Photoshoot

Photo-shoot for the Digipak

With the digipak, what I am attempting to achieve is an effect and emotion in which the audience can infer that the approach the band is attempting to take with the album is one of mystery and creepiness, however still keeping things as light hearted as possible. Though the band are a duo, Maria takes the part as the lead singer, therefore her involvement is more obvious, and she tends to be the more noticed one from fans due to this. As a result, with the digipak I am going to have more images of Maria, in order for the audience to recognize the band quicker and easier. From other digipaks that I have analyzed, I have realized that simplicity is key, therefore I am going to attempt to keep my own digipak as simple as possible, however without it being boring. The way I have shown this with the pictures from the digipak shoot is that a lot of the shots are just of the girls faces, however they have creepy make-up drawn on their faces which consists of dead roses and a lot of branches, attempting to bring out the element of creepiness, whilst also linking to the band’s name ‘The 12 Roses’ and also linking to the specific singles in the album, as each of their videos either does or will feature facial paint on the performers. The use of separate pictures for the girls as oppose to pictures of them together is an attempt to show them as individuals, something which I have notices to be common to albums of bands. Whilst the whole digipak will not consist of simply the artists faces, it will be the dominant feature as it is an attempt for the audience to see them as well as being slightly creep (which is one of the themes of the album), but as just ordinary people also.