Poster Research;

After researching some posters, a lot of pop artists tend to use the same photo from the album cover, and sometimes the same design, and just add a bit of extra detail, about the album etc. I looked at Jessie J's and Rihannas, and they use the same colours which have been used on the albums, this is to help buyers Identity to albums, and they have both used eye catching colours, which will attract people.

Jessie J has used the exact picture and layout on her album poster, as she has on the cover and her album. She has also used the same font, and colour the writing in the black box. Rihanna has also used the same idea, but faded the black so it looks like its gradually turned into black from the picture. Although Rihannas is a tour poster, the colours and font are the same, this shows its a tour for her new album. Both posters are very simple, and bold, and i've tried to fit that in with my poster. 

I have used the same photo from my album for my tour poster. This will help people recognise my album, and also identify the artist better. I've used the same font and same colours as the album cover, i've just positioned the writing differently, and made her look brighter to stand out better. 

Digipak Research;

After looking at different pop artist's CD covers, I've noticed that they're very simple with bold colours to make it stand out. Some of Rihannas and Katy Perrys are taken with a scenery shot which links in with their videos, they mainly have close up shots of just their faces, making them look "perfect", bright and bold to sell to their target audience, and also attracting the male population. They have also used the same photos, or photos in the same outfit for album/cd posters. This is to help recognise CD covers and also the artist. 

The digipak on the left, I change the opacity on the main picture, and also on the writing, to give it more of a fine and softer look. However the digipak on the right, i've made the photo brighter and also the writing brighter, to make it stand out more, and I also think it looks more professional. 

As we were originally going to use "Way in The world" as the album name, we realised that it was too long, and no other pop artist uses a song from their album as the albums name. I typed in keywords for Nina Nesbitt into google, and the word "Keys" came up, which both me and Sophie liked, and felt it fitted well with our genre. 

Both these album covers inspired me, and helped give me ideas for my own album cover. I noticed that most pop artist, have only the face, or shoulders upwards on the cover, with the writing at the bottom of the page. Rihanna's album theme is red, and if you look at her album 'LOUD' she's used the pinky/red colour throughout, using the white writing to contrast well. This will make her stand out, and its also a bold and eye catching colour. As for Jessie J, she's used black at her theme colour, using gold to contrast with it. They cover has been thought about well, as her Nails, lips, hair, colour and eyes are all black, with the 'Jessie J' in gold at the bottom, making this album cover bold and eye catching. 

This is Jessie J's back cover to her album "Who You Are". I really liked how simple and plain it was, and how well the writing stood out. I've also taken the idea of using the colour from "Keys" and used it on the back cover of my album, like Jessie J has. This writing is clear, and well spaced out. 

For the inside of my digipak i've done a little booklet, which both and Sophie did together. I made the two inside panels plain, and used a good bright colour on the front of the booklet, so it would contrast well against the navy panels. For the inside of the book, I thought that we could use photos where our artist Izzy isn't looking the camera, and make the opacity low, so it looks almost transparent. We've done the lyrics to each song on the album, making it more suitable for our target audience. 

CD cover analysis

Initial thoughts on first photo shoot

From looking at the first photo shoot I did with Izzy I am already spotted some points I want to change to improve the photos.

*Firstly the lighting is not light enough. Instead of doing photos in one of the settings for the music video I will take some pictures in front of the white screen. This will mean I will have use of the professional lighting equipment resulting in my pictures being lighter and better quality therefore looking more professional. I will use the white screen in AVS room and have two lights, one left of her and one right of her.

* I will do more close up shots of Izzy. Instead of having her full body in the image and her guitar as I feel this is unnecessary for the digipak images. In most CD artwork there is rarely a picture of a full body shot of the artist. In the next photo shoot I will choose do more close up  posed expressions and some more relaxed poses such as natural smiles or some 'silly' faces. This means I will have more images to choose from and can fill up my 6 panel digipak with a variety of images.


