Showing posts with label Research into similar products. Show all posts
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Monday, 28 March 2011
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My Music Magazine Front Cover
Music Magazine - Front Cover
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Above you can see my final Digipack front cover. I constructed the front cover using Photo Shop CS3. I started with my photo of Lewis. As the initial photograph of lewis was not the right size/format of a typical digipack cover, I decided it would be a good idea to use the clone tool to make the picture bigger but still have the same scene. The next thing I decided to do to edit the image was to flip it over so it was basically a mirror image of this. The idea behind this was so that the blood on his chest was now on the left side of his chest, representing a bleeding heart. I decided this would make the digipack cover be more metaphorical and would allow my target audience to relate to the album cover. Another edit I did to the image was to change the sign that Lewis was holding. In the original photo Lewis is holding a sign saying Monsieur Lewis. I thought that it would be better for the digipack cover to use his stage name of The Next Forever as this would enable my target audience and his fans to notice his name and recognise it. Another reason for changing the name is to stop any confusion arising to the viewers. I then developed the idea of changing the name to change it to the actual song title name and then have The Next Forever in another area of the digipack album cover. So now I changed the sign he was holding to say the tracks name - "Upstream". I did this by using the clone tool to select an area of the sign in which the sign hadn't been wrote on and then colour over the writing. I then used the paint tool and a graphics tablet to handwrite the word "upstream" on the sign. Next I had to create a album title. This process involved going onto www.dafont.com and from there I downloaded a font that I thought would be ideal for the album cover. I then installed the font onto the computer and then opened it on photoshop. When it came to selecting a colour for the title, I decided red would be an appropriate colour for the album cover. This is because red connotes thoughts of romance and this as the songs theme is about love I thought this would be appropriate. I then decided to use the colour of the fake blood from lewis' heart in the image. To do this I extracted the colour from the heart using the pipette tool. Then I selected the font and composed the title. I thought it would be a good idea to link up some of the text to make it flow more. I did this using the graphics tablet and the paint tool. I drew lines to link up some of the letters such as the letter "x" in the word "Next" and the letter "v" in the word "Forever". I thought this looked nice and made the title more interesting looking and visually appealing.
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Monday, 27 September 2010
John Butler Trio - Album Cover
There is an essence of smoke that surrounds john butlers face. The smoke could represent a number of things, for example in could represent the consumption of drugs such as cannabis. Cannabis consumption is often is stereotyped as hippies which is a social group/culture that are well known for dreadlocks, colourful clothing,drug use and peace making. This could represent the style of John Butler Trios album.
John butler appears to be wearing a hat that look like those of tribal leaders which gives a historical and spiritual feel to the artwork. This could be reflected by the power and culture of the music. The position of his face also reinforces this representation because it appears like it would do if it was on a totem pole. There are splotches of red on the album cover which could represent violence/war and this again could ironically reflect back to the hippie culture where peace is of great importance. This is reinforced by the guns coming out of John Butlers head at either side, creating a realisation to the viewer his opinion on war and violence. There is a butterfly towards the bottom of the artwork which connotes thoughts again of peace which seem to be a continuing theme throughout the artwork. The butterfly also could represent being close to nature, again reinforcing the idea of hippiness. The text is very simple, but effective in bold font and colours that stand out on the background. The black background is effective because it is neutral and calm, focusing the viewers attention on the artwork.
Monday, 20 September 2010
Jack Johnson - Inbetween Dreams - Album Cover
Jack Johnson - Inbetween Dreams Predominantly the first thing that stands out when you look at this album colour is the bright golden/yellow background. Straight away this introduces a lot of symbolism that comes from connotations of the colour. Gold connotes thoughts so of luxury and riches. This could represent the music is quite well made and that the CD process involved a lot of money perhaps. The yellow tinge to the background connotes thoughts of summer. It could represent the sun which is a very powerful and important role in the circle of life. It could also represent the bright and summery colours of the flowers that are fully in bloom in summer. Both of these connotations could relate back to the music in the sense that the music is very summery and cheerful.
Another main feature in the CD cover is the tree on what appears to be a cliff. The tree could again symbolise the summer feel to the album as judging buy the amount of leaves on the tree it is in summer. Trees often symbolise family, faith and life, which again could reflect to the positive feel of the music. Trees are also the only living thing to continue to grow over its lifetime, which again Jack Johnson could be trying to represent his music in continuing to grow after this album. Also an article on Wikipedia about Jack Johnson and his music states that " The album cover depicts a mango tree, referring to the Mango Tree, the studio where In Between Dreams was recorded." The way he is picking a mango from the tree could also relate to being close to nature and this brings in genre guesses such as acoustic, and also perhaps create stereotypes of hippyness. Thecliff could perhaps represent a risk involved in the music in the sense that it might be a change from his previous material and that the risk is winning over a new audience but continue to maintain his older fans. The cliff connotes thoughts of height and heights could represent power. In this sense, this could represent that he is at the top of the world representing the huge amount of success he had.
Jack Johnson himself is making an appearance on the album front cover. He is shown with an acoustic guitar around his back representing the genre of the music and giving the audience a indication of what style of music the CD is without listening to it.
