1) The track that we decided to use is Ne-yo, Jamie Foxx feat Fabolous – She Got Her Ownd
2) The members will be Deo and TJ
3) Camera - on the camera work me and TJ will be changing places on who is going to do the camera work, we both will have single shoot of ourselves, if it comes to conclusion that both me and him will be in the shoot we will recruit another member of the team.
4) The video’s had inspired me and TJ is the work of Hype Williams, the way he make music video so simple but it’s very eye catching to audience’s eyes.
5) We will be filming the music video in the TV Studio.
6) We will start filming on 26th Jun.
Denotation:
Model – they used one of the famous band to use for there cover because this show’s that they are updated and to show’s that they are somehow connected to the band making people who are fan of the band to buy their magazine.
Lightning – the magazine has that kind gradient effect on the background, giving a front lighting to make the band more appealing in the magazine cover. This show’s that the lightning is planned and done by a professional showing that The Source is also one of the music industry that wants to go to the top of the list.
Photography – the way the photo been taken is almost like one of the police conviction photo’s, because the photo is taken by the middle body. This show’s that this is one of the new style in the music magazine cover, telling everyone that there are new to the music industries but from the professional work of the cover it show’s that there are more advance just because their new.
Clothing – the main image are wearing there own style of clothing to show and represent there band. Showing the band has there own style of music just looking at their clothing appearance.
Location/Props – the band is placed on the middle of the magazine and it almost took the whole cover of the magazine but I think that is the purpose of that so that the magazine can add more Main Sells and Lure Sells, etc.. The way they put the Masthead are behind of the bands on top of the page, this make’s the masthead appealing to the eye and also make’s the audience interested because they will be wanting to know what is it says.
Connotation:
- The bands face appeal like there are the one who owns the music industries, they have relaxed and confident face impression.
- They have their hands inside their pockets and has the leaning posture this shows they are relaxed.
- Since this is band is from the US I will be guessing it’s more popular in US but it doesn’t mean there not famous on the other countries since US is hold’s a massive music industries this show’s that they are international.
- The way the band is presented is more like a normal people who ware plane hoodies and such, bleached jeans, hat.
KerrangDenotation:
Model – they used the main leader of the new growing famous band is the Fallout Boy, the way they used the leader for the cover is to show and represent his band.
The model licking on the ice cream making it goes with metaphor of the strap line “life is sweet”. Mostly when people listen to a band they listen to the lead vocalist.
Lighting – the lighting is mostly all over the model from the front, back, side & top, having the model wear a colourful shirt making him more appealing to the magazine cover. Having the white plain background for the cover of the magazine is very smart, this make’s the Main Sells and Lure Sells more appealing to the eyes of the audience, making the audience to really want to buy the magazine.
Photography – the way the photo is been taken is body chest to head, it’s more targeted to the model actions toward the ice cream. This make’s it appeal to the audience and the fan of the band.
Clothing – the clothing of the main model is just a plain t-shirt this show’s that the music magazine wasn’t interested in to the style of clothing is more to the music they make and to entertain people.
Location/Props – they placed the main model is more likely to the side right because the way the model posture is a diagonal posture this make’s it cover the page. The way the masthead placed on the top of the page behind the main model is just like common music magazine masthead layout.
Connotation:
- The main model’s appeal as just a relaxed normal people who eat ice creams.
- He show’s the tattoo on his hand to show his still different and not all people has a big tattoo going down there arm.
- Since almost famous rock bands are from US I will be guessing it’s more popular there. But since UK is just overseas it doesn’t mean they aren’t famous here.
- The way the main model is presented is just like a normal people with plain shirts, eating ice cream.
Q
Denotation:
Model – they used one of the famous bands in UK, to represent their magazine by putting them in the front cover. And to advertise the bands this will give more audience interested to the Magazine and the Band. The way the band leader presented in from of the other members of the band to make it look his in control of his band and they have control of what they do, they are not reckless other indie rock bands.
Lightning – from the views of their face shadows I will be guessing the lighting are from front top. To get the face more attention and to make it more appealing to the audience.
Photography – the shoot is taken from the mid range front, the image is taken just almost like a full body shoot, as just from their face impressions that they do not want any help or something, it show’s that they have control over everything and doesn’t need anyone to tell them what to do.
Clothing – almost every members of the band are wearing black tight jackets, showing they don’t spend much time and they show that fashion doesn’t really matters in music industries.