 
This is an image of Nina Nesbitt. This is the type of look/image I am trying to recreate for my digipak. I will dress Izzy in a bold coloured top and then try and find a matching lipstick colour to go with it. The plain white background gives this image a professional look and makes the colours of her makeup and clothing stand out more.  The hairstyle is big and has volume. I can learn to recreate this look by watching this Youtube tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQTT7h83uU0 The expression is quite posy however quite simple. I feel these type of images will make my digipak look more professional than the ones I have just taken in my first photo shoot.

Cd Cover Analysis

Band Website

http://www.gabrielleaplin.co.uk/

The homepage layout is displayed clearly for easy access to all of the other features of the site. The tabs at the top are written in bold, making them stand out on the hope page of the site. Near the top of the page next to her name is several social media networking icons including Facebook, twitter and Tumblr. There is her latest music video on the main page which is there to promote her music and show her fans her music. 

This allows fans and other people to speak with Gabrielle through social networking sites which most of her target audience are likely to have. On the add you can see what Gabrielle has been up to and find out other information which comes directly from her, herself. 

The add is on the side of the main page, its a link to buy her album, making it easier for fans to buy, and promote hers album more by showing viewers on the website that she has an album. 

This photo gallery gives fans an insight to what gabrielle has been up too. Also allows people to see photo shoots which she has done, photos from gigs and music videos. 

Band Websites;

http://www.ninanesbittmusic.com/

Nina Nesbitt's homepage is set up so theres access to different things on the website, for example, social media networking icons, twitter, Facebook, blogger and youtube. 

Her tour dates are in white on a black background, allowing them to stand out, so them being the first thing you see when you look on the page. 

There are several different tabs on the top of the page where you're able to explore the website, finding out information of Nina Nesbitt, looking at photos, live music and shopping for merchandise. 

There are oppertunities for you to win concert tickets for one of Nina's gigs in London. As the add for the competition is on the main page it allows more people to see it, its also published well with bright colours, and having 'Win' and 'Nina Nesbitt' in bold and capital letters.

By having social media network icons near the bottom of the page it implies that Nina has all of these social media network sites and uses them regularly. This shows that Nina fits in with the social group of 'Tumblr Kids' as they use these apps regularly. 

Here are a couple of Nina's tour dates. The icons of the right are linking to the several different media networking sites which Nina uses. 

It also allows you to comment, see the prices, videos, and meet other fans. This is a good social thing which is set up by Nina's record labels, and by allowing fans to comment and meet other fans, it makes Nina look good on her behalf, socialising with fans. 

Similar Videos;

To help us re-create our video, we have taken ideas from Panic Cord - Gabrielle Aplin and Dumb by Tich.

 

Both of us really liked the songs and videos. Also they are similar to our artist Nina, in the style of music and style of videos.

Representations

Throughout the music video, we're trying to potray Izzy to the audience as a sweet girl who is trying get away from her retail store job (the sweet shop) and live her dream, which is to become a singer/songwriter.
We are going to show this to the audience as we're using the idea of a 'memory box' and her having a book which Poppy (izzy) is going to write lyrics in. You'll see shots on her working in the sweet shop, looking bored, or doing something wrong and constantly listening to music. Other shots of her writing lyrics and then shots of her singing with her guitar.
To show to our target audience that she is a sweet girl, we're going to dress her in a denuim dress, giving her a cute look, and doing her hair and make up pretty, but not over the top. We also want give off the homely/girl next door look, which dressing her in dresses and shirts will give her that style of look, like Nina.
You will be able to tell through her facial expressions that she is bored of her normal shop, and she loves singing. This will be shown through close up shots of her in the shop and her singing.

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Influenced Artists and Fashion

Ellie Goulding's style of music is Indie/pop genre. A lot of her music videos are similar to Nina Nesbitt's, as they don't have any choreographed dances in it, Ellie Goulding is dressed in clothes from places like Urban Outfitters and the videos are simple and easy, not too much going on. Ellie Goulding is an artist which will influence some of our work as we'll take some ideas from her music videos and put them into our own. 

