Magazine Advert Unfinished

 

I chose to use this image for the magazine advert I believe it is a strong image which strongly replicates the name of the album. I was unsure on whether to stick to the 'circled' image idea which I used for my digipak. However, I tried this to see what it would turn out like and I preferred the above version as the full image is rather striking to the audience.

Print Productions Research

 Little Comets is a fairly similar band to Jungle Doctors (both genre and style). I noted that both the band's album covers are very artistic with a 'childlike art' feel to it. This makes the band seem slightly shadowy as the audience don't have an idea of what they look like. Although they don't have an idea of what the band looks like, the album cover is very artistic and creative which gives off the impression that the album is creative too. Audiences who are interested in the band may be intrigued to listen to or buy the album due to this creative and imaginative feel of the cover. This stretches my idea to explore into artists that design and make very creative paintings which could strongly influence my print production for Jungle Doctors. Some of the songs released from Little Comets are quite cheery and childlike such as 'Dancing Song'. This song from the band strongly links to both of the album covers on the right (In Search of Elusive) as there is a solid relation between the theme of the song and the theme of the album cover. However, in some of the band's songs the lyrics are very poem like. For example, the song 'Worry' has these opening lyrics 
"Her silhouette is bleaker than a cigarette
On a Tuesday morn when I feel humanity slip
From broken hands down to her hips
Realising lethargy in both her eyes"
This creative poem-like theme to the song gives an intelligible artistic feel to it which is incredibly similar to the album cover on the left (Life is Elsewhere).

Foals is another band which is very alike to Jungle Doctors. They also use art for the album covers. The album cover on the right if for the single 'Inhaler'. The lyrics to the song strongly reference narcissism and claustrophobia. It's a very dark song compared to others in which they have released. The view of the person's back looking down strongly signifies this feeling of claustrophobia. The remarkable artwork for both album covers, like Little Comets, makes the band seem extremely expressive and visionary and will appeal to a wide range of audiences. The Foals are also very much into vinyl and dislike Spotify and streaming. This attitude could indicate an unconventional style which may have inspired the bizarre images on their album covers.

These are some other album/single covers of similar artists/bands that give me some ideas for my print production for Jungle Doctors:

Mystery Jets - Twenty One
The grainy, vintage effect of this image is strongly representative of the music genre. The soft blend of red, blue and yellow colours give the picture a softer feel which is strongly appealing. The name of the band and the album are also included in a subtle way which is not to outstanding.

Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
The name of the band is extremely bold and striking, especially with the astonishing wide eyes of the cat pictures behind the lettering of the band.

 

Theme Park - Two Hours
This album cover is a fairly dark theme, however, the light from the television is drawn onto the astronaut which makes the image rather interesting as it's extremely unusual. The light from the lamp also draws attention to the name of the band and the album name.

 

Photoshop Practicing

I played around with photoshop to get the hang of it and used The Kabeedies as an example. The purpose of this exercise was to test and expand my knowledge on using Photoshop as I will need these skills for when I create my own print productions. I used many of the software's tools to create these examples. One tool which was extremely important in creating these album cover was the lasoo. This tool was used to create a line around the images so that I could transfer them onto a new layer. For example, in the example below, I had to lasoo around the band's head and shoulders to transfer them to the cream coloured background. Another tool I used to complete both of these album covers is the text tool. This allows me to create different texts. In this case 'The Kabeedies Truth' was the only text I used. However, the second example's text is much different as the 'truth' appears much bigger and the red colour is faded out into the background. This text tool is extremely important as it identifies the band on the album cover which lets the audience know who the artist is. These are both my results.

Example 1: 

Example 2:

I much prefer this second example to the first one as it has much more going on. The background effect of the scrunched up paper is very appealing and gives the band a more 'grunge' feel. The lettering over the photographs of the band is a lot more striking and is fairly mysterious. By having this mysterious and striking feel to the album cover this will immediately attract an audience.

'Boat Song' lyrics

Baby please, can we row my boat tonight?

We’ll row far

We’ll row past the trees tonight

Baby please, can we row my boat tonight?

We’ll go fast

We’ll take a flight tonight

oooooooooohhhhhhhhh

oooooooooohhhhhhhhh

Baby please, can we try our love tonight?

We’ll roll the dice

We’ll take a chance tonight

Can we please?

Can we try our love tonight?

We’ll play our cards

We’ll take flight tonight

ooooooooooohhhhhhhh

ooooooooooohhhhhhhh

Initial thoughts and ideas

Although there are not many lyrics in the song, the lyrics gave us many additional ideas to include in our music video. For example, "we'll take flight tonight" gave us ideas of filming seagulls at the seaside. Seagulls are a typical British seaside bird that comes in flocks and getting footage of seagulls flying overhead will fit in thoroughly with the lyrics. Another idea we received from looking at the lyrics is getting footage of dice or cards that may be displayed somewhere in an arcade. By including scenes of things that relate tot he lyrics will strengthen the song and give it more of a typical British feel.

 

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