Magazine and Digipak Cover Pictures

From researching into digipaks and magazine covers, I realised that colour was important. This is because it catches the audience's attention, and it is one of the first things the consumer will look at, whether the colour is amplified or taken away. I also feel that star image and iconography is important in a picture which represents the artist, so for our DJ we thought that the horse mask should be the focus of the magazine cover, as it is our artist's unique selling point.

 

 

our first image here is simple in the way that there isn't anything happening.  We decided to use a simple shirt, leggings and boots to make the horse anthropomorphic, in other words make the horse human. As this will make the consumer thing about the image, and not just dismiss it. The editing of the image also holds an intertextual reference with an old-style magazine artwork, which may appeal to a wider range of audience as they may recognise this. The picture itself is based against a very plain wall, which could be anywhere so it doesn't give much away about the horse or the track itself, which continues the star image of being unknown.

 

 

 

This image is very different to the one before in the sense of colour as this one is more vibrant and would stand out more on a self. The horse image has been edited so it comes out mirrored, we did this because it emphasises the horse image and because in our first idea we were going to have 2 horses appear. We have also used ordinary clothes in this image, however the top button is undone to reinforce the casual style of the horse. The character is also slightly tilting it's head upwards to show power and confidence. This sends reinforces the style of being unknown because the mask has power over the audience as you can't tell who is underneath the mask.

 

 

 

 

The final image is the character in the field, this reinforces the use of the horse mask because of the background of the field. It also emphasises the fact of the humanisation of the horse character because it shows the whole body. The body itself is in a relaxed pose as if to say "I'm at home here" which is unlike the other photos. The editing on this photo also provides a focal point, which is the mask. This is because the rest of the photo is in black and white with black corners and the mask is still in it's natural colour.