Jane's Party
"Common Guys"
Jane's Party's 'Common Guys' was the music single release following 'Ships On An Ocean'. The concept revolved around contrasting the lyrical theme of the song (feeling common and inadequate in social and romantic situations) with superhero themes and imagery. The concept asks the question: are any of us really "common guys", or do we just have to discover our inner superpower?
Album Cover Art
The visuals for the "Common Guys" feature the band in the graphic style of the golden age of comic books (40's and 50's). The band members were traced using comic book style inking brushes in Photoshop and halftone textures were applied to the colouring. To further tip the hat to classic comic book covers, I made an unique comic book sticker for the top-left corner.
Creator/Illustrator - Tom Ionescu
Lyric/Music Video
The lyric video for "Common Guys" featured real comic book panels, with the speech bubbles changed to feature some of the comments left on the band's YouTube videos. The panels were edited in Photoshop, and motion graphics and editing was done in Premiere Pro,
Director/Animator - Tom Ionescu
Jane's Party - Common Guys (Lyric Video)
Social Media Campaign
As part of the social media campaign, I designed and animated these superhero transformation videos.
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Jane's Party - Common Guys (all superhero transformations)
Sound Recording & Behind the Scenes
Written and Performed by Jane's Party:
Tom Ionescu, Jeffrey Giles, Devon Richardson & Zach Sutton.
With help from Danica Kotsopoulos (backup vocals).
Produced by Jane's Party.
Recorded and Engineered by:
Carlin Nicholson and Mike O'Brien at Pineship Sound, Toronto.
Additional recording at Casa JP, Toronto.
Mixed by Matty Green.
Mastered by Joe LaPorta.