My initial idea was a metal band that uses a lot of runes. I should've known that's been done to death, so I dropped it.
My next idea was trance music that puts you into a coma, inspired by the artwork I'd created whilst under the effects of Methoxetamine which is legal drug.
The problem was I stuck with the artwork I'd created too much, instead of looking instead at what I was really doing, which was TRANCE music that put you into a COMA.
So I went to a trance rave and a hospital to get some photographs of people raving and hospital beds. I then combined these together, along with a hideous bubble font and my initial concept drawings to create:
The most successful of these images is the single cover, where I made a breathing thing out of filter tubes and took the photo of myself just after I'd woke up so I had messy hair (like people in comas).
Things to change:
-Lose the zombie nurse, as she doesn't say "TRANCE music that puts you into a COMA" she says undead hospital music, which I'd assume is a different genre entirely (zombie nurse backing singers and skeleton doctors with guitars made out of bones, it'd probably be like dull, all consuming heavy metal).
-Change the font to something that says trance music more, I've already experimented with this
-The title tracks are all inspired by what I wrote under the influence of methoxetamine, I ought instead to look at words that say coma, as the methoxetamine reference only relates to me. I've tried this as well as the new font on my single cover:
I like this quite a lot, my current plan is to bring the other pieces up to this stage. Current ideas are someone (most likely me again) passed out with big head phones on for the album. I may keep some of the trippy art work, but only if the image already says: COMA TRANCE. I mean, the stalagtite image on the back of the single just looks like a turd.
I've fixed some of the problems I had with this project before, here's how it looks now:
The poster is the most drastic change, but there's still problems (as there naturally would when you've already spent 30 quid on a project and just can't wait to spend more.) like when I printed it the backgrounds went really shit, which is weird. I also forgot to save the changes to the cassette tape inlay, which means it still has all the old track names in the old hand written style on there, which is a massive annoyance.
This project's getting there, but it still isn't what I wanted it to be. I did borrow my mates camera to get some better photographs, and it just highlights how peck my camera is now. For drawing from there's no issue, but large prints just seem to come out looking abysmal, and I need to figure out whether it's cheaper to continue printing out bad quality work because I'll "fix it" when I get a better camera and pay to do everything twice, or just get a good camera. The thing is next year I'll be living with 3 people who all own DSLR cameras, so I just can't justify it when there's 3 to choose from, unless we find ourselves at a photography convention I don't know how the 3 of them would need them all at the same time, and I wouldn't go to a photography convention anyway.
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