Frankie & The Sound Within Animatic

Below is a video of the animatic that I produced made up of many drawings put together against the Pink music track.

Frankie & The Sound Within Storyboard

From the lyric annotation, the best ideas were picked and I cut it up into different scenes. Then I drew pictures of each scene to help illustrate what kind of scene it will be. In the description I described the on screen action, the different camera shots and movements and the different timings of how long each scene will last of the song. The timings will help me when I produce my animatic, which is the next step to my planning of my music video.

Frankie & The Sound Within - Lyric Annotation

As part of planning for my music video, I decided to print off the lyrics for my song and annotate it full of ideas of what could happen at each part of the song in the music video. I then picked the best ideas and used them to help me produced the next step of planning my music video; the storyboard.



Frankie & The Sound Within - Album Covers

I have designed three rough drafts of album covers.

With these rough drafts, I went to a Year 11 class, with age range of 15-16 years old, and questioned about their thoughts and opinions about the album covers; what they liked, what they disliked and what would they improve on them.

ALBUM COVER 1

This was my first draft of my album cover. From the start I always had the concept of the album cover figured out. I felt that for my target audience of young females between the ages of 15-17, having a concept within my album cover was necessary as at this age they are more into album covers that have a hidden message within it rather than a straight forward one.

 The feedback that I recieved from this album cover was overall quite positive. They liked the idea of the younger girl looking into a mirror and then seeing someone else in the mirror. They referenced this with horror movies, and this was good because I wanted to create an eerie effect as the older self appearing to see her younger self in the music video can be seen as quite supernatural.

The font itself adds to the eerie atmosphere as it is faded and shadowed. The Year 11's liked the font but was critical as they said that from afar it wasn't clear what it said and that the font type itself was quite simple.


It was also said that the fact that the album cover was in black and white, it added to the eerie theme and I was pleased with that.

ALBUM COVER 2

This was another draft of an album cover as I wanted to experiment with different styles of album covers. I have used a different image, different theme and different font.


This particular album cover wasn't recieved too well. They said that the image was blurry and it looked unprofessional because the cutting line could be seen and I agree with that.


The background was very different to the first album cover as it uses vibrant colours with a striped theme. Some said that the colours didn't match up with the artist as they previously thought of the artist being quite an indie artist. However, there was one opinion that I found quite interesting; "The background looks like a fingerprint". I didn't initially think of this idea, but was happy that someone had come up with this idea by just concentrating on the background. The fact that the background looks like a fingerprint, it could play on the idea of identity and who you are, which is one aspect of my music video.


The black shadowed border around the album cover was also commented on and it was said that "it finished the album cover off" and "rounded it together".

ALBUM COVER 3

This album cover was again designed totally different from the others. I used the images that were liked from the artist's image feedback and designed a different theme to it.


The first opinion that was offered about this album cover, is that it looked more like a film poster. However, I think that this was mainly because of the size of it and that the two images looked very seperate to each other.


But apart from that, it was recieved quite well as they really liked the background full of different words that set a "sad feeling" for the album. I felt that this was very good as this is the exact effect that I wanted to create.

MY CONCLUSION

From all the feedback that I got from the Year 11 class, I have decided to use the concept of the first album cover with the background of album cover 3, as this is what was liked the most about the album covers that I have designed. I also used the shadowed border around the image that was liked from album cover 2.

Here is my final album cover...

Album Cover Inspiration

Before I produced my album cover, I researched on album covers that arefrom different types of artists as well as indie and pop artists. I looked for album covers that I personally liked below are the few that I found.

The effect that was used here in the above Olly Murs album cover that I personally liked is the overlapping of Olly Murs in different poses. The manipulation of all the images is very effective as each image of Olly in the different poses could suggest the different sides of Olly's personality.

These two album covers above are of artists that fit under the genre of indie pop rock; Paramore and Demi Lovato. The effect that I like from both these album covers is how the background of the album covers are full of words that are related to the album; either the name of the album or the artist. Both backgrounds look like they have been graffittied on, which adds to the effect of it being scruffy. Also, graffitti is seen as vandilism which could suggest the rebel aspect of these artists.

Frankie & The Sound Within - Artist's Image

When I went to a Year 11 class to do a presentation to ask them about my album covers, I also decided to use this opportunity to ask them about what they think about the artists image and personality by looking at a few pictures of the artists from a photoshoot i did with them.

These are the different images that I showed the Year 11 class after asking for their favourite image. There was a variety of favourite images such as image 1, 2, 4 and 6. In all these four images, the poses were the main reason as to why they liked the images. From this, I decided to se these images in my digi-pack and magazine advert. Images 1, 4 and 6 are included in the digi-pack and image 2 is the image used in the magazine advert.

After being asked what type of artist they would see my artist as with these images, again I had a mixed response. From images 1 and 7, some said that she looks like a country singer because of her boots and checkered t-shirt. This was not the look that I wanted to portray my actress as, therefore tried to avoid using images with my artist in that costume. From the rest of the images, I got positive feedback as the answers came back as an indie or a pop artist. Image 3 was said to look more like a indie artist because of her casual wear and converse trainers. And images 2, 4 and 6 were said to be more of a pop artist because she looks quite fashionable. I wanted to create my artist as a fashionable artist and was happy with the overall feedback.