When we came up with the initial idea to do a "Brit Indie" music genre, we researched certain aspects of the genre and developed ideas which we felt would be a realistic concept towards our chosen genre. As we continued to work on our ideas, certain questions are asked amongst the group suggesting which is the best idea to show off a new, upcoming band. Obviously as a new band needs to get their image across to a potential audience it needs to show off the band members. So with this in mind, we looked at other bands within the genre. The Arctic Monkeys for example was a band which we continuously researched and tried to find out why they have become so successful. How did they get their image across? What aspects of the Brit Indie genre have they used? etc. Another band we also largely looked in to was "Blur". We came across their greatest hits album and we really liked their album cover for it. So we tried to do an album cover similar. As you can see, there isnt much comparison between the two album covers. Both have mug shot close up photographs, plenty of colour which makes it stand out, and they are both very basic. I feel a basic artwork can be a better idea than having something which can be over the top in terms of trying to get a cover to stand out.
In an overall point of view, we certainly found a lot of bands very aspiring from real media products, as a group I feel we are happy with our product, we feel it fits in with the genre we researched.
MUSIC VIDEO
I feel that researching various music videos from other Brit Indie bands has helped us greatly when it came to shooting our video, we have taken into account various editing techniques which we have used to help us make our video better.
When it comes to various media conventions regarding music videos, we used the conventions such as black and white filters which are original in this form of genre. An example being "U R Mine" by the Arctic Monkeys, the video does use a black and white filters like ours.
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