2. Looking at this Album cover from Taylor Swift,
who is an artist who produces a lot of songs
about romance and break ups which is a
perfect reflection of the song in My music
video and the genre of the footage itself. You
can see the cover consists of just Taylor stood
as the central figure in the shot with a plain
white background but a vibrant, colourful
purple dress which makes her really stand out
against the backdrop. This is a very simple yet
elegant front cover with an effective eye
catching colour scheme which draws the
attention of potential buyers of the product.
Taylor is the central figure and the main
protagonist in all of her videos and I think this
works well so when it comes to doing my
album cover I think I will do something similar
with the one central figure, being the
protagonist in my video.
3. This is a cover by Artist Ronan Keating
who is a well known producer of
Romance/ heartbreak songs and videos
similar to the genre in my video. This is
indicated by the signs/ Signifiers in the
image. He is sat alone, which could be
representative of his feelings, such as
feeling alone due to a break up or isolated,
which would work well with the concept of
my videos genre. In the image he appears
to be sat in a boat at sea without any
means of steering or directing it, this is a
signifier that could connote the feeling that
he is ‘lost at sea’ which may
metaphorically represent his emotions
such as feeling lost and hopeless and in
need of rescuing. When it comes to
making my video using similar concepts
will be beneficial as my genre is very
similar.
4. The Fray are a band that commonly produce songs
of love and the breakup side of romance.
Compared to the previous two artist, This band are
a lot slower and in a sense ‘Dreary’ and a bit more
artistic, subverting stereotypes rather than following
them as their lyrics seem to be a little bit deeper
and appear to carry a sense of tragedy behind
them rather than the up tempo 4 beat Rom/Pop
song. The Central image is of a light bulb that has
been smashed to pieces, this relates to my work as
the broken light bulb is a signifier that could
Connote and representative to a broken heart,
suggesting he gave someone his heart but they
‘smashed’ it into pieces. The colour scheme here is
good too, everything is dark coloured, with the
black surroundings, possibly representing the
sadness and hopelessness of the situation and
then in the middle amongst the smashed glass
there is still light, which represents the glimmer of
hope. So in this cover I think Romance/ Break-up is
represented in a more clever, artistic way than the
previous two covers which Is was I really like about
this cover and so will use this as influence when it
comes to making my own.
5. Lionel Richie is arguably the king of all love song
singers. This front cover is very simple but that’s
what I really like about it, especially the black and
white effect put on it. Looking at it there is not a
great deal to suggest that it represents Romance or
break-ups in anyway you could argue that by
looking at the black and white and the stone cold
expression on his face it could represent That the
enthusiasm has been sapped from him by his
break-up. Similar things occur in my actual video
when close-ups appear on the protagonist of the
video, he will be looking unhappy, and forlorn. So
although it’s very simple I think it works very well
and you can’t argue with a romance singer like
Lionel.
