Progress with Album Image

After popping out numerous keys from an old donated keyboard i have manageed to get the keys to spell out "Th3 EDI1ON" which is a desired effect, all i need to do now is find an old abandoned motherboard in which i can also dismantle. The keyboard which was kindly donated also has a wire upon it which i intend to cut and break, in use for my Album Cover. But it is quite fun breaking things.

New Idea On Album Art

After long thought and consideration, well from deciding not to carry on with the previous album art, i have decided to create my image saying the edition with old computer parts which may kindly be donated by the IT department of my school. The things I presume i need are, old broken keyboards, broken cables and possibly parts from inside a computer like the green boards in which you can get, with all the soldered pieces upon it.

I know i have many cables at home, and a place to get some motherboard pieces but how to arrange them shall be another problem. I think i want the album to say "The Edition" in computer pieces and possibly if its not too tricky get the song name upon it too.

Final Album Art So Far...

This is how far i have gotten with the album cover " We Only Make Computers For Education". At the Minute I am still not sure if I like the design in which i have created as i feel there are little images in what i can use to add to the final product. As well as the bands name, "The Edition", because it does not stand out as much as I thought it would upon the orange background. This could possibly be as far as i get with the album art as no new ideas have come from creating it.

We Only Make Computers For Education

Recently the song in which I am creating a music profile and video on was played upon BBC Radio Stoke on the SubCulture show.

Mock Up 2

This is the second of the mockups that i have created for the album art, and i am getting closer to what i finally want to achieve. In the final mockup however i shall create the town with the letters of The Edition, and the images of the wires shall be that off my own. Regardless of the colour i think it shall be bright enough with the coloured back ground and the yellow sun.

Mock Up

This is the first mock up of the album cover, i tend to create the art with computer theme (like this one) however i cannot use this album cover as the images are not mine.

I do intend however to find some multi-coloured cables and use them in the main image, this may mean however that i need to buy them, but at the expense of media, im sure i could spare a couple of quid.

Album Cover

As my current task is to film all of the footage needed for my video i thought in school time I would spend my time on starting to create an album/single cover for my band and song. The album art shall be 13 centimetres wide by 12 centimeters wide, (369pixels wide x 340pixels high).

As the song is called "We Only Make Computers For Education" I was going to use this as a play on words and create some sort of a cartoon graphic, with block colours and bold lines, of a computer being made and being distrubuted straight to a school. However i may just choose to go for a simple design, related to computers and education, in block colour which stands out. The image will be simple just like the foofighters covers and the fall out boy cover.

Story Board

Story Board

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Change of Ideas.

After much thought about what sort of video i would like to do i have decided to go for a video of mainly live shots and a very different start and end to the Video. The ideas of the band members acting was not possible due the fact that the lighting, costumes and other influences would not make the video seem proffesional and would have a poor quality if not done in a studio, however the sort of video i have chosen to do i possible with the equipment i have and the levels of acting required by the band stretch to closing their eyes and placing in earphones. Other than that its just live shots of the band playing and doing what they normally do. A post of the new story board shall be posted soon.

music videos

After watching roughly 300 videos in the past 4 weeks in every single media studies lesson..... I STILL LOVE MUSIC!! lol

Ideas for music video

However these are only the first set of ideas that i have had, I am still keen on the idea of live and band shots only

Foo Fighters Music Videos

After watching many videos i feel i shall be resembling some of the videos that have been created by the foo fighters. This is mainly to the story in which the videos normal consist of and then live shots of the band playing. The videos in which the foo fighters create often have a sense of humour and strangness about them such as "Learn to Fly" and " Everlong". In these 2 videos live shots of the band playing and a main story line is both achieved. In these to videos the band members can normally be seen acting out various roles which the story shows. Such as the "Learn to Fly" video all the main characters are acted out by Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel and Taylor Hawkins, with a cameo role of Jack Black and Kyle Gass at the start stashing some sort of controlled substance.
When creating my video i intend to use the band members in some of the acting seens, and in the other shots use quick cuts of the band playing. By acting out the lyrics of a song the lyrics are given more of a meaning and can be shown by the directors point of view which in this case shall be me.

The Feeling - Sewn

In this video you see the band members playing their instruments and singing in various places, supposedly all in the same room. As the band members continue to play, they get "Sewn" up in what seems to be fibres coming from their intruments and furniture, effectively "sewing" them up. As the video continues the members get further entangled and trapped. The lyrics in the chorus "You've got my Heart in a Head Lock, You Stop the Blood and Make My Head Sore!" This relates back to the vines ensnarling them and sugests that the fibres could be that of the woman/man in who the song is about. What seems to be as the song gets louder and more upbeat the faster the chords tangle the band, this could relate to the more a person gets involved with a relationship or a certain person, the worse they come up and they are drawn into the trap.

How i chose the song and audience.

