My Tenth Mistake

With the initial planning of my music magazine, I decided to start on the production.

I started by taking various pictures of the people who I wanted as band members.

I then decided that since I am producing a magazine to promote a band's debut album I should also create an album cover for the band, which looked like this;

I started with a simple black background for the album cover then I added large white text over the black background in order to make this.

I then turned the layers I was working on into smart object layers and then I added a filter > Render > Clouds to darken the text then I used a brush tool to add a weathing effect to the text.

I will most likely change some aspects of this at a later stage. I chose a black background because the colour black represented rebellion, power, mystery and the a sense of perspective and depth. The black also represents a sort of blank canvas on which the band will build and grow. Since this is a debut album having a blank canvas seemed to be a fitting start because this is the same with artists, novelists and people, they all start from a blank canvas and then create something from that blank canvas. The white of the text represents the actual meaning of the colour white, which is usually perfection as the colour white represents perfection, but the weathered text denotes that the band is not perfect, it is not trying to be perfect it is simply trying to get its messages across via the music. The weathered white text also represents a sense of perfection stained by society and man kind.
The reason I chose a blank canvas for the album cover rather than a picture of the band is because the simplicity of the album cover is also a deliberate contrast to the complexity of the collaborative nature of the band itself.  

Moving on to the actual pictures I will be using, I am still in the process of reviewing the pictures I will be using for the magazine, but so far I have confirmed that I want to use at least this image:


 I am certain I want to use this image because of the way I managed to capture the text on the ad below them "Elite, Fresh & Hot". I thought this would be a great picture because it describes the band or how I want to represent the band anyway. I want them to be seen as 'Elite' even though they are new to the music scene they already deserve some recognition and respect. 'Fresh' because they will offer a new sound and a new way of attaining that sound, because this is a collaborative band with not just these four boys (although they are the main members) but including other people as well. As for 'Hot' that just happened to be there but it is an attractive photograph so I thought it was fitting.
Also the low angle shot makes them look powerful, representing that the band is in power and will not submit to authority. I am going to turn this image (among others) into polaroid pictures and then scatter them over a section of a page nonchalantly as if the band themselves took the pictures then scattered them over a page, this will represent them not caring and being very nonchalant about the way they present themselves. 
I want my other images to be turned from the one above to the one below:
(I will show the process I used in photoshop to get this effect at a later stage because current I am still learning it)