Isabel Denney-Foster's A2 Media Coursework

The chrome-like writing which is used on these CDs is the style I would like to be noted that I was hoping to convey through my digipak layout. Unfortunately there was no way i could have shown this during the design process on Photoshop. 

These are templates I could use as inspiration- I have decided i do not want to include the title of my album or my artist's name like these albums (besides Eminem). I can use a layout and input material as inspiration for my legal writing to include in my product. I still (as I have in my draft) want to include the timings in my track listing just as Space Trax has for their track listings. I do like the use of the dividing live for the Arctic Monkeys album- I may give this a go. 

 Here I experimented to try and mimic the style of one artist who has inspired me. I used photo shop and layered photos I had taken of my artist to achieve this effect. I also edited the brightness and the opacity of the images. I had discovered this when I was visiting the site Consequence of Sound. I have decided I would like to try and attempt this again so I am going to take some more photos and try this affect again. 

I have tried to correspond my draft cover to my inspiration Marisa Nadler's cover for Strangers. I have done this by including the borders and the artist information. I have differed from the inspiration through applying two borders and a bar code. The use of the black and white is a pure coincidence as I had planned to use black an white before but I believe that the borders could only work with a black an white colour scheme, in my opinion, for my artist. 

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.  

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. 

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. 

Lucidious is a fairly unknown artist of the  Hip-hop and rap genre with his three most popular  Albums being  Torn Between Pages, Vol. I: Make It Out Alive (13th September 2013) including songs such as Save Me, No Longer Silent and Do The Talking. His previous album Reflections (20th December 2015) included the songs 808 ft. Mellow, Let It Rain ft. GJR and Your Life. He has not been in the industry for a long time and he is fairly new and fresh is his genre of music.  His online website is used to promote his newest albums, songs and merchandise. He hasn't gotten the reception, he would expect, from other artists of the genre have so isn't as popular or well known.Because of his niche audience and relatively unknown we believe his music is mostly listened to through platforms such as his spotify account and his  LucidiousMusic  YouTube profile.

Josh: Oh man, Lucid. Where do I even start? Your music, it's amazing. It's like you really believe in what you're after. In my opinion, it's some of the best, the best, music out there. Keep it up TJ. --------We will cut this version and replace it with ambient noise from our setting- We are thinking the noise of traffic or wind, Something rushed as apposed to the calm beat in the music. What if I told you that I didn't feel good enough and I'm broken What if I said that I'm losin' my faith and been struggling with coping Been stuck for a while When I look at the clock man I feel like it's frozen Then again time is just flying too quick And I'm losing devotion Truth is I feel no emotion Bottled it up and all I feel is rage And I would be lying if I looked at you and said I'm not afraid What if I never get through this shit What do I do if I can't find my way And I know that my father has been counting on me to carry our name Speakin...