Old drafts of practice CD covers - Yagmur

All images used are taken by us.

 We went around Shoreditch and took a range of pictures which we didn't plan out. We wanted the shoot to be spontaneous, just to see if we would be inspired by anything we saw outside. We thought that taking pictures of the protagonist in the hoodie that she wears in the music video is quite symbolic of her being isolated. We found grafitti on a wall which was a short poem about 'hugs and friendship' which is a significant theme we have in our video. For the back, we took a picture of a plant pot which had a wooden texture. We liked the way it looked so we did an extreme close up and edited it as black and white to make it more grunge-like. We also placed a picture on the front of paintings on a wall to show her interest in art, but we found this to be irrelevant with the rest of the images.

For this cover, we used more images of nature. The front cover shows an image of a path in a park, which looks quite isolated. We made it black and white but played around with the exposure and contrast to make it more grey, faded and 'hazy' looking. We also used a similar image of branches for the inside cover with the quote 'Head in the clouds, but my gravity's centered'. This is a song lyric from one of The Neighbourhood's songs which signifies being a dreamer. We used blurry lights for where the CD is actually placed. However, we found this to be quite boring so we decided to do another draft. We also struggled to find any images which would go with this entire album.

For this cover, we used the same elements from the other covers such as the inner cover with the quote and the front. On the back, we used the back cover from the first draft. On the inside, we used a long image of branches which cover 2 of the pages. We thought that this gave it quite a dark feeling which goes with the theme of our video. However, this also felt slightly too dull as we already had lots of images of branches. For the CD, we put a big 'A' to signify 'alleyways' and it's also the exact font of the a from the Haze logo.

We didn't proceed further with any of these drafts and created a brand new one as shown in a previous blog post with the final product. We did use elements from these drafts but we didn't feel satisfied enough with any of them to use.