After Sketching some initial ideas I took some photos to edit into my first cover edits. I took this still whilst filming the pub garden section of the music video. I feel this picture captures the bands playful, social side.
In the original picture I felt there was too much going on and too many distractions from the point of the image. So to try and counter this I increased the contrast in the picture and I increased the darkness of the shadows, increased the brightness of the highlights and then removed the colour casting and made it a greyscale image. This did help to simplify the image however it still did not look like an album cover.
I decided to put the colour back in but desaturate the image so the colours weren't so bright. This again just looked like a photograph, not a very good album cover. So to make it look more like an album cover I tried to make it look like the viewer was looking in from the outside by adding a vignette to the image and make it look like the viewer is looking through a fish eye lens
This shows the first idea that I sketched out using the stop motion photographs that I used in the music video. It uses a 60s/70s colour scheme and has a quirky feel to it with the different has and funny stances- this is a nice quality to have on a cover as it amuses the audience and shows the bands playful side.
