Digipack planning amd ideas

For our artist Lewis Mokler, we will be creating a digipack and advert/poster to promote his music. I looked at the Acoustic Magazine website to get some ideas of what adverts look like to promote albums. I also looked at Classic Rock magazine, although there is a bigger range of rock genres, and not much on acoustic music.


On the main page of the website I managed to find an advert promoting an artist called Geoff Watson and his latest album 'The Hurricane Effect', shown below




The layout is quite bold and epic, relating to a 'Hurricane' theme.
There is also information on where the fan can get the album from, here it is available from iTunes or Napster and his website is shown at the bottom.


Possible ideas for digipack

- Picture of artist (Will Mannings)
- Artist leaning against a sign post (Where we filmed in Newport)
- facial close-up
- Pavilion
- Leaning against a brick wall
- Front of face on front cover and back of head on back cover
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Clothing for filming

Clothing for filming

Clothes to wear for filming in Cambridge

Male

* Jean trousers
* long sleeved top/polo
* baggy style clothes
* fleece/jumper
* converse/plimpsoles shoes
* accoustic guitar

Female

* Jean trousers
* grey/dark top
* cardigan
* scarf
* fluffy hat
* ugg boots
* small bag



Clothes to wear for filming in Thaxted

Male

* Jean trousers
* plain white t shirt
* scruffy hair
* socks, no shoes
* knitted fleece



Female

* leggins
* baggy long top/fleece
* bracelett
* socks

Copy of Genre on Prezi

Scouting For Girls mock music video

Above is our remake of 'This Ain't A Love Song' by Scouting For Girls

Audience Research results

These are the results of what we asked people

Practice shots

Mock digipack analysis

This is an audio recording of Luke and India (Unfortunaltley I was not there) analysing our digipak that we created as preparation towards our second year of Media A level, the task was to create our own digipak according to a genre we were given, we recieved Hip Hop/ R&B, for this we created an artist called BJB, and created the suitable Digipak. This recording plays our evaluation answering questions from the teacher and classmembers, also pointing out some good elements of the digipak. 

Ideal audience member

Max would be a snappy dressing popular kid within in group of friends, he most likely going to be around the age of 19 and would have just started at uni, we think he would be doing something quite cultural, he would be studying English. He will know pretty much everything that a normal teenager would, but would know more. He would be the type of person people would go to for the latest trends. He will dress in all the new trends, and will always be trying to keep up to date. This would make him the first to get things in his group of friends, which would make others be envious of him, and make him someone that people could copy. But at the same time, it would look like he didn't really take much notice of what he wore, which would give him the rugged look.

His knowledge of the music industry would be deep, and he would know all the bands that most other people wouldn't. So in this case he would know Lewis Mokler.

He would be going to small gigs with all small named artists and would make it a regular thing, making sure that he was up to date with everything, and he would play the new artists hes friends didn't know in his car to make him seem a little more educated that he is.

I dont think he and his family would have alot of money, so that is why he got into indie music as he cant afford to go to the big gigs, so he has to make do with the small local gigs.

Filming props

For our music video will we need:

Thaxted

. An acoustic guitar

. A Nintendo Wii

. Post-it notes

. Teabags

. Sugar

. 'Mario Cart'

. General kitchen area

. A jar of Nutella

. Sofa

Cambridge


. A guitar

. Mobile phone

. Shoes

. Post-it notes

. Shopping bags (maybe)

Similar artists - Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran is an English singer/songwriter. Ed began recording music in 2005 and his first EP was entitled 'The Orange Room'


Ed Sheeran has also released 2 albums, a self-titled album in 2006 and 'Want Some?' in 2007


His musical playing genres include acoustic, folk-rock, grime and hip-hop.


His website is Edsheeran.com

Filming Dates

Last week we decided that we will film our scene in Thaxted on the Friday 21 October
and our filming in Cambridge will take place in October half-term. Unfortunatley, Luke will be on holiday so me and India will do the filming.

Filming Locations

We are going to film the majority of our footage at the Grafton Centre in Cambridge (left), hopefully sometime next week or either on the weekend of the 15/16th October

We have been contacting Lewis Mokler to discuss further plans and we have contacted the Grafton Centre so that we can have permission to film there soon. We are also going to film some footage at a park and at a house

We will only film when we have free periods or after school. We could also film at a weekend.

Risk Assesment for filming in Cambridge and Thaxted

Risk Assesment for Cambridge:

When we film there will be some risks:

- Getting hassled when filming
- Since I have epilepsy, there is a chance that I may have a seizure, although hopefully this shouldn't happen
- Damaging or losing any cameras/props/guitar
- Getting lost, we will take a map or get a guide to Grafton Centre
- If we film during a school week, we will only film when we have free periods or media lessons


To prevent all these, we will have to work safely and look aft


Risk Assesment for Thaxted:

For one element within the music video we are filming a flashback in my house, in thaxted. In order to do this we need to make a risk assestment for our filming.

