Album Covers.

Artist: Scouting For Girls.
The album almost looks as if it has been done in sepia. You don't see any members of the band on the front cover, but their name is very clear in the centre of the album in capitals so it stands out. The image of the two people in the boat makes the album look fun and childlike, but has been made more mature by the use of the colours that are on the front of the album. It is very simple, but effective. The album has been made to look old, and looks almost 
tea-stained. This could of been done to show the band feel they are more mature   now.



Artist: The Ting Tings.
The fact that there are only two members in the band has been represented by the drum stick and the microphone, showing that there is only a drummer and a singer. They are showing the hands of the artist to connect with the audience more. The fact that they have chosen to have everything in black and white apart from the background and the name of the band shows that they want to stand out. The use of the red background and then the blue font means that the name of the band stands out more then anything. They have got the album name written on their hands which makes it look interesting and funky.                             


Artist: Orson
The use of the birds in the background are effective, because the image of the man jumping on the cover also looks like a bird. They could be trying to come across as 'free' and that they feel like nothing can hold them back. They have chosen to have a very bright background, but have the man in the image in black. This means that he stands out more then anything. The stripes of the red and lighter red/orange stipes makes it look like the sun, which fits in well with the theme of the birds. They have chosen to use no capitals for their name and album name. It makes it look different to 
other albums that are around.


Artist: Coldplay.

For the Coldplay album, they have chosen to use bright colours as the name of their album is called "Life in Technicolor" Unlike some of the other front covers i have analysed, the band have chosen to have all of them on the front cover. This might be because they are extremely famous and people can recognise them by face.They have made it look as if the lead singer has flames coming our from his hands, maybe showing that he is in control and has all of the power.  The bright colours makes the album stand out, and will attract people and        make them stop and have a look at it. 



Artist: One Republic 
They have chosen to make it look as if it is night time, and to have a very bright, white tree in the middle. It stands out, and looks attractive. The album name looks as if it has been written by someone, possibly even the artist. The moon and stars make it stand out and make it look pretty and calming. This might reflect on the style of music that they are trying to produce, calm and relaxing songs that could 'send you to sleep'.







Artist: Ed Sheeran
The Ed Sheeran front album cover 
represents how he wants to be perceived as an artist perfectly. The type writer style font shows off his 'do it yourself' attitude in the music industry that he wants to portray. The little paw logo next to it is his signature sign and is how a lot of people recognise him. He is making direct eye contact to the audience, making it look as if he feels maybe that he is just one of them. The choice of an orange filter means that he stands out in the image. It is very simple, but effective. 

Survey

Here is a link to a survey that i created which asks questions about what people think about Indie digipacks. I thought that it might give us some inspiration about the sort of thing we should create that would get people interested in our digipack and make them want to buy our album.

I created the survey on a website called 'survey monkey'.

Click here to take survey

Websites.

Bands and artists can also use websites in order to promote their music. They can either have their own website or try to be promoted on a website that they know music lovers will go on. One website that i looked at was Q. They are known for their music magazines, so people already trust their judgment about music.

The include video's, "Track of the day", photo's, tickets to gigs, and news. It is a website that people can go on to look at any new music that bands or artists have created, or any songs that Q have decided to rate this week. 

Track of the day is a icon on the page which says the song name and the artist of the song that they feel is worth listening to it. On clicking it, you are taken to a link with information about the song, why they have named it track of the week, and the video of the song so people can listen to it. People can also post comments giving their view on it. This means that they encourage different people to interact with people who are into the same sort of music as they are. 

The gallery shows different photo's from different gigs. One of them on the website are photo's of the band Muse. It shows photo's from their gig in Birmingham. The photo's means that even if people weren't at the gig themselves, they can still look at photo's of it and have a look at what went on. 

The news icon sends people to a different page which gives news from a whole host of different genre's. It means that people can keep up to date with what is going on in the music industry and from different bands and artists. It is good because it means that people can get fresh news whenever they want, and learn more about the artists or bands that they love. 

