Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Famous Album art analysis
Here are some of the most iconic album covers and the reason why they are so special.
Pink Floyd-Dark side of the Moon
The design is supposed to represent three elements which are the band's stage lighting, the lyrics of the album and Richard Wright's request for a 'simple and bold' design. Even at first glance the album cover is striking with its black background and bold prism.
The prism has six colours, missing indigo, this is quite interesting as one of the album's alternative name is 'the dark side of the album.' The missing colour could also symbolise the missing member of the original band Syd Barrett who Walters writes about in some of the songs in the album e.g. 'Brain Damage.'
The Doors-Strange Days
Second album and an artistic triumph. Unlike all their other covers, the band is not on there as the leader singer Jim Morrison refused to appear on the cover of the album; instead there is a picture of street performers - availability of such photos were low.
The band were looking for something different than what American bands at the time were doing, so this in many ways was perfect.
Jim apparently had even said to a reporter : “I hated the cover of our first album. So for Strange Days, I said: ‘I don’t want to be on this cover. Put a chick on it or something.’”
The Clash-London Calling
U2-War
U2's third studio album, released on the 28th of February 1983.
Pink Floyd-Dark side of the Moon
The design is supposed to represent three elements which are the band's stage lighting, the lyrics of the album and Richard Wright's request for a 'simple and bold' design. Even at first glance the album cover is striking with its black background and bold prism.
The prism has six colours, missing indigo, this is quite interesting as one of the album's alternative name is 'the dark side of the album.' The missing colour could also symbolise the missing member of the original band Syd Barrett who Walters writes about in some of the songs in the album e.g. 'Brain Damage.'
The Doors-Strange Days
Second album and an artistic triumph. Unlike all their other covers, the band is not on there as the leader singer Jim Morrison refused to appear on the cover of the album; instead there is a picture of street performers - availability of such photos were low.
The band were looking for something different than what American bands at the time were doing, so this in many ways was perfect.
Jim apparently had even said to a reporter : “I hated the cover of our first album. So for Strange Days, I said: ‘I don’t want to be on this cover. Put a chick on it or something.’”
The Clash-London Calling
The album artwork is of the lead singer smashing his guitar at The Palladuim in New York 1979, the artwork itself is a homage to Elvis Presley's album in 1956, which was rated the ninth best album cover of all time by Q magazine in 2001.
U2-War
The boy on the cover of the album is also on three other album covers including their debut album, 'Three,' and 'The best of 1980-1990.'
Bono described the decision of putting the boy on the cover: "Instead of putting tanks and guns on the cover, we've put a child's face. War can also be a mental thing, an emotional thing between loves. It doesn't have to be a physical thing."
Sources used: wikipedia.com
Monday, 5 November 2012
Rough outline of Initial Ideas
Here are our brief ideas for the coursework so far; which we came up with today; at the end of the week these will be much detailed and hopefully soon we will start to film.
Vox Pops
Before we do our actual target audience research we did a test run of a 'vox pop' to see how long the filming process would take and what editing would be needed.
The next time I plan to include captions identifying each speaker including their age and occupation; which I forgot to do this time.
Here is the trial vox pop:
The next time I plan to include captions identifying each speaker including their age and occupation; which I forgot to do this time.
Here is the trial vox pop:
Saturday, 3 November 2012
Detailed Research into our Artist
Charly Houston like most unsigned artists is on myspace and an unsigned website; but she also has also joined soundcloud and facebook. Soundcloud is a website where you can upload your demos online for others to listen to and also download (optional), this helps to reach out to your audience and other music lovers.
She also has her own Facebook page which she started in 2011 it features information about what gigs she is doing, ticket information, a band page where you can listen to music and view photos. This helps to interact with her fans and post the latest in 'the world of Charly.' Social media such as Twitter and Facebook is widely used and can be used effectively as a (viral) marketing tool as fans can tweet and share material with friends - and of course 'word by mouth' is the most effective tool there is!
"As professional as she is talented, Charly Houston undoubtedly has a very bright future ahead of her. I still can't quite believe she's only 15. Her voice has a rich, soulful, husky quality that singer-songwriters twice her age can only envy."
- Duncan Ross (Director, Klocwork)
A positive review can have positive effects and lure in interest from other music fans out there and possibly scouts looking for new, fresh talent.
She also has her own Facebook page which she started in 2011 it features information about what gigs she is doing, ticket information, a band page where you can listen to music and view photos. This helps to interact with her fans and post the latest in 'the world of Charly.' Social media such as Twitter and Facebook is widely used and can be used effectively as a (viral) marketing tool as fans can tweet and share material with friends - and of course 'word by mouth' is the most effective tool there is!
Charly has also recieved positive reviews such as the one below:
- Duncan Ross (Director, Klocwork)
A positive review can have positive effects and lure in interest from other music fans out there and possibly scouts looking for new, fresh talent.
Friday, 2 November 2012
Artist Perfomance
This video is of Charly Houston performing Paper People live at her first headlining gig in March 2011.
Charly seems confident during this performance and likeable with the audience as she makes them feel comfortable joking with them before her performance. She has a natural stage presence as we the audience are drawn in when she performs and she makes her audience seem at ease/chilled as she performs which demonstrates good body language.
The performance itself has an intensity to it as Charly gets into the emotion of the song which shows in her voice and her facial expressions. The lyrics themself are sombre however when put together with Charly's husky tone and guitar chords have a playful quality.
She writes and performs with a maturity which makes you believe she is an artist and has been doing this for a while, it also makes her performance convincing as we believe every lyric.
Looking at this performance helps to visualise how the song should be performed, so when it comes to shooting our music video mimacing how the artist performs will be vital to keep the same tone and emotion of the song.
Charly seems confident during this performance and likeable with the audience as she makes them feel comfortable joking with them before her performance. She has a natural stage presence as we the audience are drawn in when she performs and she makes her audience seem at ease/chilled as she performs which demonstrates good body language.
The performance itself has an intensity to it as Charly gets into the emotion of the song which shows in her voice and her facial expressions. The lyrics themself are sombre however when put together with Charly's husky tone and guitar chords have a playful quality.
She writes and performs with a maturity which makes you believe she is an artist and has been doing this for a while, it also makes her performance convincing as we believe every lyric.
Looking at this performance helps to visualise how the song should be performed, so when it comes to shooting our music video mimacing how the artist performs will be vital to keep the same tone and emotion of the song.
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