DEVELOPMENT OF MY FINAL IDEA

INITIAL IDEA

As you can see, my initial idea is quite different from my final piece of my completed CD cover. I sent time getting feedback and opinions from friends and teachers as to which idea they liked best out of my 4 initial ideas which lead me to choose the idea that contained the picture of the mask in the idea.

As my planning of my print productions went on, the idea of getting the mask in the sea and being able to take effective images of it in the early months of the year became almost impossible so I decided to try to improvise.

FINAL IDEA

The image below is the picture I took in my improvised location. This was essentially in my bath tub at home. This in my opinion, and from feedback I received, looks far more effective than taking a picture of a masking in murky water that I had no control over would have.

When I was taking the images in the bath tub, it allowed me to have control over the lighting, the angles and the movement of the water in the bath tub, of which I

would not have had if I was to do his at the beach.

I took almost 20 photos that day of the mask in the bath and the picture above is my favourite by far as it has much more attention to detail.

When I started to edit my picture in Photoshop, there were some elements I wanted to remove straight away. For example, there were some elements of lens glare and the string that was part of the mask was still present and I wanted to remove that so that the mask looked more as though it could be part of a human face rather than an actual mask floating in water.

After removing the string and the lens flare I still wasn’t happy as I felt there were an overwhelming amount of bubbles in the image and it just looked messy so I took to Photoshop again and removed the majority of the small insignificant bubbles away.

I decided that at this point I would get feedback from my peers and this time it was much more positive with many people telling me it looked much more professional than the original image. This gave me the idea to use a pack shot. I felt that if people thought that my CD cover was that effective then I should consider using it as part of y advert alongside bold text that would make both the image and the text stand out without over whelming each other.

At first, I had the idea of including the image that I had taken for my initial print production portrait so that the mask was at the top of the poster and there was water below, similar to the above image. This to me was too crowded so I decided to use the exact image I had made for my CD cover and place it on a white background with a black border and black bold text. This looked much more effective as it was a much more minimalistic picture which I thought was more eye catching than the original idea.

The inside and back panels for my CD cover were quite simple for me as I used the same image for all 3 elements. I again used a mixture of text and imagery to create a minimalistic design that would be effective. I wanted to create 3 images that weren’t overwhelming with text so I chose to keep it as minimal as possible and add a few extras where it was needed.

Overall, from my initial idea to my final idea, I believe that without feedback I would have struggled to make something that looks as effective as my work does and I am extremely happy with what I have achieved considering my initial sketch.