We need to make sure that when filming in the house we use all the equipment properly and sensibly, assuring that no breakage or damage is caused.

We will not miss any scheduled lessons at school to avoid truency; so we will warn teachers of our lack of presence at school during study periods.

When travelling to my house, we will travel all together if possible, if not we will preplan times and certain ways of travel.

When using any household items we will make sure we are all sensible, for instance the kettle to make sure nobody gets burnt or harmed. Similar to all items to be used we will preplan all usages.

As luke is allergic to cats, when filming we will make sure that all cats are not around, assuring that no allergic reaction can be induced.

As Dan has epilepsy we will make sure that there will be no flashing or bright lights and take all precautions to avoid triggering anything.

Black Sabbath 'Mob 'Rules' digipack analysis (oral)

Indie band image/presentation

Why lyrics are important in a song

Lyrics in a song express many things, for example - Love, violence, emotion, anger, trust, and friendship
Pop song lyrics may be romantic, sexual, or emotional
Heavy metal lyrics may have themes of Violence, fantasy, religion, politics, sexual, Satanic and war-related

Metallica - 'Ride The Lightning' lyrics
Guilty as charged
But damn it, it ain't right
There is someone else controlling me
Death in the air
Strapped in the electric chair
This can't be happening to me
Who made you God to say
"I'll take your life from you!"

Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flames

Wait for the sign
To flick the switch of death
It's the beginning of the end
Sweat, chilling cold
As I watch death unfold
Consciousness my only friend
My fingers grip with fear
What I am doing here?


Someone help me
Oh please God help me
They are trying to take it all away
I don't want to die
Time moving slowly
The minutes seem like hours
The final curtain call I see
How true is this?
Just get it over with
If this is true, just let it be
Wakened by the horrid scream
Freed from the frightening dream

Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flames

Similar artists to Lewis Mokler

One band we found that were quite similar to Lewis Mokler were Plain White Ts. We particular thought that their most well known song 'Hey There Delialah', contained simililar themes of what we want to include in our music video 'Nutella'

Plain White T’s are a pop-punk band formed in 1997 in Illinois, United States. They are best known for 'Hey There Delilah', an acoustic song performed solely by singer Tom Higgenson originally released in 2005 and later hit #1 in the US in 2007.

Lyrics and video link

Lyrics according to Goodwin
- Illustration: illustrates the meaning of lyrics and visualises the music

- Amplification: The mood the lyrics create

- Disjunction: Abstract and the music has no link to the video or lyrics

Filming Ideas

For our music video, we plan to film it in Cambridge

We also have several ideas of what to include in our video:

- Boy and girl character narrative
- Post-it notes
- Close up shots
- filmed in a bedroom
- playing acoustic guitar
- Isolated performance
- High angle shots

We also wrote down our ideas on an A3 piece of paper (above) and last week we wrote down some more ideas on a whiteboard in our classroom (left)

Synaesthesia

What is synaesthesia?
Syaesthesia is a rare neurological condition that leads stimulation in one sensory pathway to trigger an experience in another. Basically, a short-circuiting in the brain that enables such strange phenomena like perceiving letters and numbers as inherently colored (color-graphemic synesthesia) or hearing sounds in response to visual motion. More than 60 types of synesthesia have been identified, with one of the most common being the cross-sensory experience of color and sound — “hearing” color or “seeing” music.

Genre representation

"Genre is not simply given by the culture, rather, it is in a constant process of negotion and change" - David Buckingham

Indie music conventions
- authentic
- different
- theme of rejection
- challenge
- Different to mainstreem
- Stands out

Sub - genres example: Rock/metal

Rock

Classic rock - The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Status Quo, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Queen

Grundge - Nirvana, Soundgarden

Heavy/hard rock - AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, Scorpions, Van Halen

Glam rock - David Bowie, Elton John, T Rex, Queen

Prog rock - Genesis, Yes, king Crimson, Jethro Tull

Punk - The Sex Pistols, The Damned

AOR - Foreigner, Journey

Heavy metal

New Wave Of British Heavy Metal / NWOBHM - Iron Maiden, Saxon, Def Leppard, Motorhead, Diamond Head, Angel Witch

Speed/thrash metal - Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax

Power metal - Helloween, Dio, HammerFall, Iced Earth, Judas Priest

Black/extreme metal - Emperor, Dimmu Borgir, Mercyful Fate, King Diamond

Hair/pop metal - Whitesnake, Motley Crue, Skid Row, Ratt, Poison

Glam/shock - KISS, Alice Cooper, W.A.S.P

Industrial metal - Rob Zombie, Ministry, Rammestein

Rap metal - Korn, Slipknot, Limp Bizkit

Doom metal - Black Sabbath, Candlemass

Death metal - Napalm Death, Sepultura, Nuclear Assault

Grind-core - Carcass, Cannibal Corpse

Progressive heavy metal - Dream Theater, Queensryche

Pirate metal - Running Wild, Amon Amarth, Alestorm