Iweb continued...


To further develop our iweb homepage we decided to insert some pictures from our music video footage by "screen grabbing" u.v shots off imovie of our dancers. We then pasted these onto our temporary pictures on the iweb page.

Harriet.

Location Change

After re-considering our shooting locations, we decided that the street outside college would not fit well with our crazy graffitied garage location. To compliment this, we decided to change from a middle class estate to a run down graffitied area as we thought this would be dominant ideology of the genre.

Above is a map of where our graffitied location is located. It is a park with a basketball court in the centre of Nottingham.


Cara.

Iweb Experiments

THE PROCESS....

1/ To design our Website we began by experimenting with colourful paint splats that we found on Photoshop with a paint brush tool. We then went onto Google and searched for "Daft Font" and downloaded the font and used this to write Daft Punk as a main image. We decided to write this in silver/grey as it gave a robotic feel to the image with links with their electro genre. We believe that this is effective because Daft Punk use this font for all of their advertisement e.g. C.D covers and posters and is well known to national audiences therefore would be immediately recognisable to our audience as a Daft Punk webpage. 

2/ Further down the page we have begun adding more detail for example a link to the tour dates and an audio file playing "Crescendolls" our song choice. We have temporarily used pictures off google images to give us an idea of where we want our images to go, however we are currently in the process of the photo shoot of our actors/dancers which we will replace these existing images with. 

Harriet.

Drawn Storyboard

Above is the sheet where we drew out 4 shots we plan to film and the angle at which they will be filmed.

Emma.

D.A.N.C.E!

.......ROBO-DANCERS.......

For our music video we decided that we would like to have a trio of dancers dressed in robotic outfits dancing in unison (same time) to the beat of the music, "Crescendolls".  We thought this would be a good idea as not only have Daft Punk already done this in "Around the world" with a variety of different costumes succesfully, but because we thought it would provide an interesting location change (in which we are using a dance studio) and would show that we have carfully planned our music video. It will be easy to do as I do dance a-level therefore i am used to choreographing routines plus the dancers i will be using are in my class therefor it will not be hard getting hold of them.

Our main inspiration for this is "Yeasayer - One" who are also in the same genre.

Another inspiration as i mentioned above is "Daft Punk - Around The World" due to the interesting colours and costumes.

 And finally "New Order - True Faith" as the costumes and setting were so futuristic and out of the ordinary!

Harriet.

 

Digipack research

 DAFT PUNK:

Appropriateness of the digipack to the genre:

Cover:

·        Bright psychedelic metallic lettering on CD cover

·        Splodges of rainbow colours

·        The font is their signature style and appears on everything they own.

·        The font is futuristic and looks

·        Stands out on plain black background

Inside sleeve:

·        Monochrome black and white lettering and images.

·        The computers have a “techy” feel to them

·        How to sign up to the “Daft Club”

Booklet:

·        Picture of the band members in their space/biker helmets and futuristic costume.

Mise - en – scene and its meaning/effect:

Front cover:

·        Silver metallic writing Is futuristic and out of the ordinary which links to their electronic style

·        Colourful paint links with their experimental outfits and props.

·        Black background makes it striking and eye catching.

Inside sleeve:

·        Instructions towards entering “The Daft Punk club” in 6 stages.   

·        Written in black and white which is a striking contrast

·        Illustrations of computers to make it clear.

Booklet:

·        Illustration of two people dressed in black bike gear with bike helmets on, in a recording studio.

·        Links with the abstract alternative genre which attracts the audience.

The layout and font and its effect

Front cover:

·        The front cover says “daft punk” in “daft writing” which is daft punks own personal owned font which makes it immediately recognisable.

·        The title is written at an angle in the centre of the front cover which makes it the main image that people will read.

Inside sleeve:

·        The inside sleeve is written in block capital font in white writing so it is easier to read as it is much smaller print.

Booklet:

·        There is no writing on this image. This is to attract the attention to the illustration and style of the daft punk DJ’s.

