Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Thursday, 12 November 2009
CD DIGIPAK DESIGN PLAN
RED AND PINK FONT
For my first two plans i used pink and black font with no background colour. The reasons for not having a background colour was because i thought it may draw more attention to the artist. from the drawing i can see that this digipak design looks to plain as it does not come across as appealing and eye catching to the audience. The name of our album is called Euphoria which means happy, so using a bright colour such as pink emphases this mood of having a happy ora.
Purple background
Blue background.
From desinging different Digi-pak designs we were hoping to discover what Digi-pak attracted the most attention. We used these designs when asking people which Digi-pak they preffered and why they liked it. From asking individuals we found the most common Digi-pak design people like was the blue design simply because it was a brighter colour than the others and resulted in being more eye-catching. Eye-catchy designs are recommended when trying to sell your product to ensure your product draws and attracts attention from the targeted audience.
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
CD Album Research
Digipak Research and Planing.
Image analysis:
Artist: The genre of this type of music would be RnB therefore the pose of this artist displayed in this image, portrays a common connotation of this genre. This is seen from the characteristics of this image and the association it has with the RnB genre. For example. Christina Aguilera has a very defined feminine pose and her body being quite revealing, this type of image would sale a RnB album, based on the appreciation and appeal is has with its target audience.
Costume: The album name has been cleverly created to correspond with the costume of the artist. The album name is called "stripped" and the image of Christina Aguilera is "Stripped" of clothing on her upper half, as well as there being stripes on her trousers and her hair being streaked. This makes the album name easily recognisable and the target audience would be more likely to remember this album name based on the artists image.
The artist being positioned in the centre of the album cover creates greater attraction towards the artist, this is also a way of the artist selling the album as the album cover would be more appealing towards the target audience.
Magazine designs for my advert
The title of the album will be at the top of the page so it will be noticeable and the audience will recognise the album name immediately. This is the format we wish to follow as it will capture audience attention. The "Out Now" date will be in bold to aware the customers when the album is on sale; this is an important marketing technique as it will increase chances of sales. The advert will also offer an e-mail address where the audience can find more information on which outlets the album will be sold, this makes the buying of the album more convenient for the audience. The audience will therefore be more willing to go and buy the album from the outlets stated. The image as seen above will be in the middle of the advert to capture audience attention; the artist will be in this image, as the artist’s picture will sell the album.
Down below we have shown different styles and formats of posters, we designed these styles to get feedback from the audience. The feedback will be able to help in making the decision on what style and format we should use for our final music advert. The advert which captures more attention and appeals more to our target audience will be used as it will result in being more successful and will increase chances of high sales.
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Dance Your Cares Away- Lyrics
Keep you bubbling every day and every night
We don't wanna see you argue, fuss and fight
All we wanna do is dance and feel the vibe
Make you feel nice
Verse 1
DJ take back this track hit them again the reaction is phat
Hit them again are you feeling that?
Music is life it's a natural fact
The people with the power they make you feel poor
I wanna see the people on the dancefloor
So here I come again with a lyric hardcore I know I'm still raw
but finding rhythms dead line is law
Taste entertainment you know you want more
With the vibing galore upon the dance floor
The people go mad they make you explore
Different ways to reach an applause
This goes out for a worthy cause
Just move-a-ya body That's what it is for
Just move-a-ya body the crowds wanting more
Chorus:
You can't take us away from the music
Tantalising you can't refuse it
Beats b-line move your body don't ya lose it
Dance 'till the morning comes
Verse 2:
It's the weekend no time for sleeping
We got ya body roking, move to the track best believing
Seeing is believing as I'm riding on this track
Mis-teeq got the city pon lock
Sit down pon the riddem cos we know how fi rock
Gridlock, roadblock, the show never stops
As we take it back just for you my friend
Rewind fi all the gyal dem
Bridge:
Sometimes just gotta escape
Stay dreaming when you wake
No matter come what may
Turn the music up and dance you cares away
Chorus
Keep you bubbling every day and every night
We don't wanna see yu argue fuss and fight
All we wanna do is dance and feel the vibe
Make you feel nice
Bridge
Chorus
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
Media Storyboard
At the start of this animatic we used slow cuts to emphasise the negative mood of the characters which then changes during the animatic as the cutting between shots speeds ups. The cutting between shots changes and becomes faster as the characters try to escape from their problems and issues by dancing.
After designing this animatic we decided we will use more close-ups in our final product of the music video compared to the animatic, as we want the characters emotions to appear more obvious to audience. This would be to ensure the desired meaning of our music video is easily identified by our audience which willl help to make the meaning of our music video clearer.
Media Script For Dance Your Cares Away
Media Script for music video Dance Your Cares Away.
Music video begins with the female characters in their bed, the alarm goes off and they get ready to go to school. They will be showing the unwillingness to go to school by the close up of their facial expressions showing them to being unhappy.
The characters will be shown slowly getting ready contradicting the fast paste beat of the song to emphasise their unhappiness.
They are shown to leave their house feeling stressed and unhappy. The cuts switch between the different characters.
One character is shown dancing to relieve stress on her way to school, as she her main issue is being unhappy with her social life at school, this is a long shot to show the happiness she feels when dancing.
Another character is shown holding a picture of an "x" friend which she then rips up; this is used to show she is upset with her friend.
The final character is shown in the toilets eating her lunch, this is to show she is unable to socialise with other people in her school, so she results in isolating her self -close up are used to show her crying and being over emotional (the common stereotypes of females).
Eventually they are all shown dancing as a way of relieving all their stress and problems they are suffering.
Another character is shown demolishing her room as a way of releasing her anger.
All throughout the different scenes, we will have a motif of the words "Dance your cares away" to show the meaning of the video. Dance your cares away to relieve your stress and escape from your troubles.