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For the music video: Costume: The costume’s the band is wearing are simple, casual clothes as from our music video analysis we found out that a lot of indie bands i.e the Kooks, wear urban clothes. Plus through our questionnaire we learned that majority of indie fans wear clothes which are urban and casual clothes nothing high branded.

Mis en scene: We chose a urban area as a lot of indie videos are often in urban areas, around city with people.

DigipakFor the Digipak we used one with eight panels since it would have plenty of space for photos of the band members and to have some other images relating to the indie genre. Such as shots of nature scenery etc. As Indie bands are down to earth therefore for the front cover we used a wolf, with a dark blue background. At the back of the Digipak however we decided to use a simple image of nature, which is meant to creates a pleasant effect but also is not distracting as we had the song titles of the album at the back of it.

Furthermore, for the front cover of the digipak we had two ideas, to decide the final version we asked people from our class which one they like the best. In the end the image with the outlining was most liked, therefore we chose it as it is most appealing.

PosterWhile designing the poster there were a few points to consider, that it had to be tightly framed, and the layout had to be in an order which would make the poster stand out. For the reason that if a Fan, or an audience member looks at the poster, he or she focuses on the Band and the information on it, there shouldn’t be anything distracting. Therefore I looked at different posters for sample, to decide what to needs to be on the Poster, and made rough sketches of different possible styles.

By looking at the different posters I found out that the name of the band had to be in large writing to make it more prominent. The Font is not very fancy but not to plain either which is useful to represent the simple but appealing effect of indie genre.The colour scheme of the writing is white, since indie genre uses light colours. Plus having white writing on the black box, creates a great highlighted effect.