Meeting 31/10/2013 (and some album art research)

After meeting with our actor we had a media meeting in which we made the following to do list for the near future:

• Finish visual references
• Order chains
• Finalise grunge outfits
• Choose and download projection clips
• Order needle tips
• Develop key shots
• Chose Brick Lane locations
• Brainstorm album art further
• Arrange a second studio planning meeting
• Create social media accounts (twitter, instagram, facebook)
• Decide on and find visual references for make up and hair

We also went to HMV to look at album art and decided we thought it would be better to have a CU  of Arianna on the front cover. This is because the image would be more striking, and it is too small to have four figures with enough detail to be seen to still attract the audience. An example of a cover we really liked was Jessie J's new album. We found ourselves drawn to this much more than the others on display. We also liked Union J's marketing strategy of selling the same album but with four different covers, one for each band member, as well as a deluxe album with a group photo. This encourages fans to buy the album in order to support their favourite member.

We came up with several new ideas for album art. The first was a CU of Arianna holding a needle syringe to her head like a gun. We liked this idea because it is a very striking image but we realised this may have connotations of suicide, something we very clearly want to avoid so we ruled out this idea. 

We then thought we could change one side of her face, maybe disfigure it, or make one side perfected and leave the other side natural looking. This idea is still in development. We also noted that we wanted to keep the chains iconography if possible.