Taylor Swift - Fearless Digipak

I have found some examples of the Fearless digipak, which is interesting and will relate to my digipak:

As you can see, the majority of the digipak is made up of images of Taylor with lyrics across the top. The colours change in relation to the songs and the mood of the song/lyrics. The double pages mainly interlink, like the song White Horse and You Belong With me. If you look above, the picture which relates to You Belong With Me, carries onto the White Horse page, which is nice, as they link together, however I think i'd prefer to have my songs seperate, along with the images.

Great Response

I have just received a survey answer from another person and this is really what I wanted to hear:

They say that they would retain the artist singing in the chorus and use an actor for the remainder of the video, which is what I have actually decided to do.

I am going to use Jessica Hay to play my 'bad girl', as people may become confused and think that the actress used to be a rebel and mess up the whole portrayal of the video.

Survey Answers

I have gathered some responses from Survey Monkey after sending out an email to a range of different people. It hasn't gone as well as I expected as people aren't as detailed as i'd hoped.

 

I have now changed Question 6, so that they have to answer it, as that is my main question. I am still trying to gather information on what I can film. I have got a suggestion of showing the 'music box' at the end, which is interesting and I did contemplate this when I was editing my rough music video.

 

After speaking to others, I have got a few ideas:

- showing the 'bad girl' in the woods, as if she has been camping out and has ran away from home

- don't like the lyrics explicitly to the video, have it more like Ed Sheeran's A Team video, which is interesting.

- re-shoot the 'bad girl' black and white parts

- have cutaways and choppy editing as the song builds up

 

I am going to gather some more surveys together and see if any ideas spring from them, however I am going to brainstorm some ideas myself now. 

 

Survey Responses:

 

Pitching My Album

 

 

 

 

Survey - Audience Feedback

After I created my rough music video, it was suggested that I include more narrative within my music video to ensure that there was more of an ongoing storyline within it. As a result, I wasn't sure what I could add in. So, I have decided to gather some audience feedback to get their opinions on what I could do to add in this extra narrative.

I have sent out an email with my rough music video link and my survey link, which looks like this:

I created my survey on Survey Monkey and this is what I have produced:
Survey

Hopefully this will generate a wide range of audience feedback, enabling me to get some great ideas of what to film for my final product.

Institutions and Genre

Taylor Swift
Taylor is signed to Big Machine Records, which is a major record label as they do have Taylor signed to them. They're an independent American record label, specialising in country music.

Distributor:

- Republic Records (USA)

- Universal Music Group (international)

Gabrielle Aplin

Gabrielle is signed to Parlophone, which is a major record label, who also has Lily Allen signed to them. They are based in the UK, however originated in Germany.

Distributor:

- Warner Music Group

Sara Bareilles

Sara is signed to Epic Records, which is an major American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment.

Distibutors:

- Self distributed (US)

- Sony Music (International)

- Epic Label Group (UK)

Colbie Caillat

Colbie is signed to Universal Republic Records, which is a major record label.

Distributors:

- Self distributed (US)

- Virgin EMI Records (UK)

- Universal Music Group (Worldwide)

KT Tunstall

KT is signed to Relentless Records, which is a semi-independent record label. At present, the label is part of Sony Music in the UK.

Distributor:

- Capitol Music Group



As you can see, all of the artists that I have looked at are signed by major record labels, therefore I need to choose my record label in relation to this genre and in this case it will be a major record label.

I am going to go with Relentless Records as I believe that I am most like KT Tunstall and my music is also similar. So that is my chosen institution.  

Mock Up CD Designs

In preparation for my presentation next week, I am just mocking up some CD designs of what might be a possibility as a result of what my research has shown.