The tickets page shows an alphabetic list of bands. When you click on them, it gives you a  list of all the dates and venue's that are available for you to get tickets. It gives a list of prices so that people can see how much it is they will have to be spending to get the tickets. 

Digipack Idea's.

Front Cover - We will be having our artist leaning against a wall, which is wallpapered, has a table and lamp in the corner, and a rug on the floor. His guitar will be leaning against the wall with him.

Inlay 1 - Our artist with his back to the camera, about to rip down the wallpaper.

Inlay 2 - Ripping down the wallpaper.

Inlay 4 - Montage of pictures, pictures from the beach, producing the video, behind the scenes footage. Makes the audience feel like they are getting some added extra photo's of the artist.

Back Cover - Sitting cross legged, back to the camera, looking up at the wallpaper that he has ripped down. There will be the lyrics to our song on bricks underneath the wallpaper.

We have decided that we are going to have our photo shoot for our digipack this week. We need to book and check when one of the rooms at school is available. We have chosen to use this certain room because the wall is long enough and is suitable for us to place the wallpaper on the walls. It also means that if we ever feel that we don't like the photo's we have taken, we know we can go back and take more.

Filming

Here are some photo's that i took of when we were filming at the beach.

Progress Report.

On saturday we went to Frinton Beach and filmed the majority of our music video. We had a few problems, the weather wasn't brilliant but it did stop raining enough that we could get all of our shots. Also, it got dark very quickly so some of our shots that were meant to be shot in the evening were difficult to do as it was so dark you couldn't really see our artist. 

Progress Report.

Over the last few lessons, Danielle, Harris and I have been planning our digipack and looking at idea's for posters for our artist. We will be filming on Saturday, so we have been taking some pictures of our plans for our inlays and front covers for our digipack. 

Today Danielle and I went to Homebase and bought some wallpaper that we could use to go over our brick wallpaper. We decided that it needed to look a bit older, so we have plans to tea-stain it and make it look a bit dirtier. 

We have also had a trial run of tearing the wallpaper. Danielle and I pinned the brick wallpaper and the normal one to a board, and then filmed me tearing it down to see if it would look okay, and how we needed to tear it so that you could see the lyrics behind.

We will post the video of this at a later date.

Props for digipack.

For our digipack we have decided that we are going to take some of our photo's in a room at our school. We will be putting brick wallpaper on the walls, with normal wallpaper over the top of it. We want to make it look like a room in a house, so we are going to use a few props in order to make it appear like one.

Table - The table will be provided for us from our media teacher. We want the table to be in the corner of the room, so that it is only just in the picture.

Chair - We think that this will make it look more like a room in a house. Danielle has a chair that she is going to bring in that we can use. 

Lamp - The lamp is one that we have at school. It will add extra light into our shot, but will still fit in with the homely theme that we have for our shots.

Plant - Again, the plant is something that we already have at school. It will add colour to the shot as we are considering having the pictures in some sort of effect, i.e sepia, or black and white.

Rug - We have decided that we want to use a green coloured rug, which will look good in our shots and will also help to create a carpet theme that you might find in an older house. 

Testing the wallpaper.

Danielle and I decided that we would test the brick wallpaper, so we found a small area of wall in our school common room and pinned some up. We then wrote some of  the lyrics up on it, to see how it would look. We wanted to make sure that the writing would come up on the wallpaper, and that it looked realistic. We were very happy with the results, and we will be using it for our digipack photoshoot.

Digipack Photo's.

 Picture 1.

                                                                                  Picture 2.              

  Picture 3.

                                                                                Picture 4.

 Picture 5.

                                                                                Picture 6.

















These are some of the pictures that we took for our digipack. One of our inlays will be a montage of pictures. We want some to be of him recording his music, playing the instruments, being relaxed and working on the computers to produce the music. We think that this is good because Indie artists are known for being independent and doing things themselves. We also want to show our artists fun side, and make it look like the recording studio is where he feels most comfortable.