Rough Cut 3 (Abbie)

What is in this Sequence:
In this sequence I had added some of the dance clips roughly and since I filmed the dance sequence with the same timing of the song in final cut I was able to place them in similar timing as the song on the clip so they match the beats mainly. I have also added more of the musuem clips such as Bronte holding onto the candle this is one of my favourite clips as I think the singing is really well synced as well as the darkness around the lighten candles adds atmosphere into the sequence. I have also add some more into the beginning sequence such as Bronte placing her hand onto the glass of the frame.

The Narrative of the video:
There is a painting of a couple on there wedding day, the female persona is sick of being stuck in a small framed space, eventually she's had enough of being a painting and decides to break free leaving her husband confused at her sudden departure. She finds herself in the museum where she explores vicariously as if she was human, passing against the houses she finds some candles and begans to light the dark world which is the realistic look on life when she escaped from her optimistic lifestyle.

What i'm going to do next:
I will fill up the final patches of black and add an ending since I forgot to cut this rough cut. I won't be adding a fourth rough cut as the next construction will go under first final video. I also will be placing the ratio of a 16:9 so that all clips match. I will also be adding the 'step' effect on the video and will add more transistions has the clip cuts to rapidly to the next which I do not like.

Storyboard Animatic (Serena +Thomas)

This is the animatic of our music video 'Cosmic Love'. This post talk about the production of this animatic.

There were some problems when I created the animatic. Thomas scanned original storyboard and put it on computer. But those images were not clear enough, the reason of this is when he drawed the storyboard, he used pencil which was undertint. I figured it out by changing the Offset and Gamma Correction on Photoshop, so that we have better images what could be used in animatic.

Original Storyboard

Original Storyboard in Photoshop

The original storyboard did not follow the full shot schedule, so some of the shots were missing, which was not enough for me to create the animatic of our music. To solve this problem, at the beginning, I used all the shots from the original storyboard, edited those shots in Final Cut. Than I compere that with the shot schedule so I know which part were missing, I re-drawed the missing part. This time, I labeled the time, shot type and the action every shots on the right-up corner of the image that could help me put those new shots in the right place.

Location Request (Abbie)

 I written an email to Hartlepool Marina asking for permission to use their premise to film part of our music video as I explained in the email.

 I got a reply quickly from a woman named Emma, who I stayed in touch with most of the time whilst arranging permission. Fairly, they required I come down and show them where I want to film so they know if they need to redirect the public.

I offered to go that weekend to meet Dominic and show them where I wanted to film which was on the Boat, in the hallway and outside where we could light candles and not be stopped because of health and Safety reasons. 

I went to meet Dominic who was kind enough to give me a tour of where I could film and gave me the permission to use the Museum grounds for filming. I was given the busiest days and offered to film when the museum wasn't open to the public, which was great if I needed be. But I decided I could easily work around the public. He said he would like me to call in preferably 2 days before we are going to the museum filming, I agreed that was fine. 

Unfortunately when I went to call them two days beforehand but I was unable to get through to Emma so I left my number, I was told I'd get a call back that same day but sadly I did not. I tried again the next day and I left my number a second time and again I did not receive a call back. This was very frustrating as I was trying to arrange a time so that all members including the actors were able to come.

I was able to reply, and told Wendy a date and a time I wished to go and film at the museum, by this time I had to arrange this on the day. I told them we we're more likely to be a couple of hours simply due to the amount of shots we needed. I offered to work around the public, and try not cause any inconvenience. 

After getting a reply back from Emma, they required I bring my storyboard of my shots in like I promised Dominic, they told me a large school was coming on the same day as us so I needed to play where we were going to film at particular times.

I told her where our locations are going to be on their establishment and unfortunately I had forgotten the name of the hallway which we were going to film in. I also asked if we we're able to use the boat in which the museum owned. I gave them I time, me and my group would be appearing at the museum and that I would show them the storyboard before I set up any equipment.

Inspirational Video (Abbie)

Inspirational videos from Abbitybabbityboo

We were inspired by Christina Perri "A Thousand Years" because of her candle scenes where it shows her holding a candle and surrounded by hundreds of candles. I liked this because it went with the song lyrics 'They have all been blown out'.  It was also a nice touch to add in the dark room, because of the lyrics 'You've left me in the dark', they melted quite quickly because they were tea lights but overall I liked how they were portrayed during that scene in our music video.

