Extra Research

I decided in my free time that I would again have a look at album covers linking to the 'Indie Pop' genre. I thought that I would choose an artist that I have already focused some research on their music videos and album art to see if our newly created ideas are fitting in with the typical codes and convenctions.

Lana Del Rey has created a new album cover of her 'The Paraside Edition' to her album Born To Die. Even though the album art is different to the origian album cover, the placement of the typeography and the artist herself are all positioned in the exactly the same way. Cleaverly creating a link to the previous album for the audience, the new image still uses the typical nature theme, which we have also included in our ideas for the album cover (the beach), even though the image is in the background and Lana herself is the main image it still creates an effective back setting, following the convenctions of the Indie Pop genre. Even though the text on the album cover is extremly large and eye catching becoming a main focus of the album cover, we have decided not to follow this. Due to the composition of our image for our album cover it would work best to fit the album and artist name in the sky letting the full image take main focus for the audience. As we are trying to create an iconic look for the artist with the balloon, we will be able to create a link with the balloon to the artist, even without the name taking centre stage.

 

I feel that so far are ideas are along the right track, we are following the Indie Pop genre and not deviating away from it. Even though we are creating our own unique individual style it will still be recgonisable to the genre. We will continue are reasearch on digipaks, which we develop our ideas further. As the new edition and the original edition of the Lana Del Rey's album cover do have link together this has led us on to remember that the images used in our digipak and advert will also have to have a strong link, to the music video and our ideas. We should not add newly formed ideas that don't have a strong connection to our music video, as they will not look like a realistic album cover, advert and digipak. We already have some ideas of images that will be used in them all which we have previously blogged about, again we will be editing and discussing these ideas as soon as our editing process is complete.