the album cover for T.I's album cover is clever and interesting in the fact that it takes that they art work is the artist face made out of pieces of ripped paper, this relates to the actual album in the fact that the album is called "paper trails".
His face suggest a serious tone to the album along with the torn pieces of paper which may suggest that album has something to with the events of the artists past.
I think this album cover works particularly well for a Hip Hop artist...not finished
based on what we have learnt the digipak has a number of conventions. the conventions are there so to give key information on the band, their song and it is supposed to get you to buy the cd
Digipak conventions
Name of the artist/album
Track list
Barcode
Record company logo/info
Disk impressions&aeperate disk design
six panels
spine- with the name of the artiost/album
image of the artist is not compulsary on the outside
after doing the preliminary task for lip syncing we wanted to practice lip syncing to our own chosen song. We filmed Jack reading the lyrics from out of the view of the camera while the song played in the background. Unlike the previous task we did not have jack singing out loud because we wanted to see if jack suited the voice and he could preform, we did not film the whole song as this was just to practice. The practice went well and my group is confident that the lip syncing for the video will go well as well.
Emil Nava began his career as a runner , this is a person that would take various video to multiple studios to have them looked at. He then began to work at blink productions and from their began to work free lance for OB managment.
After working as a runner he graduated to assistant director, where he would manage the shoots. He went on to sign to academy, which is the biggest music video production company, then worked for believe the eyes and now mainly works for pulse.
He has made videos for artists such as Ed Sheeran and Paloma Faith. From his work on music videos he, has been hired to make adverts for company such as loreal, advertising hair dye. He directed the ad loreal's born to be different.
Emil got his job working on music videos for artists like ed sheeran and paloma faith from OB management. OB management work as agents for video directors, they introduce directors to artists and production companies that suit their particular style of filming.
One of Ed Sheeran's first videos was directed by Emil Nava, the video cost £35,000 to film. The video however did not feature Ed in the video allot, because the production company did not like Ed's image at the time. Due to this the video features someone else signing the lyrics to the video, which took care of who would feature in the video and took care of lip syncing.
there are many purposes to a music vidoe, those purpsoes are. A music vidoeo is ment to advertise the song, videos that have music videos will more lickley sell more becuase people rememeber the music vidoe of a song along with the actual song it slef. A music vidoe should compliment the music. Song that have not done so well in the charts have improved their position because they have a good music vidoe. Another purpose a music video has is to change the look of an artists, A video that does his is the the music video for christina aguilaras-"dirrty", it transformed her pervioud inoccent image in to her current image. she went form being a member of the mickey mouse club to be more explcit and adult.
Purpose of music video :
Promote the artist
Change the image of the artists
Help sell albums
Advertisement draws attention to the music/song
illustrates the song and appeals to a visual audience
expresses an individual emotion and tells a story
markets an image and promotes the artist/singer/album
persuades audience to buy- CD/download, raises the audience awareness or profile of the artist/group
Copy right law is there to protect intalectual property. it stops someone else from stealing your idea and profiting from it without your premission. when it comes to my music video i will need to either look for non-copy right music or i will have to ask for premission to use a signed artists music.
Jamie Thraves is a director from Romford who started directing short films when attending university at Hull, he also started to make music videos. Later on in his career he started to push a number of ideas for films and music videos on big studios, in which he constantly got rejected. He eventually used one of his award winning video as a calling card, which got his foot in the door. He was hired by Factory Films. He showed Factory films three of his music videos, each film costing £5000 each
when Jamie thraves caught his big break he went on to direct music videos for coldplay and radio head.
his video for Coldaplay was award winning and boosted Coldplays music career. Jamie hate Coldplays music but managed to film their best video. the video was shot in reverse with the video rewinding back to the scene of a car accident, through this video the lead singer is singing forwards. the concept of the video came to jamie when he read the line of the song which says "back to the start" this one line of lyric influenced the whole video.
the video cost £200,000 to film and was filmed in three days. months before the actually filming of the video the lead singer had to learn to sing the song backwards. this was because the lyrics had to be sung phonetically right. if the singing was filmed backwards and then reversed it would not look the same and natural.
