Photos-26/01/2010

Today, we shot some photographs of our artist for our auncillary tasks, we used a empty room in college and took some shots of our artist in front of a white screen so there was no background. We took a number of close-up/extreme close-up shots of her face and a medium clode-up shot of her. We took some photos of her naked from the back (waist up) showing a side view of her face.

Below are the images we photoghraphed:

By Muhammad Patel and Lauren Widdop

Analysis of album cover- By Lauren Widdop

The album "walking on a dream" is the debut album of Australian electronic music duo Empire of the sun (Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore).



Firstly, the album cover follows a number of conventions such as:

• Shows Title of the album


• Shows the bands name


• Shows the duo on the front cover


• One of the members is facing towards the audience (giving direct eye contact)

Secondly, the album uses some intertextuality, intertextuality is when artists use references that create nostalgia and associations for the audience. The artwork for the album is brilliant, parodying iconic star wars posters however they replace R2-D2 and others with dinosaurs, tigers and futuristic buildaings. The tile of the band is also a reference to the film "empire of the sun" which was released in the 1980's.

The album cover represents the band's inspiration and influences such as 80's movies, artists and synthpop/rock. The clothes they where on the album of the cover is similar to another famous 80's rock group Adam and the ants.

The album is eye catching and has been voted as one of the best album covers of 2009 because of it's use of spectacular imagery and 80's nostalgia.

By Lauren Widdop

analysis of album cover by Muhammad Patel

The Album I am going to analyse is Paulo Nutini's "sunny side up", it is his second studio album and was released in 2009 to comerrcial and critical success.

The album cover features a number of conventions such as the tile of the album and the artist and an image of the artist. The album is eye catching and different because the image on the front cover is like a drawing/cartoon. It uses a bold colourscheme (red,green and yellow) to attract the buyers attention.

The album cover represents the artist and genre of the music, it is very bright and fun like the pop/folk songs he sings.

The title of the album "suuny side up" has a double meaning firstly in relation to the album cover the image shows a plate with two eggs (suuny side up) while the album title also refers to the fun, haapy folk tunes Paulo belts out with his famous sand paper voice.

By Muhammad Patel

filming for music video- 20/01/10

Today, we filmed our artist singing/miming the song in front of a green screen, we wrote down the words of the song for our artist and filmed the song in segments. We played the song from the computer so it was in sync. We used a media classroom and covered the white board in a green cloth then we used some lights to stop shdows being created.

Below are a couple of images from the filming:

Then we uploaded the images onto the film editing software and used the chrome and colour correcter tool to filter out the green background and replaced it with the background we filmed before hand.

By Muhammad Patel

Album art

Here are some of the album covers that i have designed, some have been inspired by official artist album covers.

By Hannah Tabor

Filming for music video- 18/01/2010

Today, we filmed a short piece of footage in a local shop for our music video, we wanted to use weird,strange locations so we decided to film our artist in the shop walking up,down and around the aisle picking up odd onjects, We are going to incorporate some of the footage into our music video.

Below is a list of props, equipment and the location we used:

• Location- Local grocery shop, we used one of the ailses which contained usual food related items
• Head band, clothes- to show the feel and genre of the music and to reinforce our brand
• Food items- Used in the shots
• We used a shot which showed the full length of her physique and the angle of the camera was angled straight at the artist
• Camera, tape, charged battery and tripod to use for our filming

We believe this filming session went sucessfully because we captured the footage we needed and throughout filming we have reinforced our brand image.

By Muhammad Patel, Hannah Tabor and Lauren Widdop

Magazine Advertisment

Below is an image of a magazine advert of a album found ina music magazine:

Below is the analysis of the magazine advert:

By Lauren Widdop and Muhammad Patel

Mood Board (album/advertisment)

We have created a mood board for our auncillary task (album and magazine advert) to show the styles, messages and colours we wanted to incorporate into our print tasks.



























Below are some bullet points highlighting our influences for our print task:

• Indie,bohemian sound
• strange,unusual artist
• bold,earthy fashion
• fun, cartoon type print tasks
• artist who is strong,independent

By Muhammad Patel and Lauren Widdop

Editing Footage

We have started to edit our footage that we have filmed over the past couple of weeks. We have been deciding which footage goes where and we have been experimenting with the different type of effects and styles we can use in our music video.


Final Cut Express

To edit our footage we use the final cut express software on apple mac computers.

Final cut express is a non-linear video editing application which is designed for advanced editing of digital video.

By Muhammad Patel

Change of artist/model

As a group we have decided to change our artist/model due to a number of reasons:

• The artist was to difficult to get hold of
• the artis lived to far away
• Due to bad weather conditions (snow) we were not able to use our time effectively

However we found a new artist/model (Emily Lord) who fits the type of image/brand we were creating. She is a close friend of Lauren widdops and because of our impending deadline we have used her instead for our music video.

Below is a picture of our new artist/model:

Emily Lord


















By Muhammad Patel, Lauren Widdop, Lauren Pollard and Hannah Tabor

Filming for music video- 12/01/2010

I filmed some footage for our music video, I filmed different shots e.g. a clock, two people playing chess because in our music video we wanted to include quirky, odd shots that could be incorporated into the music video to add to the unique, folk style of the music.

I used a number of props such as

• Scales
• clock
• weights
• chess board
• chess pieces
• candles
• guitar
• wood (logs) from a fireplace
• Dice

Below is a list of the eqipment I used to film the music video:

• Video Camera
• Tripod
• Charged battery for the camera
• Video Tape

Below is a list of the different types of footage I filmed:

• Clock- I filmed an extreme-close up shot of a clock face with the hands moving, We have decided to spped up this shot and use it in our music video
• Scales and weights- I filmed a close up shot of some traditional brass metal scales, My brother showing only his (mid-drift and hands) places weights onto the scales. We are planning to use this footage but add different effects to it such as sepia
• Candle- We filmed a candle placed in front of some props (guitar/wooden logs)
• Chessgame- I filmed a chess game and we have deicided we will use the end of that footage (a scene where one of the players knocks all the chess pieces of the board)
• Dice- As a group we also filmed a couple of close up, canted angle shots of dice being thrown down some stone steps

We will incorporate all this footage into the music video.

By Lauren Widdop