Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Double Page Spread Written
Main headline: A decade of noughtiness
Sub-heading: The top 5 best selling albums of the past 10 years
Introduction: As we leave the noughties behind we take a look back at the albums that lead us through it.
5. A.W.O.L - Armed Nation
Sold 2.7 Million
Released in 2003, this album was originally merely an attempt to combat the war in Iraq, however it later turned into one of the most loved albums of all time. After the release of this album, and their song 'Infection', A.W.O.L were never heard of again, however their album still continues to sell copies world wide.
4.Haze
Sold 3 million
Released in 2006, this was in fact haze's debut album. Although it's not number 1 in our charts, this album broke all previously held records for being the fastest selling debut album of all time. However this came as no shock to the industry as her numerous appearances and performances on shows such as one tree hill and orange county guaranteed her a spot in our charts.
3.The Robsons - Freefall
Sold 3.5 million
Released in 2005, after previously having two albums that barely moved off the shelves it came as a surprise to us to see The Robsons appear in our charts. Yet what we did anticipate was the sudden breakdown of the band as the instant rise to popularity tore them apart. Just 6 months after the release of the album, the band broke up, moving on to try their hand at solo careers.
2. The League - Nightmare
Sold 3.7 million
Released in 2007, this comeback album was a great success for The League. After being apart for almost 10 years its no surprise that they managed to come back with such a strong album. The cover itself is based on lead guitarist, Dave Harrison's, feelings on what it was like to be away from the rest of the guys. He described it as being able to see everything he wanted but not be allowed to interfere with it. We're just glad the band are happy again and continuing to come out with hit after hit.
1. Guy Smith - Burn
Sold 4 million
Released in 2002, although he has been out of the charts for a while, it came as no shock to anyone that Guy Smith would of made his way back in, especially with this album. Burn, Guy's tenth album, was released at the peak of his career, since then he has remained at this summit and it doesn't look like he plans on coming down anytime soon. We hope and expect to see Guy releasing his fifteenth album sometime next year.
Sub-heading: The top 5 best selling albums of the past 10 years
Introduction: As we leave the noughties behind we take a look back at the albums that lead us through it.
5. A.W.O.L - Armed Nation
Sold 2.7 Million
Released in 2003, this album was originally merely an attempt to combat the war in Iraq, however it later turned into one of the most loved albums of all time. After the release of this album, and their song 'Infection', A.W.O.L were never heard of again, however their album still continues to sell copies world wide.
4.Haze
Sold 3 million
Released in 2006, this was in fact haze's debut album. Although it's not number 1 in our charts, this album broke all previously held records for being the fastest selling debut album of all time. However this came as no shock to the industry as her numerous appearances and performances on shows such as one tree hill and orange county guaranteed her a spot in our charts.
3.The Robsons - Freefall
Sold 3.5 million
Released in 2005, after previously having two albums that barely moved off the shelves it came as a surprise to us to see The Robsons appear in our charts. Yet what we did anticipate was the sudden breakdown of the band as the instant rise to popularity tore them apart. Just 6 months after the release of the album, the band broke up, moving on to try their hand at solo careers.
2. The League - Nightmare
Sold 3.7 million
Released in 2007, this comeback album was a great success for The League. After being apart for almost 10 years its no surprise that they managed to come back with such a strong album. The cover itself is based on lead guitarist, Dave Harrison's, feelings on what it was like to be away from the rest of the guys. He described it as being able to see everything he wanted but not be allowed to interfere with it. We're just glad the band are happy again and continuing to come out with hit after hit.
1. Guy Smith - Burn
Sold 4 million
Released in 2002, although he has been out of the charts for a while, it came as no shock to anyone that Guy Smith would of made his way back in, especially with this album. Burn, Guy's tenth album, was released at the peak of his career, since then he has remained at this summit and it doesn't look like he plans on coming down anytime soon. We hope and expect to see Guy releasing his fifteenth album sometime next year.
Friday, 10 December 2010
Photo editting
These are the album covers i created for my double page spread feature on the top selling albums of the past decade. Originally I had hoped to be able to use 10 album covers but unfortunately they don't all fit on the one page so I'm sticking with 5.
For this image i solely used an Internet programme called picnik to edit the image. Initially i hadn't planned on using this image, it was purely experimental, but i found that the boost effect managed to bring out the main facial features and brighten the skin without the need for further editing. I then softened the image and added a soft border by using the matte tool to give it a dream like quality. I chose a font that was soft and childlike to match the album theme.
