I have chosen to make my album cover very simple but affective. The background colour is black and red faded together. This both connotes danger and lust. The red I have chosen to use is a dark blood red colour because I feel that would be the most effective. In the middle of the cover is the word Erosion this is because the entire album is about things falling apart and disappearing. The font intend to use is going to be slightly eroded to give a better effect for my cover.

Song titles:
Love runs out
Tick tock
Sacrifice
Best friend
The one that stole everything
Imaginary heartbreak
Stolen breath
Crushing feelings

These will be the whole albums tracklist. They will also be in eroded font on the back cover of the album. Also on the back cover of the album will be an image of a girl knelt down on the ground looking towards the floor. This will be darkened and roughed up around the edges to give it a falling apart feel.

Inside the album I will include a leaflet with items you can buy that are artist centred. Such as tshirts and mugs etc. there will also be a lyrics page for love runs out which will be the only released track on the album. I will also have some shots of the girl off the back cover in different poses in a little booklet.

CD covers

These are all already existing CD covers by various artists all of different genres and at different times. these are all original and different in many ways. i am aiming for simple but effective and wish to have influences from all of the above album covers. The first cover is a Christina Agulers and it is simply a close up of her face that has been photoshoped to look mechanical and robotic. Beyonce is a black woman and her album shows the dominance of the female roles in all ethnicity because her album consists of a black cover that has Beyonce written in pink text which joins together the two different backgrounds of ethnicity. It could also be said she is making a statement because she is bold and brave in nature and she can get away with her album cover having simply one word on a plain and simple,background. This is my favorite cover out of the above because of the way she represents herself and her career.

Influences and techniques (unfinished)

Action Plan

Cinematography Influences and techniques

For my music video i wanted my camera shots to be smooth and on focus but i also wanted them to work with the lyrics. i have found many influencial trailers and clips on the internet that has wondeful cinematography in them which i would like to replicate. Such as zooms, pans, tracks etc.

Videos that have influenced my cinematography are :




These have shots and tracks that i intend to use in my music video, this is because they interest me and they would work with the lyrics of the song i chose. My song is quite a steady paced video but at times can be very higly paced and i need to be able to switch from one to another immediately but with grace because i dont just want the shot to go from slow and change instantly to a fast paced shot i want it to flow and move with the lyrics. My video will include the artist lip syncing in parts and i want those shots to have a different feel to it compared to the narrative but i also want the main artist to be in the narrative so i do want them to link but the feel of the narrative and the artist need to be different in comparison.

The shots i am going to test are:

Pan (90°,180°,360°)
Tilt
Zoom in/ Out
Track
High angle/ Low angle
Establishing shots
Two shots
Group Shots
Close Ups
Medium Close Ups
Long Shots
Depth of Field

I will do test shots of all of these using my intended cast and i will see what works and what does not work. I will try umerous shots that i want to be in my video to see if certain ones are doable or wether im just being eccentric and want the impossible. My lip syncing shots will have a lot more movement in the camera work because the artist is upbeat and singning a happy song whereas the narrative has joy and regret so it will still have movement but that movement will have emotion to make it stronger and relatable to the audience. I will also be choreographing my own dance for the music video. This will be worked on towards the filming of the music video and changes may be still made when actually filming the video.

Props

These are the props that are needed for my music video.

The Car: This is for the scene at the end were the male lead gets run over 

The Fake Blood: This is for the accident and the shots of the male on the floor

The Ring: This is the ring that the male will be using for the proposal

Character Profiles

Character profiles

Male - The victim of the love story. The male is the character that is madly in love and wants to marry the girl he loves. This is what the narrative is all about through the video.

Female - The Protagonist. She is the desire of the male. She is falling out of love with him and is having an affair with another man. This is also shown through the narrative. She is what causes then of the video.