Post 17: Practice Album Cover

ANCILLARY TASK 2: PRACTICE ALBUM COVER

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This was our second practice ancillary task, after the recreation of a movie poster. For this, my teacher, picked names out of a hat and so, paired us together with someone new to work with. I was paired, luckily, with Noah Carolan. He takes Art Multimedia, and so has a vast knowledge on editing skills in both photoshop and adobe illustrator which came in very handy. We, then, picked a number between 1-6 and got this album cover to recreate: David Bowie's Aladdin Sane.

We had several ideas on how to complete this best, but we decided to play to our strengths and began to plan.

The theme of this one was makeup. All the album covers given out relied fairly heavily on makeup; on the face, on the hands, etc. We lucked out, getting an album cover that didn't require much makeup... but even so, Noah and I had no face paint of any kind between us to recreate the lightning bolt streaking down Bowie's face. So, instead we printed out the lightning bolt. And intended to stick it on the face of our model. Speaking of the model, we chose Noah Yeates after some time trying to select someone. His features matched our criteria at the time: Defined and prevalent jawline and large hair that can be put up.
    So with the perfect model found, we started our brief photoshoot, tying his hair up with one of my hairbands. We stuck the lightning bolt to his face, and took pictures from angles that we thought were close enough to the original.

    The spitting image of Ziggy Stardust himself:
    We brought the image into Photoshop, and started to edit it. This took much more editing time than the "Mr Popper's Penguins" poster did, despite the two being both as simplistic as each other. Even from the get-go, we had to prioritise certain elements of the editing. Specifically, making the lightning bolt look better. As in, making it look NOT like paper and more like makeup.

    We took several steps into making the initial photo look like Bowie's album cover. In order, the steps we took were:
    1. Blur the lightning bolt into the face to look more like it's actually ON his face, not just stuck there
    2. Change the hair colour. Bowie has a bright red / orange colour on the cover, but I had to get the right balance of red and orange, because we didn't want it too red or too orange.
    3. White light at the bottom, where the title goes. It also needed a slight glow to it, since initially, the transition from white to photo was very rough.
    4. Remove background to add in a plain white background in it's place.
    Lily Ray and Noah Carolan.

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