Conceptualising

Conceptualising for my music video.

Themes, Colours and Fonts

This moodboard looks at some of the images, fonts, themes and colours I want to use in my video.

Digipak Analysis - Hyro Da Hero & Mikill Pane

The LaFontaines - Light Up The Background

This is my completed music video for The LaFontaines' song, Light Up The Background.

Album Cover - Free by Twin Atlantic

 I decided to look at the artwork for Twin Atlantic's album, Free, since I looked at one of their songs in my research into music videos, and it is taken from this album.
The cover is interesting as it has many objects that all seem fairly unrelated, such as a megaphone and a statue of the Virgin Mary, a fuel tank and a statue of a ballerina.
The background being so neutral helps to draw attention to these images, and interestingly, the name of the band is not emphasised very much, as the font is fairly unremarkable and is far smaller than the images.
However, I think it is a cover that sticks in the mind due to the variety of interesting images it  has. I also feel the images must all relate somewhat to the idea of being 'free' although, there are probably different links. To illustrate this, I took the images and sorted them to show how some of the images represented freedom.
I think that the album cover manages to remain relatively simple whilst still containing a lot of images. I am a fan of simple covers and hence I would like to be able to use one when I am creating my own digipak for The LaFontaines. From studying this cover and the one for Mikill Pane, I can see that it is important to use simple images that have strong symbolism as this is a good way of not only reinforcing the title, but also helping to give glimpses into the mentality of the band.
I also like the idea of the band's name not being the central focus of the CD cover but instead having an image or two to help present the band instead.