The text font is quite smooth and rounded and this could perhaps represent the calming/easy listening music that it is. His name is in black and the album name is in white. White connotes images of innocence and peace, and along with the name "inbetween dreams" it creates a happy feel about the CD. Thursday, 8 July 2010
Paramore - Emergency
Paramore - Emergency
Paramore are a rock/alternative band from franklin. They have released 3 albums under the label "fuelled by ramen" and the song emergency is off there début album. The music video was directed by Shane Drake who has also done many of the bands other music videos. The band is made up of 4 males and a female lead singer.
The location is in an abandoned warehouse which stands out as quite a conventional setting for music videos of a similar genre. The video structure is part narrative and part live performance, which is a similar structure to the Francesqa video of "ghosts". This could suggest that both narrative and live performance structure and an abandoned warehouse location are both conventions of this genres music videos.
One of the shots that stands out to me is the close up of the female singers lips. Her lips shows evidence of makeup and hence glamour, which could appeal to a male audience. There quite a lot of slow motion action shots of the band's live performance, and the use of slow motion has been made apparent in many music videos I have researched of the same genre so I will try to include this feature in my music video. They are headbanging and swinging guitars suggesting that they are a very energetic band and put on an interesting live perfomance.
The makeup and costumes the band are wearing are quite strange, perhaps resembling that the band are unique. They are wearing smart clothes and a dress in the female singers case and they all had cuts and bruises on the face/bodies. This could be based around the narrative of the story and also represent the name of the song - Emergency, which connotes thoughts of danger, pain and blood.
The narrative is based around a director coming into the room and telling them to follow him. Then he is shown directing a video for them and ordering them about. This could represent that they were pushed about a bit in the music industry and felt quite vunerable, especially because of there young age (the eldest was 19 at the time, the youngest 15). This is reinforced by their confused and almost scared facial expressions as they walk through the studio to shoot their video, with the uses of jump cuts to switch between members and show their worried look.
Their actual live perfomance is very energetic which makes the music video exciting and fast paced. I think this is a good effect so when I come to shooting my music video I will try and make the band perform at an energetic state. Close ups of the lead singer have been made quite dominant with a high proportion of shots based on her rather than other members of the band. This could be because it is seen that the lead singer is the most important, or perhaps that because she is female she is focused on more, perhaps to appeal to a female audience.
The relationship between visuals and lyrics have not been made very apparent in this song. Perhaps the closest to which is the recognition of "love dieing" with a shot of the female singer alone and looking depressed in an arm chair, perhaps representing that she is sad because she has lost someone she loves.
The relationship between music and visuals is a bit more apparent and features aspects such as visuals cutting in time to the music. It also has slow paced editing when the section of the music is more calm and slow, and alternatively fast paced editing when the music is fast and energetic, especially as featured in the chorus.
Paramore are a rock/alternative band from franklin. They have released 3 albums under the label "fuelled by ramen" and the song emergency is off there début album. The music video was directed by Shane Drake who has also done many of the bands other music videos. The band is made up of 4 males and a female lead singer.
The location is in an abandoned warehouse which stands out as quite a conventional setting for music videos of a similar genre. The video structure is part narrative and part live performance, which is a similar structure to the Francesqa video of "ghosts". This could suggest that both narrative and live performance structure and an abandoned warehouse location are both conventions of this genres music videos.
One of the shots that stands out to me is the close up of the female singers lips. Her lips shows evidence of makeup and hence glamour, which could appeal to a male audience. There quite a lot of slow motion action shots of the band's live performance, and the use of slow motion has been made apparent in many music videos I have researched of the same genre so I will try to include this feature in my music video. They are headbanging and swinging guitars suggesting that they are a very energetic band and put on an interesting live perfomance.
The makeup and costumes the band are wearing are quite strange, perhaps resembling that the band are unique. They are wearing smart clothes and a dress in the female singers case and they all had cuts and bruises on the face/bodies. This could be based around the narrative of the story and also represent the name of the song - Emergency, which connotes thoughts of danger, pain and blood.
The narrative is based around a director coming into the room and telling them to follow him. Then he is shown directing a video for them and ordering them about. This could represent that they were pushed about a bit in the music industry and felt quite vunerable, especially because of there young age (the eldest was 19 at the time, the youngest 15). This is reinforced by their confused and almost scared facial expressions as they walk through the studio to shoot their video, with the uses of jump cuts to switch between members and show their worried look.
Their actual live perfomance is very energetic which makes the music video exciting and fast paced. I think this is a good effect so when I come to shooting my music video I will try and make the band perform at an energetic state. Close ups of the lead singer have been made quite dominant with a high proportion of shots based on her rather than other members of the band. This could be because it is seen that the lead singer is the most important, or perhaps that because she is female she is focused on more, perhaps to appeal to a female audience.
The relationship between visuals and lyrics have not been made very apparent in this song. Perhaps the closest to which is the recognition of "love dieing" with a shot of the female singer alone and looking depressed in an arm chair, perhaps representing that she is sad because she has lost someone she loves.
The relationship between music and visuals is a bit more apparent and features aspects such as visuals cutting in time to the music. It also has slow paced editing when the section of the music is more calm and slow, and alternatively fast paced editing when the music is fast and energetic, especially as featured in the chorus.
Thursday, 1 July 2010
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