Potential design image for A4 poster

Based on this photograph of our artist, I produced this piece of artwork, which was for potential use towards the A4 poster. However due to the unreliability of the performer and unaccessibility towards him, our group are considering replacing him for another main performer. Therefore this conceptual design would be rendered useless and have to be scrapped if we do indeed decide to go along with that decision.

Potential CD Covers presentations

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CD Cover Idea - Front Cover

Step 5: I removed the shine within this newer version because I believed the technique seemed to start overused, and more so 'tacked on' rather than becoming an actual necessary and essential feature for the design.
I finished colouring the background of the image to sufficiently match the foreground, however now looking back at it I believe the colours do not provide for the most successful job at highlighting and relating towards the grime genre. Instead the red/ mahagony brown tone of the main colour and the also gold relate more towards the Soul and R&B genres instead.
The font was just a prototype use in order to see how the title would appear on the CD cover, and whilst I believe I will be sticking with the name, the actual font I feel is bland, boring and non-connotive towards the grime genre.



Step 3 and 4: Focuses on adding artificial shine within certain features of the artist's appearance, such as the artist's earring, in order to exemplify upon the artist's wealth due to success, make him appear flashier and therefore more acceptable to the audience, especially one within this genre of grime, and just make him appear more satisfying to look at on a whole. Shine was also added to the artist's eye as experimentation to see if he would again appear more pleasing to look at in terms of aesthetics, and also illustrate a glimmer of the foreboding, accomplishing future that lies ahead of this artist as symbolically he is only looking towards the light, and therefore towards positivity. This is subversive of the stereotypical grime artist, as usual they will look back upon a grim, dark background instead.
I also added some colour to the background of the image, to make it fit in with the design of the artist as well.

Step 2: Cropped out parts of the background, and made the image bigger to make the artist take up a greater portion of the CD and therefore sub-consciously appear of greater significance.

Step 1: The actual photograph for the desired image to be used within the CD cover.

With this idea for the CD cover, I had taken a photo I had of our performer; and decided to add various effects onto it to grant the image with greater aesthetic gratification and therefore make it appear more appealing. The concept of giving the artist a 'cartoonish' look I believe is subversive and challenging to the stereotypical grime artist, as it alters the tough, sinister, intimidating appearance that may be usually and conventionally associated to such an artist. I thought what would be conventional to a grime artist would be to have the artist looking away from the camera, to become a non-direct addressing pose and therefore subtly highlights the artist's ego, and makes him appear trendy and 'cool' because of it. Since he seems important enough to not have to stare at us yet we still have to stare at him.

Feedback

Enyinna, this blog is well organised and easy to navigate. Your use of slide shows are particularly useful in viewing the more visual apects of the research and planning and work. You now need to upload your group's vox pops. You have worked hard so far - well done.

Vox Pox questions used

What do you expect to see in a music video of this genre?

Which music TV channels would you expect to see this music video on?

Why do you watch a music video?

What themes or narratives do you expect to see in a music video of this genre?

How do you think a male performer in this music video should be represented?

How do you think we can make an RnB/ Grime music video original?

Potential Performers for Music Video

The performer, Kyle, who will be taking the main, leading role as Wretch 32 was chosen by the group because we believed he had the key appearance to that we were looking for in the artist. This is due to our assurities that he fits into the conventional ideology and stereotype of what you would conceive an artist within this genre to look like, so we thought he would consequently be the best representation of the artist Wretch that we could find. We felt that he had all the features and attributes to depict a realistic and most importantly believable grime artist, therefore he would be an ideal performer to use for him.



Kalise we believe has key features as well to displaying a great image for Wretch's partner and being an appropriate, believable actress that would be able to illustrate companionship between the couple vividly. She not only has the looks but also, along with Kyle, has a certain amount of knowledge into the field of music, film and media; and therefore would also be suitable to work with in order to display an excellent and fitting embodiment of the character she is acting as.



Tara was also another actress we considered of filling the role of Wretch's partner, as we believed she fulfilled the necessary requirements both in image yet also in belief and realism. This is as she possesses great skill and ability in theatre and drama, and therefore could be able to perform top level acting supporting the realism and immersion of the performance.

Shooting Schedule

Weekly Shooting:

Date: Monday 11th October – Sunday 17th October
We will hope to get the performance shots done within these dates.
Date: Monday 18th October – Sunday 24th October 2010
Within these dates we hope to get some footage for the narrative scenes.
Date: Monday 25th October – Friday 29th October
Within these dates we are attempting to get more footage from the narrative scenes but at another location.
Date: Monday 1st November- Sunday 7th November 2010
Within these dates we are hoping to get more footage for the narrative scenes within the video.
Date: Monday 8th November – 22nd November 2010-10-03
Within these date we hope to go over and reshoot any parts of the music video we feel need to be improved.
Date: Monday 23rd November – 30th November we hope to get the final pieces of footage done within these dates.
Date: 1st December -19th December- get all filming and refilming of both performance and narrative scenes done, so we can move on to editing after holidays.