Album Cover Photos

As a group we have come up with a few album cover options, we used a certain style that other R&B artists use where the artist is the key focus of the cover with the artists name in a simple font but not necessarily bold. This is creates the impression that the artists is seen as confident this is because the fact that the album cover only really contains a picture of the artists tells us that they do not need anything else to get people to recognise the artist and to buy the album. Here are our final few options of our album cover:

Storyboard Photos

Filming Photos

As we have a very small budget, we had to come up with a way of creating a stage scene, this involved dimming the lights and only having one light source that we could use as a spotlight, for this we used the projector in a classroom. Here are a couple of photos of our set up:

Our Album Name

As a group we decided that we would originally choose 'Gansta' for the name of our album as it is the name of our main song on the album. However we wanted to research for other names for our album as we thought that there would be a better name that would suit our artist and music genre. We looked at other related artists such as Beyonce and Rihanna and looked at their album names.

We came up with these names and got friends and family to vote on what they would prefer, here are our results:

 

DigiPack Template

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Digi-Pack Research

As part of our coursework, we have to come up with a digi-pack design, we weren't too sure on how an RnB digi-pack design so we have decided to research previous RnB designs used by other artists.

One example of an RnB digi-pack is Rihanna's 'Loud' album, from this digi-pack we have noticed that the font used tends to be very basic and easy to read, this could be so it catches they eye of the customers in the shops of which these digi-packs are sold. We have also noticed that the artists name is more or less always on the front cover of the album, this could be as a sign of confidence as confidence is a key theme in an RnB song and music video. We have also noticed that in the centre of the inlay/leaflet there is a picture of the artist printed out across three pages, I believe this is used because it keeps the digi-pack interesting and artistic which gives customers another reason to purchase this product.

Useful Shots to Use in Our Video

In our music video we are using shots which require a car and looking through a car window, we weren't too sure on how we should film these shots so we decided to gather some research in order to find the best shot and angle to use. We looked at Selena Gomez's 'Same Old Love' which included a couple of 'in the car shots, they all seemed to be from outside the car, looking in through the window. They have decided to focus in on the window in order to capture the reflection of the lights in the window and in the raindrops on the window. We believe that this could potentially be a useful shot of which we could include in our video as it creates a nice effect.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h30Bx4Klxg