Research into Posing for magazine ad and digipack

There was not really any research for our posing as we were lucky in that while we were walking past a circular light, an idea came to us that if the artist stood in front of this light, then there would just be a silohette of the artist, which was always the intention from our pitch. We gained inspiration to do this from Michael Jacksons 'This Is It' album cover as it is bold and only the outline of the artist can be seen, showing his illusive persona. We believe that this worked really well as it created a bold image and was easy to adapt in photoshop to create a unique logo and image/statement for our artist.