I chose the song as my friends are in a band, called The Edition, and it is the sort of music in which i listen to. The music is set out for a local audience of people who appreciate the pop/punk and indie scene. The song was my favourite, in which the band produced, out of 3 others which they have recorded. The song is called "We only make computers for education", which tells a story about a teenager who uses internet chat rooms (Msn Messenger) to ask a girl out. It then continues to go on about his attempts to date her, but ends in misery. Lyrics will be posted soon with ideas of the music video

As seen in this poster to advertise their austrailian tour you can see the inter textuality between this and their album cover. The main image is seen here aswell as the logo of their name. The album, "echoes, silence, patience and grace" is however put below the logo as this is off less importance and just states that this is their latest tour of this album. The main logo and image of this poster makes the viewer aware that it is the foo fighters as it can seen upon their album aswell.

In this Video it shows Fall out Boy playing "America's Suiteheart" upon a carousel dressed in fantasy costumes, this suggests that regular life is just a carousel and continues to go around and round. With the band dressed in fanstasy costumes this can suggest that the world we are in is not what it seems and there is more to what you see on the T.V. The music videos show what seems to be ordinary people looking into a tv then they get sucked in to the reality/fantasy world which changes them, as portrayed in the video can happen to anyone. Once dragged through the T.V screen the percieved stars then turn into a cartoon then a fantasy character even though it seems they repel the action.

Foo Fighters- In Your Honour

In this double album cover the Foo Fighters have added a sunrise effect in the bacground of the image to show that this is the main part of the album art. As the light blue lines point to the centre it directs your attension to the golden eagle in the centre. The golden eagle is the symbol of america which represents the honour in which the band have for their country. The blue curtain like background of the eagle gives the sense of a presidential sort of feeling, with the gold adding a more expensive, royal feel to the image. The banner which displays the name of the foo fighters name suggests that it is a royal peace of parchment which fits in with the rest of the image. The bison at the top of the image is a piece of art that is used throughout many of the foo fighter albums and can be used as a sort of symbol. Finally the white flours at the top of the artwork suggest the innocence of the second album due to it being acoustic.

Muse - Starlight

In the opening couple of seconds of the video you see a ship, upon the ship is the three piece band Muse. The reason for the ship in the video relates to the lyrics, "Far away, This Ship Is Taking Me Far away." Which can suggest that the band wants to get away from the city life of what they live which can be influenced by the next line of the song, "Far away from the memories, of the people who care if i live or die". With the band playing alone on the boat this can suggest that they dont care about anyone else and just want to be alone from everyone. Further on into the song, into the chorus, the lyrics of " I'll never let you go, If you promise not to fade away, never fade away!", At this point of the video the lead singer Matt Bellamy fires off a flare gun which links to the words "ill never let you go" as the flare could link to the person as a metaphor for his love. However straight after this the flare starts to "Fade Away" suggesting that the metaphor is already going to fade.

The image shown is that of a male figure dressed as a bear and that as a bear on the back of him. This Image relates to the title of the album " FOLIE a DEUX", this word is french and translates to " A Madness Shared By Two" thus explaing the image.

The Colour of the background enhances the image as it contrasts with the yellow suit of the human.

The text upon the album cover is simetrically plaed either side of the and the middle word is not in bold, this means it is jsut a connective word and is less importand that the others. " FOLIE a DEUX" is in a different colour to show that it is the album name.

In this album cover there of the Foo Fighters you see the latest version of the Foo Fighters name in which is their latest logo, the font in which they use is very basic and in block, capital lettering. This makes the Text stand out from the bald plain background which seems to be of old parchment.
The albums name "ECHOES, SILENCE, PATIENCE & GRACE" is also in block lettering and an ordinary font how ever the name of the title is unordinary and the "&" simbol is in a different colour which suggests that you must not forget the word grace as it is just as important as all of the other ones.
The image in the centre of the album seems to be the tail end of a bomb which could link with the title of the album, with the echoes being the dropping of the bombs, silence of the aftermath and the patience and grace of the people who were not harmed on the victims of the bombs. However the other part of the bomb is unclear as the glass chamber seems that to resemble a light bulb but the inside is not a filament but instead looks more like that of some old electronics.

Types of Music Videos

Types of Music Videos
•Abstract
•Live
•Animation
•Novel (story telling)
•Film Extract (soundtrack video)
•Spoof

• Abstract:
  •Abstract are the videos that are more art than a meaning to the video.
  • Good examples of this are the Gnarls Barkley video of Crazy
  •A second example is Robyn, With Every Heart Beat.
• Live Videos
  •These are filmed manly of bands and other artists that are playing live. These are normally incorporated with stories and other clips.
• Animation
  •This where the videos of the band either tell a story through there video or they are intertwined with live shots such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers video Californication and the KoRn video Freak on a Leash.
• Novel
• These videos tell a story which can either relate to the song or have a meaning in their own. These are also intertwined with live shots of the band playing. Good examples of these videos are Green Day, When September Ends and Fall Out Boy, A Little Less Sixteen Candles a Little More Touch Me
• Film Extracts
• These can be songs which have inface been made for the film. The music videos normally show extracts of the film and even the band animated within the film. Music Videos which have been used for this are ones such as Chad Croeger, whisch was shot for The Spider man movies... and Linkin Park which have Created 2 songs for the 2 Transformer Videos.