Digipack Original vs Edited

In this post I will be explaining why we chose certain camera composition and editing effects.

I used a photo editing site called BeFunky to edit the photos below. This site is a free editing site and it had some great effects that go with the dream pop genre, for example dream pop genre characteristics include bright imagery with all colours standing out to the audience. 

SHOT 1:

This is one of the pictures we took of our Protagonist Halimah Ali. As you can see we decided to take a side angle of her looking ahead, the reason for this was because we wanted to create a reflection effect of her looking at herself. We arranged for her to wear red and black because these are two opposing colours that go well together. For example red is a very emotionally intense color. It enhances human metabolism, it is also a colour associated with energy, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love. Black is associated with power and elegance and gives the feeling of perspective and death. The connotations of these two colours goes really well with our narrative which is portraying how girls in society should not be influences by the media and act in ways which they are not. We also decided to use a medium shot of our protagonist to make the audience feel as if they were looking at the whole subject. The use of eye-level also helped to make the audience feel as if they were actually in the scene. We decided to use these certain camera angles and positioning because we wanted the digipack to portray the typical dream pop characteristics which included; simplistic but effective imagery. 

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SHOT 2:

This is another picture we took for our digipack's back cover. We again decided to use a mid-shot to make our protagonists costume and facial expression was portrayed properly and effectively and stereotypically this camera angle is mostly used to make the subject stand out to the audience. The use of eye-level also helps the audience to see the protagonist normally like they would be able to see any other normal person on the street. Our protagonist is also covering her face in this shot; this was done to signify that she is scared of today's society and has mixed emotions. The position that she is standing was done to relate to the position of the digipack's back cover, it helps the audience to understand that it’s the back and there is a lot of story inside the digipack.

EDITING EXPLAINED

SHOT 3:

This is the second picture we took of our protagonist. As you can see she is now looking down, the reason for this is because this is her bad reflection of her therefore looking down signifies she is scared and can’t face society. We had to keep the camera angle and positioning the same as the picture above because we needed to create a reflection and this effect would not work if we had two different pictures. The protagonists positioning is also the same; with her hands back denoting that she is not strong enough to take society. We also decided to put her hair forward to connote that she is hiding her mediated face from the audience; also the colour of her hair is brown which is associated with depression and conservatism. 

EDITING EXPLAINED