Isabel Denney-Foster's A2 Media Coursework

Whilst searching through Jeff Jank's CD cover site I came across some interesting photography which had been collage together to an imperfect image. I believe I would like to try this method of taking images of a wide area and collage them together to create some form of image. 

The first three album covers are from Witt Lowry who, like Lucidious and our attempt to achieve with our artist Distinct, is rather unknown and not amazingly popular within the hip hop genre like Eminem (the last album cover belongs to).  Lowry's albums are landscape shots which are beautiful and incredibly simplistic. Eminem's album cover is a picture of him in an everyday setting, thus conveying this idea of simplicity once more. i have decided I may experiment with this idea however I know I would like to have my artist featured on the cover like Eminem's / unlike Lowry's. 

Styles like this I believe would be too extreme , not only to accomplish, but for my artist. As we are aiming for him to be a new, niche and not extremely mainstream artist in our genre I fear it would be too much to design and release a cover along the lines of these because they would not fit with the video, the concept and the style. These albums stereo typically look as though they are for songs which are about the good rapping, music artist lifestyle and therefore entail things about drugs, money and sex where as the thought behind our song is very heartfelt and sensitive whereas this image would not convey this feeling or emotion. 

These album covers are not in the genre of rap which is the genre our song Moment of Silence falls under however these are covers which have giving me inspiration as they are simple yet effective. I like the idea of putting a boundary with my font between the photo and the text (as seen is Marissa Nadler Strangers and Blond by Frank Ocean.) I believe I will incorporate this with an effective font (as seen in Banks The Altar   and Genesis). The colour (as seen in WarPaint) is something I may include if i choose to print by CD cover in Black and White which is the advice we were given from our peers as we have used our artist photo as the black and white image.  

With our research and planning you can see we had originally planned to have a narrative element to our video. This we have now decided to get rid of as it is not easily accomplishable with the equipment and terms of practicality. The filming and locations were not easily accessible and we did not want to end up with a product which was laughable. As well as this we believe that if we had attempted to include the narrative it would have resulted to a blurred or even inappropriate or offensive outcome. Our key story was to target the issue of bullying which is a key theme found in many HipHop music videos. However we are now decided to move forward and challenge this typical convention or expectation. Therefore, we decided to approach the video as entirely performance based. We have also had to decide to abolish the idea of using the projector to apply extra colours and patterns. This would have worked well but it is not easily accomplishable and nor do we think it will fit with the so...

As well as the storyboard used within our video of our live version of sotry boarding we are going to use a practical storyboard which contains notes and continuity tips which we can reffer to as a group whilst filming.  This is the story board for the 30 secind instrumental at 3:15. 

Our live animate story boa rd for our choice in song Moment of Silence by Lucidious.    

Vladamir Propp was a Russian critic who analysed hundreds of fairy tales in the 1920s. He came up with the concept of defining characters to clearly defined purposes, rolls and functions for the story. We could use this theorist towards our video when evaluating our characters and the rolls they play. For example in our narrative structure we are hoping to reveal the reality of unhappy family life, the affects of bullying and the after affects of loss. Here we have come to the conclusion to use one character to express the emotions and realities behind these situations. Therefore we have defined the roll of our character as someone who will exploit the realities of emotional ordeals. Tzvetan Todorov was a literary theorist who suggested that at the main protagonist of a story always starts with a state of equilibrium (where life is normal and happy). The state of normality is then disrupted from an outside force and an event of resolution occurs to reinstate the equi...

From the feedback we have received we are able to see that the most popular ideas are using the protection and lighting and the use of using black and white as a colour pallet this is something we will take into consideration when filming. The black and white concept may be something we will include however we are going to film as though we would not be using the filter therefore, during the filming stage of production we will exclude it and work on the black an white idea during our editing process during post production. Something that received mixed reviews is the locations we've decided on using to film (inside the white room and outside using natural lighting) although said "if accessible it can be pulled off well" this has left us with an conception of uncertainty and we have decided to take care when filming however keeping back up plans during our story boarding process in case things don't work or do not look how we are hoping them to.  Other feedback (o...

Gorilla vs Bear Whilst visiting this site I came across a review for an album (Alice Boman "Dreams")  The article was presented as the album's cover which really appealed to me aesthetically. I have decided to save this and use it as an inspiration for my album cover at least as an experimental factor however I am not sure if it will fit in with my genre. 

Consequence of Sound- I viewed this site and explored all the categories such as film, TV and Music and viewed some of the latest articles on the Music category. I discovered a new article concerning the group METZ which involved the release of their new single and this image.  This image really sparked my curiosity with the visual aspect as it looks like the relay and layering of a multiple amount of images. which were taken at the same time, place and with the same people only having the subjects move, not enough so that the image is unreadable but enough to convey a sense of artistic convention. I have decided I would like to experiment with this effect and if it works well I wish to apply it to my album/ CD cover.  

The name of your song:  Moment Of Silence The genre of your song:  Hip Hop The name of your artist:  Distinct The style of your video (performance/narrative/disjuncture):  Performance with   narrative based music video style with amplification of the music video to its lyrics. Video/media which has inspired you:  Yelawolf-best friend ft. Eminem, Lucidious- Moment Of Silence, Witt Lowery- Dreaming With Our Eyes Open. Location ideas:  Woodland, Car, White room, Stage. Styling ideas:  hoody/jacket, hats, glasses, branded shoe wear, leather jackets,  Lighting ideas:  Noon lighting to avoid dark, shadow sequences. 

EMINEM LUCIDIOUS WATSKY WITT LOWRY DISTINCT