Comic Book / Digipack Research

This is our mood board / collection of comic book images and pages. We did this as research for our digipack and will help inform the way our final design will look.

In our video we've used fonts, speech bubbles, boxes, etc... that we found were common in the comic book style.

Lab records moodboard

This moodboard features some of the bands from Lab Records. It show there is a cohesive style across the label, especially in the clothing. The clothing the artists wear is derived from both emo and indie styles and we will dress our charactors in similar clothing when we record the video. This helps create a style which is relateable and understandable to the audience, as they can see what types of clothing the bands wear which generally has connotations about the music they make.

New Mood Board

New Mood Board

This mood board shows the emotions and feelings told in the song. Jealousy, Love, Break-Up and Upset are the images on this board.
The song is about a break- up and the lead singer's jealously for his ex's new bf.

My moodboard

The moodboard has dark images and some have an almost gothic feel. This is in reference to the darker "emo" side to Fall Out Boy, as opposed to the tounge in cheek pop punk styling. This is due to the way they dress and the way they are seen as people in the media. The reason I have used the darker images instead of the poppier style is to reference the way they will be dressed in the video. The bat-heart is a logo for both a clothing label owned by FOB bassist Pete Wentz and the record company to which FOB are signed. At the center of the moodboard I put an image of Michael Jackson's trademark glove, as our video will also reference Michael Jackson. I included images from Tim Burtons 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'. There are also reference to the "emo" fashion with the eyeliner, tattoos, fringes and the photos of the band, I included this as it is the sort of thing we will be wearing during the video.

The style of Michael Jackson which we use will be be created to make an obvious juxtaposition with Fall Out Boy's style, as this will add to the clash/confrontational theme of the lyrics/video as more than a clash of the artists, as it will be a clash of style and genre as well. Therefore we will dress MJ in exaggerated outfits with bright colours such as in his early 80's era, which will clash with Fall Out Boy's emo image. The video will create a bigger clash in terms of rock and pop, as both the style of each genre and the video conventions of the genres will clash, as the band are interrupted from their live performance (typical of a rock video) and the video will then become more narrative based (like in a pop video).

Mood Board

This is my mood board for our music video of the 'Beat It' cover by Fall Out Boy. I have included magazine covers, clothing labels, relative clipart, cd covers, genre images and pictures of the band.