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This is the sophomore album from R&B singer; Chris Brown. This album was released in November 2007. It debuted number 4 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, and sold 295,000 units within it first week. In Rolling Stones’ top 50 albums of 2007, Exclusive ranked number thirty-four. The cover is very much original, suave and unconventional. The main focal point is the artist Chris Brown, and it is a mid-shot of him, whilst we see him on the top of a building with the city outline vaguely behind him, which can also distract the audience. The font is called Morpheus, and is shiny and metallic. There are two versions of the album; a normal version and the forever edition (deluxe). The differences between the deluxe cover and the original cover are that the background in the deluxe edition is black and white, whilst the original is coloured, Chris Brown’s jacket has also changed from purple to black, whilst his shirt has changed from white to red. The text has changed from gold, to white and red, and also has ‘Forever edition’ added to it. The name of his album is called Exclusive, as it is an exclusive gift to his fans, he was originally going to call it Graduation, but changed it because Kanye West released an album of the same name. The image on the cover is Chris Brown in a suit, which shows his growth from his first album, and he is now maturing which he stated “I am still going to keep it so my younger fans can continue to listen to my music, but I got a couple of joints on there that’s for some of the older people”. He looks enhanced and different to his previous self titled album cover, which shows the audience that Chris Brown has grown and changed as a person.
These are the digipaks for both the deluxe and original copies of the Exclusive album. The original album has reversible covers so the audience can change the cover if they wish, there are photo shoots within the booklets, information about the songs and a thank you section. The Forever Edition also has the same things, apart from having additional songs.
This is Chris Brown’s cover for Vibe magazine at the time of the album’s promotion and release. This album was advertised as showing his growth, as well as his voice breaking, and he was not the same person that was in his self-titled album. He also changed the way he dressed, from the stereotypical black boy with baggy clothes, to someone who dressed accordingly and semi-normal, with a normal fitted shirt, and fitted jeans. The cover also builds hype for the magazine as well as the album with the beading reading: Chris Brown? “I’m still a Virgin in your eyes..”, which makes the reader want to read, and also want to buy his album to see if he actually gives away any secrets.
This commercial showcases his album, and entices audiences by showing clips to his music videos and showing that the album has already spawned two number one hits.

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The Fame Monster is Lady Gaga’s sophomore album that is the successor to her debut The Fame. This album is originally supposed to be an EP for The Fame but was too expensive, and then released as an album. The album debuted at number 1 and has sold over 6,000,000 copies. I usually digitally get my music, so I was unsuccessful on getting a first hand perspective of the digital, so I browsed the Internet for one, for when I analyze it for my media project. The album cover is Lady GaGa on the cover with what seems to be blonde hair, and a black jacket covering her face, which actually seems gothic somehow. It is a photo which has been taken by Hedi Slimane , who is a male French fashion designer, which makes sense as to why the original over looks like a model photo shoot. Lady GaGa is seen directly into the audience, using direct mode of address to make capture the attention of the audience. This album cover is in black and white because the intention of the album was to show the darker side of the fame, and black and white photography has often been said to be the epitome of photography that highlights emotion. It is almost as if she is highlighting her enigmatic demeanor. The background is very plain and clean, to highlight her work ethic and her self-perception of her art. Her Deluxe edition cover is actually not too much different apart from the fact that it is Lady GaGa in a black wig, and black mascara streaming down her face, almost as if to indicate the real darkness of the album, and it almost seems as if it is an intertextual reference to ‘The Ring’. The album case for the digipak deluxe edition is quite intriguing. Instead of the traditional plastic case, this one has a puffer cover and when unraveled there is many more photo’s from the photo shoot with Hedi Slimane, it is almost as if they are highlight her artistic sense of direction in both aspects. The digipak also contains two CD’s for the deluxe edition, which is very good and unusual at times. There is a booklet, which has many photos of Lady GaGa, which almost seem as if they are fashion shots, and it also contains detailed information about the individual songs, such as songwriting and production credits. The photos within this album photographed are clean cut and organized like the fashion industry.

This is the cover of music magazine Billboard that interviews Lady GaGa at the time of the release of The Fame Monster. I felt that this was a relevant part of the music video so that I could see how it was promoted. This image opposes the theme of her album, which is darkness, and this is quite bright, possibly to highlight a lighter hearted part of her music. Billboard is a highly respected and recognized company that promotes artists, and one that could make or break artists.

I felt it relevant to add the trailer of the album to see how it was promoted on television, and they did it quite well. It showcased some of her music videos, which heavily focus on fashion, aswell as songs that are catchy, and features Beyonce, which alone can also bring Lady GaGa an audience from Beyonce’s fan base. It also has quotes from famous companies such as rolling stones. Rolling Stones magazine company have such an influence, that if they say an album is good, many people will instantly take their word for it and buy the album. This makes Lady GaGa gain an audience from supporters of the Rolling Stones franchise. From this video I have also discovered that this album comes with a collectors edition.

From this video I have also discovered that this album comes with a collectors edition which is the size of a photo album, consists of a hardback, double sided poster, a special message from LADY GAGA, artistic pages and more photo shoot photographs, many notes and many little booklets, all embedded within the album type book that has a mirror on the front of it. A Lady GaGa bookmark is also included within, as well as 3-D glasses for 3-D posters. It also contains what seems to be a piece of her wig, and costs $90. All in all it is an art book that contains many goodies for collectors and Lady GaGa fans.

