Ancillary task - Idea 1

We began our idea through looking at pieces of art work by Silvia Pelissero, this was because we wanted to interpret some kind of artistic, individual element into our digipack purely because by looking at more rock/alternative bands, they have a signature look, logo or sinister feel to their image. Therefore we wanted to take photographs and apply this kind of look to them through mixed media.

1) Once we had taken the photographs we used Photoshop to erase, on a low opacity, some of the mouth, this was so that it wasn't seen too sharply through the paints. We also gabe the image a white background so that it was simplistic and used the offset, saturation, brightness and exposure tools in order to create a softer lighting, while also emphasising the darkness of the eyes.

2) We then printed the images onto watercolour paper and used blue and purple paints to create a dripping affect around the mouth and eyes to imitate Pelisseros work. Using a scanner, we the duplicated the painting onto the computer so we could allow ourselves to do further editing on Photoshop.

 3) We gathered feedback about our images from members of our target audience, they said that it was too grainy and looked more like a piece of art than a digipack cover, therefore we decided to brighten the image and bring up the contrast and make it monochromatic, so that the sinister look was still applied. This gathered better feedback, however the graininess of the image was still there.






4) We tried to find different ways of creating this look, one being to try and manipulate it on Photoshop. Although the image looks more digital and less grainy, it also looks fake and didn't give us the sinister feel we were hoping for.

Overall this first attempt for ideas didn't work as we planned, therefore we decided to try a different approach, keeping the desaturated images and in depth editing, but not including the use of scanning and art work as this is what didn't appeal to our target audience.