Pictures of the cast.

These are pictures of the people who will play as the band in our music video/digipak. These pictures have been taken from their facebook pages with their permission.

Josh: Guitar

Elliott: Vocals

Reuben: Drums

Holly: Bass

Digipack Preperation - Font ideas

These are two ideas for fonts that I could use for the Digipak, these look as if children have written them. I think that they could fit with the theme of the music video. Alternatively I may get a young sibling of one my friends to write the words " Gun Talk " on a piece of paper and scan it in. Underneath are the links to the two fonts.

"Kids First Print" by Manfred Klein.
http://www.dafont.com/kids-first-print-fo.font?text=Gun+Talk

" Hand Writing" by Keegan M.
http://www.dafont.com/hand-writing.font?text=G+u+n++T+a+l+k

This is the final design for the Digipak, the drawing isn't very good but you can get the general idea from this.
Some of the panels are likely to move around or change, depending on the availability of the cast and the location. I may change this to a plain, or possibly dingy looking background as this is usually found in this genre of music.

Digipak and music video idea.

The idea for the music video came from the theme of the song, the song is written about the wasted youth in English cities. The song talks about how they are being childish, wasting their lives and ruining communities. Our idea for the video plays on this theme. We will be taking the stereotypes of English gang culture and making them seem childlike, this relates to the message conveyed by the song. For example, we will replace guns with water guns, or "Nerf" guns and drugs with sweets. We will be bringing in key conventions of action and gang genres to create this video.

Digipack Preparation - Facebook Group.

I have created a Facebook group with everyone we need for the music video and digipak. I will use this to contact people when I need to, I could also use this for audience feedback by uploading photo's.

Advert analysis - Collie Buddz

This is an advert for a Collie Buddz gig, but it will have a large number of the same conventions as an advert for an album. First of all the artists name is in big, bold white writing against a black background. This brings attention to the stars name, giving extra publicity and making it easier to notice. The bright red, green and yellow colours are both eye catching, and representative of rastafarian culture. These give the audience the idea that he is a reggae artist straight away. The large image of Collie Buddz in the center of the poster really reinforces his star image as he is the center of attention, and the focus of the advert. The advert is relatively entropic, with it's bright colours, black and white photographs, striped text and strange shapes in the background. These are all things designed to catch the audiences eye, and to create publicity. In general, adverts for reggae artists are usually relatively entropic yet still uncomplicated enough to be understandable and eyecatching.

Digipack Analysis.

The first digipack that I will be studying is for Nirvana's " Incesticide ", on the whole this digipack is very quite entropic. It's not so entropic that you have no idea what's going on, but not so redundant that it becomes boring and doesn't catch your eye. The font used to spell the word "nirvana" looks as if it has been cut from something and pasted onto the cover, this adds a sense of authenticity and connotes a sense of realism. The hand drawn look of the artwork on the front furthers the sense of authenticity. The dingey, beige background adds a dirty, grimey feel, reflecting the bands ethos and music. 

The withering flowers on the cover could represent something that was once beautiful and prospering, dying and becoming ugly. This could represent the singers mental state at the time. The back cover strongly contrasts the front, becoming a lot more entropic and colourful.

This album art is quite entropic, the bright colours and rubber duck enforce this. It's not so entropic that you have no idea what's going on, but at the same time it isn't so redundant that it becomes boring. The bright colours and entropic imagery connote senses of happiness, highly contrasting with the front cover which gives a much darker feeling. The font on the right side is similar to the font on the front side of the digipak, this creates another link between the two, whilst still keeping the contrast. 

Redundancy and Entropy.

Redundancy -

If something is redundant, it means that something is predictable. An example of something that is entropic would be this Davidoff Cool Water advert. It is uncreative and uses residual ideologies, male and female gaze.




Entropic -
Something that is entropic uses unexpected and new ideas. An example of this would be this tesco mobile advert.