I wrote an email to Vagrant records (City and Colour's record label) to ask for permission to use the song as they own the rights. This will make sure that i am not at risk of illegally using copyrighted music.

Post production

Album Cover research

For my genre, (alternative rock/ folk rock) album covers don't usually show the artist but usually show something relating to the song or album name. For my digipak cover, I will follow this convention and not use an image of my artist however I will take some pictures of my artist to use either on other sections of the digipak or on a promotional poster. Because my chosen song is about how the artist is a pessimist I will use an image relating to this such as a half empty glass. However a lot of artists of these genres use images of forests and other nature-esque images (as shown in the Kodaline EP at the top) so I might try something like that. Most of the albums are packaged in a card sleeve rather than a traditional plastic CD box. This is primarily to save money so that the artist can afford to sell the album at a much lower price and still make a profit but it is also to make the album sleeve easily recyclable.

areas to improve

1) Extend history of medium 2) Work on textual analyses *SHOW KNOWLEDGE OF TECHNICAL TERMS AND THEORY*

Animatic for Grand Optimist

                      

Lighting

This picture shows how i will set out the lighting for my studio shots. This will make my shots look more natural and professional.

Health & Saftey Assessment

The hazard's highlighted in red show a high level of risk, orange indicates a medium risk and yellow indicates minimal risk.