Digi-pak rough design

This is the rough outline for my digi-pak design. I have drawn up a rough sketch of what my digi-pak will look like. I have plans to change it in some areas, such as the back and front cover, but aside from this I plan on keeping the structure of the whole piece very much the same.

 

This is just a quick look at what I have done so far. I plan on continuing my design and making a full size version on Photoshop. This means I can modify the way I like and make it look like my own. It also gives it the realistic feel and makes it more appealing not only to myself but to our audience, it gives  a more authentic feel and allows me to use this as a basis for any further work.

Teacher Feedback

Teacher feedback

                             

This is a screen capture of when my teacher assessed my blog. We went through the blog in order to establish what I had exactly done and what was not yet completed. This enabled me to make a list and complete things, which I hadn't already. I looked deeper into the genre of post grunge and looked into creating the base image for my artist.

We began to slowly build up what they would look like by using a variety of blog posts, images and background. This helped to give a sense of perspective of who are artist really is.

Secondary audience profile

secondary audience profile of Tear Down:

The audience for our band is also going to be a niche audience due to its genre.

Age: 15-25

Gender: Female.

Race: Caucasian.

Sexuality: Heterosexual.

Education: Current (GCSE/A level)

Occupation: Brand E {students or part time workers.}

Annual income: Disposable. 

Life style: Student,  anti-social, not many friends, grungy fashion, no real money flow, public transport, quiet, independent.

desired life style: having/wanting a boyfriend, wanting money, popularity, someone who understands them.

Culture: UK/America.

Media interests: Post Grunge music/Alternative, Action/Thriller/Horror films, social media sites {Tumblr, Instagram} 

Buying Habits: Games, cheap food {mcdonalds/Kfc}, Thrift stores/charity shops. 

Pitch

When we performed the pitch for our band Tear Down we had to explain in detail who exactly they are. This meant a lot of detail was needed in order to explain who they actually were. My group may know the artist and genre of music very well but others may not know anything about it making extra detail vital. Unfortunately out presentation was not this best for simply not including enough information about our artist and genre. We will need to perform our pitch again in order for the rest of the class to fully understand the band and genre inside out. This means a lot more planning needs to go into it and a lot more thought with each slide.

We need to modify the presentation and add new things and things we have missed out. This includes things such as record labels, similar artists and more shots of locations. By doing this it will help the class to begin to understand who are band really are and what they are trying to do within the music industry. We will need to complete all of this in order to reshoot our pitch and get a better understanding from the class. Our feedback was not at all bad "as such" just general things they did not understand, meaning that we need to see to everyone of these points. The points were just simple question sand not criticisms about the band at all. This shows that the whole idea and function of the band is not bad, just the presentation of them.

What record label are Tear Down signed to?

Tear Downs record label:

Tear Down are sign to DGC  and Sub Pop record company. We have chosen these record labels since they have signed a lot of high end acts however, Sub Pop have gained the highest rating and success level with big bands such as Sound Garden and Nirvana, which happen to be bands that are very close and relative to the music which we are doing.

We have chosen these two record labels since they are the closest and most relevant but believe they would fit our artists since they have the Grunge and alternative feel to them, with minimal success but higher fame in more unconventional and less known artists.

Band Profile Hand-Outs

This is the template for the band profile hand-out which we will be handing out for our pitch. This hand-out talks all about our band and gives a brief history into the band and tells about their outlook on life. This allows for a different form of media to be used and makes it easier and less monotonous for the audience.

Audience Profile

This is a rough outline as to everything that our audience would enjoy if they listened to post grunge.They can be social but often choose to stay in and listen to their music and scroll around social networking sites hiding their true identity.

Preliminary Shots

 Preliminary shots:

 

Within our music video the environment and story are key. We are going to have a narrative feel to our music video meaning we need the expected areas and meaning we need to make them interesting. To do this we have decided to shoot some of the video located in the woods since it is very dark and not much light will be shown within the scene.

 

 

Breakdown of Tear Down

Who are Tear Down?