The original image here was one of a window display in oxford street. For this i first used the editing software gimp2 to isolate the doll face and cut it perfectly from the image. I then transferred this over to picnik where i first enlarged the image. i then used the night vision effect followed by a neon effect to create the army styled colouring. i chose to only apply 20% of the neon effect so that the night vision was still the dominant effect. Whilst still using this programme i selected a font that perfectly suited the army style.
I liked the idea of using an item from this picture for the cover, i went with the deer as it was the only one that included a full view of the flower patterned wallpaper behind. I used picnik to first isolate the part of the image i wanted. I then wanted to make the album focus solely on the deer so i used a focal zoom to keep focus on the deer and turned it in to a pencil sketch to give it a winter effect rather than keep the 60's colouring. I went for different fonts to make the artist name more prominent than the album title, i went for this particular font for the album title to make it appear like part of the original image.
For this image i solely used an Internet programme called picnik to edit the image. Initially i hadn't planned on using this image, it was purely experimental, but i found that the boost effect managed to bring out the main facial features and brighten the skin without the need for further editing. I then softened the image and added a soft border by using the matte tool to give it a dream like quality. I chose a font that was soft and childlike to match the album theme.
The original image here was one of a window display in oxford street. For this i first used the editing software gimp2 to isolate the doll face and cut it perfectly from the image. I then transferred this over to picnik where i first enlarged the image. i then used the night vision effect followed by a neon effect to create the army styled colouring. i chose to only apply 20% of the neon effect so that the night vision was still the dominant effect. Whilst still using this programme i selected a font that perfectly suited the army style.
I used paint, gimp2 and picnik to create this album cover. I first used gimp2 to isolate the images i wanted and put them together, unfortunately because of the layering feature on gimp2 i had to use paint to repeat the eyes and arrange the planets in the order i wanted. I then transferred the image back on to gimp2 and erased the bottom left hand side of each planet to create the effect of light coming from that side. I also used the eraser on the incremental setting with a blue background to bring out the colour of the eyes in a way that would make them lighter around the edges. To finish the eyes i used the burn tool to bring back the black pupils. Using picnik i then boosted the colour and cropped the image to shape. Originally i chose a font that matched the album title 'Nightmare' however, after experiencing difficulty with the capital N, i went for the second best. I've made the artist name a different colour to the album name as i whilst i felt the album title was more important than artist name, it should still stand out more to maintain the artist recognition.
Originally i took this photo hoping to be able to capture the pinkish reflection of the sun on the clouds however it didn't appear as vibrant as i had hoped, so instead i decided to use it for the almost car shaped flash reflecting off the window. I solely used picnik to edit this photo. i first boosted the colours to make them more vibrant then used a 1960's effect to remove the corners of the photo. i felt it would give the album cover some edge if it wasn't the conventional shape. i then used the adjustable threshold to remove the colour, and the using the effects brush in reverse, brought the colour back to the area surrounding the camera flash. I went for a font that went against the album image and name to change it from an edgy rock album into a softer heart warming album.
I liked the idea of using an item from this picture for the cover, i went with the deer as it was the only one that included a full view of the flower patterned wallpaper behind. I used picnik to first isolate the part of the image i wanted. I then wanted to make the album focus solely on the deer so i used a focal zoom to keep focus on the deer and turned it in to a pencil sketch to give it a winter effect rather than keep the 60's colouring. I went for different fonts to make the artist name more prominent than the album title, i went for this particular font for the album title to make it appear like part of the original image.
Photo shoot
For the photos featured in my magazine i thought the best place to go to get Christmas themed images was of course oxford street. Not only is it optimal for excellent shots of Christmas decorations but I also found that many of the Christmas themed window displays gave me good ideas to use for the album covers i plan to feature in my double page spread. Here are some examples of displays and decorations that have given me inspiration.
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For my artist feature i chose to use an area with a white background to make editing easier, the location i chose was a bathroom in the school. I like the concept of using twins to create a band so i took photos of the same person but with 3 slight alterations. As it is only a miner difference i will be using editing software to make the outfits and makeup look completely different.
Look 1 Look 2 Look 3
Layout Plans
Below are my plans for my front cover, contents page and double page spread.
Front cover
Contents page
Double page spread
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