More research

So these are the covers for the albums Tegan and Sara have released so far.

This is the cover for their first album, "Under Feet Like Ours", released in 1999. It contains the song "Divided".


This is the cover for their album "This Business Of Art", released in 2000 (And my favourite T&S album ^_^)


This is the cover for their album "If It Was You", released in 2002.


This is the cover for their album "So Jealous", released 2004. This album contained the single "Walking With a Ghost", later covered by The White Stripes:




This is the conver for their 2007 release, "The Con".

This is the cover for their latest release, entitled "Sainthood", which came out just a couple of weeks ago.

These covers are going to set a good example from my own work. I like that they don't make the band being on the cover a necessity, if they can instead use a relavant peice of photography or art work. I also found the original video for "Walking With a Ghost" really interesting:



It uses the same little red felt hearts that are on the album cover. I think important to keep a motif common with the album cover and the video, and it's definitely something I'll bear in mind for my project.

Song Selection

So I've decided on the Tegan and Sara song I posted a while ago. I like the even pace and think it'll suit the narrative ideas the lyrics have given me. Been listening to advice though, and I'm looking at a away to put in some kind of performance feel, to keep like a music video and stop it from being too much like a short feel.

I've planned out how I'm going to do my research as well.

For the actual video I'm looking at both Tegan And Sara's youtube channel and their forums to get a good idea of the audience I'm targeting, and geting together a few focus groups to listen to the song. I'm asking them to think about the lyrics, and how they'd interpret them, to get a better feel for the narrative of the video.

For the digipak cover I'm going to, again, look at past examples of Tegan and Sara Cd's and Dvd's. I'm also going to look at other artists of a similar genre and see how they advertise themselves.

I'm also taking similar steps for the Website. I'm going to look at The bands website, as well as other examples, and work out the key aspects of a musicians website, as well as how to link both this and the cd/dvd cover to the video.

So now I've planned out how I'm doing the reasearch, looks like I'm going to have to go and do it!