Photo Shoot
For our digipak shoot we were able to acquire all of the photos that we had been planning to take and use for our digipak as well as a few extras in case we may need them. The main aim of this shoot was to get some images of black angel wings that we could incorporate into our digipak to tie to our alternative genre. We decided that we should also take some images of a model wearing these wings in case the idea of the wings on their own doesn’t work out, preventing us from having to go through the effort of booking another time to have a shoot.
The first photos that we took were photographs of our model sat on the floor with her angel wings on. We went through a few different outfits while doing it and decided that the lighter outfits helped create more of a striking star image as it contrasted with the black of the angel wings. After taking a few shots like this however, we decided that the wings were too small, made her hair messy or were not at the correct angles in the photographs that we had taken so decided to take pictures of the model without them on and thought that we could use Photoshop to edit the wings on separately. To make sure we could do this, I took some photos of the wings at lots of different angles to allow us so variety in editing and put them against a white background, meaning they will be as simple to cut out as possible.
Reflection
Looking back on a lot of the images we had taken, I have realised that it would have been a lot better if we had spent the time to get the flash photography equipment working for our shoot as some of our images turned out rather dark with low quality to them.
After looking back through each of the images that we have taken, these are my favorites:


Graphic Design
Our aims for the graphic design was to create a starry sky background that gives off a mystical effect to the viewer as well as to create a moon that we could place on top of this background. I believe that we managed to be successful in reaching these aims as both of these images have ended up looking how we want them to, conforming to the typical conventions of an alternative rock digipak.
Completing the graphic designs didn’t take too long as for the starry sky we followed a tutorial which explained the process of creating it very well. One thing we found however when making it was that some of the sky seemed top be too bright and looked unnatural, looking like this:

We then realised that we could fix this by changing the effect on the background from colour dodge to divide which we found gave a more natural and soft look which we thought would fit a lot better on our digipak.
