Digipak: Jamie T, Panic Prevention

Jamie T's debut Mercury prize nominated album Panic Prevention was released on the 29th January 2007 and sold over 160,000 copies in the first year. The album was a big success for the Wimbeldon born singer and lead to his second hit album Kings and Queens. The album achieved most of its success from singles such as Shelia, If You Got The Money, Ike and Tina and So Lonely Was The Ballad. The album was named Panic Prevention because Jamie T (real name Jamie Treays) suffered panic attacks throughout his teenage years, and the album is a series of songs showcasing events and feelings.

What I like about the album cover and the digipack is the cluttered mess where Jamie lays and the contrast of the background with the war medals. The medals do not directly link to the songs in the album but do make a good back cover, unlike some albums the track list are displayed simply which is what we wanted to do. Keeping a simple album cover isn't really popular in the media industry

today artists use their covers to express how artistic they are to appeal to a wider audience. A basic album cover by a popular modern artists I found is Employment by The Kaiser Chiefs, I like the old book effect with the worn out material and the old label because they give a realistic old effect.

Another important part of the digipak is the design of the actual CD, Panic Prevention which is the image on the right has a plain basic design with the albums title Panic Prevention over and over again. This is an important choice which means more than just the aesthetics. The repetition of the words represent an actual panic attack with someone in a confused state struggling to ommunicate. What i like about the repetition of the words is that in some places the words are cut off which centers the complete title. Where as the image above on the left hand side is an example of artistic creativity some artists choose to display on their CD's

Car Scene Filming

We are approaching the deadline for our music video in the second week of February and today we filmed our car scenes. After research we were all confident that we could produce some impressive shots and angels, and when we were out filming we experimented with various angles, which in the end saved us as we lost a proportionate amount of film due to recording mistakes. We did the best to salvage what we could and the little experimental shots drastically improved the quality of our music video.

Poster

Over the past few weeks as well as editing our music video we have been producing our poster and our digipack. The poster was quite complicated to produce because at the moment we do not have the film from the car scenes to take images from, and our band Tweed are not a normal mainstream band so there are not many conventional ideas we can use. The image on the left was our first draft of the poster, the image which is quite powerful did not really represent Tweed and is more suited to an American soft rock boy band so we began again.


The image on the right is our second attempt at creating our poster, the image unlike the first is subtle but effective. The image was taken by filming the playback screen on a video camera, during the editing stage of our video we cropped the image while brainstorming for ideas for the poster.

The image on the left is our final poster. We wanted to keep things simple as a colourful modern design would not be suitable for Tweed. The background is an actual picture of our teachers tweed jacket which we cropped and repeated to give us the shape we needed. As you can see we used the name of our band literally to create our poster and the subtleties actually suits the song and the mood of the bands music. The text was taken from the copyright free website http://www.1001fonts.com/ which was sourced by Ryan. What I like about the poster is its simplicity, and we wanted to keep things simple when it came to the Digipack front cover too. We decided to keep the album plain because our song I Ran You Down limits you too a car shot or a band pose like our first draft of our poster. The whole idea of our video is that it is subjective there is no definite ending, so we decided that having a plain album cover would make it more interesting for the audience to pick up and wonder what the album is about. Just to avoid confusion the darker patch on the bottom left of out poster is the album cover.

Bad News!

Today we began putting the film which had produced on the 28th onto the Imacs to edit. However there was a lot of film missing, we had reached the end of the tape and so re winded back to tape over the band scene which was already uploaded. However we did not rewind back enough and filmed past the point where we began filming the new scenes. We are passed the first draft deadline by over two weeks so we desperately need to speed up and use our time wisely.