The top two images above they where my digipak and poster, the relation to the video where, we use a black and white special effect. The reason we make it black and white because this is the house style, to empathize the genre of the song, which its a sad song and to illustrate to audiences.
Im going to textual analyses one of the popular artist in Taiwan, his name is Show, also known as Alan Luo , is a popular Taiwanesesinger, host and dancer. The genre of music he sing where R&B, Hip-Hop, dance and Mandopop.
There were 3 re-releases (total 4 versions) of this album. There was also a special premium version released only in Taiwan. It had a limited run of 10 thousand, and included a SPESHOW phone strap and the album was autographed. Heres one of the version, this ablum released in November 17, 2006, the format where: CD,CD+DVD, the labe where AVEX is the holding company for a group of entertainment-related subsidiarie based in Japan, it sold 120,000+ in Taiwan.
From the Cinematography a Mid-Long shot of the singer to empathise his star persona, the use of colour for the front cover it uses grey to contrast his outfit (black and white) to make him standout form the photo. The reason it uses a long shot because his is promoting a clothing brand, to attract his fans to buy the cloths that his promoting. It uses image all over the CD cover, the reason for this because it mainly base on promot the artist and to empathise him in the ablum. The outfit Show is wearing is a black and white to show his mutuality.
In the cover of the ablum it uses a simple typography showing "SPESHOW" and a smaller front showing his chinese name "羅志祥", the reason why this ablum called "SPESHOW" because his english name is Show and by putting "SPE" in front of "Show" to make it sound like "special" to repersent his is special to his fans.
The iconography it uses in this digipak are the golden and silver bird, to indicated freedom, peace and pursuit of a golden bird by a king's three sons. The song was listed at the back of the CD cover using white to stand out from the artist images and make it basice and fashionable with his star persona.
In this digipak it has free gift for his fans e.g. a card borad of Show like a table decration and his autographed, by including this to attract fans, streaming audience to buy it, or aiming at people who like to collect artist gift.
Inside the ablum it has a booklet, inside it has his lyrics, images of Show, form the look of the booklet the photo are the one who mainly foucas on then the lyris, the size of the letter is really small. At the end of the booklet it has a little note from the artist writing for his fans and his lable company, by putting this small note to connote his fans club, to create the star images as being kind, nice to his audiences.
The booklet contant small promotion cards to promot his next event, and it include free download ringtone website at the back which gain more popularity. The design for his CD it uses the iconography which is the bird, to make it simple but memorable to audience, and uses a plain background to stand out the typrography.
Jeffrey Scott Buckley
I have chosen Jeffrey Scott Buckley. The reason i have chosen him because the genre of his music is what my artist is doing and his is one of his inspiration for Folk music.
I have chosen Jeffrey Scott Buckley. The reason i have chosen him because the genre of his music is what my artist is doing and his is one of his inspiration for Folk music.
Jeffrey Scott Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician. After a decade as guitarist-for-hire in Los Angeles, Buckley gained popularity in the early 1990s by playing cover songs at venues in Manhattan's East Village, such as Sin-é, gradually focusing more on his own material. After rebuffing much interest from record labels and his father's manager Herb Cohen, he signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and recorded what would be his only studio album, Grace.
Website
As we look at the website it uses a simple black and grey background to create a cool style as simillar to what their star persona has create to audience, by using photoshop to edit a brigth colour in 2NE1 picture to empathise each of their personality and create a future style to their fans. The design for a popular girl group website is really simple, very basic not really attrative for audience, link is include in the top bar e.g. about 2NE1, froum, News etc, which let their fans to learn or know more about the group. The style of this website create a diary feeling to me, as showing more different side of the artist then their music, it does not include music track in the website, which most of the artist would do to promot their music.
CD Cover
The design cover for the CD it uses a materlic silver , embred letter showing 2NE1, no images of the artist. But is create one of their genres which is Electrpop, Hip-Hop, K-Pop etc style. Their star persona is matching with their CD and website which create a futurism, electric mood to their mainstream audience.
Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AratTMGrHaQ
This Music video is one of their latest song. the custom is used to relate to their star person as beeing a fashionable Hip-Hop, R&B artist. From the use of custom would helo them to create more fans becasue of what their wearing is fashionable which is what most of the target group want's. In the Music Video it have different typs of element to empathise their images. the storyline help to plot their style, to repersent them as bad girls. From the lyris it empathise there genre of being R&B.
Vivid colour, props and make-up is use to identified each members. The beginning of the music they always start with their slogan Together 2NE1 with indevate, empathise them and the name of the group to make audience to remember them.
Soft rock
Soft rock is also referred as mellow rock, light rock, or easy rock, the reason i have select this music genre because the artist i have chosen he make soft rock music. Is a style of music which uses the techniques of rock and roll to compose a softer, more toned-down sound for listening.
Soft rock songs generally tend to focus on themes like love, everyday life and relationships. The genre tends to make heavy use of acoustic guitars, pianos, synthesizer sand sometimes saxophones. The electric guitars in soft rock are normally faint and high-pitched.
Soft Rock begin around 1970s is has been a reaction against the increasingly heavy music (heavy metal,punk rock) that was developing at the time, and also as a reflection of the changing priorities of the Baby Boom-generation. What set 1970s soft rock apart from its 1960s counterpart, which is usually just called "pop", is that in the 1960s' pop artists usually were vocalists who were stylistic throwbacks to the pre-rock era.
Soft rock became hugely popular later in that decade. By 1977, some radio stations, like New York's WTFM and WYNY, had switched to an all-soft-rock format. Around that same time, the band Chicago, which had previously been a jazz-rock band, switched to soft rock and reached their biggest commercial successes. British/American blues band Fleetwood Mac achieved its greatest success after adopting parts of the genre. Even Led Zeppelin, considered by some to be standard bearers of hard rock, flirted with the genre at the time in songs like 1979's "All My Love". By the 1980s, tastes had changed and radio formats reflected this change; the genre evolved into what came to be known as "adult contemporary", a pop categorization that bore less overt rock influence than its forebear.
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