Questionnaire for album cover of the riot tapes open eyed dreams, and conlusion about how to improve the album cover

I handed out about 15 questionnaires to various people from Reepham College.


In you opinion what genre of music would you think this is?




How could the album background be improved in your opinion?




Would changing the colour of the writing to that of the CD be a improvement, if so why?



Conclusion draw from Questionnaire results


For the first question most people believed that because of its dark boring background it would mostly be some sort of dark music, this was further enforced by the black writing, to change this to a alternative music it was encouraged that I maybe made a lighter or at least more interesting background, and change the colour of the font to give it a lighter alternative feeling.

For the second question it was almost unanimous, make the background more interesting by possibly adding texture, and changing the font, I shall take that into consideration.

For the third it was difficult, as almost everyone wanted a different colour, however I am going to go with red as it is the same as the colour of the CD colour, this will make the album cover match more.

Therefore in conclusion I am not going to make drastic changes to my first draft of the album cover, but I am intending to change the font colour and the background.

Comparison of the album cover I made and a album cover of another Indie band similar to the one we selected

For this task I picked the band called the Mystery Jets this band are a British Indie band, I feel this is the same genre of music to the band we picked, the riot tapes.

This album cover is many ways is a vastly different to the first draft of my album cover. For one on this album cover there is a picture of all the band, although non of them are playing instruments which is something you may expect if a band is on the front cover, they are all their, which in some cases is odd as not many bands from the Indie genre have themselves on a album cover, this type of music is very well known for pieces of artwork or symbols on front cover of albums. This is what I can pick out as the major difference between my first album cover and the album cover of this band, my album cover is in contrast very simple.

Another major difference between this album cover and mine is that this cover is a picture, mine is not,mine is created via Photoshop, starting with a bog standard background and working from that. However with my album cover I did go with clear text stating what the album name was and the band, with the bands name higher than the album name, the same technique is used here. I used this as it is seen as to be the normal layout for a album, however for Indie music in the past there have been albums covers set out differently with the text the other way round or sometimes not text, just the bands logo to let fans and followers know that this album is of that certain band.

Our music video

First draft of album cover

Moral panics

What is a moral panic?

Moral panic is an interesting social phenomenon that can have tragic results. The term is used to describe a state of panic induced in a large group of people, who feel that a societal norm or an aspect governing the safety of people is being seriously threatened. The term is the creation of sociologist Stanley Cohen, who examined the way that Mods and Rockers were perceived as a threat to society in the 1960s and early 1970s. Moral panic clearly existed prior to Cohen creating the term. Virtually every dance style introduced in the 20th century created such panic; even the waltz was condemned much earlier as a sure path to sin because the couples embraced each other. Moral panics have been around for ages, even Plato thout that youth vulture was something worth worrying about.

An example of a modern moral panic

Knife crime seems to be today’s moral panic, although there have been few incidents it seems that the media has decided to brand everyone that wears a hoody as a hooligan and they must be carrying a knife. Of course this Is not true but it has turned into moral panic, and moral panics always seem to be surrounding youth cultures. Most young men don't carry knives; most young people are not components of what some politicians are calling the 'broken society'. It is just simple scapegoating, as youths will always be easy to blame.

The future of moral panic
I believe that along as there is a youth culture of any sort there will always be a moral
panic surrounding the, and I ma sure in the future when I am older I will be part of the
Elder generation that is positive that youth culture has become more destructive from
when I was young, however I doubt that it would it will actually be the case that
thereis a problem with the youths of the future, I feel that I will have just become
more paranoid. So I believe there will always be moral panics and this will continue
in the future.

Progres on filming

Progress of our filming

WE have finished our filming after one successful filming session on the Sunday of the 30th of October.

We had tried to film on a number of occasions before this but certain conditions and variables demanded that we were not able to film before this date, so we are very pleased that we finally got a good filming session done, and are happy with the footage that we captured. Weather wise the conditions were perfect as it was a sunny day with only a few clouds in the sky, but since these clouds were low the moved very quickly which means that when we come to editing the sky may look slightly different from frame to frame, however this could not really be avoided.

All in all I am very happy that me and Chris have got our filming done as we can now edit it into the actual music video.

Time Plan

Time plan

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