Question 2

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The genre of indie rock is seen within the album cover and in the inside packaging due to its coherent style. Indie rock is meant to be more of an expressive style of music where the individual band forms their own interpretations of what is going on around them, leaving the audience trying to guess and interpret it for themselves. The colours of the print productions follow the conventions of having a dark and maybe artistic portrayal and visual style to them for example Arctic Monkeys album cover Cornerstone is visually vivid and portrays a more warped view on reality and I tired to incorporate the same thing with the colours within my album cover, it being an alternate look upon the world around us. The name of my album is Lonely road which is linked towards the visuals within the covers of my album and is used to add more depth Into the print productions which show a more darker side to emotion.

The setting of an urban landscape which flickers between band and narrative shots is typical of the genre of indie rock. The genre convention of using a black background with notable highlights is used throughout the print productions and the use of band and narrative shows are also conventions in which this video follow.

Visual links: The band name is reminiscent of the font used the font is nothing really too special in the theme of things but does show the band out to be unique. This follows many other bands such as Greenday who used to use one single font for their logo. The concept behind the font being used as their logo was that Indie bands who are just getting started need not to have a catchy or amazing visual logo to gain attention, the attention is bought up on how the band portrays them self. The colours from the print production follow all the way along the album cover to the back page, all shrouded in darkness somehow and blackness which represents bad thoughts, and darker more personally revealing things like depression and fear. A contradiction to this is thought the music video which is mostly filmed rather colourfully and this break in coherence is because the song we play (Never get lost except by your side) deals with loss and major factor in the development of depression and sadness. the music video is in high colour and not grey scaled and the print production isn't is due to how i wanted to portray the characters, they are in their late teens early adults and as such i stuck to the convention that their inner deepest feelings are kept inside them and not portrayed in the wider real world; i instead portrayed their darker feelings in the print productions which is the only thing to not include them as people but rather a visual representation of how they feel inside and this is backed up by the album name of Lonely road. The cover and its colours were meant to represent the feelings within the band. The font used is in an indie style, indie as in independent meaning that the band has made them from scratch on their own and its expressive of their feelings and motives. the symbolism of the road shots going nowhere links not only to the album name but also shows in a coherent way how the characters feel in the road, as if they are walking a lonely road with no one to help them and loss all the way; in the case of the music video where loss is heavily implied the characters express their feelings by symbolising an empty road on which they walk on.

The visual effect of the reflecting light on the print productions is consistent throughout, each spec of colour is a new light source being reflected off something and this is used as a symbolic reference to the music video where the main singer is reflecting over past events. The motif of movement is shown via the print productions composition being that it's always either showing a lonely road to nowhere or it's showing a reflection of a puddle in which shows this loneliness by using a puddle in which connotes glumness. The composition of the music video is mostly focused upon he band, the miss en scene is limited in what it shows, this being because the sole focus is upon the band during the band shots and during the flashbacks the people walking are of the focal point. During these flashbacks the actors are almost always walking and the path isn't determined, meaning that we don't see where they are going which links to the print productions focal point of there being nowhere. The shots within the music video are rough in that they are angular in the band shots this is due to the portrayal of being a little different in which is referenced within the print productions and the mag advert due to them having tilted angles in which add to the effect of traveling.

The theme of walking/leaving things behind is incorporated within both the music video and within the print productions as they both try and show mourning and forgetting. This theme is linked together by the print productions being a signifiers of the feelings within the people and it's blackness shows life without the in this case the person he loved and the music video has greyed or otherwise slight desaturation of the flashback scenes. References to the music video within the print productions are the symbolic reference of walking, the music video incorporates walking as a symboliser for trying to move on and the print productions show a path on which to walk along. If I was to redo this subject I would incorporate more country images into the print production as I find the music video didn't really use too many urban street scenes which make it hard it fully go into depth.

The theme of loneliness is shown within both the print productions and within the music video itself , it shows this by making the lead character dominate the screen time however is mostly seen singing and walking while not in the break up scenario. The focus upon him as the main character makes him seem alone.

I was trying to create the band as being a rather homemade crafted indie band, one you would find performing at home or in their back garden, this is shown within the he music video due to the he fact they perform in a shed, a normal garden shed in the middle of a housing estate; the print productions show the streets in which they will walk to get form a to b. The band themselves are not on the cover and the print productions at all in which although is using the indie rock genre could represent separation from the world. Such as the only way to actually see the band would be via the music video itself and not on any promotional packaging.

Shown within the music video (The only part that features any band members) is that the band members are relatively quiet and aside from society as few people within in actually pass them by during any of the scenes, this representation of quiet and being shoved aside is also shown within the print productions in which no one is pictured at all during any of the scenes backing up this representation.