Question 1 evaluation
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Colour scheme: Bands of the indie genre typically used beige type colours or simple black and white themes. We wanted to convey the emotion of feeling lost and confused, so the randomly places lines that cross over each other enforce this. Thom York uses the same colour scheme, the underlying theme of loneliness is portrayed in the choice of colour and layout. We also took inspiration from the crystal castles album cover. We took inspiration from the Thom York album cover in relation to the use of red. Our band name, Crimson, further reflects the use of red within our digipack. And enforces the genre iconography. It also makes the digipack more aesthetically pleasing and interesting. Mise-en-scene: We have taken a similar route to Thom York to reflect the minimalist lifestyle of those interested in indie music. We had our actors wear casual clothing to enforce the “we don't care” attitude that is associated with the indie subculture. The black and white builds on this as it is simplistic and Composition: The composition of this image is very important. We chose to have them on each side of the shot so the space in-between them represents the loss of their sister and empty void that they feel inside. The theme of loss and sorrow is common in indie music videos. This links to Thom York as the character on the album cover is alone surrounded by waves that could represent a confused emotion. Font: The majority of indie digipacks utilise more than one font type in order to achieve visual diversity . We transferred these conventions onto our own digipack by using one font for titles and another for main bodies of text such as the lyrics. Brand image: We used a wing design on our logo to embody the freedom and liberty that is commonly associated with the foundations of the indie subculture. Unlike Thom York album cover where it seems although the protagonist is trapped by the waves, however the waves have an ambiguous meaning as it could also represent freedom as the ocean is a vast empty space much like the setting used in our music video. Track list: A key comparison can be drawn from the stylistic devices of Crystal Castles track list page. We used an adapted version of the line imagery in our lyrics page. however we felt that the lines were too overpowering for our track page so Instead we used a high contrast image of our setting which similar gave it a dysfunctional look but not to the same extent as the Crystal Castles page.
Transcript of Question 1 evaluation
Colour scheme: Bands of the indie genre typically used beige type colours or simple black and white themes. We wanted to convey the emotion of feeling lost and confused, so the randomly places lines that cross over each other enforce this.Thom York uses the same colour scheme, the underlying theme of loneliness is portrayed in the choice of colour and layout. We also took inspiration from the crystal castles album cover.
We took inspiration from the Thom York album cover in relation to the use of red. Our band name, Crimson, further reflects the use of red within our digipack. And enforces the genre iconography. It also makes the digipack more aesthetically pleasing and interesting.
Mise-en-scene: We have taken a similar route to Thom York to reflect the minimalist lifestyle of those interested in indie music. We had our actors wear casual clothing to enforce the “we don't care” attitude that is associated with the indie subculture. The black and white builds on this as it is simplistic and raw in its nature, much like our artist.
Composition: The composition of this image is very important. We chose to have them on each side of the shot so the space in-between them represents the loss of their sister and empty void that they feel inside. The theme of loss and sorrow is common in indie music videos. This links to Thom York as the character on the album cover is alone surrounded by waves that could represent a confused emotion.
Font:The majority of indie digipacks utilise more than one font type in order to achieve visual diversity . We transferred these conventions onto our own digipack by using one font for titles and another for main bodies of text such as the lyrics.
Brand image:We used a wing design on our logo to embody the freedom and liberty that is commonly associated with the foundations of the indie subculture. Unlike Thom York album cover where it seems although the protagonist is trapped by the waves, however the waves have an ambiguous meaning as it could also represent freedom as the ocean is a vast empty space much like the setting used in our music video.
Track list:A key comparison can be drawn from the stylistic devices of Crystal Castles track list page. We used an adapted version of the line imagery in our lyrics page. however we felt that the lines were too overpowering for our track page so Instead we used a high contrast image of our setting which similar gave it a dysfunctional look but not to the same extent as the Crystal Castles page.
Collage:On the inside of the March Of The Zapotec album is a collage of images. We took this idea and adapted it to fit the house style of our digipack, we edited the images to be black and white- which also links to some of the shots in our video. Also we incorporated the theme of lines in the background of the collage. The gaps in the wall of pictures represent the spaces where their sister would have been if she had not died, and shows the loss that they feel.
Lighting:We took inspiration from the lighting on this digipack. They have used dark background for their images and strong effective lighting. We tried to get a sense of this in some of our images by using flash in a dark wooded area.
