Album cover and Magazine Advert

I created my Album cover on Adobe Photoshop being it has the right tools to help my create an album cover, like crop and edit font.
I made the background black because it represents her bad side, but i also gave it white highlights to represent some good as white is seen as a good pure colour.
I added an image of her standing casualy with an elegant dress on the cover so that my target audience can recognise her and relate to her style. Ive also included her name in big letter to make it instantly recogniseable.

Summany Of My Research- Ms Georgiou

By researching existing music videos, Beyonces styles and other music conventions, i have been able to successfully plan my music video around the conventions that makes a good video.

For example the song that i have chosen is Beyonce-Dangerously in Love, i chose this song because its a very emotional and personal song, so its allot more meaningful than just picking a random, fast-paced song. I had to research Beyonces past music video to get an idea on her style and representations, she has a good girl/bad girl persona, which is very useful if you want a large target audience. For my music video i also decided to have 2 sides to the artist, elegant/casual, so my target audience, 14-26 year old females, can relate to her clothes, style and apperance and build a relationship with my artist. Also because i looked at Beyonces old videos i found ideas for filming locations, like the beach, bowling ally, house and arcade.

I also looked at other music videos from Drake, Kelly Rowland and Maddonna to gain a better insight in all types of music videos. They all had some really good conventions, but the beat was too fast so i couldnt use them or relate them to my song.

But because i already knew most of the songs from Beyonce i could loosely base my music video on Beyonce-Halo beacuse they pass accross the same message, and the speed of the song is the same, so Halo helped me with editing and camera shots.

Photoshoot Schedule- Ms Fisher

Shot 1

Date: 1/11/2010
Location: Artists House
Action/Pose: Midshot of top half of body, smiling, hands on hips
Shot Type: Midshot
Personnel: Artist, Photographer
Equipment: Pentax Optio S Camera, Tripod








Shot 2

Date: 1/11/2010
Location: Downstairs of artists house
Action/Pose: Hands in pockets, casual stance in an elegant dress.
Shot Type: Long Shot
Personnel: Artist, Photographer, Make up and costumer designer
Equipment: Pentax Optio S Camera, Tripod







Shot 3

Date: 1/11/2010
Location: By the stairs, artists house
Action/Pose: Smile with hands on hips
Shot Type: Midshot
Personnel: Artist, Photographer, make up artist
Equipment: Pentax Optio S Camera, Tripod






Shot 4

Date: 2/11/2010
Location: Artists house
Action/Pose: Same as shot 3, hands on hips, casual stance
Shot Type: Long Shot
Personnel: Artist, Photographer
Equipment: Pentax Optio S Camera, Tripod






Shot 5

Date: 1/11/2010
Location: Downstairs of Artists house
Action/Pose: Hands in pockets, smile.
Shot Type: Long Shot
Personnel: Hair dresser, Artist, Photographer
Equipment: Pentax Optio S Camera, Tripod

Image Board

We have created an image board to help portay our artist and her qualities. The image board is a casual theme and a elegant theme, to represent both sides of the artist.

The images on the imageboard are of elegant dresses, which portray the artist as classy, sophisticated and stylish. The items beside the board represent her casual side, where she has affordable, stylish and practical. For example the Paul Boutique bag ranges from £30-£40 pound and its very big, so it can carry allot of things, its also multicoloured so it can appeal to a wide range of the female audience. Theres a blackberry, which is considered a new, cool and practical item, also theres braclets, not expensive ones, just ones used as everyday accessorise to make the person look more intresting and stylish. For elegant items theres perfume with is in a expensive looking container, this tells the audience the artist likes to smell nice as well as look nice, theres pictures of elegant hair styles, like the picture of the red haired woman. A woman with red hair can be seen as fiesty and sexy, which represents the "bad" girl side of the aritst, while the style of it shows off her elegant side. On the board theres images of stylish dresses, which represents the artist when they dress up and go out.
We used the 2 styles, elegant and casual, because we want to have a large target audience and to be able to relate to Beyonce and her "good girl" "bad girl" styles.