another video of Jamie Thraves which gained both him and the band radio head allot of successes was "just". This music video was not intended to be for radio head, Jamie had, had the idea for this video for a while. When Jamie heard the song "Just" by radio head, he thought the video would fit well with the song, he explained the concept to radio head and they liked it. The video took three days to film and cost £100,000. The concept for the video was that a man had a terrible secret that made him want to stay laying on the ground, eventually he formed a crowd of people wondering why he was there, someone in the crowd gets the man to tell the secret which then causes everyone else to lay on the ground. What makes this video clever is that there is no speech, the entire video is subtitle apart form when the secret is told meaning that no one apart from Jamie knows the secret.
Thou shalt not steal if there is direct victim. Thou shalt not worship pop idols or follow lost prophets. Thou shalt not take the names of Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer, Johnny Hartman, Desmond Decker, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix or Syd Barret in vain. Thou shalt not think that any male over the age of 30 that plays with a child that is not their own is a peadophile... Some people are just nice. Thou shalt not read NME. Thou shalt not stop liking a band just because they've become popular. Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry. Thou shalt not judge a book by it's cover. Thou shalt not judge Lethal Weapon by Danny Glover. Thou shalt not buy Coca-Cola products. Thou shalt not buy Nestle products. Thou shalt not go into the woods with your boyfriend's best friend, take drugs and cheat on him. Thou shalt not fall in love so easily. Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls' pants. Use it to get into their heads. Thou shalt not watch Hollyokes. Thou shalt not attend an open mic and leave before it's done just because you've finished your shitty little poem or song you self-righteous prick. Thou shalt not return to the same club or bar week in, week out just 'cause you once saw a girl there that you fancied but you're never gonna fucking talk to. Thou shalt not put musicians and recording artists on ridiculous pedestals no matter how great they are or were. The Beatles... Were just a band. Led Zepplin... Just a band. The Beach Boys... Just a band. The Sex Pistols... Just a band. The Clash... Just a band. Crass... Just a band. Minor Threat... Just a band. The Cure... Just a band. The Smiths... Just a band. Nirvana... Just a band. The Pixies... Just a band. Oasis... Just a band. Radiohead... Just a band. Bloc Party... Just a band. The Arctic Monkeys... Just a band. The Next Big Thing.. JUST A BAND. Thou shalt give equal worth to tragedies that occur in non-english speaking countries as to those that occur in english speaking countries. Thou shalt remember that guns, bitches and bling were never part of the four elements and never will be. Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music, thou shalt not make repetitive generic music, thou shalt not make repetitive generic music, thou shalt not make repetitive generic music. Thou shalt not pimp my ride. Thou shalt not scream if you wanna go faster. Thou shalt not move to the sound of the wickedness. Thou shalt not make some noise for Detroit. When I say "Hey" thou shalt not say "Ho". When I say "Hip" thou shalt not say "Hop". When I say, he say, she say, we say, make some noise... kill me. Thou shalt not quote me happy. Thou shalt not shake it like a polaroid picture. Thou shalt not wish you girlfriend was a freak like me. Thou shalt spell the word "Pheonix" P-H-E-O-N-I-X not P-H-O-E-N-I-X, regardless of what the Oxford English Dictionary tells you. Thou shalt not express your shock at the fact that Sharon got off with Bradley at the club last night by saying "Is it". Thou shalt think for yourselves. And thou shalt always... Thou shalt always kill!
In media we were give the task of practicing lip syncing. For the task we had to film a duet of two people singing on camera. We had to lip sing to the"Don't go breaking my heart". We were told to sing out loud with the song playing, singing along with the song would help when syncing up the song with the music when editing it. we took one two long indiviual shots of us singing the song all the way through, and we took one long shot of us singing together.
recently i met up with my music video partner to discuss ideas for a music video for the song "thou shall always kill". we found that the actual music video for the song was quite good and fit the song well. The only problem we face was thinking of a new ideas for the video. the majority of ideas that we thought of were very similar to the video.
the album cover for T.I's album cover is clever and interesting in the fact that it takes that they art work is the artist face made out of pieces of ripped paper, this relates to the actual album in the fact that the album is called "paper trails".