For the dress, we wanted a victorian like theme but were not sure what dress to use, Within Temptation song Frozen portrayed a very formal dress which we liked very much so we tried to find a dress similar such as the collar of the dress in Frozen is similar to our dress in our music video. It went with our theme and we're glad that we could find a dress so alike.

For this inspiration we went to the source of our song, with is 'Cosmic love'. We really liked this camera angle of how she is surrounded by lights while singing on the beat so we decided to do something similar but we got a side view instead because it looked better with the lights reflecting onto her rather than under her. 

Shooting schedule (Serena)

By using Office Excel, we could easily plan our shot schedule by lining up different section which is instant for us to know 'what','when' and 'where' to film.

I used 8 sections, those are 'Shot Number','Time','Shot Type','Action','Location','Costume','Props' and 'Performance'. For different location, I colored different colors because it is easier for our planning. By the lines of 'Costume' and 'Props', we could make adequate preparation of the mise en scene of our video. The line of 'Time' contributed when I created the animatic that I know where each shots should be. It was a mistake when I planed the time of each shots. I missed a second out between each shots, so when I doing the animatic, I let each shots longer.

But in actual filming, we have not followed the full shot schedule due to the techniques and the weather. We changed some shots when we doing the editing, those changes would not make big different.

After I finished the shot schedule, I did not check the spelling at the beginning, I upload it on my blog, when Abbie read it, she found that I made some mistake on the spelling of the words. With Abbie's help, I corrected all the mistake and upload the new one. I will be more careful on my english spelling. When I upload this shot schedule on my blog, I could not upload it straightly because this shot schedule is a Excel, to solve this problem, I used Screenshot of each 10 shots which is easier and clear to read than I upload it as images.

Test Footage (Abbie)

Test Footage: 
This is our test footage of our music video 'Cosmic Love', it shows the beginning sequence of our music video. The beginning shows a medium shot of our actors Bronte and Thomas, then it changes to a long shot of them infront of a church that I have used film colorization on. On the right you see part of the green screen coming through onto the footage while we were doing a few shots, we weren't able to use this clip because of it. It then shows a long shot of our actor Bronte doing some dance moves in the same studio we filmed our beginning scene, we were going to use these for the actual video but decided against because it didn't look very good. It then changes to a medium shot of Bronte in the museum walking towards the camera, this was a good shot and we may use it in our music video.

The narrative:
There is a painting of a couple on there wedding day, the female persona is sick of being stuck in a small framed space, eventually she's had enough of being a painting and decides to break free leaving her husband confused at her sudden departure. She finds herself in the museum where she explores vicariously as if she was human, passing against the houses she finds some candles and begans to light the dark world which is the realistic look on life when she escaped from her optimistic lifestyle.

Rough Cut two (Abbie)

What is in this Sequence:
It contains the opening sequence and I have added the 'stepping' out clip which was missing in the previous rough cut, although I still have to edit it further and crop out the studio light. I have also included some more lip-syncing from the performing arts studio where the dance sequence takes place, I have also added some of the museum clips where she is exploring the houses and leaves one of the houses as well as the candle sequence.  There is a lot more black patches since I have synced different clips at different timings of the music.

The Narrative of the video:
There is a painting of a couple on there wedding day, the female persona is sick of being stuck in a small framed space, eventually she's had enough of being a painting and decides to break free leaving her husband confused at her sudden departure. She finds herself in the museum where she explores vicariously as if she was human, passing against the houses she finds some candles and begans to light the dark world which is the realistic look on life when she escaped from her optimistic lifestyle.

What i'm going to do next:
I will add more clips in which will be the dance sequence and I will also try and sync the clips more into the beat of the song, for my main next goal will be to roughly place as many clips as possible in order to fill up the gaps and get around two to three minutes of the song completely sycned.

Rough Cut One. (Abbie)

What is in this Sequence:
For rough cut one, I did a thirty second clip of what my beginning sequence would look like. It shows our personas standing infront of a church lipsyncing. We filmed this sequence on our first day of filming, in the studio. It shows us doing a close up, medium shot and long shot with the additional transition to make the sequence flow more easily. I have to be careful not to go overboard with the transitions as it won't look professional like I intended it to.

