My Music Video

The Specials are an English 2 Tons Ska band formed in 1977 in covenrty. This is a very sereotypical cover for a Ska band. This is because it has everything that is asociated with the Ska genre, such as a man in a trilbe wearing a plain black suit with a black skinny tie, it also has the black and white checks across the bottom of the cover, and finally the cover has only black and white on it.

Front cover developments

In recent developments i have decided to abandon the idea of spliting the cover into four sections, this is because after looking at other ska bands album covers none of them have front covers that have been spit into sections. It has become apparent to me that this idea does not fit in with the Ska genre. Instead i will be having a picture of the band all together in an urban location, which fits with the Ska genre. I will experiment with the backround to make the image most effective.

Blur Cover

This is an album cover for the band "Blur" who are an english alternative rock band from London. Like the previous post this cover had been slpit into sections but this time it isnt the band members its some black and white cartoons each with a different coloured back round to represent each of the characters personalities. My original ideas are to split the cover up into four sections with each section ahving a member of the band in and they will be posing in a way wich they think shows their personality to the audience.

Sum 41 cover idea

This is the cover of the album "All Killer No Thriller" by Sum 41, Sum 41 are a punk rock band who are renown for their happy go lucky attitude towards music. This cover shows the audience the band playful side, this is done by putting close up pictures of band using a fast shutter speed to capture the band distorted faces as the shake their heads about giving the crazy facial expressions. This album cover gave me the idea to split my single cover up and show a part of each of the band members personlitys by getting them to pose in a mid shot so that they can show what they are realy like.

Ska - Clothing

People that listen to Ska music are usualy seen wearing big army boots that they got from a charity shop. Or if they have a bit of money they will usualy purchase a pair of Doc Martens.

People that listen to ska music are also steryotyped as wearing a black plain suit with a plain black skinny tie, this is mainly because of the iconic Ska band Madness.

They are also linked to often wearing trilbies, normaly plain black ones.

They are also renown for waering braces.

Research into similar artists ( Less Than Jake )

Less Than Jake is an American ska punk band from Gainsville, Florida. Originally formed in 1992 as a power pop trio, the band evolved into a hybrid of Ska punk. Less Than Jake have also been cited as showing influences from a wide variety of genres including post grunge, heavy metal , alternative rock, third wave ska, pop punk and punk revival. To date, the group has released eight full-length studio albums and a number of singles and compilations. The current lineup comprises guitarist/vocalist Chris Demakes, bassist/vocalistRoger Managelli , drummer/lyricist Vinnie Foriello, trombonist Buddy Schaub and saxophonist Peter"JR" Waselewski.

They interact with thier audience mainly threw live gigs but they have also released albums such as Pezcore, Losing Streak, Hello Rockview, Borders and Bounderies, Anthem, B is for B-sides, In Withe the Out Crowd, GNV FLA and TV/EP.