Artist Name

I think D-Fine could work but might be too centred around one artist/sound too much like one artist?
I was looking at where band names come from and a lot of them seem to come from quotes, lyrics from songs and sayings, so I thought I would think about names from thses sort of things.
I searched song lyrics of people that I thought would inspire our artists, such as Motown legends, newer R&B artists and artists such as Kanye West. This didn't lead to much so I thought about quotes, and came up with a few:
- Dream Weavers/Builders/Creaters/Definers >>> (Kanye West quote, ‘I can let these dream killers kill my self esteem-or use my arrogance as steam to power my dreams’)
- Death is Expected (Kanye West quote ‘Nothing in life is promised except death’) but this spells 'die', not quite what we're going for!
In the list of band names it said that '311' was named after police code in Nebraska, so I looked at police codes and got 10-2 (meaning you're being received clearly)
I thought about them in society, ‘The banished’, ‘The Spurned’, ‘The Deserted’, ‘The Condemned’, ‘The Zeroes’, ‘Zero’ >>> from ‘rejects'. And ‘Full of Fail’, ‘FailProof’ >>> from the idea of them being 'failures'. And ‘Recreating Reality’, ‘Reality Rebirth’ >>> from the idea of them building new ground.
Then I thought about common sayings and came up with ‘Live Hard, Die Hard’, ‘Live Hard’, Living Hard’ >>> from 'Live Hard, Die Hard'. And ‘Beats, Soul and Teamwork’, ‘Beats And Soul’/'Beat And Soul'/'Beats & Soul' (etc >>> (from ‘Blood, Sweat & Tears’).
Personally, I think most of these are really bad but I quite like 'Beats And Soul', because it represents what each of the artists bring to the group. But I feel like it might need some work to sound more like a group name.

- Mel -

Album Cover Ideas

As we have decided to do a duo rather than a solo artist we have been rethinking our ideas for an album cover. As the duo represent different groups in society, we thought 'Blurring Boundaries' would be a good album cover name. We have also been discussing ideas for the image that will feature on our album cover, and have tested one of our ideas. We developed this idea after Mel suggested doing something similar to the 'Face Off' album cover (pictured below)



Ours features both artists back to back, with the centre of the image blurred. This highlights their differences as people and in their music styles. The artists are facing away from each other to show that their styles are very different, however the blurring of the two images will show that although very different from each other, they are coming together through music. In contrast the 'Face Off' album image is used to show the similarities of the two artists.

- Group -

Idea for Album Cover...

I was trying to think of ideas for an album cover, and thought that a close-up would work really well, and I like the profile shot we have of Daniel so I came up with this:

Obviously it's really rough (and we're still not sure about the artist name) but I like the simplicity of it and think that something like this would work really well for our album cover. One of the reasons for this is that it matches the simple style of the video. I also personally think that Daniel photographs better from the side than straight on, and when promoting him, as an album cover does, we would want to show him looking his best. Although a straight on shot could work, and after a small amount of editing could look really good. I think we should definately start thinking about album cover and start sketching some ideas.
- Mel -

Album Cover...

I like the idea of doing a really simple album cover to match our artist. I like this album cover as the background colour is really simple as is the font and size, of the title and artist name. But I do think that for ours, the name of the artist will have to be bigger as he is a debut artist. We could also have a straight on picture of him, or side on but better lit, but I really like the dark shot on this cover, and do think something like this could work for ours. - Mel -