CD cover/advert first ideas/sketches

These are our first ideas for our CD cover and adverts. My first idea was to create a facebook page for Splutter, this would link to the main song that our video is focusing on, referring to the Internet and it would also make it clear who the band are. We would give them a profile picture and like on a real facebook page we would include interests and likes which would be that of the band as well as the lyrics involved in our song. The idea of using facebook came from the postmodern reference within the song lyrics
themselves.



My second idea was a picture of a computer screen showing a race track to coincide with one line of the lyrics from our chosen song, 'how dare you call me unsporty' this would play on from the humour displayed in the song itself because we would also be showing that the only sport our main character is involved in is on the computer.
However, if the buyer has not watched our music video they may not make this link, and therefore misunderstand the meaning behind it.





This sketch is similar to the previous one, as it depicts a computer screen, but instead on it is a guitar. This links to the music genre that we have chosen, punk-rock, and as well as this it is also cohesive with the song we have chosen, Internet, as in our music video, the Internet is key.







My third sketch idea for our project was a mirror scene showing the two different sides of our main character, how he sees himself and how others see him. On the one side would be a 'nerdy' looking guy, looking particularly weedy and pathetic, however on the other side would be a gamer who looks much more intimidating and powerful which is how the gamer sees himself. This makes a key comparison between fantasy and reality, a theme that we also use within our music video.





This sketch depicts a bus driving down a road and skidding through the mud, leaving the word 'Splutter' readable in the mud. This links to our video as it makes our band seem urban, as it is on a street setting. The use of a bus makes the band seem younger, i.e. student age as they do not have a car of their own, linking to perhaps a younger audience. Also the band's name links to the word 'Spluttering' which can coincide with the mud on the floor as well as the exhaust of the bus.



Our final sketch idea was of a trumpet with the word 'Splutter' coming out of it in the form of musical notes. This links to our song as it is not stereotypical to the music genre of punk-rock through the instruments it uses, it mixes in elements from other genres as well. However, by showing a picture of a trumpet it may give the impression that a trumpet or similar instrument is featured in our chosen song, which it isn't, so this idea was not chosen for the reason that it may be portrayed differently to how we would have liked it to be perceived.