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Little Eve
Telegram
Little Eve
Telegram
Kate Miller-Heidke's first album was EP, Telegram which came out in 2004. Then in 2005, Kate began her career as a lead opera vocalist, but soon found herself dreaming of advancing her solo career, releasing Circular Breathing in 2006. But it wasn’t until late ‘06 that Kate returned to the studio to commence work on her first full-length album.
Unquestionably extraordinary in every sense of the words, Kate has definitely gone outside the box when producing these wacky songs with each original song having a defined but diverse message. This is shown in her next album Little Eve, which combines her uniquely individual lyrics with amusingly uplifting melodies, creating a collection of intriguing theatrical musicality. Also featured on her album are Kate’s band members, who she has been playing with for three years, and their chemistry is unmistakable.
As one of our tasks is to design an album cover it is vital to look at previous albums of Kate. All of Kate's album covers are simplistic and concentrate on the artist with not much else happening on the cover. Surprisingly there is a lack of colour and instead of the vibrant colours seen in videos such as 'Can't Shake It' and .... the primary colour is a dullish yellow or black and white in Little Eve. Although this simplistic approach is still effective we will probably base our album around the main theme - Hockey. Therefore it is likely that it will be colourful and have interesting costumes also seen in the music video. However Kate's newest album - Courioser follows some of the themes in Can't shake it - Big hairstyle, wierd obejects, lots of makeup (red lipstick and eye lashes) and colour across her face. We think that this will be the album cover that is most similar to our own design.
History of Music Videos
Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. Although the origins of music videos go back further, they came into their own in the 1980s when MTV based their format around the medium. The term "music video" first came into popular usage in the early 1980s. Prior to that time, these works were described by various terms including "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional (promo) clip" or "film clip".
MTV was therefore life changing for all artists in the music industry, it created a huge amount of promotion for the stars and in the 1980's stars such as Madonna, Adam and the Ants and Michael Jackson gained a huge amount of success from their music videos alone. Michael Jackson's music video 'Thriller ' Is one of the most famous music videos there is. While researching music videos it is obvious to look at the importance of MTV and how it has affected every music artist since the 1980's. Although MTV affects the world today with around 10 different channels, when it was first created it was only one channel in America and was not broadcasted elsewhere. Therefore countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia were not able to watch music videos on MTV till 4 years later in 1987. This meant British people needed to find out about the top music in a different way and therefore relied on ' Top of the Pops ' on broadcasted on BBC.
However the music video industry has expanded since the days of Top of the Pops and now the public are able to watch music videos on hundreds of different channels and thousands of different websites. Meaning there are unlimited ways to discover new music.
Discovering New Music
Websites such as Youtube, Myspace and Yahoo Music are obvious places to find music videos but to discover new and interesting music different sites are used which are simple and easy to use. Sites such as Last FM are able to find artists similar to your favourite artists that you might not have heard before. This is very useful to discover artists you might not have known about but still like their genre of music. Furthermore there are many websites which are updated daily about new pop music / artists / news / events in a blog style. This is another way to discover new music and Pop Justice is a great example of this.
As one of our tasks is to design an album cover it is vital to look at previous albums of Kate. All of Kate's album covers are simplistic and concentrate on the artist with not much else happening on the cover. Surprisingly there is a lack of colour and instead of the vibrant colours seen in videos such as 'Can't Shake It' and .... the primary colour is a dullish yellow or black and white in Little Eve. Although this simplistic approach is still effective we will probably base our album around the main theme - Hockey. Therefore it is likely that it will be colourful and have interesting costumes also seen in the music video. However Kate's newest album - Courioser follows some of the themes in Can't shake it - Big hairstyle, wierd obejects, lots of makeup (red lipstick and eye lashes) and colour across her face. We think that this will be the album cover that is most similar to our own design.
History of Music Videos
Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. Although the origins of music videos go back further, they came into their own in the 1980s when MTV based their format around the medium. The term "music video" first came into popular usage in the early 1980s. Prior to that time, these works were described by various terms including "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional (promo) clip" or "film clip".
MTV was therefore life changing for all artists in the music industry, it created a huge amount of promotion for the stars and in the 1980's stars such as Madonna, Adam and the Ants and Michael Jackson gained a huge amount of success from their music videos alone. Michael Jackson's music video 'Thriller ' Is one of the most famous music videos there is. While researching music videos it is obvious to look at the importance of MTV and how it has affected every music artist since the 1980's. Although MTV affects the world today with around 10 different channels, when it was first created it was only one channel in America and was not broadcasted elsewhere. Therefore countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia were not able to watch music videos on MTV till 4 years later in 1987. This meant British people needed to find out about the top music in a different way and therefore relied on ' Top of the Pops ' on broadcasted on BBC.
However the music video industry has expanded since the days of Top of the Pops and now the public are able to watch music videos on hundreds of different channels and thousands of different websites. Meaning there are unlimited ways to discover new music.
Discovering New Music
Websites such as Youtube, Myspace and Yahoo Music are obvious places to find music videos but to discover new and interesting music different sites are used which are simple and easy to use. Sites such as Last FM are able to find artists similar to your favourite artists that you might not have heard before. This is very useful to discover artists you might not have known about but still like their genre of music. Furthermore there are many websites which are updated daily about new pop music / artists / news / events in a blog style. This is another way to discover new music and Pop Justice is a great example of this.
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