The Conventions...

Conventions for an album cover are:

Front cover:

1. The artist/band on the front cover if it is artists first one and mostly for solo's they are always on the front cover.

2. The name of the album.

Spine:

1. The album title

2 The artist/bands name

3. The record company's name

Back Cover:

1. The songs

2. The bar code

3. Thanks to...

Inside:

1. The booklet

2. More pictures of the artist/band

3. Little info on the band/artist

4. Song lyrics

5. Little info on the songs

What formats are out there???

Looking in magazines and billboards you will find that they have wil sometimes and mostly have album adverts in them. Take leona Lewis new album 'Echo' it was in magazines, on the back cover of them, on billboards and adverts on televison. This is a very good way to promote a new album as more people will be able to see it.

Our progress...

We still havent been able to film due to weather conditions, which I think is going to be the reason for quite a while so I think we need to look at changing it slightly. We have started our digi packs which means that we are not stuck with things to do.

Mystery jets- young love!!!!

This is bare minimal but very effective. It is shot in the same place the whole time where as our video is shot in numerous places, we wanted it to be the exact opposite to the original and more updated as we think it will appeal more to our target audience. We are having three boys and 1 girl but the original is just a band of boys and Laura Marling is just featuring in it. Mixing up the band with both sexes we thought it would appeal to boys and girls instead of just one gender.

I really like the video to this song, it's simple but effective in the way it makes you pay more attention to the lyrics in the song instead of a busy extravagant video full of half naked dancers dancing on brand new expensive cars.

The Inspiration...

These are only a couple shots for Factory girl, the film we are using as our inspiration. As you can slightly see from these shots some of the camera work was done documentary style. Also in some parts of the film e.g. the scene where they are walking in the park the camera looks hand held, I liked this style as I thought it let the audience engage more because when she spun round the audience spun round and when she stumbled the audience felt like they were stumbling, I know this may seem like your on a roller coaster, but (and i know this may sound cheesy) you were in a way because her life was so crazy and there were so many ups and downs your on the metaphorical roller coaster that is her life.