Final Music Video

Magazine Advert

This is the magazine advert for our album. It includes the title of the album, the title of the band, reviews of the album, the album cover, images of the band members and where people can buy/listen to it. All these things are features that are typically found in music album magazine adverts includes those for ska albums.
This magazine advert continues the theme that we have used in out digipack. This is by using the same font, the same colour scheme (mostly just black and white) and having a similar structure and layout. This gives the audience a sense of familiarity through our products.
I created the advert on Adobe Photoshop. This piece of software allowed me do create what I planned and I am pleased with the outcome. I feel like I have stuck to my original plan and created a professional looking magazine advert that goes well with the rest of our products and is similar to other ska album magazine adverts.

Digipack

This is the full digipack for our album, this includes the front and back cover as well as the left and right inside covers. When designing and creating this, I aimed to have a continued monotone theme throughout each part. The black and white colour scheme along with the dancing man and the checkers makes the whole digipack fit in with the Ska genre. The front and back cover symbolise the key themes of the music (day and night), while the inside covers include images of the band and the record label logo. This aims to create a relationship between the listener and the band.

Final digipack design for inside cover

In the end, i decided to use the same photos of the band that was used on the magazine advert. This was so that the band was represented in the same way. Also, we used more slang in the text because it made the band come across as more genuine and down to earth. It is all still in black and white so it links to the other sides of the digipack. 

Analysis of Magazine

Our Magazine Advert

We used the black and white effect for the magazine advert and we blurred the front cover of the album onto the background of the advert.We used the effect of a photo reel around the photos of the band member in order to make it suit the Ska genre. The reel could relate to the checkered borders commonly seen in 'The Specials' magazine adverts, There is a picture of the album cover on the magazine advert which allows the audience to know what to expect. There are logos on each bottom corner of the page which show the audience where they can purchase the new album.

Ska Magazine Advert

This is a magazine advert for 'The Specials' it shows similar features to our magazine advert and it gives away a free CD. The advert once again uses the black and white effect and the checkered border in order to illustrate the Ska genre. The difference between the two is the type of picture of the band, the text and the use of colour as it's on the front of a magazine.

Analysis of Digipack

Digipack Front Cover

Digipack Back Cover

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The digipack carries a similar theme throughout. The black and white theme and two tone man is a convention often used by music videos in the Ska genre. We have used this in order to make our digipack recognizable to Ska audiences and to make it link with all of our products and other Ska products. The front cover of the digipack represents a split cover. Half has the two tone man sleeping during the day, shown by the white background and light coming in the window. The back cover represents the two tone man drinking and skanking at night, which is represented by the dark background and the moon. 

Other Ska album

This is the front cover of an album by 'The Specials'. This represents the black and white background and the checkered borders, along with the two tone man. This is a convention of the Ska genre which we have used throughout all of our music promo and products. The text on the front cover is quite simple and it is easy to recognize the genre of music through the cover.

Comparing Magazine Adverts

On the right you can see our magazine advert for your ska album. Below are two adverts for existing ska albums. We tried to use a similar look to ska magazine adverts like the two shown here. One way we have done this is by using mainly just black and white. This is a very obvious feature of most ska adverts so we thought it was important that we do the same. Another thing we have done is include images of the band members. We thought this was important because the band and the instruments are a very important part of ska music and so featured on most ska adverts. Finally, we have included the album cover on our magazine advert. We did this because it shows people what they are looking for and sells our album. It will also promote the record label as more people are likely to recognise it. Album covers are featured on a lot of other ska album magazine adverts like the one below (right).

 

Album Cover

This is the album cover for our album that we have created called 'sleep all day'. I used photoshop to create this. I have used typical features of ska album covers including a black and white theme, 'checkerboard stripes' along the top and bottom and the character featured on the album cover is based on the 'The Walt Jabsco logo' which was heavily used on ska album covers. We have altered the character to fit our album cover while still keeping the typical feature of a ska album cover. We are going to continue this theme throughout the rest of our digipack as well as our magazine advert.

Initial Ideas for Magazine Advert

Comparing Album Covers

Digipack cover from Jade Moore

Music Video Update

This is the third rough cut of our music video. There are still a few things which need to be tweaked, such as the lip syncing in on of the scenes.

We are hoping that in the first couple of weeks of 2017 we will be able to fully upload our completed music video, followed by our digipack and magazine article.

Happy New Year!!! :)

Initial design ideas for Digipack

Hi everyone,


Sorry there hasn't been many posts recently, we've been trying to get our coursework done!
This is the back page of our digipack, including all of our song titles.


All of the song titles have some significance to the band and the album. The album is called 'Sleep All Day' which is why I have used a picture of the lead band member sleeping and dreaming of the song titles.


I hope you like the back and please feel free to leave any comments or opinions.


Thanks :)

Final Design for Digipack Back Cover

This is the final design for the back cover of our digipack. We decided to use the two tone man to indicate the main artist sleeping and the bubble above his head, which is his dreaming bubble, contains the names of all of the songs in the album. The window and light room represents that it is during the day and therefore links to the name of the album 'sleep all day'. The checkered border is a convention often used by Ska artists on their album covers or magazine adverts, therefore we have used this to fit in with the genre.