We had a very quick brief that was only meant to last a few hours. The brief was to take one or a few of last years Secret 7" tracks and get the most obvious and most ambiguous ideas out of the way to prepare for our entries.
The Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers
The idea behind it is quite obvious using a bunch of dead flowers. Putting the flowers into black and white and and then upping the contrast really makes the image striking.
This image is a bit more subtle but also incredibly political. I used an image of Hiroshima as a point of as humans we don't care enough. We do without thinking and this can have major consequences letting our actions speak before talking anything through.
Diana Ross & The Supremes - Reflections
Again an obvious start. The song is called reflections but is about reflecting back on time with a partner/lover so I used a man and a woman's face as if they're reflecting back on each other. The picture is of classmates, I literally took the images made them black and white and then cut them down the middle to fit them together. I did this to make it look like a mirror reflection rather than blending the images together to look like the same person.
This was a bit more of an experimental idea using text to explain what the singer had put into the relationship and then received nothing back. I though leaving the text in the top corner rather than the middle would leave the cover open to white space leaving thought with the viewer.
Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx)
The first idea I thought was quite obvious but I tried to blend it in so you would still question the design. Born Slippy was the title so this was almost a comedic look at the song using a banana peel, the traditional slap stick slipping device. I made a variation between white and black and black and white.
I used a variation on the colour scheme again on this idea but wanted a still sort of obvious idea but maybe not so obvious. The song lyrics use the word boy in almost every line and since on a wet floor sign you would usual see a pictogram of a man I thought I would use something similar.
St Vincent - Digital Witness
The first idea was to have a quite harshly designed block colour webcam with a green light on top signifying it was on and therefore watching. I believed the song fitted to the harsh design because of the techno feel.
The brief was only short so I didn't have time to finish this piece but the idea behind it was using some of the lines from the song. The lyrics talk about breaking through a digital window so my idea was to have a digital room that almost mirrors a room in the real world and glass being broken from the digital to the real world.
Peter Gabrielle - Sledgehammer
Even if you haven't heard the song I think from the image alone you would be able to name it. Using a very simple design I was going to add text to saying I want to be your... I took inspiration from a top I recently bought from FatFace.
I believe the whole idea of this song is breaking down the barriers between the singer and whoever he is singing to. He wants the person to trust him and express their feelings by him breaking down their walls.
The Maccabees - Go
Within Secret 7" one of the rules is not to use the song title in the design or the artists name. I did with this one as a practice to get the idea out of my system. The design speaks for itself using an arrow within the word Go to emphasise it.
The song speaks of a figure of a woman still coming through the sun light sitting on a chair so I thought I would create a silhouette of the woman and nothing else. The chair is in black to help it stand out from the background where as the woman is in white/the same colour as the background to create a sort of spectre like feel for her. Originally I was going to have a ray of light shining down onto the figure but the programme messed up and left the white square around the figure which I thought did well for framing and meant I could have it pushed off to the side.
The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be
A clock with no hands meaning you cannot tell the time, letting forever be. It leaves the idea open and it to me feels quite freeing.
This idea was to take the last one a step further but instead of using a clock face use an atom. The idea of endless space, humans cracked open the atom and then a whole load more flew out meaning there was more space within going on forever and ever like the universe expanding from the big bang.
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