Ed Sheeran - + Digipak Analysis

Having analysed the album cover for Ed Sheeran's album '+', in my previous blog post, I will analyse the rest of the digipak in this post.

Ed Sheeran - "+" Album Cover Analysis

Band Instagram

We created this page as we wanted our band to look as authentic and professional as possible, with our research showing us that indie artists communicate with their fans by posting photos to the app. Examples of indie artists that I researched that do this include:
-The 1975
-Ed Sheeran
-The Hoosiers
-The Wombats

Song List for 'The Secret Nothings' Debut Album

As well as our chosen song - 'Heart Out' by The 1975 - I also need a wide variety of existing songs from the indie genre to form the song list of our fictional band's digipak. My research has shown that indie bands usually feature 10 to 12 songs on an album so, as a result, I have decided to use 12 songs - including our chosen one. The songs that I have chosen come from a variety of different indie bands, with the reason I have chosen all of these songs being that they all sound stylistically different, but the themes of love, heartbreak, pain and emotion all being present in them. The song listing of my album is:
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!

Indie Music Video Questionnaire

Enclosed in this blog post is a questionnaire that I made and set to establish my music video target audience of those who would watch a music video of the indie genre. In making this questionnaire, I took into account the different type and genre interests, age and gender of the participants, and what makes a music video indie. The responses are soon to follow.

Indie Genre Moodboards

In my research, I have made two mood boards focusing on my chosen genre - indie rock. They focus on conventions found in the genre such as bands, clothing, hairstyles, colours, instruments, behaviours and styles. My group and I will hopefully take note of and use these conventions to further both our band's persona and final product.

Band Twitter

In order to further the illusion that our band is real, as well as giving our band an identity/persona, my group and I decided to create a Twitter account to give our band's followers announcements, updates, tour information and other general info that can be kept track of. This is good for our band as it can be used to make our band's digipak and website more authenticity, as we can use the Twitter as a social networking link as well as featuring a Tweet bar to show all tweets from the account and when they've been updated.