Newwwww Album cover!

Happy Wednesdays, brilliant name for some brilliant people.Top image is the front cover and back of the album and the second image is the inside cover again with the name of the songs and two more photos of 'the band'.

MARIE!

Work done for Marie, going really well so far, out out takng pictures for the CD cover and decided i would like this maybe as the front cover. and indside the CD cover to be the inside of the pub. Shots taken by me and paige.

 

Action Plan:

1. Take pictures of the band in different location for the album cover. (More memories with Joe.)
2. Research other album covers and get more ideas.
3. Print the pictures with have decided to use and put them into and album format.
4. Final print of cover.

Different poster techniques

 This poster for The Beatles for there hit song A Hard Day's Night is pretty good as it is just self portraits of the bands faces all in one. Pretty simple with not much going on and the colours are not to different and packed just a simple purple with red font. Also the way the portraits are done in a black and white effect make it look so much better than if they was in colour.



                                                                                        

Quick edit on photoshop to see how we could create the front cover. the image was a shot of Ryan playing in the leaves but edited. I dont really like the image. I dont like the way there all in black and white except the last one and hes really tiny compared to the rest of the ground. This was just a very quick mess about but showed me not what to do in my final work.

X -TOY

 

This was a small task Marie set us to basically go on to the internet and find a random quote, random picture and edit it into some kind of poster. This was the design a created using photoshop. Firstly i found 'X-toy' off wikipedia and the found the robot image. I then put them into photoshop and added them together and changed a few things about in. I then got the quote from a song and the ice cream was just a add on to make the poster look different. This was a fun task to do and greate to mess about on photoshop and use different techniques.

Video Research

This is one of the videos we are thinking of re-creating for our project. it is a pretty simple video to create with just a plain background and the band.

The second video we are thinking of doing is below and is also kind of simple to make but i reckon the top one will be easier becasue it just looks like its done in a warehouse with just a plain wall, which we could do in the studio but the bottom video would be alot hard with holding the people etc. Id prefer to do the top one aswell becasue its more fast and up beat and i think we could make it look really good between us.

Connor, Dave and Joe.

Photography by Carmen, Kate and Ab
Us lot trying to re-create fashion photos we have seen taken by different fashion photographers with a old urban look to them.
These are some of the best photos of the three of us together. We added in a old school phone with a wooden set of draws and old fashioned chair. This would work really well on the front of a CD cover or flyer/poster for a band.

Fashion Photography Research

Jane Bown  is a British photographer who has worked for The Observer newspaper in the United Kingdom since 1949. Her portraits of the famous of the 20th and 21st centuries have received critical acclaim, earning her an exhibition of her work in the National Portrait Gallery in London in 1980.

She was born in Dorset, and first worked as a chart corrector, which included a role in plotting the D-Day invasion. She studied photography at Guildford College under Ifor Thomas. She started out as a child portrait photographer, but got her big break when she received a telegram in 1949 from Mechthild Nawiasky an Observer picture editor, asking her to photograph the philosopher Bertrand Russell.

She works primarily in black-and-white, using available light, with a forty year old camera. She has photographed hundreds of subjects, including Orson Welles, Samuel Beckett, Sir John Betjeman, Woody Allen. Her extensive photojournalism output includes series on Hop Pickers, Greenham Common evictions, Butlin's holiday resort, the British Seaside, and in 2002, Glastonbury festival.

Exhibitions include 'The Gentle Eye', National Portrait Gallery, London.

In 2007 her work on the Greenham Common evictions was selected by Val Williams and Susan Bright as part of 'How We Are: Photographing Britain', the first major survey of photography to be held at Tate Britain.

I really like this work as its different but captures your eye. The black and white portraits at the top i really like and they stand out loads and dont look like they have been edited they just the photography at its best. The photos underneath are also really good and they ones in colour are nice and bright.

Research of Gered Mankowitz

The Rolling Stones.
Gered Mankowitz

Gered Mankowitz was born in London, England in 1946. After an education in various ’progressive’ schools, Gered left school at fifteen, without any formal qualifications. However, having displayed a natural eye for photography whilst on a school trip to Holland, his photographs were seen by the legendary photographer, Tom Blau, who offered Gered an apprenticeship at his famous photo-agency, Camera Press.

Mankowitz progressed to the studio of Jeff Vickers, the London-based showbiz portraitist, via an indirect route which ranged from the vistas of Barbados to the fashion shows of Paris. At the Vickers studio he began to take pictures of musicians and artists who, being of a similar age, felt a great ease and sense of connection with him.

At the end of 1963 Gered started his first studio, at 9 Masons Yard in the west end of London. After photographing Marianne Faithful, Gered became acquainted with Andrew Loog Oldham, also the manager/producer for the Rolling Stones. This was a turning point for Gered which resulted in his going to America on the famous 1965 Stones tour and documenting the performance and antics, on and off stage.

His work to date has included many of the most famous names in the contemporary music world – Jimi Hendrix to the Eurythmics, Kate Bush to the Buena Vista Social Club.

Gered's book, The Stones 65-67 82 was published in 2002 and an accompanying exhibition toured Europe in 2004. That year he also published a book of his Hendrix images. In 2006 a two-volume set of nearly 1000 photo's from his Stones' archive was published to great acclaim.

Famous peaces of Jimi Hendrix

Gym Class Heroes

The Band: 

Gym Class Heroes is an american band from Geneva, New york. The group formed when Travis McCoy met drummer Matt Mcginley and decided to form a band. After the addition of guitarist Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo and bassist Eric Roberts.

MC Travie McCoy and drummer Matt McGinley became friends at their local high school's gym class in Geneva, New York. They officially came together in 1997. The original GCH began playing college parties and BBQs, birthday parties, clubs, and festivals which eventually led to larger venues throughout the northeast, including four years on Warped Tour.