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Joshua Radin

Here i'll be looking at images of Joshua Radin and i will pay particular attention to his clothing, style, pictures, poses, sightlines, colours and props.



In the picture on the right we see the cover for radin's song Closer. We can see that his clothing is simple, just a plain t-shirt which gives the impression that he's not too bothered by how he looks. We will not be sticking with this idea with our artist, as we want him to look like he has a certain style, but this look was an option that we considered, but we decided against it as it is not the image we want our artist to follow.

His sightline in this picture is looking beyond the camera. This makes the viewer feel like he's in the proccess of making the song, as it doesn't look posed. He uses veyeurism to great affect here. He's allowing the audience to get a glimpse into 'the making of' a Joshua Radin song.

In the second picure we see him performing live. His clothing here is different to the first picture and more like what the look that we're going for with our own artist. The checkered shirt is an option that we plan to be using, it's a common look that you see when looking at typical indie artists.

The third image on the right is one of his album covers. It has a unique style, with the black and white effect, only showing the colour red. This effect  draws the audiences attention the the bucket and spade rather than the artist. This combined with the pose of the artist and his direct sightline, creates the impression of vulnerability. The bucket and spade and the red show his connection with youth which also relates to the album name 'Simple Times' which also makes the audience think of times when they were younger.

His outfit in the third picture show that he does have a certain style. The braces that he's wearing with the top button undone and the messy hair shpw his messy nature. This is common in this genre and we may use it ourselves with our artist.

A common prop in the first two images is the guitar. It is essential that in our advert and our digipack that we have a guitar in the shot. Followers of this genre like to  see the artist actually performing.

Also a common theme is the black and white effect, used in botht he first and third image. This is an effect that we are considering to use for our video and maybe the digipack too.