Piers Harrop A2 Media Studies

Saturday, 29 December 2012

RESEARCH: THE MUSIC INDUSTRY IN 2012

TouchTunes 2012 Charts infographic by touchtunes.

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

CODES AND CONVENTIONS

Analysis-Album Art- Codes and Conventions

Here are the typical codes and conventions you would see within a album art, most albums will have these on the front:

The album art will typically represent the album or the band themselves.
It will try to draw their specific target audience by employing techniques using colours or text that will attract the attention form the specific target audience.
It will establish the album and the artists name, along with the style or genre of music they produce.
It will have persuasive elements in it to persuade the audience to buy it for example it may have a promotional offer.
The album art will try to be creative through text and imagery it may employ. It will try to be original, individual and also have an artistic element to it.
Codes within these album covers are used to them communicate to the audience whatever message or ideology that they may want to get across.
Conventions are all things such as the band name, picture in the typical style of the artist or continuing on form previous album artwork, album name, imagery/art, price, explicit sign if the lyrics are extreme, and then a list of the songs on the back.

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CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF ALBUM COVERS- COLDPLAY

Tuesday, 27 November 2012

I discovered a free online program called 'image chef', on this program you are able to create diffferent images and shapes using words and colours. I felt that this may be quite appealing when constructing my Album cover. Below are a few of my experiments:

I chose to experiment with flowers and shapes associated with a good life, for example, music, flowers, smiley faces and heart shapes. I also chose to use colours that connote nature, love and happiness as I hope to use positive shapes and objects in my own album and digipack.

PRODUCTION: STABILISATION OF FOOTAGE

This lesson I used After Effects to stabilise some of my footage. This involved finding two contrasting two tracking points on the image. By stabilising the footage we were able to remove the hand held effect and replace it with a steadier tripod appearance.