The Narrative of the video:
There is a painting of a couple on there wedding day, the female persona is sick of being stuck in a small framed space, eventually she's had enough of being a painting and decides to break free leaving her husband confused at her sudden departure. She finds herself in the museum where she explores vicariously as if she was human, passing against the houses she finds some candles and begans to light the dark world which is the realistic look on life when she escaped from her optimistic lifestyle.

What i'm going to do next:
I am going to add more of the dance sequence which we re-filmed, I am also going to add the clips which we re-filmed in the studio. Due to re-filming, there was a few black patches of in between the clips, because we had not shown that she 'steps' out of the painting which would rupture the order of events in the narrative leaving the audience confused. I will try and make the next rough cut longer than 30 seconds preferably to a minute or more.

Recce Shots (Abbie + Serena)

 These Recce shots are of the church to show the location of where our video could be. We have used the first picture as our painting because it goes with the storyline of a married couple, hence a traditional wedding. We were also exploring the location for any good shots so that we may use the Church as a filming locating rather than just as part of the mise en scene. On the last picture we were thinking of using this picture on the digipak/advert because it is a good angle and the line which goes across the sky could be used in reference of our song lyrics 'A falling star' so we could add some creativity onto the digipak by changing that sky line into a shooting star. This is good for our Florence like video because it is unusual and interesting.

Font choice (Abbie + Georgia + Serena + Thomas)

For the record label, we wanted to try a few fonts before sticking to one for the record label. We wanted to follow the Florence route and so we choose three texts before narrowing it down to one. The group decided to use text one, which is the font Edwardian script for out record company called TAGS. 

Logo (TAGS) (Serena + Abbie)

I viewed the mask and text that had been hand drawn by Serena, the mask is suppose to represent two sides of a personality, the good and the evil. Serena got this inspiration by researching masquerade masks on a website which is specifically made for selling these kind of masks.

Next I zoomed in using the navigation tool on iphoto, to get a better picture of mask which I will enlarge in photoshop before making a colour scheme that the group agrees on and painting in the colours onto the mask. I think the colour scheme will be bright colours seeing as we're trying to portrait a good vs evil theme in our record

label.

This is a close up of our record label TAGS font, we wanted it to be similar to edwardian script so Serena tried to recreate that in her own design, it's a good drawing and the fact that the title and picture of the record label is hand drawn makes the record label task a lot more creative which is what we want to pursue through out the planning process.

This is the colour scheme we want to go for to paint in our mask, we want the black to make the mask stand out, and the red and gold will be used for the 'good girl, bad girl' effect.

This is the finish record label, the reason we went against our original plan of colour scheme was because of the difficulties that had occurred in Photoshop trying to create that effect, so after speaking with the team we decided to do a gradient effect of black and purple, as well as going over the detailed area with black and setting it to soft light to give it more of a stand out effect and we were satisfied with the mask as our record label.

Risk Assessment (Abbie + Georgia)

Technical Difficulties:

If the camera began to malfunction we could check the normal things think such as is the battery broke and/or charged. If all that fails, we will bring a second camera which would be the backup in case anything went wrong, I would also check to see if they're was an SD card in the camera so that the video clips recorded on the broken camera is retrievable. If there was no SD card I would use USB lead that comes with the camera to get the clips of the camera harddrive. For a computer malfunction I would make sure that I have all the clips, photos and final cut files backed up onto memory sticks and my U: drive so that it is accessible from any computer which would keep my schedule flowing. The responsibility for these potential difficulties would be the main cinematographer in charge and the main editor.

Financial Difficulties:

If any of the actor(s) or crew member(s) needed transportation to get to the location that we chose, they may have to get public transportation. For the big film day in a public place, the director will arrange some transportation that will be able to fit all the crew and actors in as well as the props and equipment such as the prop. The other financial difficulties that we have to be careful of is when we're buying props, we do not want to spend too much on props we may not use, so we are been careful about what we're buying and it's responsible of the costume and props manager to make sure we do not go overboard with budget.

Weather:

We have to chose our days of filming carefully because filming on a rainy day may cause a risk for the actor(s) and crew member(s) if they're running about as well as the equipment as getting the camera wet could prove badly done results on the footage and leaves the risk of the camera breaking prematurely. This will be responsibility of the director, who will chose when and what days we film.

Costumes:

Due to the length of the actor's dress, we have to be careful she is able to move about it in without restricting her movement which could prove her to falling over and hurting herself. The second outfit is not so bad, as it is not as long as the first dress but all dresses need to be clean and available for our filming days. The costume and props manager has the responsibility of keeping the dresses safe and they're hygienic enough to use.