                   The image and style – how does it sell the artist/band?

Front cover: 

·        Electronic/futuristic image to gain the attention of the audience as it is a unique style.

Inside sleeve:

·        Instructions in a robotic format consisting of computers resemble their image as electronic which matches their electronic genre.

Booklet:

·        Shows the DJ’s in the recording studio, wearing bike helmets, its unusual therefore this makes the audience want to know what unusual music they have created.

Basement Jaxx:

                             Appropriateness of the digipak to the genre

                                                                

Cover:

·        Interesting images, colourful and fun

Inside sleeve:

·        Collective bright images of people, posters, the band. Densely packed full of interesting images links to the exciting up beat music in the electro, pop, alternative genre.

                    Mise - en – scene and its meaning/effect:

Front cover:

-          The front cover consists of a colourful striped background and the name of the band in the foreground. The name is in black and white to contrast with the background.

-          The meaning of this is to show that the band is quite bright, energetic and fun with a poppy-rave style

Inside sleeve:

-          The inside sleeve is brightly coloured with a mish-mash of images. This emphasizes the styles of their songs. Some are more hard-edged and others are more poppy.

               The layout and font and its effect:

Front cover:

-          The layout on the cover is very basic. The title name is centred and easily visible. The font is white, bold, and quite funky inside a black box and works really well against the striped background.

Inside sleeve:

-          There’s quite a lot of text on the inside sleeve. The text is rather small and sometimes hidden by pictures. They look like band posters; the kind you’d see advertised music venues.

-          The layout is quite chaotic but has decent arrangement. This consists of text then people then more text then the band itself. The pictures of the band members are bigger than the rest to clearly show who they are.

                   The image and style – how does it sell the artist/band?

Front cover:

-          On the cover there’s no image of the band so it’s rather difficult to judge the band on their appearance, however, just by looking at the pattern it may conjure some ideas. Someone may look at it and think “the colourful stripes make me think that the band is quite funky and energetic and their songs have an upbeat rhythm”. These ideas would sell to a young adult audience; the kind that enjoys parties and having fun.

Inside sleeve:

-          On the inside sleeve you can get more of an idea of the band’s image and style. The large amount of posters shows that the band is quite famous and popular.

-          The pictures of the band member show that they’re all casual and ordinary people by looking at the way they dress.  

Emma



Digipak Design for Our Music Video.

1/ we would like our digipak to be similar to other artist’s digipak’s within the same genre so that our target audience can distinctly recognise our CD cover as an alternative, electro, experimental CD. However, we would like to be slightly more unique than simply copying the idea’s of other artists by going at it from a slightly different angle.

We plan on having an extreme close up of one of our dancer’s eyes which will be extravagantly decorated with glitter, face paint and false eyelashes. This will be on the front cover surrounded by oval shaped light drawings in different colours and directions on a black background. We plan to have this on the actual CD itself also. For back of the CD we would have 1-5 track titles in block colours against a black background along with 3 U.V painted faces on the left.

For the inner sleeve we would take a picture of a prop we made which was a paper masher, red painted button saying “Start Daft Music” which links with the artist name “Daft Punk”.

2/As I explained above the mis – en – scene will be colourful and eye-catching; our desired effect for this would be a futuristic quirky CD cover that will attract our target audience.

3/ We plan to use “Daft Font” as Daft Punk use for majority of their writing style. This is so that our audience recognise immediately that it is a song by Daft Punk.

4/The use of light drawing is extremely futuristic which is what daft punk is related to. The “Start Daft Music” button resembles an electrical process in which when the button is pressed the reaction will be music playing, we believe this links to the electro style and genre that Daft Punk posses.

Harriet

Digipak Design

For our digipak we want to use images we took while filiming to build up a design for the reverse of the digipak. Also, we are going to use light drawing to create colourful shapes for our front cover and CD insert. As well as the light drawing we want to create a blurred image of a face to go behind the light drawing as it will give an unusual effect.

Cara.