DIGI (back)

This is a reverse angle of the front cover with exactly the same hand positions. It show strong contrasting neon colours as a pattern on the back drop of the Photoshopped pictures of the band members.

DIGI PACK (Middle)

The first image shows the band in a natural position again with the headless effect and a posterized effect in order to make the bodys more defined.

 


The second image here is the list of songs from the album, the is an obvious convention of albums all having song lists

DIGIPACK (front cover)

This is the image that is going to be the front of our digipack, a repetitive pattern along with Photoshopped photos. The headless people are the other members of the band, however I am at the front of the digipack so i stand out more being the lead singer. This is an entertaining humerus representation of the band members because of the surreal body without heads, this is due to every other being normal in the representation apart from the heads. We are subverting from convention because we do not show all of our band members which is an uncommon theme among artist's which would conventionally like showing there face on the front cover. We decided to pose our band members in a very symmetrical fully frontal pose, this symmetry fits in with the repetitive patterning of the background. The rigidity of the pose is an amusing subversion of what happens in the video, allot of audiences would recognize that we have used an example intertextuality, our designs deliberately echoes Magrittes famous surreal image 'the Son of Man'. Our cd design fits in really well with out video because

- we feature the band members as playful 

- our use of bright contrasting colors 

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NME: Are Major Labels About To Abandon The CD? Er, No

Recent satistics have shown that CD's are becoming sur-plus to the music industry due to the popularity of online music download e.g itunes, however NME argue how important the CD is to the music industry http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=146&title=are_major_labels_about_to_abandon_the_cd_1&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Album cover emplate Example

These two album covers (above) are an example of how I plan to make my album cover - its very basic in nature using an image or photograph at the centre of the photo with the album name being just below the eyes of the portrait,its writing is also of a simple but effective type with it just being bubble writing with black bolding to make it stand out more.

I looked at other albums such as foals album covers such as Foals Antidotes (left) however it seemed that album Art was very complicated and Artistic clearly done by a proffesional artist who had alot of time to spend on it which of that we do not have for our one so we decided that it would be much more simple to go with the less complicated front covers of our album cover in order to save time however still producing such as effective album cover.

The British Music Experience

Me and my group are planning to take a trip up to London to vist the BME, specifically to attend video director's master classes to gain a better understanding of video directing for our A2 music video.

The British Music Experience (or simply BME) is a permanent exhibition in the O2 arena in Greenwhich, it has been set up as a charitable trust and has been initially funded by £9.5m worth of investment from AEG
Major interactive exhibits which can be found in the museum include:

• Timelines
• Showcases
• Hey DJ!
• Where It's At
• Anatomy of a Pop Star