Questionnaire For First Draft of Advertisement

First Draft of Album Advertisement

In this draft, I have took together conventions of album advertisement, in relation to my chosen genre. This includes the thin text I have used for the artist's name, although for my next draft I will apply the font, used for her name on the logo I created, as this will mean it will link better with the digipak. I have used more conventions such as the star rating from other magazines, the record label my artist is signed to and 'Includes...'. I do feel, however, that it is too simple and I need to use more fonts to make different text stand out but complimenting each other at the same time.

Oak Sessions

On my album advertisement, Oak Sessions is mentioned with the bonus tracks. 

"Oak Sessions is a community of creatives, recoding live sessions and videos to provide a platform to promote local and unsigned musicians. After four successful series, Oak is filming SERIES FIVE involving a wealth of talent from bands and artists all over the UK." (-taken from their website)

Although I considered using other live session companies such as Ont'Sofa, I feel that Oak Sessions is better suited to my artist as they deal with more local musicians. This, I feel, shows the close relationship my artist may have with her audience which is quite common of musician within the genre.

Questionnaire For First Draft of Digipak

First Draft of Digipak

 Front Cover:

Back Cover:

Inside Right Image:

Inside Image:

(with this image, in Photoshop, I cropped it and adjust the level of brightness before applying it to my digipak). I chose to use this image because, since my digiapk is part of a promotional package to promote my music video (main product) I felt it was appropriate to include and image that directly linked to it.

CD/DVD Design:

(see this post for how I made the discs)



Overall, I am pleased with my digipak, since it is only a first draft, as I feel I have effectively used conventions that I have researched into (e.g photography-types of shots). I will be conducting a survey for feedback on how good it is and if anything should be changed.

Copyright Information

An obvious convention of album CDs and back covers is the copyright information. These are some albums I have looked at, by artists that are signed to Island Records, in order to get an idea of what the copyright info should consist of.

I also looked at other albums and record labels to get a better understanding of the variations of how to write the copyright information.





After looking at these I researched what the (P) copyright symbol meant.
From finding this out, I now know what context I should use it in and how to display the two symbols together.

I have decided to combine all of these copyrights and as a guideline for my own, and picked out the text that is in all of them. I have also noticed that, in contrast to what the first webpage told me, all of these have © and (P) written together. However, I think I am going to type them separately as I think this looks better and will make it clearer what is is that is been copyrighted. I will also have to type the P symbol as (P) as there isn't a code I can use, like alt+0169 for ©.

Copyright on my product:

© 2015 Jess Jones under exclusive license to Universal Island Records Ltd. A Universal Music Company. (P) 2015 Jess Jones. All recording is owned by Jess Jones. Warning: all rights reserved. unauthorised copying, reproduction, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting prohibited. Made in the E.U. cat No. 160713

This will also feature on the CD/DVD as the text is usually the same on both products.

Record Label

Having been founded in Jamaica in 1959, Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong, there are artists of mixed genres signed to the label (former artists such as The Cranberries and Bob Marley, current artists such as Nicki Minaj, McBusted and Ariana Grande). However, there are also some that fall under a similar genre to my artist.
Current UK artists signed to the label:

• Ben Howard
• Hozier
• Nina Nesbitt
• James Morrison
• Florence and The Machine
• Mumford and Sons
• Passenger
• Jack Johnson

Parent Company: Universal Music Group

The label has been based in the UK since 1962. As of February 2014, three Island label brands exist in the the world: Island UK, Island US and Island Australia.

While I have looked briefly at other small labels such as Parlophone and Red House Records, I ahve decided to use Island Records as my chosen label due tot he fact that some artists are of the genre closest to mine and those who I am the most familiar with, therefore making it easier to research more into the label. This logo will then be featured on my ancillary texts and I am going to look into the copyright information that ISland Records puts on their artists CD/casing,