I picked out a few digipacks from similar artists. I did this to see what sorts of things they add for example parental advisory, bar codes or a few lyrics also to get a few different ideas;
I picked this one because his music video is similar to our one because of the piano having lots of shots. I like this one because its of his face also it is placed slightly off to the right so you can only see half of his face. I like how they have him looking straight at the camera as this adds effects such as engaging the audience. Also i like the idea of having the background blurred but the artists in focus, this makes more attention on him.
I took this digipack for a few reasons. Firstly this is another example of having the artists in focus and everything else surrounding him out of focus, but this time it is because the background is moving.
I took this one for a few reasons also. I did this firstly because it is like pop art. It is Bruno Mars but they have changed him so it looks like he is not real and has been drawn. It is very amateur.
We were looking on www.unsigned.com for indie/acoustic music. I thought nick Gardner was the best one and Gemma emailed to get permission to use two of his songs which we got;
Nick Gardner- The way it sounds
We have found an artists called Nick Gardner who we all really like. His music is quite pop but a bit indie at the same time. I like how his music makes me feel it is very calming and relaxed. With this song i can imagine it to be outside with the artists on his own.
Nick Gardner- Out of the clouds
This is my favorite out of all of them. i have got a lot of ideas for this piece of music.
Jose Vanders- Faces going places
This song is completly different from the top two. It is very indie and also a woman artists. It could be placed at a train station and i can imagine it in black and white.
Lady Gaga is a pop artist who has created an illusion that she is very weird and strange. In her music videos from day one show her as a very unique and eccentric woman. She shows that she is powerful and not afraid to be herself. She is seen as quite an animated character as she is very made up by her costumes, hair, make up and accessories which makes her different from anyone else.
Costume
She has very strange, weird costumes. They are costumes that no one has ever seen before, very unique. This helps her to be noticed and talked about. When i did research on her concerts her set is amazing, it looks like she has spent a lot of time thinking and working on them to please her audience, this is a small aspect of why her fans love her. Although she wears weird clothes they are also quite short and sexy so her look makes the male population notice her.
Album covers
Here is an example of some of her album covers. There is quite a few album covers that are similar. The image that is given off in the one above is quite scary and powerful. The way her make up is done stands out first as it is very dark around her eyes and her lips are red compared to the black and white theme which gives off a sign of evil. Her expression is of her mouth open and eyes slightly closed makes her look quite evil too.
Album covers
Here is another example of her shown as a different sort of person. Her body language makes her seem very sexy by the way she has them up and pushing her breasts out. She also is hardly dressed in anything, in one she is covering her breats with her hands and in the other she is covered by newspaper cuttings. This shows her as a sex symbol, firstly the first picture because the red lips and the second because she is being carried by a man and also has red lipstick on. This shows that she is quite abnormal not a typical pop star like her music sounds. From her body language straight away shows she is confident and wants people to see her as a sex symbol. By the way she is looking at us with her mouth open and hands in her hair shows her to be a bit rebellious.
Eminem is a rapper from America. His music is all very the same, although he does do duets with other people of different genres but he always sticks to rap. Throughout his career he has always stayed how he has and not changed for new types of music. Eminem is usually represented as quite serious.
He is not over the top at all, he is very ordinary and does not stand out. His clothes are very normal like boys around his age which may be why people can relate to him more. It seems like his music is so important to him that he feels nothing else matters for example his image. The way he is wearing a tank top showing off his tattoos and his muscles represent him as someone who is a criminal. Eminem is a stereotypical hip hop artist by the way he looks and acts.
This is one of his album covers that i found. From first glance i can see that the whole of the picture is negative and serious. His dress code is very plain and he is wearing a vest top which can show off his muscles and tattoos. By showing his muscles and tattoos makes him come across as quite hard and tough. His body language shows he does not care much as he is slouched and looks scruffy. His facial expression is very dull but he is frowning slightly and his eyes are slightly closed this makes him seem not happy and maybe angry. It looks like he is sitting in a poor place and dangerous as there is blood running down the wall. This makes you think he is injured or he has injured someone else. He takes up most of the area and the background is very plain which draws attention to him.
Eminem's performances are very rare as he retired for a while. His sets are very plain usually with nothing on the stage with him except he has a man who sings with him. This suits his personality and music because if he had a lot of lighting and dances that would not relate to hi music and would not create the right atmosphere. He would always stay in the same casual clothes and would not dance.
Indie artists are all unique and individual in different ways but also follow the same trends sometimes. They do not follow the normal trends that are in magazines, topman etc they usually get unique bits that are vintage and also follow other trends and take bits from it for example farmer, chav.
Mumford & Sons
Mumford & Sons dress individual in a way of old fashioned, English country look. They wear a lot of tweed and look quite smart. They wear things such as waistcoats, ties, blazers, cardigans, shirts and braces. There colors are ranges of browns and creams mostly.
Elbow
Elbow are very different from Mumford & Sons as they wear black suits with white shirts with black tie. They are a bit different as one of them wears a black hat. They also wear there suits individually from each other.
The Fray
The fray are quite normal compared to a lot of Indie bands. They wear jeans a lot and dark colors. Also there hair is quite short and tidy.
The kooks
The kooks are very unique. They go for extremes as in skinny jeans, bis and messy hair etc. They all dress differently from each other and do not match at all.
Florence and the machine
Florence and the machine does not have a particular dress code as each time you see her she is wearing something completely different as she does not follow a particular trend.
Mumford & Sons are a British folk band. The instruments in the band are guitar, drums, mandolin, keyboard, accordion, banjo, Dobro, string bass. The band exists of Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, Winston Marshall and Ted Dwane.
Little Lion Man
In this video it starts with an empty stage and having two basic lights hanging from the ceiling. This looks quite effective as it looks a bit deserted and a bit scary also we have a stage at school so could do something similar. Then they use a zoom out and a cross cut to a zoom in on a guitar with him playing it. Afterwards they have a lighting that makes him shadowed but everything else bright. The main focuses of this video is there raw talent and the music as the video is very basic.
The color scheme they have chosen to use is a sort of sepia effect which makes it look quite old which also goes along with there clothing which is quite old fashioned. I like how it is very plain in the background because that focuses your attention on them and kind of makes them seem more down to earth as they are not being extravagant.
As the video plays more lights appear t, this is a very basic effect but works very well as it shadows certain parts well. There are a lot of close ups on the instruments and the hands playing on them.
There are a mixture of cutting rates they are sometimes quick but randomly have long ones.
