At the end of this plane trail to keep a surrealistic view i took the original image of Alex Atkinson that i used in the three images in the Digi pack. I then made this photo very small and put it at the end of the plane trail as if the Character was creating the trail instead and looked at though he was falling from the sky to the Earth.
I then put the font from the Digi Pack and put it at the bottom of the image then used a clear white text to give information on the release date, then at the very bottom gave a 5 star review keeping a clear and precise text at the bottom of the clear and surrealistic image.
When studying other Digi packs i realised that the inside pages were three 12 cm squares in a row, with this in mind i decided i wanted to create three images that somehow linked together. Starting with an image i took of home park which i'd spent time editing to a surreal point much like the front cover i decided to duplicate the photo and have it as the background in each square with something different happening in each square on the same background.I decided the variant to be changing in each photo would be fittingly the character (Alex Atkinson) who plays the dead body in the video and as there is a theme of resurrection in the video i thought it would again be fitting to have a theme of resurrection in the three images, for this i decided to have the character appearing out of the water, further and further in each shot. To keep the surreal feeling continuing i decided to not just have one person resurrecting but to have the same person duplicated 9 times at different points in the water. I cut out the image on photoshop of the character and then layered it on top of the original image with in the first image just his head visible, then the second his head and chest visible then finally in the third image his whole body above the water and a couple of people appearing to fly towards the sky.
Foals generally go for a surreal tint to their art work using water clearly in their album cover, when doing my album cover I wanted to continue along a similar vein to foals, but take things further than foals generally do. With the thought of surrealism in my mind I went about creating what was to be my front cover of the album i wanted to produce something very eye catching to the viewer that was both real and imaginary at the same time. I started with the image of looking up through a canopy of leaves at a bright blue sky. I then edited it to have a tint of surrealism about it as all the colours I have enhanced to a non realistic state to give an almost retro 1970's look about it, I edited the photo using iphoto and played about with the editing software it provides until I found the right levels to make the photo achieve what i wanted. I feel this album cover I have created ties in with the theme of nature, clarity and hyper realism with the colours truer than ever conceivably possible and maintaining a clear cut and fresh feel to the album cover.
