Kings of Leon Poster

The title of the album which is on the front of the poster is
advertising Kings Of Leon’s album ‘only by the night’ is a light lime
green, the poster carries a theme with green using a almost camouflage
effect. The use of the greens could also be used to create an illusion
of night vision goggles, this would link in to the albums title.
The album shows a mixture of the bands faces alongside an owls face.
The owl is often associated with the night and this is perhaps why the
owl has been included in the advert as the album name is ‘only by the
night’.
The bottom of the advert states some of the songs that listeners can
expect to hear on the new album. The songs that are listed have been
chosen as these songs are the most popular singles of the band and
this will attract people who are not so familiar with some of their
not so popular songs to possibly buy the album as they may like their
hit singles. The poster has a very dark and mysterious feel to it
which could have been used to create the stereotypical image the band
may have.

Planning

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Clothing - I decided to put Abbie in this style of clothing to show the characteristics of  an average teenage girl. Abbie is wearing a black leather jacket, skinny jeans a ripped jumper with the words 'Drop Dead' and black shoes. She has eyeliner on and her hair is down and 'scruffy'. People may consider her to be 'different'. She represents the minority of teenagers, rock, alternative style. I decided to dress hr this way as i wanted her to connect well with the audience by her appearance alone.

Marilyn Manson and The Eurythmics

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Rock - Music Video Questionnaire Results

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/B3V59ZY

I asked both males and females to take part in my questionnaire. Overall it was a 50/50 split, both

Males and Females enjoy listening to Rock music. Before Rock music would have been stereotypically listened to by a mainly male audience. but in more recent years rock music is listened to by a strong female audience too.

Out of the age groups I asked to take part in my questionnaire 16 year olds and people aged 40+ listened to Rock music the most, younger people tend to listen to more modern 'fashionable'  forms of rock 'Emo, Heavy metal, Screamo' where as older generations will tend to listen to classic rock and heavy metal.  

Out of the group of people I asked for my questionarie just over half prefer listening to Classic rock and Brit-pop, Comparing the sub-genre and the age it is surpirising to see these results as the majority of people I asked were 16-18, stereotypically you'd expect to see an older generation of people listening to Classic and Brit-pop. This shows us that peoples tastes in music are becoming wider and people are becoming more accepting of different music genres. 

Out of the people I asked the majority preferred a music video with a good story line and narrative, this isn't the 'norm' for rock music videos as the majority are performance based but there are a few band that have made narrative rock misc videos more known, My Chemical Romance The Black Parade is a very theratrical almost movie like music video, the same goes for Green Day Jesus Of Suburbia. 

Over half of the people I asked said they preferred realism in a rock music video, this suggests that people enjoy being able to link with and relate to the story or situation. 

*Lyrics 

The majority of the people I asked said they prefer the music video to match the lyrics this could be because people like to pick up the true emotion of the song and allows them to connect to the song better.

Album Cover And Poster Ideas

Kanye West Graduation Digipak

The writing on the front cover is very bright and eye catching, all of the colours on the front are similar but use different tones and tints, this makes the cover very eye catching and instantly noticeable, as a result more people are likely to pick up and buy this album.

The text which is very noticable is 'KanYeWest GRADUATION', it is located at the top of the cover slightly to the right. another noticeable feature about the album title is the 'Y' in 'Kanye' is a capital  instead of a lowercase. "Graduation" is also in all capitals, this is done to emphasise the title, there is also synergy between the title and the album artwork, the cover contains people celebrating their graduation.

Kanye's music is Hip Hop, the album cover clearly shows this as Hip Hop tends to be very colourful, lively and flamboyant. the mixture of vibrant colours shows this.

At the bottom left of the cover there s a forewarning "PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICT CONTENT" this is used to warn the buyer that there is mature content in the album and may not be suitable for a young audience. 

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Right Place Right Time Olly Murs Digipack

The front cover of the digipack depicts a photo of Olly Murs, his name and the name of the album. It has done in a clear simple but fun font that is easy the read. The artist himself is centre of the cover with his name a the top left corner, this draws attention directly to Olly. 

The Background is light blue with the title in white written in different style fonts, 'Right Place, Right Time' is also the name of one of the albums songs which was also released as a single, this is a good way of marketing that single. 
The artist is dressed in very simple but fashionable clothing, this and the use of light colours in the background gives us an idea of the genre of music (pop). This is a very typical style choice for a pop artist. 

The back cover of the album has a listing of all of Olly's songs which are on the album and which disc they're on, All the companies that were involved in producing and distributing Olly's album and the date the album was released. The back of the album also follows the same styling and colours as the front, in the background are all of Olly's songs in a white font. The style of the font is very stereotypical for a pop artist/group.