CD Cover Questionnaire

Tour Poster Questionnaire

Group Work - Twitter page

Our artist now has their own Twitter page as part of our packaging.

Album Cover Mock Up

This is a the first mock up of our groups album cover as part of our packaging. This is one I have put together personally, which we all will be doing as a group in order to give us more options when it comes to producing our final Album Cover.

I have put this together with the skills I have learned and developed over this school term. I have also created this comparing it to album covers in this genre.

Once I and the rest of the group have produced their mock up we can then decide what ones we like and take strengths from each one and put one together as a group.

Group Work - Contact Sheet Selections

This image is great and as you can see the background is fantastic and catches the eye of the viewer instantly. (Potential CD cover).

This is similar to the image above as the colourful background draws the view in. This is something we have discussed and perhaps if we go with the image above for the CD cover, This image can be image for the back of the CD cover.

This image is strong as it is a relaxed image of the artist, however it still has the strong background image to draw the viewer in. However it may be seen as weak as the artist is not addressing the audience.

This image would be great for a Tour Poster as it represents the skateboarding aspect of the music video. However it does not show the artist it only shows a character from the video. Lots of artists do this such as Ed Sheeran, therefore it is not something we can rule out.

I really like this image as it looks quite mysterious. It does not show much and what it means is left open. However this would be good for a poster as it again shows the skateboarding aspect of the video. We could also edit this image and perhaps place another image of the artist in so it will then show both aspects of the video. (Artist & Character). 

Album Cover Analysis

Our next task is to create an album cover for our artist. Before I start to work on our album cover I will be looking at other artists in my genre and see how they display their album covers. Since dance music is not popular for albums it is hard to compare album covers. The dance music genre artists mainly produce singles rather than albums but I have come across a few albums I can take inspiration off.

One of the first things I have come across is that dance music albums dont tend to sell well as a hardback copy as the main source of selling is on Beatport and iTunes, this is for different reasons. Firstly the online downloadable versions are cheaper and easier to get than going out and buying a hardback copy. Another reason is the fact the genre does not have many artists producing albums but rather singles. 


The first album cover I have looked at is our songs original artist Hardwell. This is the album cover for his album that is due to be released on the 23rd of January 2015, it is titled 'United we are'. 

This album cover is very nice on the eye, it contains a mix of of colours in the background which work very well with the image of the artist. The album cover seems very basic but I think because Hardwell is the biggest artist in his genre he does not have to produce an exciting album cover since its going to sell no matter what the cover looks like. 

The thing I would take from this album is the simplicity of having the artist in the centre of the cover and a background to compliment what he is wearing (Colours matching). The artists picture has clearly been edited for him to look better and a bit cartoonish, I would take this into account when creating my own and maybe edit our artists picture with some sort of effect.   

The second album I am going to look at is Calvin Harris's 'Motion'. Calvin Harris is the most popular DJ and producer in the UK. This album debuted on the UK charts at number 2 and sold over 35,000 copies in its first week. This is what the album cover looks like - 

This is one of the most basic album covers i have come across, it is a basic background that supports the title name of 'Motion' as it is some sort of object moving. Then just the title of the artist and album in white bold text. I would want to avoid an album cover like this as its to basic in my opinion. I believe he has choose a basic cover for the same reason as Hardwell. 

Calvin Harris does not need an amazing album cover to sell it as he is well known and will sell his album based on his name and not the cover. I think I would have to create a eye catching album cover since my artist is not well known and would not sell his album based off his 'name'. 

YouTube error

Tody as I was going to update my blog and upload my groups final draft on to my individual blog, I discovered our video had been removed from YouTube. I was baffled by this and instantly knew this was a mistake as all the clips where filmed by one of us.

Therefore I instantly contacted YouTube, and they got back to me with the reasons for why it had been blocked. It was due to the song, not the footage & the fact we had put the video up with a different name of artist (Robert Masters) as apposed to Hardwell. I recieved an email regarding this issue and how to resolve it. As our video is purely for educational purposes it is okay as no money is being made from this.

I then filed the report explaining this is part of our media course and is not there to make money etc. This issue is no resolved and our video is back on YouTube, I have now updated the description of the video explaining its purpose so we do not have this problem again.

Blog Organisation

I decided to organise my blog better, idicating all the posts that I have done on the group blog any work which I have contributed to on the group blog. I have also posted them in this blog naming them with (Group Work) in front of the name of the post.

Group Work - Music Video Final Draft