Both Nina Nesbitt and Ellie Goulding are looks which would be achievable if you were to go shopping and go back with their style of clothing etc. Both of these artist will influence our own artist, as we'll hopefully find someone who is similar to Nina Nesbitt. For big artists like Rihanna and Jessie J, you wouldn't be able to achieve their looks without it taking a while. Also people like Lady Gaga who have their clothes and outfits made for them, something like that would be impossible to achieve. Nina Nesbitt style is very homely look, so shops like Urban Outfitters and Topshop where you'd find her clothes would be from.

Abercrombie and Fitch and Jack Wills clothing give off that homely look as they're not your typical "River Island" kind of stores.
We may want to dress our Artist/s in clothes from these particular stores, because we want to give off that homely feel. 

Hair product adverts may influence our artist, as they may use the products which are being shown on the adverts, e.g. the vo5 advert creating smooth and silky hair.

Artist Examples;

Nina Nesbitt;

Group Of Friends;

Izzy Skevington

Molly Baxter and Jess Greenfield

Alice Watkins

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Song Ideas;

Stay Out - Nina Nesbitt

Song ideas

 

Nina Nesbitt - Stay Out

 

                                                            Laura Welsh - Cold Front

 

 

Eliza Dootlittle - Big When I Was Little

 

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Choreographer 

The choreographers job in a music video is to add movement or choreography to the individual artist or the background dancers. They work along side the director, this is important as they need to bring to life the concept of the music video that the director has in mind. They mainly focus on the angles, shapes and silhouette of artists as this brings out the general message and feel of the song. The choreography is also a way to bring out the expressions as that helps the audience have a better understanding of the song. 

Commissioner 

The commissioners job is to be the matchmaker between the director and the creative and then between the artist and the label. They have a skill in photography because the job involves a lot of practical photography. They work with the designs of the music video and the layout. 

Director 

The directors job is similar to an artist. They have to have a clear vision or a clear idea on what they want the music video to be like. They have to be create and to be open to experiment different things  if some ideas don't work with the artist. Sometimes they get a stimulus from the band or artist and then work on that to get ideas for the music video or sometimes they try something completely original. They have to do things fast as they are given short time spans to get the video done so organisation is key. 

Director of Photography 

The director of photographys job is to head up camera and is in charge of the lightening. They share their ideas with the director and collaberate with what ideas can be done. They also need to discuss with the director what they want so they know what cameras to use, what lenses to use and how to light up the artist. After knowing what the director wants they can now make up a lightening plan for the whole music video. 

Editor

The editors job comes in directly after the video has been shot. They firstly get hold of every single shot and all the footage that has been filmed and start to cut it down. It is very useful for the director to have an editor because it is a fresh new pair of eyes looking at the footage as they were not present when it was being shot. It is very important to have a second opinion as it could potentially lead to new ideas of how to piece the footage together to make it work. If the video is a performance video it is their job to make the artist look as great as possible at all times. If it is a narrative video it is their job to get the story through to the audience as clear and as professional as possible. It is important for them to be creative and musical. 

Make up and costume designer 

The make up and costume designer work with the director and the art director to make their visions a reality. They start by doing sketches of possible outfits and different hairstyles whilst the director is discussing what they want. They generally work to a brief from both the director and the art director. They need to be observant and always having to adapt costumes if they don't look right on camera or it doesn't fit the artist right etc. When doing different videos they will be on different budgets so money management is key when buying and sourcing all the costumes and different types of make up. 

Producer 

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The producer runs the production from the very start of the video to the very end when it gets released. They work with all people from every aspect of the music video. They facilitate with every single one of the directors ideas if this cant be done they think of what could be done instead. They are in charge of the schedule and the budget and booking the crew, cast and locations that are used. They have to be a very organised person as they have to prepare every idea that the director has for the video.