Final Post

This is a post to state that my blog is now officially completed.

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The Secret Nothings - "Heart Out" OFFICIAL VIDEO

Official Website of 'The Secret Nothings'

Above my blog archive, there is a link to the newly created official website of The Secret Nothings. In order to visit, simply click below:

http://juk275.wix.com/thesecretnothings

The Secret Nothings - "Youth In Revolt" Digipak

Band Merchandise

The Secret Nothings - Website Biography

"The most revolutionary music to escape Liverpool since The Beatles. An Indie Rock band with a dash of sustained funk and hard-hitting rhythmic headaches - who have played with the likes of DJ eXistence, The Wave Is Rising and Flagpoles. Our live experiences on stage are mixed with ear-splitting octaves and pulsating energy - filled with a heavy sense of escapism and the brawny threads of adolescent discovery.

WE ARE DEAN.

WE ARE JAMES.

WE ARE ADAM.

WE ARE SHAUN.

WE ARE US.

WE ARE YOU.

WE ARE... THE SECRET NOTHINGS."

Digipak Back Cover

This is the back cover of the digipak that I have created for our fake band "The Secret Nothings" debut album "Youth In Revolt". On the back cover, I have reiterated the band name title of the album, and song list, as well as included a picture that I took myself of the Liver Buildings in Liverpool. The reason for this is that our band's background is from Liverpool and the song choices we have chosen include themes of growing up and adolescence - as a result, I have decided to use this image to symbolise that, no matter how much the status of our band increases, they will always care and respect their background and where they came from. I have also created a QR code, with my research showing that these are often placed in the bottom right corner, to suggest online content can be found if the barcode is scanned on to the phones or computers of people that buy the album. As a result, if the QR code on the back is scanned, it will lead to my band's website. Many bands of all genres appear to be using online content and social media to their advantage so I thought that including this in my digipak would be a good way to reference my target audience and the way that the music industry operates now.

Group Pictures for my Digipak

Here are the remaining pictures for my Digipak - featuring all band members together as a group. The pictures were taken in locations around our home town of Liverpool, accompanied by my group members Rian and Olivia. The pictures have been edited in PhotoShop to take a lot of the grime and dirt in our shots out, however, I have left a little unedited as I feel that it mirrors the rough-edged image that we want our band to have. In my research, I was inspired by band shots of The Wombats and The 1975 in things such as band formation, stance and setting. However, I believe that the clothing our band wears in the shots taken are both reflective of the indie genre whilst also seeming incredibly different from any other band out there, making our fake band stand out from others. The colour scheme is, like the rest of my digipak, black and white to reflect the mood and tone of both our band and the music that they play. The 'thank you' page that I have created is more rectangular than the others as it is meant to take up two pages as opposed to the one that every other picture that I have created would have.

Below are some band images of The Wombats and The 1975 that I was inspired by:

Individual Band Pictures for my Digipak

Here are a selction of the pages meant to accompany the lyric pages in my digipak. The pictures were taken during a real gig that our band was playing and were edited in PhotoShop to increase the quality to make my digipak the best that it could possibly be. I was inspired to incorporate individual band member shots into my digipak by the digipaks of artists such as Fall Out Boy ('Infinity on High') and Blur ('The Best Of'). However, in my research I found it very rare that band members would actually be playing their musical instruments - so I incorporated each band member performing in each picture to further the ideology that the band are both a real band and a band that stands out from the rest. The colour scheme is, like the rest of my digipak, black and white to reflect the mood and tone of both our band and the music that they play.

Lyric Pages for my Digipak

Using PhotoShop and with a range of pictures that I have taken myself, I have created 6 pages for my digipak containing the lyrics for each song that I have stated will appear on our band's album. In a previous blog post, I said that the songs that would be featured are:
01. Heart Out - The 1975
02. Walking Disasters - The Wombats
03. Sweater Weather - The Neighbourhood
04. Handshake - Two Door Cinema Club
05. Tiny Legs - Then Thickens
06. Pressure - The 1975
07. Dead American Writers - Tired Pony
08. Rain - The Luka State
09. When It Rains - Paramore
10. The Wolves (Act 1 & 2) - Bon Iver
11. Tiptoe - Imagine Dragons
12. Avocado, Baby - Los Campesinos!

These are the lyric pages that I have created:

 The colour pallette that I have chosen for these pages is purely black and white. The reason for this is that we have already established that our band's colour scheme is mainly black and white to represent the dark tone of their music, as well as themes such as sorrow and angst found throughout our music choices and imagery. I feel that the way that I have styled these pages very much so reflects these themes.
Additionally, I have tried to structure the place of the lyrics in places that are still able to show the nature of the pictures that I have taken - different environments that I believe our band would take inspiration for their songs from (Albert Dock, a street, a beach, street lights on the motorway and above the clouds). I believe that I have successfully conveyed this.

Below are the original versions of the pictures below: