Question 10:

Which type of finish do you prefer?...

Question 9:

Which do you like to have on/in your digipak? (pick as many as required)

Question 8:
Do you prefer to have a seperate booklet with information sliped inside the case?

Question 7:
Which type of writing do you prefer? ...

Question six:

Do you prefer your album cover to have the artists picture as...

Question 5:

How many panels do you like your digipaks to have?

Question 4:

Do you prefer your album cover to be...

3).

Questionaire Results:

To make my results more readable and recognisable i entered the results into excel and created pie charts.

1).

2).

Questionaire: This questionaire is about R'n'B digipaks:

1). Name:................ 0 Male 0 Female

2). Age: 0 16 or under 0 17-21 0 22-26 0 27-31 0 32-36 0 37-41 0 42-46 0 46-50 0 50+

3). Does your attraction to album covers encourage you to buy a CD?
0 yes 0 no

4). Do you prefer your album cover to be
0 colourful 0 black and white 0 set colour scheme

5). How many panels do you like your digipaks to have?
0 4 0 6 0 8

6). Do you prefer your album cover to have the artists picture as
0 a full body shot 0 close up 0 extreme close up

7). Which type of writing do you prefer?
0 italic 0 bold 0 ariel

8). Do you prefer to have a seperate booklet with information sliped inside the case?
0 yes 0 no

9). Which do you like to have on/in your digipak? (pick as many as required)
0 information on the artist 0 information about their upcoming events 0 chances to win tickets to see them 0 tracklist 0 other competitions 0 other albums which they have produced

10). Which type of finish do you prefer?
0 gloss 0 matt

What is a digipak?

A digipak is the alternative to standard jewel case packaging.
Digipaks are mostly made from thick card, the digipak is virtually shatterproof and allows great graphic display.They are now reasonably priced so they can be used for any CD or DVD project.
Digipaks are also environmently frendly as they are made from card which is recyclable.

Exhibitionism:


This is the opposite to voyeurism. It is believed that the more powerful artists such as Madonna have added complexity of the politics of looking and gender/cultural debates. These artists are said to be in control and inviting a sexualised gaze.
When looking at exhibitionism the question 'who is exploiting whom?' is arisen. Is it exploitation to women or a life-enhancing assertion of female self-confidence and sexual independence?

Representations:


Music videos offer excellent material for analysing the processes of representations.


Voyeurism:

This idea comes from the psychoanalytical theories of Sigmund Freud and originally refers to the notion that erotic pleasure may be gained by looking at a sexual object. While watching a film, we are all voyeurs, it is argued, but film presents us with a variety of pleasures, not exclusively sexual ones.


It has been proposed (principally by Laura Mulvey, 1975) that, because the filmmakers are predominantly male, the presence of women in film is often solely for the purposes of display (rather than for narrative purposes). Despite many subsequent detractions and revisions of 'gaze theory', in it's simplest form, the arguement is thought-provoking in the context of an analysis of representation in music videos.


Gooodwin:
Goodwin argues that the female performer is frequently objectified in this fashion, often through a combination of camerawork and editing with fragmented body shots emphasising a sexualised treatment of the star. This idea becomes more complex when we see the male body on display- the post-feminist 'female gaze' where women are no longer just objects of the look, but exercise some power by looking at men as sex objects too.
 

Today we uploaded the footage we gathered on sunday. We plan to upload all the footage first before editing, as in year 12 we found we need to add bits back in to make up the time. Therefore by doing it at the end we know how much we have to work with.

Today we filmed the scene where the girl is getting ready to go to the town to meet her boyfriend. When trying to shoot a point of view shot we came across a problem as you could see the reflection of the camera in the mirror. We overcome this by not getting the mirror in the shot and we shall edit these different shots into each other to make it more realistic.

Album covers:

Ne-yo:
Year of the gentlemen:
Front Cover:

Middle:

Back Cover: