Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Digi Pack Photos
I have just had a succesful photo shoot for the front cover photo for my digi pack. I chose to drop green food colouring into a glass bowl of water and some of the photos turned out really well. I did have to attempt the photos more than a few times and re-fill the bowl with fresh water if the colouring was too much. I tried to use blackcurrant as i deep red colouring as I couldn't acces any red food colouring but the blackcurrent wasn't thick enough and flow in the water as well. I also tried tomato ketchup which just sank, and coffee which made the water look dirty. So overall the green food colouring worked the best. Photos will be uploaded asap.
Digipack Evaluation
Artist & Album - MGMT
Genre - Indie pop
The exterior of MGMTs digi pack is colourful, tribal and exotic. It shows them on a beach most probably an exotic one. Their clothes and make up are focused around tribes, reflecting that they have an animalistic, fun, risky, tribal side.
The vibrant front cover is very contrasting when put next to the interior cover as it is set in black and white. The image shows MGMT topless with scratches on them, burning money. This enhances the views and opinions made from the front cover; that they are risky, rebellious, and fun.
Genre - Indie pop
The exterior of MGMTs digi pack is colourful, tribal and exotic. It shows them on a beach most probably an exotic one. Their clothes and make up are focused around tribes, reflecting that they have an animalistic, fun, risky, tribal side.
The vibrant front cover is very contrasting when put next to the interior cover as it is set in black and white. The image shows MGMT topless with scratches on them, burning money. This enhances the views and opinions made from the front cover; that they are risky, rebellious, and fun.
Digipack Evaluation
Artist & Album - Damien Rice, O
Genre - Soft folk/easy listening
Looking at the front and back of the "O" digi pack the simplicity really stands our for me. The (what looks like) children's drawings stand out as raw and simple yet striking. Almost like its not just reflecting the simplicity and beauty of Damiens music but also the simplicity of a childs mind. I think the size of the drawings show how we are all just little fish in a huge pond.
The interior of the digi pack creates more of an impact than the front and back in my opinion. It just looks so raw, bare and stripped back, again showing the rawness of Damiens music.
After looking at the simplicity of this digi pack I feel as though the simplicity really is beautiful and striking. So I am going to take note of how the simplicity has an effect for when I create my digi pack.
Genre - Soft folk/easy listening
Looking at the front and back of the "O" digi pack the simplicity really stands our for me. The (what looks like) children's drawings stand out as raw and simple yet striking. Almost like its not just reflecting the simplicity and beauty of Damiens music but also the simplicity of a childs mind. I think the size of the drawings show how we are all just little fish in a huge pond.
The interior of the digi pack creates more of an impact than the front and back in my opinion. It just looks so raw, bare and stripped back, again showing the rawness of Damiens music.
After looking at the simplicity of this digi pack I feel as though the simplicity really is beautiful and striking. So I am going to take note of how the simplicity has an effect for when I create my digi pack.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Things to Do
Research how things are put across through images and text in digi packs
Same as above but my genre of music
Same as above but my genre of music
Track Listings
Summer Thor
2 CD Deluxe Edition
Disc 1
1. Blinding
2. Cloud Walking
3. All I Need
4. Heavy Feet
5. Tree House
6. Hiding from the Dark
7. Slowly but Surely
8. Four Poster Bed
9. Crumbling
10. Kick in the Teeth
Disc 2
1. Landslide (Demo)
2. Blinding (Acoustic)
3. Heartfelt Lies
4. Crumbling (Acoustic)
5. Cloud Walking (Live)
6. Shivers
2 CD Deluxe Edition
Disc 1
1. Blinding
2. Cloud Walking
3. All I Need
4. Heavy Feet
5. Tree House
6. Hiding from the Dark
7. Slowly but Surely
8. Four Poster Bed
9. Crumbling
10. Kick in the Teeth
Disc 2
1. Landslide (Demo)
2. Blinding (Acoustic)
3. Heartfelt Lies
4. Crumbling (Acoustic)
5. Cloud Walking (Live)
6. Shivers
Researching Track Names
I have been looking at similar artists to 'Summer Thor' which I have based on Florence Welch and noticed that the majority of their track names are pretty self explanatory. Before researching I imagined kooky artists to have very random song titles. Although they may sound random they are linked with the song if not an actual lyrics from the song. For instance; Florence and the Machine - Lungs album there is a track named 'Hurricane Drunk' which to someone who hasn't heard the song may sound random and you may wonder, what could that song be about? But to someone that has heard the song you know that throughout the song she is talking about being whisked up into a hurricane of emotions and drinking herself into a state of carelessness.
So when creating my song titles I am going to try and make them seem relevant to the brand identity.
So when creating my song titles I am going to try and make them seem relevant to the brand identity.
Uploading Video Footage
On mondays lesson I planned to upload my video footage but one of my cameras battery had died so I was unable to upload the footage. Although the camera with a few minutes of footage on was working so I uploaded this onto the computer and looked at what I'd filmed. Initially I was very disappointed with what I saw although it was only a very small snippet of what I had filmed in the day. I felt the camera shots weren't steady, the lighting wasn't very good and the overall shots didn't look as good as I imagined. I am hoping that when I watch the rest of my footage back from the other camera I wont be so disappointed.
I am currently leaving the camera to charge and looking at digi packs and how I might create mine.
I am currently leaving the camera to charge and looking at digi packs and how I might create mine.
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