Friday, 27 January 2012

Audience feedback

Audience feedback
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This is our audience feedback tallied up into charts. We also wrote some of the comments we were given.

Daniella, Olivia, Charlotte 

Friday, 20 January 2012

Album Panels



Aimee - Album Panel

This is one of my album panels I created. From the music video I included the brick background  into my print work so theme is still carrying on from the music video. Also I included the heart as the background but faded so you are able to read the lyrics and also to fit the brand image. I made the background and the artist to have this washed out effect so the lyric are more clear to read and so it stands out better. I used a medium shot for my artist because this photo shows that he's confident and expresses his body language to his audience. Also the medium shot shows most of his body and look in proportion with the lyrics that side and length on the album panel. I used a different font for my lyrics because it is not presented artist's brand image but it needs to be clear to read by the people who buy the album, so that is why I picked this type of font. 
Aimee.

Danielle, Olivia and Charlotte: Album Front Cover

Dannielle, Olivia.

Advertisement- Poster - Aimee


In this advertisement poster I used the album cover in the corner so it shows what the album cover looks like and it could be seen as a taster of what the audience is getting from their new artist. I still kept the pink colour scheme through the advertisement because it involves the pink scheme through the video as well, so it should run through the rest of the print work. I used the same font from my album cover because as a brand image, you usually intend to use the same font as part of your trade mark for the artist; for example like Tinie Tempah. I used the heart from my music video to create the trade mark and keep the brand image through the print work. It gives the artist more of softer tone in the Grime music genre; because not all Grime artists follow  the rules, they intend to look different from their competition in the same music genre and this is what I have done with my artist by making look like he has a feminine side and at the same time a very cool slick character, which he presents that in his music video. From the album cover I still used the pink stripes and presented them for the back ground which still keeps the brand image for my artist. In this print work, I had to make it look different from its album cover by not making it look the same and also it has to grab the audiences attention because this is the advertisement poster for the music video. To make the poster different I made the artist black and white and it stood out more on the bright background therefore this would catch the audience's eye immediately. I used a medium to close up shot so the audience is not distant from that connection between the artist and audience. 

Aimee.

Album Front Cover


In the album cover, we took shots naturally instead of using a studio where the lighting would be better however we prefer these shots due to the misty hazed lighting where it hits Morgan's face. It makes our picture look more vintage and it blends well into the background. Since we didnt use a studio, we used a drama studio instead and the lighting was hazed and we used a black curtain for our back drop. We didnt want to make the atmosphere bright because most Grime artists like dark settings which make the artist look slick and cool and thats what we wanted in our brand image for our artist. In the video I involved the colour pink into and that colour should be presented into its album covers and other print work, so it fits its own brand image. I wanted to use pink however I did not want to use the bright neon pink in this picture because the picture looks fine as it is and does not need to be editing or photoshop, so in the end I used a transparent pink and placed it over the picture. This editing fitted the album cover well because its not in your face when you see the album cover, it looks cool and relaxed. In our photo we got Morgan to look straight into the camera and this indicates eye contact between his audience and himself which gives that connection between them. We took a close up shot of him because in our research of album covers, long distance shots makes the artist distant from its audience like Dizzee Rascal. This shot makes him look confident and relaxed at the same time because you can see his body language and facial expressions which hopefully this should of applied to our Grime genre and its brand image. For our font we used big bold american football style letters because if we dont want the album to be 'too in your face' then the name of the artist should grab your attention instead. I think it does and it blends well into the effects of the album cover where the stripes meet as one. We didn't put a title because if its his first album then, the album should be about him as an artist and making his trade mark in the music industry. And also the title comes into another sort of print work which is the advertisement poster.