Location/Props – the band is placed bottom right, because it will take the whole cover of the magazine, then they wouldn’t have a place to put the other main sells and lure sells. Also it’s enough to show the other member from the back just to get what he look’s like and show’s his one of the member of the band. The masthead of this magazine is very different because the title of the magazine is just a simple letter “Q” and there’s a big space to put it in. They placed the masthead in the top left to make it appealing and also it doesn’t get covered by the band image.
Connotation:
- The main band appealing very focused on what they doing, they are looking straight forward to the camera to have that effect which where ever u place the magazine it make’s it look like there looking at you.
- The main leader of having that tattoo on his right hands and crossing it show’s his the leader of the band.
- Since this band is published at UK meaning it’s famous in Europe as well, this show’s it’s famous international since UK is also one of the biggest music industries in the world.
1) New Music Technology
Ways of accessing the Music Industries
There a massive range to access the music industries there are 3 ways that mostly used. There is iPod/MP3 players by buying or downloading the tracks of your choice and uploading into this gadgets. Mostly this is the most known way to access the music industries through internet by entering or using YouTube, Limewire, MySpace and more other websites that you can access the music industries. Also there’s the Home recording this one a simple way to make your own music by using Reason, Audacity, FruitLoops you can make and create your own music.
Audience
Now audience can buy music online by accessing such websites legally. Singles on iTunes are cheaper 79p and on store are £1.99 by walking around, getting the bus and such. Audience prefer to have iPod/MP3 players rather than CD player or Walkmans because iPod/MP3 is portable and also you can add a MASSIVE range of your tracks into this gadgets it can hold 1000 – 2000* estimated. On iPod you can also download Photos, Videos, TV, Films and it’s not just for music anymore.
Criminal Encouragement
This encourages “criminal” activity by downloading tracks that are not licensed, by doing this you find yourself breaking the law not even noticing. Most people use Peer to Peer, file sharing e.g. Limewire, Bearshare...
Industry
Apple are the world leaders in digital downloads: iTunes, iPods, iPhone, iTouch …
In other hand Rupert Murdoch the owner of MySpace the biggest internet connection also his company New International owns Fox, Sky, The Sun and many global media company. Google has entered the Musice Industries by buying the biggest video sharing online YouTube. YouTube, LLC is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips.
New Music “Vox Pop”
Usually the interviewees are shown in public places, and supposed to be giving spontaneous opinions in a chance encounter — unrehearsed persons, not selected in any way. As such, broadcast journalists almost always refer to them as the abbreviated vox pop. In U.S. broadcast journalism it is often referred to as a man on the street interview or M.O.T.S.
I’m going to be Vox Pop asking certain people this three questions.
- Q. “Do you use Peer to Peer to download music?”
- Q. “Do you own an iPod or MP3 device?”
- Q. “What sites do you use to access music?”
2) Ne-yo
http://www.myspace.com/neyo
He use MySpace to market himself by having a very flashy MySpace profile therefore it’s very eye-catching to all the members of MySpace, they also use it staying contact with his fans by commenting on the profile, subscribing and visiting there official website. Using MySpace to advertise yourself or your band is a great idea, because MySpace is one of the biggest online connection. He uses MySpace to advertise his new coming albums, also there are six of his new hot singles that are coming up that you can download for free, also you can upload this six singles into your MySpace profile. There are also other fan stuff to do on his profile there are a three of his previous albums that you can buy online. And also you can talk to other fan member of this artist if you are interested on that person. Also there’s six of videos of his new hot single that you can watch directly from MySpace. There’s a Biography about the artist, also there’s a lot of his posters, cd cover, magazine cover on his profile that you can copy and save it to your profile or pc.
3) Spongecola
They use MySpace to update the fans of the band for their coming albums and a small preview of their new releases. Also to inform the fans for their coming tour, also a list of details of where to buy the tickets. Also they have a small introduction of their band just for the new fans that heard about Hale. Also they have six of their singles that you can watch online absolutely free. You can download the six available tracks through MySpace or you can add them in your playlist into your MySpace profile, with no cost at all. There’s range of things you can look at their profile, you can view some of their live performance, CD cover in their Photo Album, you can talk to the other fan members of the band. Also they give the information about every single members of the band. They use MySpace to keep contact with their fans and to populate their fan members, they do this by giving them a free download of their new tracks.
My two first attempt of CD cover for Project Two using Adobe Photoshop CS3.
I used tools such us Ploygonal Lasso to cut the pictures so that i can add a new background.
I also used some flow effects on the fonts. I used the effect of layers adding more layers to get some faded effect. Also i changed the brightness and contrast of the pictures to get that nice effect. Also i used circle shape to get the cloud effects for my 1st version. On my 2nd version i used a faded dark effect on each corner of the cover to get that nice darken effect.
