CD Cover

My group came up with the idea of having a hand holding a clock in our CD cover, we decided this because after looking at The Feeling's past CD covers they all had either a hand or a foot in them with the hand pointing or holding something relevant to the song or album. On The Feeling's '12 Stops And Home' album there is a hand holding a handle like the ones hanging from the ceiling of a but or train. The album title came from the lead singer's (Dan) trip home from the recording studio, which was 12 stops on the Jubilee line.

When we found this out, we thought it would be a good idea to involve something that would be relevant to our video, we came up with the idea of having a hand holding a clock, which was a vital part of our music video, representing the change in time.

We then set about taking pictures of the hand holding the clock. We used a 12.5mp camera phone, the picture came out better than expected and we thought the quality was excellent, which was a good element to have considering we wanted to edit our picture.

- The original image of a hand holding a clock.

- We separated the background from the hand and the clock and then set about cutting the picture out. This was done using Adobe Photoshop CS4.

- When we were finalizing our filming locations I took a picture on the top of Box Hill. I did this so my group would have a record of what it looked like. When we were planning our CD cover and my group member, Adam, sugested it would be a really good idea to back the clock onto a picture of Box Hill, as this was the place we shot the majourity of our filming. We editied the picture using a dry brush effect on Photo Shop to change the image.
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- We then backed the picture against a picture we took at Box Hill, which was where we filmed the majority of our video. We edited the picture using a Dry Brush effect which was also on Adobe Photoshop CS4. Then after editing the field picture we layered the hand holding the clock onto it, this meant that only the background (field) had a cartoon look about it. Which was the look we wanted to create.

- After finishing the actual picture we decided to edit the coloures of the background, mainly because they were mostly vibrant and stood out a lot. Considering that our video was mostly of a grainy effect due to most of it being in the past, we then changed the colours to a more grainy and de-saturated colour to match the music video.

- Final Cover - When we finished editing our cover, we were then ready to add the text and then we were finished. We looked at previous singles and albums released by The Feeling and the text was always to the left hand side, either at the top, middle or bottom. We chose to have the text at the top right because there simply wasn't enough room to have the text at the bottom and at the middle because the text would obscure the hand.