Monthly Archives: September 2013

Album Art Design: 4 Panels Preliminary Ideas

Below is an image showing the preliminary designs for our album artwork, showing all 4 panels of our initial designs. The image below shows merely sketches of our initial ideas, these are not necessarily the final design ideas for our album … Continue reading

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7 Deadily Sins Research

For our music video our chosen song is ‘Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked’ by Cage The Elephant. As prior mentioned to accompany our music video we must also design and create a digi-pak including album artwork. In a previous … Continue reading

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Sourcing Found Footage and Requesting Permission

For our music video we aim to adopt a narrative style, whereby our protagonist acts out the story told through the lyrics. Within these lyrics there are four characters mentioned, in terms of casting we have decided the actors to play three out of the … Continue reading

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Story Board Draft and ‘Time Line’ Planning

In order to plan our music video we had to create a story board planning the shots we wish to include to create an overall idea of the structure before we begin the filming process. This is a significant part of … Continue reading

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Album Art: Front Cover Preliminary Design

Since researching into album art design as a group we have begun planning into our own album art designs, taking inspiration from other albums researched. These have helped us in our preliminary creative choices, our first idea has been for … Continue reading

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Album Art Annotations – Muse: The Resistance

Album art designs are key to research before creating your own idea so that you can take inspiration from external materials and previous albums which are iconic. To continue this research process into album artwork I have researched and found images … Continue reading

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Album Art Design Research

To accompany our music video for our final piece we also need to include an album cover which is part of a ‘digi-pack’. This album cover needs creative and professional looking album artwork, so to better our understanding of the … Continue reading

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Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked Lip Syncing – Test

To improve upon our previous attempts with lip syncing we attempted to practicing lip syncing again, this time with the chosen song for our music video: Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked, in order to give ourselves practice with this technique. As … Continue reading

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