Research of existing CD covers and magazine photoshoots from Adele!

We looked at a selection of pictures of Adele that have been used for Album covers/inserts, magazines or just photoshoots for publicity. Here are some of the best ones we saw:

Album/Single covers;

 

Magazine Covers;

 

Photoshoots;

 

I personally really like the style of these photos. I like how the majority of her pictures are in black a white with quite dramatic shadowing. I also find her hair and make up really classy, unlike a lot of stars these days Adele has very natural looking make up, and although it's clear she is well made up she still looks quite natural. The same applies to her hair, she will probably have extensions in to make it appear thicker and will have had rollers in to add to the style. But it has still been done in a natural way.

Adele - Hiding my Heart lyirics!

Hiding My Heart Away

So this is how the story went
I met someone by accident
who blew me away
who blew me away

It was in the darkest of my days
When you took my sorrow and you took my pain
And buried them away, you buried them away

And I wish I could lay down beside you
When the day is done
And wake up to your face against the morning sun
But like everything I've ever known
you'll disappear one day
So I'll spend my whole life hiding my heart away

I dropped you off at the train station
And put a kiss on top of your head
I watched you wave
I watched you wave
Then I went on home to my skyscrapers
Neon lights and waiting papers
That I call home
I call that home

I wish I could lay down beside you
When the day is done
And wake up to your face against the morning sun
But like everything I've ever known
You'll disappear one day
So I'll spend my whole life hiding my heart away
Away

I woke up feeling heavy hearted
I'm going back to where I started
The morning rain
The morning rain
And though I wish that you were here
On that same old road that brought me here
Is calling me home
Is calling me home

I wish I could lay down beside you
When the day is done
And wake up to your face against the morning sun
But like everything I've ever known
You'll disappear someday
So I'll spend my whole life hiding my heart away
I can't spend my whole life hiding my heart
away

Change of Plan!

We had a plan to do our filming over half term,but there was no opertunity for us to get us all together, appart from the friday. We all went to chloe's house with the intention to film a large section of our footage. However, when it got to friday, it didn't exactly go to plan. Not everyone could come. So me, Gaynor and Chloe met at Chloe's house and discussed what we could do to try and make it more possible for us to film.


We later had a disussion and decided the Do Wah Diddy idea wasn't working. It was too difficult to try and get so many people all together at once and to all agree with this idea and that it would work.


We chose to use one of our pitch ideas for our new song; Adele - Hiding my heart. Although it's a slow, emotive song, we think that we will be able to make it work and just make the action reflect the lyrics.

Auditions!

We held some auditions in college for people to be in our band. We were pretty sure that nobody would turn up as the posters we made were only up for a week. We were right, we held them in the main auditorium in the hope that would be more acssessible for people in the college.
However, we thought right, nobody turned up. But its alright, we have a backup plan.We know a band with 5 people. Including a drummer, bassist, guitarist, lead singer and keyboard player.  This group aren't as available for us as people in the college would be. One member of the band is going on holiday this week and not all of the members go to college, so we will have to get togehter outside of college.


We also considered the chance that this band may not work, but we do know a boy Sam, who would be able to sing for us to one of the backing tracks we found on youtube.

Posters!

We were given a selection of examplar posters. We talked about them amongst the class, discussing whether we think they work or not and the reasons for our decisions. We were also looking at them for possible inspiration and to get a good idea of what a real poster for an album looks like.

Personally I find this poster quite dull. The only information given is the name of the album and band, the fact it is out now and where it is available. There is nothing particularly captiviating about this image. The background of the poster is just the background from the album cover and the artwork on the albumis very unique. It's not very mainstream, and doesn't include an image of the artist anywhere, which is quite out of the ordinary.

Out of all the posters given to us, I think that this is the most appealing because it look more profesional than the others. It is also filled with information, from the name of the band to reviews from well known music magazines. We are also given a vital piece of information; just underneath the title of the band it says "20th anniversary" - which is the most eye catching part of the whole image. This information tells us that they are clearly a well established band and are very successful to have lasted 20 years. Although there aren't many bright colours and things that stand out, it is the most asthetically pleasing, and instead of putting an image of the album on the poster, there is a strip across the page with a section of the album artwork.

This is another poster that is a little less mainstream. This is a slightly more colourful than The Stone Roses poster, but not as eye catching. I think that if someone was to be attrackted by this poster, it would be more the out of the ordinary appearance of it than interest in the album or the artist. I don't think that the format of the name/album cover is done very cleverly. For instance, if someone is unnaware of this artist then they wouldn't know where the band name ends and the album title starts. Although the album has star ratings from well established magazines, so it must be credible album. It's just not my taste.

Here is another rather peculiar poster. The main problem, I think it has is that it is called "Black Swan", so lots of people would assume, at first glance that it had some connection with the film, by the same name, or the ballet - swan lake. Again, this poster isn't very appealing. If you saw it, surrounded by other posters it wouldn't be imediatly clear that this is a poster for an album, even when the album and band names have been seen, it's still unclead untill you see the details in the small print at the bottom. But I feel the image doesn't catch the attention it should do - therefore not many people would take the time out to read the details.

Band Name and Different font options!

The name we have chosen for our band is 'Uunderpressure'. We chose this name because we were trying to chose a name and we felt underpressure, so Gaynor shouted it and we decided it worked.


Here are some font ideas for the advertising of our music video. Such as; posters, magazine articles, and for the CD cover.