Tear Down is the name of our post grunge band. In the group we have three member one vocalist, one on guitar and the other on drums. Tear Down are a British made band who are hoping to make it big in America.



Brief History:
They first met when they picked up Music studies for GCSE and were placed in group based on their preferences on music. They were placed in their small group of alternative and began to play as a band for the first time with their first choice of song Nirvana-Smells like teen spirit. They continued to play in their band and eventually left school and achieved their first pub performance and continued from their eventually claiming their name in the music industry.

Influences:
The band had such influences as many classic grunge bands such as Sound Garden and Nirvana. In recent years they have found their aspirations from bands such as Seether and Staind. This has allowed them to adjust their style  in a way fitting to the times but adding their own unique twist to the music industry. By doing this it has allowed them to gain much more success within the industry and get to the point to which they are now, even now they are gaining more fans.

Tear Down love the going on tour and thats the reason why they started in the music industry, their sole purpose was to entertain people with their unique lyrics. They never intended to get as far as they did but they did and now they have started selling merchandise to their fans.

The genre of grunge and post-grunge is very simple... its all related to depressive and angry feeling music. However, Tear Down want to break away from this genre convention and make their own. they feel what's better than to take that feeling of depression and make people feel the opposite with relatable lyrics and a similar purpose. People find reasoning within the genre of grunge, that feeling that you are not the only one who has suffered. Tear Down want to show it is not the only way but in order to make someone feel better you ned to show them that there is an alternative and that is the one aim of Tear Down.

What we want Tear Down to look like:

This is the appearance of post grunge. This is what we intend for every member of our group to look like. In order to do this we need the continuos theme of long hair, piecings and checkered or band t-shirts.  

Story Board- The Begginings

Initial storyboard plans:

 

These slides are the first four storyboard plans which take around about a minute of the song. Each drawing shows the positioning of the camera and the length of time the shot will consist of, as well as the lyrics and the specific angles used.

 

Music Video Director-WoodKid

Woodkid

Yoann Lemoine is his real name and he has been around for many years, but also happens to be not only an artist I like but a video director and designer. He has had a vast career working his way up from directing other peoples music videos such as :

There are many stories as to how he became a musician after his direction days, but the one I know well is that he was asked to play a Banjo on a set he was filming and naturally began to sing, someone commented on his talent and from there he began his career. He has come from being hardly known to have two of his most sold songs; Iron and Run Boy Run feature on many TV commercial making his songs better known due to their catchy rhythm.

Band Profile

This is the rough idea as to what some of our band members will be wearing. We have decided to take the traditional look of grunge and add a modern feel. This will help adhere to the modern "grungers".

Different Genre

For a research task my group decided that creating this table to see what sub genres of each genre there are. This allows for an in-depth view into everything meaning that e can get a clear differential into what sub genre we are doing. We can clearly see the difference between all of the genres making it easy to see the difference between our genre and all of the others.

Costume elaboration

Costumes:

After a discussion with my teacher I have looked further into the idea of the grunge style.  For this I have looked at bands such as Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Sound Garden. These three bands were very big in the 90's grunge scene and that is why they are the prime bands to look at. I have discovered that many grunge bands wear a lot of dark and loose fitting clothing and many have checkered patterns on them such as this.



This means we will need to experiment with our bands clothing a bit more but our final piece should look a little like one of the original bands but with a modern twist. To do this we will need to take elements from all of the old bands and their clothing and appearance and incorporate this into our band to get a finished piece, which looks similar to this.

Mood Board

Mood board

Annotated Digi-Paks

Digi-Pak analysis

I have annotated a few digi-pak, which may be useful when creating my one. I have chosen one of a completely different genre and three of the same. The one of a different genre will help me and my group to see what elements that has and completely reverse them in order to get a less pop culture feel. The other three were similar genres and will help the group by making visible all of the elements, which work with the digi-pak and what do not in order to get a better finished piece.

Within these slides I have discussed everything, which is visible and will help the connotation of each digi-pak.

 This makes it a quick and simple task to look at all of my previous posts and pull bits of information and things which will work with the style and collaborate all of that information and get a finished product.