Six Stills

I have watched six music videos and chosen my favourite shots from them. The first music video I chose was Soul To Squeeze by the beloved Red Hot Chili Peppers. The shot I chose was of the lead singer, Anthony Kiedis, singing with a load of snakes on his head. I chose this shot because it's such an interesting shot. It's a mid-shot of Kiedis singing the first line of Soul To Squeeze but he just looks so relaxed even though he has a load of snakes slithering round his head.

Anthony Kiedis in the video for "Soul To Squeeze"

The next video I chose was "Headbutt" by The King Blues. The shot I chose was a close up of the lead singer, Johnny "Itch" Fox, standing on the rooftop of a building singing the song quite aggressively because they are an aggressive band. The camera is focused on Johnny Fox but he standing slightly on the right so you can see the rest of the band in the background. Fantastic song.

Johnny "Itch" Fox singing "Headbutt"

The third video I chose was completely different to the previous two. I chose "Express Yourself" by N.W.A for my third choice. The particular shot that I chose from this video is right at the beginning when the singing first comes in. At this point the members of N.W.A are bursting through a massive piece of paper and coming into the video. The reason I chose this video is because it's quite sudden and it's a really good piece of quick editing. The song is so Old Skool and should be loved by all.

N.W.A bursting through a wall of paper at the beginning of "Express Yourself" 

The fourth video I chose was another Red Hot Chili Peppers video. This time I chose the song "Can't Stop" from the "By The Way" album (Track 7). The reason I chose this particular shot was because the camera does something really interesting at the beginning during the introduction. Anthony Kiedis has his head at the end of a really long yellow tube/pipe. The camera follows the tube through and then it reaches Kiedis' head as it goes into the main guitar riff of the song. An RHCP Classic.

Anthony Kiedis at the beginning of "Can't Stop"

The fifth video I chose was another King Blues song. This time I chose "I Got Love" from the album "Save The World, Get The Girl". The shot is of the band playing in the middle of somewhere that looks perhaps like a London suburb. It shows mainly the lead singer, Johnny Fox, in the shot who also plays Ukulele in the band but also in the shot is the lead guitarist, Jamie Jazz, playing guitar. One of the best songs of the Save The World, get The Girl album.

Johnny Fox playing Ukulele and singing "I Got Love"

The final song I chose was Cascada - Because The Night (Originally by The Patti Smith Group). The shot I chose was a really high angle camera shot of the crowd at one of Cascada's concert. The light shines on the crowd and you can see just how far away the camera actually is from the crowd yet the frame is just filled with people from the crowd. I chose this shot because of the camera angle. 

The crowd at one of Cascada's concerts

Final Digipack and Start of Advertisement

I finished my Digipack today and started work on my poster to advertise the album. To do the back cover for the Album I downloaded a "Handwriting Font" so it looked as though it had been written by hand. I made it to look like a teamsheet.

This is the final version of my digipack

This is the first design for the poster

Digipack

I've added more to my digipack. The inside of the CD side is simply a football underneath the CD so when the customer takes the CD out they will see a football underneath. The main problem I encountered with this was getting the black background and filling the path.

As you can see on the far left is a picture of a football which will be hidden underneath the CD

Digipack Ideas

I have started work on the final copy of my Digipack. The front cover and inside left cover are done I just need to do the disc side and the back cover. On the front cover I had problems with sorting out the text such as getting a border for it and filling it in the right order. I worked over my problems and realised that it can be done by being on the rectangle tool and ctrl + click on the rectangle to fill or stroke it. I put borders round the edge of the front cover and round the inside left cover to make it stand out a bit more. I also downloaded 2 fonts from dafont.com to make the digipack look as though it's in a comic book style.

The first image on the right is the front cover and the second is the inside left cover. On the left there is two blank spaces for where the disc is going and the back cover.

Feedback

We had to give feedback to the other members of the class about the work we've been doing. I put up one of my pictures from the photo shoot and some of the feedback I got was that it was a good shot but the effect is a bit "Intense". Also someone wrote that the filter doesn't suit the genre.

This was the image that I got some feedback on

Digipack Idea

For another idea for the theme of my digipack I thought to have a Football Sunday League theme. On the front cover it would have the three band members (Nathaniel, Alex and Me) standing in a wall ready to block a free kick and someone running up to kick the ball.

On the back cover the idea was to have a team sheet that would be handwritten but instead of a list of names it would have a list of the songs on the album.

For the inside on the left I was thinking of having a photo of the inside of a changing room and three football shirts hanging up with the words "Little" "Man" "Tate" on the back of them in a row.

On the inside of the digipack on the right it would simply have a picture of some muddy football boots that aren't too fashionable but quite simple.

This video helped me too get some of these ideas:

This is the second idea i've had for the digipack. Bottom Left - Front Cover. Bottom Right - Back Cover. Top Left -  Inside Left. Top Right - Inside Right.

Digipack Ideas

I drew out an idea for the digipack for my Little Man Tate album and scanned them into photoshop. For ideas on what to do I used the research I had done and the moodboard to choose what styke to go with. For this first idea i'm goin with the mod look so it has a lot of Dark Blue and Red in it. My drawings are not very neat but then again it's only a draft :P

This is the Inside cover left (Top) and the inside cover right (Bottom) for the first idea of the album.

This is the front cover (Top) and the Back cover (Bottom) idea for the album.

Record Label Logo

We made a logo for a record label. Mine was for the britpop scene so it would sign britpop/indie bands. We had to make one version in colour and one monochrome version (Black and White).

This is the monochrome version.

This is the logo in colour.

Little Man Tate - This Must Be Love

Our song choice for our music video is "This Must Be Love" by Little Man Tate. We had to choose between this song, "We Were Aborted" by The Cribs and "Bide Your Time" by The Courteeners. It was a really tough decision but we chose to go with Little Man Tate because it seemed quite easy to make a video to. Also we looked at the Guitar and Bass tab and it looks quite easy so Nathan and Me are going to learn the Guitar and Bass part and Alex is going to play Drums so we can reenact the song.

Little Man Tate were a four piece from Sheffield who formed in 2005. They broke up in 2009. In March 2006 they were signed to V2 Records.

Little Man Tate 

Mood Board

We made a Britpop mood board which has pictures of some of the typical things to do with britpop and britpop culture. The pictures I used were taken from flickr. I downloaded the text from a website and filled in the O with the brush tool to make it look like the mod logo.

Photo Shoot

We had to bring in some props to take a photo shoot of what we would look like in a britpop band. I bought in a waistcoat, white shirt and some sunglasses. We took several photos and created a contact sheet.

These are our contact sheets showing the pictures that we took.

We had to choose one photo and edit it to make it look different.

This is the photo I edited.