2. Artist choice
In this project, I selected a two-person band which
was founded in 2004 -
They became popular in the area of Psychedelic
Rock. Because MGMT is an indie band, the style is
uncommon but the new-age band provides many new
ideas and themes in their songs.
I’m going to create a compilation album for them. It
contains all the popular songs and some underrated
songs. The music video will also adapt an underrated
song from them.
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4. Mystery Disease
by MGMT
is a song released in MGMT(album), 2013
which is their third album.
The reason I selected this song is MGMT is a
two-person band but they made lots of
creative works.
The whole song provides a depressing tone.
It’s about pain, lost, etc. All the words
choice in the lyrics are sad. The fluid
melody even highlights the sympathetic
situation they are facing.
Their unique style makes this song
absolutely a good choice of making a music
video in an experimental way.
This is a very good choice of choosing this
band because there are only two members.
For the photoshoot for the covers and
making the music video, it will be easier to
arrange.
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5. Idea of the cover:
I planned to design the
album cover to be
surrealist. Because a
surrealist art provides
something new that
audience can’t see/
experience in real life. So
it’s new to the audience.
It has a feeling of abstract
to audience so they would
be curious and eager to
know what’s their music
about.
The different is, I planned my
album cover to be
photographed instead of being
painted. I would like to
photograph the band members
and merge it with other
materials to make it look
surrealist by Photoshop.
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Album cover:
in a surrealist way
Title:
The titles on the album is not in
a large font. Instead, they are
put aside on the cover so the
cover art/photograph can
become the focal point of the
whole frame.
The greatest hits
(Well, something like that)
I want to create a sense of they are falling down from
high. It looks surrealist and minimalist.
8. MGMT are formed by two young men. They usually
provides an active, young image. But in ‘Mystery
Disease’, it’s a bit different. The tone is slow and
sad.
Therefore, the tone of it will be dark and slow-
paced.
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Music video