Lyric breakdown (Abbie + Georgia)

Cosmic Love (Album Version)
Duration: 4:19

Verse
A falling star fell from your heart, (0:03 – 0:09)
And landed in my eyes. (0:10 – 0:14)
I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, (0:17 – (0:23)
And now it's left me blind. (0:23 – 0:28)

Chorus
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out, (0:30 – 0:37)
You left me in the dark. (0:37 – 0:41)
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight, (0:44 – 0:51)
In the shadow of your heart. (0:51 – 0:55)

Verse
And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat, (0:58 – 1:04)
I tried to find the sound. (1:05 – 1:08)
But then it stopped and I was in the darkness, (1:12 – 1:18)
So darkness I became. (1:18 – 1:25)

Chorus
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out, (1:25 – 1:32)
You left me in the dark. (1:32 – 1:36)
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight, (1:39 – 1:46)
In the shadow of your heart. (1:47 – 1:50)

Ou-oh (ou-oh), Ou-oh (ou-oh), Ou-oh, Ou-oh, Ou-oh (ou-oh), Ou-oh (ou-oh), Ou-oooh. (1:53 – 2:06)

Bridge

I took the stars from my eyes and then I made a map, (2:06 – 2:12)
And knew that somehow I could find my way back. (2:13 – 2:19)
Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too, (2:20 – 2:26)
So I stayed in the darkness with you. (2:27 – 2:31)

Chorus

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out, (2:35 – 2:42)
You left me in the da-ark. (2:42 – 2:48)
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight, (2:49 – 2:56)
In the shadow of your he-art. (2:59 – 3:02)

The stars (the stars), the moon (the moon), they have all been blown out, (3:02 – 3:09)
You left me in the da-ark (you left me in the dark). (3:09 – 3:16)
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight, (3:16 – 3:23)
In the shadow of your he-art (shadow of your heart). (3:24 – 3:30)

Ou-oh (ou-oh), Ou-oh (ou-oh), Ou-oh, Ou-oh, Ou-oh (ou-oh), Ou-oh (ou-oh), Ou-oooh. (3:31 – 3:43)

Instrumental (3:43 - 4:19)

Call sheet - Museum (Abbie)

Call sheet two from Abbitybabbityboo

Call sheet - Studio (Abbie)

Call sheet: Studio from Abbitybabbityboo

Treatment sheet - Props (Serena)

Treamentsheet 1 from Serena Chu

Treatment Sheet - Costume (Serena)

Florence from Serena Chu

Audience research (Thomas + Abbie)

Audience research qqqq from Mpa1sst

From the feedback we have found that the audience prefer the videos with a storyline as well as the band involvement, this will prove useful as we plan our video because we can use this feed back to improve our sequence. From the second question, we would most likely create a video that's quite strange and different so that it would become mainstream and gain a lot of views whilst staying in the Indie rock genre, this plan is so that the audiences who don't watch many videos or only watch what their friends suggest are more likely to see the video than those non-mainstream. Looking at the conventions, the colourful background seems like a good feedback to go on as Florence is a very colour and bright person and this would make an reference back to her if we use some coloured lights in parts of our sequences. From the bands the audiences listed I would agree that they are Indie or similar to that genre so the audience is very aware of what the indie genre is and what bands are generally classed as indie. 

Audience Profile (Thomas + Abbie)

This profile was create to give us an idea of what an indie rock fan would like on their social networking site. Has you can see, it shows a lot of Florence and the Machine fan base. I also went onto my personal Facebook and found that eight out of my one hundred and sixty nine friends liked Florence and the Machine. Looking at the eight who liked it, I would agree that these do fit into the Indie genre. Looking on the official Facebook page of Florence, you can see that she has a big fan base than those in the indie rock genre, such as The Pastels.
Due to it's individual nature proves to be a successful genre due to the fact it can be more open when it's sound while still been original. Florence's unique voice proves successful for her musical career.

Initial ideas (Abbie, Georgia, Serena and Thomas)

Cosmic Love (Album Version)
Duration: 4:19

(In studio)
Hayley is posing within a picture. She beings to lip-sync the first few lines before turning and stepping out of the picture frame.

