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FINAL: Music Video, Magazine Advert, Digipak

Music Video

Magazine Advert 

Digipak

Evaluation Question 1

Here is my Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Question 2

Here is my second Evaluation Question

Evaluation Question 3

Here is my Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 4

Here is my answer to Evaluation Question 4:

Another Unsure Moment

So after my font uncertainty , I again have another uncertain moment for my magazine cover. Again, a tiny thing but I think I will come to an agreement closer to the deadline (next week, eek!).
I have two images and the whole uncertainty is whether or not I should have my dog (Jimmy) in the advert or not.

Have: because I'm faded and more like a little extra, I want to people to focus on the words and text of the album, I wanted Jimmy to be the same as well.
Don't: much of my magazine advert is quite full even though it is simple. So I don't know whether to add in another image to the advert and make it over the top, something Indie artists don't do.

 It's actually quite hard to take a picture of a dog so hence why you can't see his face or see him walk in the direction of where I essentially walking.

Decisions, decisions...

FINALLY!!

HORRAHHHH I've finished my album cover (I think)

Wanted to have the contrast of colour and black and white, something that isn't quite common in indie genres. However, to challenge that, more artists tend to have colour with certain hints of dark lightening, something which I noticed on the recent Mumford and Sons album "Wilder Mind". Instead, I wanted to have the inside black and white tones and the actual CD simplistic with symbols on the CD that I made to get a feel of what my band would be fro this debut album. I drew inspiration from The Neighbourhood for the symbols.

Although I have challenged real media product with my album colour contrast, I also developed on many indie artists the fact that they don't use a band or artist on their album cover.

Difficulties!

Whilst I am writing up my evaluation notes, I still have one more thing on my CD cover that I need to finish. And I've saved the hardest for last!!
What I want to do is have my flower pattern on the CD itself, however YouTube and Photoshop are my worst enemy.

However, I researched CD cases on indie artist and they're very simple, that just being a simple colour (monochrome is popular) and then the text of the band and album name on the CD.

So if I chose this, I would keep the flowers behind so when the CD was to be taken out you'd see it.

Magazine Covers

Now that I have finished my Album Cover, I thought I'd start with my Magazine Cover.

I wanted to keep things simple because many in magazines like NME and Q (indie magazines) tend not to be over the top and actually use simplistic images and merely sell for that alone. With that, I wanted to keep the text big and bold to have that as the main focus with the selling point  to the right demographic.

Having looked at previous years magazine covers that used the indie genre as well have used this technique and many have had a view/location to look at with the band name and album (or song) being sold larger than what it would be elsewhere.

Having the location as the main point I also wanted to include an image of myself (as If I was in the band) because that means the audience and readers of magazines would be attracted to it more and curious as to why the person isn't the centre of frame?

I chose this because many artists do in fact use themselves in their magazine cover. However, challenging this real media I wanted to not be the main focus and purely sell for the name and the band, many of which old indie artist and to do before the rapid adjustments to technology and social media.

Here are some examples of Indie Artists magazine adverts:

 Doesn't use any artist to promote their album

 This I found interesting because it uses the water in the background, something that is in my advert as well and having the band's name at the top of the frame.

Again no artist or band and it just selling purely on the art and it's name, including a single name. Which I have included with mine as Wash. 

This is an example of an artist who is selling with their own face and intact the same picture as the album cover but still has as strong emphasis on the name at the top.

First Draft

So Here's two ways in which my album could end up. I always wanted to keep thing simple but have more of an affect in the editing stages go the digipak. Two of these photos were shot on my camera (Canon) the front cover and back cover (the bottom ones) and the other two were shot on an iPhone (6 and 7). 

I prefer the bottom picture where it is colour vs black and white because it fits the conventions of an indie artist. As well as not having a artist on the front of the album cover itself. 

All i need to do now is sort out the flower picture as I want this as my CD cover not the entire background (not sure what would be behind it yet, maybe fire) and then finish the spine down the middle with the band name and album title.

After getting votes in from the demographic as to which my band would target (teenagers and young adults) and especially the buyers (audience) that are into the indie genre as they would be or prime sellers before any age. The question was asked which one they preferred (easy, right) and the majority of the voters said that the second one is the best looking one.  

 First Draft

The version I prefer and will chose 

Having A Laugh

Before the Easter holidays, Ruby and I was asked by both JB and Kirti to take pictures for their album cover as they both wanted to use a band on the front of their cover. Something which I have gone against.

I've chosen to not use anyone on my album cover because although many indie artist like Lana Del Rey and Florence and the Machine use themselves on the front cover, there are other artist that have not like Arctic Monkeys, Hozier, The XX and even Bon Iver, the actual band who's song we used for our music video.

Bon Iver themselves used nature in the album cover that "Wash" has come from. This is something I picked up on and used purely because while I was away in Sicily, I could of used anything from there as the whole island was so beautiful and picteresuqe. And that's what I done.


However, for my magazine cover I will possibly use an artist as my selling point as many artist have used that technique instead of the album cover.

Font Positioning

The end of the holidays is here and the digipak is due very soon (sooner than I hoped)

As i'm still trying to get used to photoshop (which is the most frustrating thing in this process!) I thought I'd would share my front cover of my band's album with two different colours of what would fit the album and conventions of an indie album.

 I love the fact that the band name is in the sky here and originally it was in white which is suitable and something I will go for as it can symbolise clouds and with the colour of the sky it suits the whole aesthetic. also I like the fact that it's white because it can also represent purity and the fact that my bands name is pure in Spanish I thought that white would look good.

However, I also thought about having the album name black which meant there was a problem due to the dark background down by the cliffs in the picture. This is because I wanted to have the band name in one colour and the album title in another. However, looking at other indie artists and their album names (Lana Del Rey, Florence and the Machine and Arctic Monkeys) they all use the same coloured font for their name and the album title which would work as the white will blend over the dark cliffs which you can see in the first picture.