Tuesday 24 January 2017

RESEARCH INTO ALBUM COVERS

Before designing our album cover and digipak, we wanted to research into similar artist's album cover. Therefore, this ensures that we effectively represent a alternative and organic star image, rather than a synthetic star image (in previous posts I explain the difference between an organic star image and synthetic star image in album covers). 

I found that the inside of an album cover normally consists of images which are linked with the artist, e.g. pictures of the artist/band. One album cover I looked at was Bastille's album cover 'All this Bad Blood'. The inside of their album shows an image of a car with blood on the floor, thus linking the narrative of their album behind the meaning of the album. However, the front cover shows the car with the door open but from a different angle, but contains the same background. This once again shows a clear line between the narrative and the meaning of the album. The back cover shows the same location and setting, however, it does't show the car as it is creating the story/meaning of the album but it does show the clear like through the images by using the same location and theme. 

Therefore, we decided when creating our album cover, we are going to link together the narrative and meaning of the album, hence reflecting an organic and alternative star image and not synthetic. 

Thursday 19 January 2017

SPOTIFY PROFILE



In the modern online age, almost all music is listened to and distributed via streaming devices, one of the biggest being Spotify. We therefore decided to set Jack up with a Spotify account in order to distribute his music to his target audience, and in particular the song I Gave It All, which is our music video. This will effectively help to get Jacks name out there as it will appear on suggestions when listening to artists of similar nature, such as James Bay and Hozier. Furthermore, people who enjoy Jack's music will share it with their friends via Spotify and other social media platforms such as Facebook.

Friday 13 January 2017

MAGAZINE COVER


I decided to create a magazine cover that Jack featured on as a way of establishing his star image and creating word of mouth about the brand new Artist. Therefore, this will enable us to promote our artist and reach a wider audience that will connect to our artist's organic and alternative star image. Hence, why we chose to promote our artist in 'NME' magazine because not only will it reach indie music fans, it will also reach numerous of important people in the music industry and this will help Jack in his music career further down the line.