Practice Digipak

Practice Magazine Advert

This is my Practice magazine advert for a Lil Wayne album, i used this to portray the normal conventions of magazine adverts, as i had already analysed with the Janet Jackson magazine cover.

Digipak Sketch

Once again, my poor drawing skills were put into use to do a sketch for a digipak. I looked at conventions of digipaks, and from then went onto draw a practice one for sum 41.

Magazine Sketch

This was the practice sketch for my magazine advert, once again taking the main conventions of magazine adverts and putting them to paper.

Digipak Analysis

This is one of the early digipak's that were released by the Offspring. It's feature include:

• An image of the band
• Different Colours highlighting the titles of the digipak, including the band name, and name of album.
• A Tracklist on the back
• Barcode for Retail on the back
• The Record Label it was released on
• Name of the Artist on the Back
• Contrasting Colours between the back and front cover
• Black Box for the tracklist to make it stand out

This is another digipak from the Offspring, this digipark involves:

• It has an animated image on the front
• There's a box with the name of the Band in the Top Right-Hand corner
• There's a tracklist on the back
• Another animated Image on the back
• Barcode
• Record Label
• Title of the Album is along the bottom

Magazine Advert Analysis

The main conventions of an Advert are:

1. Name of Band/Artist and Album
2. Date of Album Release
3. Band/Artist image/ Style
4. Featuring Songs
5. Form of Release (CD Download)
6. Either Photograph of Artwork as main image
7. Record Company
8. Bands Website- Myspace/ Official Page
9. Critical Quotes, ratings
10. Set Colour Scheme

Band of Skulls- Fires

• Name of Band at the top
• Image of the album cover in the centre of the advert
• Album cover image is the background too
• Release Date Shown
• Website along the bottom
• Dark colours used with light writing
• Colours signify it could be part of the Rock Genre
• No image of the Band
• Colour links into the title of the single
• Title of the single is in italics so it makes it stand out
• 7" and Download

Discipline- Janet Jackson

• Title of the Album & Artist on the Arms of Janet Jackson
• Image of the Artist fills the middle of the image
• Info including Artist name, release date, record label, website etc on the black strip at the bottom
• Black and White Colour Scheme
• Focus is mainly on the artist in the middle of the poster
• Acclaims of the artist stated in the information
• Name in Bold
• Plain Background
• Portrait image so it would take up a whole page in a magazine, size of the her image is shown in this.

Shooting Schedule

Risk Assessment

As regards to risk in my Music Video, there wasn't a huge amount to be concerned about. When driving i had to make sure that i wasn't driving at high speeds, as well as the fact that i was driving at night i had to make sure headlights were on etc. The motorway bridge in egham provided the biggest challenge in terms of safety due to the fact there were low fences, so we had to make sure we were careful with the camera, as well as ourselves when we were looking over the edges of the bridge. When filming the "tramp" scene we had to place our camera in the middle of the road outside the co-op which was obviously a risk, however once one car had stopped it allowed us to film for a few seconds before allowing the car to proceed.

Lyrics to The Kid's Aren't Alright

When we were young the future was so bright
The old neighborhood was so alive
And every kid on the whole damn street
Was gonna make it big and not be beat

Now the neighborhood's cracked and torn
The kids are grown up but their lives are worn
How can one little street
Swallow so many lives

[Chorus]
Chances thrown
Nothing's free
Longing for what used to be
Still it's hard
Hard to see
Fragile lives, shattered dreams

Jamie had a chance, well she really did
Instead she dropped out and had a couple of kids
Mark still lives at home cause he's got no job
He just plays guitar and smokes a lot of pot

Jay committed suicide
Brandon OD'd and died
What the hell is going on
The cruelest dream, reality

[Chorus x2]
Chances thrown
Nothing's free
Longing for what used to be
Still it's hard
Hard to see
Fragile lives, shattered dreams
Chances thrown
Nothing's free
Longing for what used to be
Still it's hard
Hard to see
Fragile lives, shattered dreams


These are the lyrics to the song that I have chosen for my Music Video