Here are some titles and the artist logo that we're going to use for our website and cd cover. Firstly I drew these  items on paper and scanned them into the iMac using a CanoScan Lide scanner. After this I edited them on photoshop using the paint and pencil tools. This graffiti style relates to our artist's image.

Chris Wilson

Song name

This is the making of the word crush for the homepage on our website. It was edited on photoshop using a graffiti style that relates to our artist's urbanized image. Before creating it on photoshop we drew it on paper and scanned it into the iMac on photoshop.
Chris Wilson and Danny Rankin

Music Video Perfomance Location

When we first chose the location of our artists performance we were going to have our artist on the other side of the fence on the knocked down building site, however when we went to check the location we discovered it would be too dangerous and unsafe to have our artist performance here. As a result we decided it would be a good idea to have it on the outside of the fence and on the cobbled road next to it, which is rarely used by the public. The images below show the locations where the performance will take place.

Pavement outside the knocked building site

We think this will relate to our artists image as we are looking to  release an urban image for our artist. This environment will match our plans for this image because it is a dark, rough setting that you would expect to see for an artist with this image.

Cobbled road next to knocked down building site

Here is the cobbled ground next to the site, which we have also chosen for the artist to perform on. We think this is again suitable for the artist as it is another urban, dark and empty setting that would suit the artists reserved, working background image.
















By Chris Wilson

Mark Ronson Web Page

This Webpage uses a similar style to the cover of his latest release 'Record Collection' he does this to maintain synergy throughout his products as the songs in the album are featuring the artists that he has used there artwork to create the image.

Danny Rankin, Chris Wilson

Mark Ronson Case Study

Mark Ronson's album cover for 'Version' has a unusual style as the cover looks like a worn-down billboard. We noticed that the album contains cover tracks, which may link to the design of the artwork because we see a number of layers to show that he's covering past billboards with his face. This could be a metaphor to show that the album is a collection of cover songs. The colours are quiet dull and retro to represent his old fashioned image. The album cover reminds you of the past because you wouldn't expect to see a cover like this in the modern times.

Mark Ronson has used another unique style as this album cover is made out of different types of CD covers and records. This may be influenced by the name of the album, 'Record Collection'. He's using a collection of records to form his face, which is very artistic and creative. It uses a retro style again from the use of a range of bright colours, which would be associated with the 1980's. So you could say that this album is associated with he 1980's.







By Chris Wilson and Danny Rankin

Digipak Cover Research

The digipak is quite appropriate for the genre and fits in with most of the conventions. The mise-en-scene follows the conventions as it uses computer generated text and and the spray paint effect added on are ways that the artists in this genre express them selves and use to sell their image. The image on the cd cover is incorperationg the design into the text, this along with the contrast between the bright and dark colours catches the audiences attention. The design on the digipak allows the artist to brand their product in their own style therefore making them recognisable and sell more copies.

This is at the other end of the scale to the previous digipak however it is still within the conventions of the genre. The layout matches the title as it is as though they are in space, they have also used simple font to focus the attention on the meaning of the image. Again there is a sharp contrast between the Dark and Bright colours used, this is intended to again put emphasis onto the picture as this makes it stand out. There is the use of computerised images which is quite recognisable of this genre. This also is away for the artists to sell themselves as it shows their creativity and allows people to connect and buy their cd.

This shows the computerised text again which is a big characteristic in the conventions of this genre. instead of using a black background they have gone for white this is another way of making the audience  focus on the image. The image looks like he is handing you a pair of headphones as if to say go on listen to my music. The artist uses this to say go on buy it and you wont be disappointed. On the back they have took a segment of the image on the front and added a bright orange effect onto it this is to make it different and stand out, the use of bright colours is another convention.

Again have gone with the convention of the dark and bright colours to go with the genre and the use of computerised images to show their creativity and help market their brand. Layout keeps your attention and withe the use of images looks like they have used intertextual references to the production of the music. The use of imagery is as if the artist is saying look at what we can do creatively on this imagine our music, and they use this to sell their products.

Pendulum, the artist we are choosing, has gone for a slightly different style with this album cover they have kept to the use off dark colours but instead of using very bright colours they have used the dark blue slowly fading in to light blue, this adds a calming effect and this is the style that they have chosen in the album music as well. There is still computerised images and the text is computer text although not as extreme as the others. This is Pendulum branching out and attracting a wide range of audience while still keeping their old once.



We have took in all of these ideas and used them do create our own digipak, we are going to use the computerised images and text whilst using the contrasting colours we are going to add them more reduced to keep the calming look of Pendulums design. This will allow the audience to see our creativity and we will have our own individual ideas, to show that we are original which will help to market our product. The layout will be interesting to captivate the audience and the font will bee in a graffiti style for the song title to go along with the conventions.

Danny Rankin

Bedroom location test shots.

These are shots of a location that will be used in two of our scenes. It is the scene where Character 1 goes and worries about the fake fight that's going to happen. Here he will stare in the mirror anxiously, pray and look depressed. He will then go to sleep and dream about past events in the day. On another scene we will see Character 1 preparing for the fake fight later on by doing bicep curls with a dumbbell and press ups.
By Chris Wilson

Music Video Narritive Character

Here is a selection of test shots that we have collected for our video. This is the confident, aggressive character 2 training in the gym as a way of preparing for the fake fight.

Chris Wilson and Danny Rankin

Textual Analysis Grid

Danny Rankin

The weather forecast for the week commencing the 1st of november shows poor weather conditions for filming as the variations in rain could cause continuity errors as puddles may suddenly appear, also it would be quite hard to get the actors all together in these weather conditions.
However weather permitting we are planning on filming the week after, at this stage it is hard to check on the forecast for that week as the BBC Weather only shows a five day for the area and the weather may change between now and then as these are only predictions.

Danny Rankin