digipack photos

preliminary task progress

For part of our preliminary task we have been asked to recreate the first minute of a music video that has already been released. As a group we have decided on the The Script's video of 'The man who cant be moved'

progess post- genre task

Today we took some photos for our digi-pack on my iphone and decided to use intagram as a base of our editing process just to add appropriate colour filters

These are some of the photos that we may include into our digipack

We decided on these particular photos with these filters as it gives our artist a strong sense of identity as an innocent but somewhat quirky image because of the pink hair. These particular filters on, especially the woodland photos, creates a sense of magic and wonderland.

progess post- genre task

Our group picked from random the genre stereotype of 'pop princess' and in today's lesson we were discussing possible names of our artist. Obviously the artist would be female and we wanted to pick a very feminine name and wanted to include the name of a flower somewhere into her name. We then came up with the name of 'Daisy Mae'. 

We were asked to take photographs to include in our digi-pack that would reflect our chosen genre and to present them to next lesson. It was decided that we would use Amelia from our own group as 'Daisy Mae' and use an outdoor environment for the photos to create a natural image. 

albums for a pop princess

We found that on the front of the album pack the majority of 'pop princesses' had a head shot or close up often with a plain background to accentuate the artist. As you can see from this Britney album cover, the background is white and the black and white filter of the image adds emphasis onto her heavily lined eyes creating a sultry image but the white background also connotes innocence and purity creating a certain contrast. You can also see that the font is quite girly looking like it has been handwritten creating a more personal feel to the album as if Britney has written it herself. The pink color also reflects the femininity as well as helping the name stand out from the white background .Generally we found that all typography was similar amongst 'pop princesses' and this is something we will use when creating our own artist.

POP PRINCESS

There are many different definitions of a 'pop princess'

Some say it is any young beautiful and successful female singer in the music industry but I think that this is too broad of a definition.
A pop princess is a female singer who is perceived to be independent and glamorous living a luxurious lifestyle, singers such as Mariah Carey and Kylie Minogue epitomising this. However in this modern time more and more teenage singers are being branded as pop princesses because of there pure and innocent demeanour.

Demi Lovato is a new breed of pop princess releasing edgy songs but with the same stereotypical style and look that we expect from a pop princess

Miley Cyrus was the first of many disney bred female actors to break into the music industry. Her history as hannah montana reinforces her 'squeaky clean' image and role model status for young girls 

Selena Gomez broke the stereotype slightly by forming a band  but her songs and image still conformed to usual pop princess style creating a very mainstream sound and again becoming a role model for young girls. Also her status as Justin Beiber's current girlfriend enhances her image as the perfect pop princess

Taylor Swift's glamorous image but pure and innocent record as a singer  gives her status as a pop princess even though her music has a more country influence

music genres

Music genres help distinguish between different styles of music and help build an artists individual image. These days there are many different genres of music and some of them do overlap into each other and there are many umbrella styles that cover a range of genres

Some examples of different genres are

-ALTERNATIVE including indie rock, nu wave and punk
-BLUES including chicago blues, contemporary blues and delta blues
-COUNTRY including bluegrass, honky-tonk and urban cowboy
-ELECTRONIC including ambient and downtempo
-POP including britpop, pop/rock and soft pop
-RnB/SOUL including disco, funk and motown
-ROCK including hard rock, metal and glam rock

These are just a few of the ever expanding list of genres around the world.