Friday, 28 September 2012
Image Ideas
Because the track I am using is called 'Your Eyes' I have decided to theme the digipak on the theme of vision and eyes. I will like to cover the front and back cover of a mixture of different people eyes. I will use close up shots of just the peoples eyes. I will also use a mixture of 'famous' eyes and unknown peoples eyes, this will mix up the cover by being both recognisable and brand new for the viewer.Some examples of the shots I will use are below:
Thursday, 27 September 2012
Mrs D
Well done for hitting your first deadline. The storyboard has some good codes and conventions of a music promo. However, I fear you may have taken the repeatability factor too far. Can you do a second draft please?
Chosen Song.
Chosen Song
Because the choice of songs to choose from to do my music video was so vast I decided to quickly focus on the mood I wanted to express in the video and a rough idea of what kind of story I wanted to show.
I wanted to do a music video about a love story, but to make this particular love story unique I wanted it to be the boy being hurt emotionally by a woman rather than the other way round that normally happens in typical love stories.
After deciding on this rough idea I thought it would be best to choose a song I know pretty well and also enjoy listening too, I thought this would be the best idea as to how to choose my song as I know I would understand the lyrics more to a song I listen to frequently and the fact that I actually enjoy this particular track will help me to not get bored or loose enthusiasm with my song choice.
The song I have chosen isn’t the most well known song and I feel this will work in my favour as people won’t have any or very little pre conceived ideas of how the video should look as they will probably be hearing the song for the first time and therefore see only my ideas featured in the music video throughout.
My chosen song is called ‘Your Eyes’ and is by the band ‘Bombay Bicycle Club’. The link to the song on YouTube is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UEnZNuxEUA . Bombay Bicycle Club are an English indie rock band from Crouch End, London. The band is made up of Jack Steadman (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Jamie MacColl (guitar), Ed Nash (bass) and Suren de Saram (drums).
The band was asked to play the opening performance of 2006's V Festival after winning Channel 4's "Road to V" competition. Following the release of two EPs and their debut single "Evening/Morning", the band recorded their debut album, I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose. The album was released on 6 July 2009. The band released their second album, Flaws, on 9 July 2010 and their third album, A Different Kind of Fix, on 26 August 2011. The bands label is ‘Island Records’.
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Monday, 24 September 2012
Product Placement.
In today's modern society the access to music videos is becoming increasingly more and more accessible. It is for this reason that it is vital that I make my product easily accessible, this can be done in many ways. Firstly I think making the music video accessible online is a way to make it accessible to the widest range of people. The video can be placed on a number of different websites online, some ideas of online placement are; the artists own website, putting the video on the artists own website will give fans of the band instant access to the knew music video and this will keep fans visiting the website and also give them the opportunity to share the music video link on social networking sites, this whole process will not only get the music video viewed by current fans but may also introduce knew interest by individuals who perhaps haven't heard the artists music before. YouTube is also another website that will be a beneficial place to post the music video, making the music video so accessible on such a highly visited website will help the video to become highly viewed and hopefully be seen by knew people. As previously mentioned social networking sites are also a great way of spreading a music video online, this method is very beneficial as it not only can it be viewed but the most important factor about making a music video accessible on a social networking site is the fact that is can be shared and re posted around by millions of people, for example re tweeting a music video on twitter can making it accessible by a whole knew range of people.
Music video channels are still very commonly watched. It is for this reason that I want to create a music video that can be watched at any time of the day, this will therefore not restrict the amount of times is can be played during the day and therefore not restricting the amount of people who can see the video daily. For people who aren't that interested in watching music videos I will have to make sure that the music can be easily accessible through radio stations, some radio stations that I think will be suitable for playing my particular track will be radio1 and Capital, both these radio stations have huge listening rates so this will promote my track to a high number of people.
I will also have to consider effective placements of my DigiPak. Firstly I will have to make sure the design of the DigiPak is both eye catching and effective when being viewed as a hard copy but also on an online sight. Shops such a HMV will seen hundreds of DigiPaks so I will have to make sure the design is eye catching and is placed on display where it will be seen by many customers. For ssupermarkets who don't focus purely on selling music will be especially important to make sure the DigiPak is placed in a effective way so it will be seen by the high number of customers who come into the shops. Online stores such as Amazon and Itunes will be a great place to sell my DigiPak, but once again it will be important that they can be easily seen and accessed by the customers.
It will also be important that posters promoting the album and the music video of the single will be shown in effective places that means they will be viewed by a high number of people. It will also be important that there is a running theme throughout the poster, DigiPak and music video. This can be done through the use of colour, font and styling of the artist.
Music video channels are still very commonly watched. It is for this reason that I want to create a music video that can be watched at any time of the day, this will therefore not restrict the amount of times is can be played during the day and therefore not restricting the amount of people who can see the video daily. For people who aren't that interested in watching music videos I will have to make sure that the music can be easily accessible through radio stations, some radio stations that I think will be suitable for playing my particular track will be radio1 and Capital, both these radio stations have huge listening rates so this will promote my track to a high number of people.
I will also have to consider effective placements of my DigiPak. Firstly I will have to make sure the design of the DigiPak is both eye catching and effective when being viewed as a hard copy but also on an online sight. Shops such a HMV will seen hundreds of DigiPaks so I will have to make sure the design is eye catching and is placed on display where it will be seen by many customers. For ssupermarkets who don't focus purely on selling music will be especially important to make sure the DigiPak is placed in a effective way so it will be seen by the high number of customers who come into the shops. Online stores such as Amazon and Itunes will be a great place to sell my DigiPak, but once again it will be important that they can be easily seen and accessed by the customers.
It will also be important that posters promoting the album and the music video of the single will be shown in effective places that means they will be viewed by a high number of people. It will also be important that there is a running theme throughout the poster, DigiPak and music video. This can be done through the use of colour, font and styling of the artist.
Mrs D
This looks good Lauren. You could create a mood board for your location ideas or use prezi to tick the ICT box. Don't forget your research deadline is tomorrow.
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