Verse
A falling star fell from your heart, (0:03 – 0:09)
And landed in my eyes. (0:10 – 0:14)
I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, (0:17 – (0:23)
And now it's left me blind. (0:23 – 0:28)

(At Museum)
Dress change for Hayley. If we have permission to film at the Museum, she is seen stepping out of a picture in the Museum, before escaping into reality.

Chorus

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out, (0:30 – 0:37)
You left me in the dark. (0:37 – 0:41)
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight, (0:44 – 0:51)
In the shadow of your heart. (0:51 – 0:55)

(At the beach/ Abondoned house)
The shot tilts upwards towards then sky, to then tilt downwards (in a hidden transition) to another location.

Verse
And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat, (0:58 – 1:04)
I tried to find the sound. (1:05 – 1:08)
But then it stopped and I was in the darkness, (1:12 – 1:18)
So darkness I became. (1:18 – 1:25)

(On location)
We use a pan of the candles as Hayley is seen running alongside a wall, dragging her hand. She quickens her pace and spins around dancing.

Chorus

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out, (1:25 – 1:32)
You left me in the dark. (1:32 – 1:36)
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight, (1:39 – 1:46)
In the shadow of your heart. (1:47 – 1:50)

(In studio)
Dance sequence begins, and another dress-change takes place (hidden in an edit of the dancing sequence) the lighting is erratic, going from light to dark with several candles throughout the room, she imagine the people from her painting and backs into a corner.

Ou-oh (ou-oh), Ou-oh (ou-oh), Ou-oh, Ou-oh, Ou-oh (ou-oh), Ou-oh (ou-oh), Ou-oooh. (1:53 – 2:06)

(In studio)
Hayley is kneeling on the ground (shallow focus) with the candles in the foreground. She grabs the candles and we switch to a close up of her face. She looks up then back down (hiding another transition).

Bridge

I took the stars from my eyes and then I made a map, (2:06 – 2:12)
And knew that somehow I could find my way back. (2:13 – 2:19)
Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too, (2:20 – 2:26)
So I stayed in the darkness with you. (2:27 – 2:31)

(At the beach/ Abondoned house)
Hayley lip-syncs the first two lines whilst looking up towards the sky (a reference to the song). She moves her arms about in a Florence fashion, and the shot changes to that of the sky, showing the stars and perhaps a meteor shooting past (transition).

A shot of her glowing heart as it beats, a shallow focus hides the next transition (1-3 seond shots are used).

Chorus

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out, (2:35 – 2:42)
You left me in the da-ark. (2:42 – 2:48)
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight, (2:49 – 2:56)
In the shadow of your he-art. (2:59 – 3:02)

(At Museum)
Hayley returns to the Museum, stumbling upon her old painting. Realising how much she's missed it, she lip-syncs the chorus melancholically.

The stars (the stars), the moon (the moon), they have all been blown out, (3:02 – 3:09)
You left me in the da-ark (you left me in the dark). (3:09 – 3:16)
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight, (3:16 – 3:23)
In the shadow of your he-art (shadow of your heart). (3:24 – 3:30)

(In studio)
Hayley steps back into the painting as the other characters inside lipsync behind her. She sits back down and resumes her pose.

Ou-oh (ou-oh), Ou-oh (ou-oh), Ou-oh, Ou-oh, Ou-oh (ou-oh), Ou-oh (ou-oh), Ou-oooh. (3:31 – 3:43)

Instrumental (3:43 - 4:19)

(At Museum)
The scene fades, and zooms out, fading back in to show various parts of the Museum as the instrumental plays and the song finishes.

Song permission request (Georgia)

We created an email to the record label of Florence and the Machine to request permission to use their song 'Cosmic love', the reason we did this, was so that we wouldn't have copyright issues with the song and have the company's and bands permission to use it.  Has you can see from the email, we gave the reason why we want to use the song, what the song is for and the deadline in which the project would be finished. We have also stated that it is for education purpose only and that we will make no revenue out of the project. 

Nine frame analysis - Coldplay (Thomas)

9 frame analysis paradise coldplay from Mpa1sst

Nine frame analysis - The Killers (Serena)

9 FRAME ANALYSIS on Prezi

Nine frame analysis - Franz Ferdinand (Georgia)

Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Run Time: 3:57

0:06: This shot shows the lead singer (Alex Kapranos) as a head with the lyrics of the song around him. This fits typical indie rock conventions, by showing both a band member and something related to the song. 

