Album Cover Analysis

This is the album cover for Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds

I think this cover is clever because of the way it is framed. The artist is on the far right whereas the disco ball is in the centre of the frame, which insists that the album is all about the music and not about the artist, who is just a well dressed add on to the music. Although his second name is in orange, which makes it stand out against the black, white and grey background. The fact that he is smashing a disco ball shows that he is trying to break out of the regular trend of the music industry and experiment with new music. 

Album Cover Analysis

The Abbey Road cover - by The Beatles is possibly one of the most famous album covers of all time, there have been lots of ideas on what this means but the most simple being that they had just came out of the Abbey Road recording studio where they recorded most of their songs and needed to shoot an album cover.

There is also the "Paul is Dead" rumor, and the order they are standing in is the funeral procession. Leading the procession is John wearing white, symbolizing the clergy. Ringo, dressed in black, is the undertaker. Paul, the corpse, is out of step with the other Beatles, he is barefoot and his eyes are closed. George, dressed in work clothes, is the gravedigger. Also, Paul is smoking a cigarette, also known as a "coffin nail". He is holding the cigarette in his right hand, even though the real Paul McCartney was left handed. Behind the Beatles on the left side of the street is a Volkswagen Beetle with a license plate reading "28IF", suggesting the Paul would have been 28 if he were still alive. Actually Paul would have been 27 when Abbey Road was released. For those who thought that this was just too tantalizing to let pass, Paul Is Dead: The Great Hoaxexplained, "To the believer, 28 IF does symbolically state Paul's age—since people (especially in the Near East where Paul learned mysticism) believe we are all one year old at birth (counting the nine months of pregnancy). True, in this light, Paul would have been 28 IF he had lived!."The first three letters on the license place, "LMW," has been interpreted as "Linda McCartney Weeps". One problem with this interpretation, however, is that Paul had yet to meet Linda Eastman in 1966.

Preliminary Task

Our Preliminary Task was making a quick music video to 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' by Elton John and KiKi Dee

We had to bluetooth the song over onto one of our team members phone, so we could get the timings of the song and work out the words

Once we had the song on a device we found an empty classroom and filmed, we only had 30 minutes to do this, so we done two takes of the 2 shot and one take of each close up.

Once we was finished with our filming we edited straight away. We edited on FinalCut Express and edited upwards in layers, this means all the timings for the song were good and we only had to sync the timings 3 times, rather than for every cut that we do. The cuts were also done differently and we brought split screen into the video, which was completely different from our thriller editing last year.