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Cee Lo Green promoted his 2010 album ‘The Lady Killer’, by releasing the explosive single ‘F*ck you’, censored as ‘Forget you’. This image is his album advert, which is one page. This album was Cee Lo Green’s first album in six years, third solo album and ninth album in total. The cover is really simplistic, and is arranged in correlation with Cee Lo Green’s suave look. The advert has been printed on smooth, glossy paper, the font’s are simplistic and extravagant, and has no borders whatsoever, but one gradient. There is clear evidence of his name in huge sophisticated font to sell him, as he was never too popular worldwide as a solo singer, and his album title in smaller yet still extravagant font to highlight his personality as exciting. The date is written as basic font, yet a medium size to show that it is important, but not as important as the actual star himself. The website and the company logo, are very small which sells the standing of them as very much insignificant when together with the image, artist name and title. The image is an extreme close-up of Cee Lo Green, which emphasises that the music and album all centres around him, there are no gimmicks just Cee Lo Green. The mise en scene is excellent too. The lighting is bright on Cee Lo Green, whilst there are shadows on irrelevant things such as the background which makes Cee Lo Green become expressed greatly more, as someone important. Cee Lo Green's costume are ; pink shirt, pink bowtie, pinky ring and sunglasses, these in their own make him look extravagant, aswell as relating to the title of the album The Lady Killer by including feminine colours and accessories.

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"Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. "- John D. Rockerfeller

This is the first draft for our storyboard. We have showcased our ideas within this video.

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(500) Days Of Summer was a really good film which involved two various perceptions, one of expectations and one of reality. I really liked the thought of this because the song we chose was a love story in which it seemed the female didn't know how the singer felt about him. We felt this clip of (500) Days Of Summer really fitted the theme of our story.
We were unable to Embed the video due to the video's Embedding being disabled by request.
The link for the video is below, and the parts in which we were interested in starts at 0:00 and ends at 0:52

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This is the storyboard we created that will influence possible themes within the actual music video. We gathered pictures that may relate to the genre, or our perception of the star image

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"the greatest prison is the subconscious mind" M.K.I.

Throughout our whole video we will be enabling split screen editing, so we will have two separate narratives for both the male performer and female love interest. They will meet together at the end of the video to combine their narratives together, although the camera will still be rolling where our male performer previously was before.

Male) Establishing shot: performer leaving a cafe with guitar. He is holding coffee cup

Male) Close-Up: takes ipod out of pocket, searches and plays cold coffee song. Music then starts.
Female) Mid-shot: woman walking down the street towards the camera.

Male) close-up: male performer singing as he is walking to his spot on the street where he is going to be busking.
Female) Over-the-shoulder: looks in the shop window and see’s his (male-performer's) reflection, looks back and then there is nobody there.

Male) long-shot: Sits down and begins busking, with his guitar case open.
Close-up some money thrown in.
Female) Rear angle shot of her walking

Male) Long-shot zooms into a Mid shot of male performer still busking.
Female) close-up: her face looking emotional as she see's male performer.
Point of view shot of female looking at performer

Male) High-angle shot: Notices female approaching him. Cuts to Close-up shot of Nervous facial expression
Female) Tracking shot: female walking towards performer. Cuts to
Close up: Her foot knocking down the cup of coffee he left on the floor.

It will continue with them looking at each-other, coming close to eachother and then the girl disappears, in which we then see the main character play his guitar.




The split screen has really intrigued me , and I have found an interest for incorporating split screen into my music video.

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She’s like cold coffee in the morning
I’m drunk off last night’s whisky and coke
She’ll make me shiver without warning
And make me laugh, as if I’m in on joke

And you can stay with me forever
Or you could stay with me for now
And tell me if I’m wrong
And tell me if I’m right
Tell me if you need a loving hand
To help you fall asleep tonight
Tell me if I know
Tell me if I do
Tell me how to fall in love
The way you want me to

I’ll wake with coffee in the morning
But she prefers two lumps of sugar and tea
Outside, the day is up and calling
But I don’t have to be
So please go back to sleep

And stay with me forever
Or you could stay with me for now
And tell me if I’m wrong
And tell me if I’m right
Tell me if you need a loving hand
To help you fall asleep tonight
Tell me if I know
Tell me if I do
Tell me how to fall in love
The way you want me to

Cos I love the way you wake me up
For goodness sake, will my love not be enough?

Tell me if I’m wrong
Tell me if I’m right
Tell me if you need a loving hand
To help you fall asleep tonight
Tell me if I know
Tell me if I do
Tell me how to fall in love
The way you want me to

Tell me if I’m wrong
Tell me if I’m right
Tell me if you need a loving hand
To help you fall asleep tonight



I emailed WMG to ask for permission to use their song.


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Born: Edward Christopher Sheeran
D.O.B: 17/02/1991
Origin: Halifax, United Kingdom
Hair Colour: Ginger

Ed Sheeran is a singer and songwriter in which his genres have a huge range, he does Folk rock, acoustic, hip-hop and Grime. Sheeran has been active since 2005 where he began recording music for his first EP: The Orange Room. He soon after moved to London and began to play gigs for small amounts of people, as little as five sometimes, whilst in London he auditioned for now defunct television show Britannia High.
In 2009 he played 312 gigs, because he wanted to do more than James Morrison who had done 200 gigs. He released many more EPs with the likes of Ed Sheeran, Want some?, You Need Me, Loose Change, Songs I wrote with Amy and Thank You.
Ed Sheeran broke into mainstream success with his current album + when it spawned singles such as 'The A Team' and 'You need me, I don't need you'.
Before getting signed he made friends with Jamie Foxx, who asked him to stay at his house, and record whilst he was in America.
His fanbase grew with his Youtube account where more and more people saw him.
Nowadays his is associated with acts such as Elton John, James Morrison, Example, Devlin, Wiley, Sway, Yasmin and Wretch 32, most of which are urban acts.He has also received praise by then England captain Rio Ferdinand.

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