Editing photos

Adding The Animation Theme

From my final video and looking at my photos on my bands website I felt that there was an element missing. During the production on my music video I used animation and was extremely proud of the outcome and overall effect that it gave to the Luna Music Video. It gave my clips a quirky and fun look which was perfect for my young band and the genre. Looking at the photos, I wondered whether if it would be a good idea to carry on the 'animated' theme onto some of the images.

 

I went onto premiere pro, picked some images I liked and began to edit the image on its own. I was happy with the overall outcome look of the images but I added the drawing lines to add something extra to my pictures. I kept a couple of the pictures in colour and added a matching colour drawing around the band member. On the more simplistic photos I changed the base colour to black and white and picked vibrant colours to draw and animate around the band member in order to make the person 'pop' and stand out from the image. Carrying on the theme from the music video was a good idea as it combines my products. This is often common to see in many artists' websites/music videos/digipaks.

 

In terms of genre, the pictures fit into the genre conventions perfectly. The image itself, being simple, having dual tone lighting and the band members wearing specific outfits all fit into the indie genre. It is the colourful animations around the band members that pull the whole image together and bring the pop genre aspect into the indie pop genre that my band is.

 

This simple effect was extremely affective on my images. The overall product will help highlight to whomever visits my website that I put together for the band what genre they are and will be able to link the images to the music video. Every element of the music video and photography fit together perfectly.