in a programme called Photoshop. The programme allows a big range of editing options for any image you chose, so Photoshop was a good choice, also, it is used vastly with media, for example 'air brushing' with models faces in magazines.

I have used both images in both drafts of my digipaks to give them a more a better aesthetic appearance, and this would interest the audience as it is two different images. In my adverts I have used the second image, the close up, as I feel it more conventional, as in many posters the artist's face is shown usually in a close up, and it connects the audience with the artist.

These images are the final edited versions which were used in the digipaks and adverts. I chose to edit them as I could make them become more of the theme of the digipaks and adverts, which were kept to being conforming to the dance conventions, night-life, strobes and clubbing images, with bright colours. My photo shop skills improved in the second draft as we can see, I made the images conventional to the dance genre, as you can see in one image I gave Spencer a pixel effect and turned him pink, the pixels connote the dance genre as the sounds are quite electric and this relates to electronics which pixels come from, and obviously the bright colours connote dance too. In another I turned Spencers face into half robot half human, this connotes again to dance as robots relate to the electronic sounds and the equipment used to make dance music.