Monday, 18 January 2016

Our poster ideas:

For our Advert we would like to include the same characteristics as our digipak meaning the same Font, Colour scheme of Black and White, and the Same photo from the front of our digipak will be used as the main image.

Main ideas we want to include:

  • Ft. hit single Let It Go
  • Social Media Logos and Web Addresses 
  • Realise Date of the album 
  • Artists name 
  • Album name (self-titled) 



Friday, 15 January 2016

About Artist for Page in Digipak:

Tobias Kane is a modern young artist born in Surrey in 1995, with a talent and love for music and songwriting. The true soul singer and guitarist went to the London School of Music, where his passion and skill for music grew. Through spending hours and hours a day in his room and singing on the streets, he became an inspiration to many for his enthusiasm and determination to share his work. 10 years on from the young teen, Tobias Kane now works in top studios, travelling around the world, sharing his work to his millions of dedicated fans.

He takes immense pride in his work, and loves the idea of creating and listening to music in which the whole world could be listening to, as he believes it creates a whole emotion in which himself and his fans can experience together.

His music is all about generating a new emotional experience for his fans.

Thank you... (for Digipak)

I would just like to thank so many people for helping and inspiring me to write and record this album. This feels like such a long time coming. Thanks for the support Charlotte Pain, Harry Ray, Richard Pardy, Mark Gastel and Hailey Evens. Also to my great record label Virgin Records, my brand Manager Katie and to all the marketing team, cheers for everything and for all your commitment making this album so special! I would like to make a huge mention to my fans for your constant love and support throughout my music career, I love you all, I hope you love the album as much as I loved creating it for you! Give me a little tweet, I’d love to hear what you think!


We are going to insert a signature at the bottom of the page, this makes the things that have been said more personal and realistic.  

Monday, 11 January 2016

Ideas for the Songs for the Back Cover of my Digipak:


  1. Let it go
  2. Love in pain 
  3.  Crazy
  4.  Satisfaction
  5.  Alive 
  6.  Light a Flame
  7.  GoodBye
  8.  Leave my life
  9.  Broken apart
  10. Let it go (DV remix) 
We came up with these song names as we believe they fit well with the artists image and the message we want to convoy. These names were thought of in a very casual and random way as when researching blues songs we found no correlation between them and in fact each song was very different and odd titled.


Analysing A Digipak:

We like this front cover due to the simplistic style and colour choice. The simple nature of the digipack cover creates a clear, uncomplicated, uncluttered front cover which simply showcases the artists name in large and the album name. The design around the name provides an engaging cover. We also found that this cover seems mature, sophisticated and based purely on music and skill within the album rather than the effects and editing for example, in a Lady Gaga album bright colours, editing and a busy album cover would be expected. 





From pages 2-7 in the digipack, he continues to repeat the same layout and style. This includes the song title, with the lyrics underneath on one page, with the other page on the double spread a black and white photo of the musicians. This again represents the musicians as music being their focus and passion as well as showing them how they make their music. This layout with the black and white scheme keeps the digipack consistent. 















 Page 8 and 9 in the digipack, is a double page spread showing the band as a whole playing together which the fans would like to see. As well as displaying the album name again big above the band. The colour scheme remains simple and this is effective as the black sits on the white background engaging the viewers. This middle page almost looks like a miniature poster.




 Pages 10-15 follow the same colour scheme and display the same information of song lyrics. However, the layout is a bit different. Having one page black with white writing and vice versa. These pages include three small photos on the side of the page which are effective in showing how the band made this video as well as close-up photographs of the members of the band both working and performing on stage.




Page 14 and 15 which is the last page, thanks all the help the band received for example "All songs written by Rice-Oxley... Produced by Andy Green... Marketing: Jon Turner... Thank you: Adam; Caroline, Ian, Paul..."Lastly, at the bottom it states the Record Label "2004 Universal Island Records Ltd" and the copyright. Lastly, a photograph of the band together where they are portrayed as a close and happy band together. It also states above the names of the band, and which each member's instrument and involvement is."Tom Chaplin; Vocals"

The last page goes back to the muddy green colour, consistent with the front cover. The simple background again provides a simple, sophisticated portrayal of the band and their musical intentions of providing entertainment through their music and skill rather than emphasis on fame. The bottom of the digipack it states the website 'www.keanemusic.com' 

Friday, 8 January 2016

Burning Pictures:

We are very happy with the turnout of our burning pictures shots, and we feel they turned out better then expected.

Our method was very easy. We used over the shoulder shots and birds eye view angles over Emmas head whlst she was sitting down. She used a lighter and started to light the corners of the pictures of her and Tobi to show the relationship ending. 
Secondly, we out the photographs in the fire. Sometimes we started filming when the photo was already burning and some footage we made Emma put the photo into the fire. We simply just filmed the photos burning slowly. Finally, we occasionally zoomed into the photograph which allowed the audience to see the photograph clearer and the each part of the photo burn (such as each body part slowly) which was more effective. 






Smashing Bottle Videos:

We used two white bed sheets to create a white backdrop for our shots, this meant the colour of the 'wine' showed up more and also to prevent the audience being distracted by the background such as the garden and trees naturally behind. 
We stood on a chair behind the backdrop to get a good height inorder of the bottle to fully smash. We use an iphone6 to film these slow-motion shots, at first we were worried about using this device, but we soon understood the timings and the method in which to get the best footage. We found that we had to count to three seconds once pressing the recird button in order for the slow motion effect to kick in at the right time. As it didnt take long to film we didnt feel we needed to use a tripod as our arm wouldntget tired and the shots were in too strange positions in order to get the right angles using a tripod stand. 

After filming these shots, we went back and reviewed our footage. We then used the iphone editing crop button, in order to keep our footage minimal and consise rather than long and boring. We understand using expensive cameras and expensive software to create this slow motion effect would have been more effective, but this was not accessible to us, and we feel this other alternative worked in our favour and showed our use of modern technology.