0:07: This shot is a close up shot of Alex's guitar, again with some lyrics on the scene. The black and white theme tends to be a recurring theme throughout indie rock videos (see digipak analysis).

0:10: This is a long shot of the band (presumably greenscreened) on an almost cartoony background. It fits indie rock conventions as it shows the whole band playing, it keeps with the monochrome theme and the geometric shapes that are used throughout the music video.

0:21: A long shot of the band again with the background and angle of the shot changing.

1:05: Another long shot of the band, except this time with robotic bodies and a different angle.

1:30: A close up of Alex's head again, but only his mouth with the head made out of robotic parts. The red and the yellow colours are ones that are used throughout the video along with the black and white shades.

1:38: Some of the artwork featured in the music video (a robotic leg made out of unusual objets while wearing a shoe, fitting the theme of robotic items made out of everyday items that is used throughout the video.)

1:59: A shot of the interposed 'story' that is shown throughout the video, it doesn't necessarily make sense or fit the lyrics of the music video.
2:24: Another such scene.

Most of the scenes in the video seem to follow the same, almost 'blueprint-ish' look. This fits indie rock conventions, as indie bands tend to do videos that tell stories or feature an unusual concept. They also show at least the lead singer of the band during the video, but most often (particularly with an all male band) they will show the whole group at points.

Nine frame analysis (Abbie)

Nine shot sequence. from Abbitybabbityboo

Digipak analysis - Nirvana (Thomas)

Digipak analysis from Mpa1sst

Digipak analysis - Oasis (Serena)

Digipak analysis from Serena Chu

Digipak analysis - The Kooks (Georgia)

All three digipaks are five page images (including discs). The cover image tends to feature the band and album name, the second panel is usually a picture of the band along with the track listings, while the third contains copyrights and the fourth a filler image of some sort. The discs are mostly simple and show the band name/ album name, with the exception of The Killers disc. All of the digipaks fall under the indie rock genre.

The Killers digipak lacks colour (much like the three other examples) except for a few choice words including the album title ‘Sam’s Town’. The band name and album title are both centred in the middle of the image on the front panel, with what seems to be a ‘Miss World’ winner taking up the right hand side, and a ram taking up the bottom left. The Killers logo is made up out of a pointillism style, that gives it the effect of a light up sign (with the dots being lightbulbs) and is a sharp contrast against the aged building behind it.

Sam’s Town is the Killers second studio album, and was produced under the Island and Vertigo record labels. These two companies are fairly mainstream, both of these companies are over 40 years old. Island Records has had such names as Mariah Carey, Dizzee Rascal, Def Leppard and Florence and the Machine signed to them, while Vertigo includes big names such as Black Sabbath and Metallica in their retinue.

Digipak analysis (Abbie)

 The elements that are used in digipaks are often similar when promoting their music. One of the most important elements to have onto a CD is the name of the band and the title of their album. This makes it easier for potential targets and fans to recognize the artist and know if the album is newly released. Depending on the bands style, you’d often find that the artist have their photograph on the CD, such as in the band Green Day case. From the look of this cd, on the middle left, it looks like they have reviews placed onto the cd to entice the potential audience and it also includes the copyright located on the top right. 

Going across the four section of the digipak, the band is only featured onto the digipak three times; it has the main leader photographed in the centre middle while the other two band member dances behind him, in a black and white effect while the rest of the digipak is in vibrant colours. One thing I have noticed is their signature style on the Cd cover, which is a cartoon version of themselves which I which I would associate as a characteristic as the effect is seen on many Green Day Album cover. Overall the concept of the digipak uses a simple black and white effect, then uses three bright colours to makes the cover a bit more interesting. It could be used to show two sides to the personality of the band such as the black and white showing a sad touch to the artist but they are also very happy and colourful.

The font used on the cover is in a bold cartoon like look and is a similar text to the other Green Day covers, they keep a colour scheme of Green, black and white which would go with the theme of there genre and style of how they present themselves towards the public, I believe this is also another characteristic that is used for the Green day signature. The title ‘International superhits’ means that the band is quite popular around the world and how there catchy songs are often hits due to the style they pursue to make.

The layout shows the band in a relaxed and joking state, which relate the type of style, they play which is Alternative rock. The main audience for this band could be towards a variety of audience, but mainly those who enjoy that type of ‘grunge’ look and rock and indie style music, but in general songs by Green Day are often enjoyed by both genders.