DigiPak - First Draft

I have decided to make a 4 panel digipak which will hold the CD for my artists album.

For my first draft I designed the CD hatching and the back cover of my digipak as I knew the ideas for these would be hard for me to come up with therefore I did a first draft on paper. I knew the designs for the other two faces of the digipak would come naturally to me once on Photoshop creating a second draft.

My ideas:

For the CD I wanted the name of the artist and the album name on there therefore I designed the CD to have these two things. I also wanted a picture of the artist herself on the CD as I had seen this done on real life texts such as albums from P!nk and Rihanna. I wanted the typography to fit in with the genre of the album which is love therefore I chose an effective curly italic style font to create this. The album name is still undecided so for now I have used the name of the real life artists Arianna Grande's album name as a stand in for what I will choose to name my own album.

The back cover of the digipak will contain an image of the sea and the sand interlocking with eachother. This will bring symbolism from the music video creating a feeling moving away and breaking free which willl be shown through the water moving around freely whereas the sand is stuck to the spot. The symbolism will be Izzy Bella as the water and her ex as the sand staying the same and not changing. I have also drawn in a light floaty/curly font the word 'love' which I will draw in the sand to create a good looking effect. This should be easy to create and will set the scene for the albums theme. Again for the song titles I have used the ones from Arianna's album until I come up with my own so for now it shows something on the design.

Album Name and Song Titles

The name for my album will not be the same as the title of the song I am creating a video for as I do not want it to look to integrated on my coursework therefore I chose to call the album Release Me which has connotations of breaking free or getting away from an partner or someone in his/her life which will be listening to or looking at this CD in the buying process.

The names of my songs are words related to relationships and love and I think fit perfectly in the genre of my CD of love and relationships.

ALBUM NAME: Release me

Track number 1-8
1. My love
2. True
3. Break Free
4. Denial
5. Fade Away
6. Release Me (album name)
7. Change
8.Undignified

Music Video - Final Draft

Artist Profile:

Izzy Bella
Alicia Isobel Rose who goes by the stage name 'Izzy Bella' was born in Ipswich, Suffolk on the 5th June 1991. She rose to fame in 2012 with her first number 1 single 'without you'. Shes about to release her second album 'release me' which is destined for great things. Izzy moved to West Lancashire to pursue her career as a singer/songwriter where she was signed by MILTON RECORDS.


Name: Izzy Thompson
Stage name: Izzy Bella
Age: 24
From: Ipswich, Suffolk
Years active: 2012-Present
D.O.B: 5th June 1991
Genre: Pop
Occupations: Singer/song writer
Record company: Milton Records

Researching a name for my artist was something I knew was vital in creating first impressions to potential audiences. Arianna Grande-Butera uses her birth name but shortened to 'Arianna Grande' as her stage name. I wanted to create a different style of artist so I completely changed the idea of using an artists actual name and come up with something which roles of the tongue and would be remembered. I knew the song for my music video would contain conventions of love therefore I researched girls names which are associated with love. When doing this I found the name Isabel which I instantly knew I loved.

After some thought and research into artists names I thought it would work better to create a 2 word name for my artist such as the likes of 'Katy Perry' 'Arianna Grande' and 'Iggy Azela' etc. After some more thought I decided on some names I could call my artists. The ones below in the screenshot from survey monkey were the ones I came up with.

 The names 'Izzy Bello' and 'Izzy bella' came from the first and second part of the name 'Isabel'. This was an easy and fun name I thought of which would be recognised and remembered. The names 'Chanel' 'Elda' and 'E' came from ideas of other artists names such as 'Katy B'.


After conducting this survey 'Izzy Bella' proved most popular with getting 90% of the votes to be the one I would use as my artists name. This one is my personal favourtie therefore I am glad the people in which carried out my survey chose it. I personally think this one will work best as it roles straight of the tongue and sounds the most realistic.

Mise en Scene

Mise en Scene was something I thought carefully about when planning my music video so my video would appeal to my target audience which is teens-mid 20's and also seem realistic using conventions which come under the titles of, Camera angles, Props, Costume and Editing.

Props: These are very important in creating a realistic feel to my video which will make my music video more successful and professional looking. The props I will feature in my music video will be a heart cushion which will be ripped in half to symbolise a broken heart. A ceramic shaped heart which will be dropped and smashed on a hard surface to show how a heart can shatter and other generic things such as a sofa which the 2 people will be sitting on which will create a close proximity to show how close and in love they were.

I will source my props from a cheap store located near to me. I did some online reseach into what products they have in their show to see what I could potentially get to use in my video. These are what I found online.

Another prop I will need are some feather filled pillows which hopefully I will be able to pick up from the discounted store also.

Camera Angles: To ensure my music video looks as professional and realistic as possible I will use a varied amount of camera angles which will fit my Televised Bard style. Using close ups, long shots and mid shots will create this. I used the obvious camera angles such as close ups of my female artist and low angled shots to create a greater male gaze which is a theory suggested by Laura Mulvey.

Costume: In terms of costume my music video will have a relaxed casual style when it comes to clothes. Throughout the video my artist will be wearing latest trends but nothing formal as I want to create a casual and fun look. White jeans with black tops. Crop tops and high waisted jeans will be the type of look I will be looking to create. There will be one scene in my video where the clothing is extremely casual with my artist and her boyfriend in a flash back. He will be wearing a tracksuit and she will be wearing a casual floaty top with skin tight jeggings.

Editing: This will be my final point of creating my video. In this post production I will be using the editing software program FinalCutPro which will help me in adding the final touches to my video to make it look as realistic and professional as possible. On this program I will be able to add the sound track to the video and edit it so I can fit the lip syncing to the correct parts of the song. This will also allow me to add any titles I need to add, flip clips and edit to make clips slower or faster.

locations

Arianna Grande's music video for break free has a very unrealistic theme, it is set in space and uses ideas such as guns which shoot fire and aliens to create this. Due to this the video is an Electronic Shaman as it incorporates these ideas. For my own music video I want to create a televised bard whereby the artist creates a story using on screen images to create a story about life or death. in my music video these images will come from the greatness of the artist or the wishes she wants to fore-fill. In this case it will show off both elements as she will be showing her wishes of getting away from him and breaking free and also be showing off that she is strong enough to end the relationship.

Here is the break free video to show what is meant by a Electronic Shaman music video.