Digipack logo design

The reason why I had changed the logo design is because my inital angel designs related to more of a heavy metal theme of angels, so from my research I had collected previously people had decided they still liked the angel and the tatoos of a man. So from this data I had put together my own design of a half torso man with tatoos on him with angel wings part of the guitar, this relates to my Indie/ Rock really well because it has that cool edge to it.

Editing schedule

Shooting schedule

Day 2 costume planning

day1 costume planning

The reasons behind why we told them to dress like this because it would give them a retro edge like most Indie/rock bands because I had researched the Indie genre look were they would usually were t-shirts dark blue jeans and converse, so I had wanted my band to look like that I did not want my Band looking like a pop group were matching outfits which were bright colours suited and posing in a similar style, So when telling my actors what to wear I had told them that I would like dark color clothing containing these items this gave them more of a rough edge where it gave them that Indie shabby look about them. Where when presented they had this edge about them like mist Indie bands Rocking out.

Prop listing for shoots

The reason why I had put these in charts because when I go to the different departments I will know exactly what I need for that shoot keeping my time managemnet skills good , meaning that I will not be wasting time not knowing if I had forgotten something on the shoot.

Analysis of music videos

Click on my video below were I analysed the Maccabees went away video and Foo Fighters all my life video

click on my vimeo link below if the above link does not work

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music video casting

permssion received by students

Permission letter

Costume planning

Editing software

Imovie is a type of software used on the Imac which I am I will be using to to edit my music video this is a type of editing software that I am fimilar with as I had used this new software in As Level the way I had gotten to understang to use this type of sotware is form watching tutorials on youtube like the follwing I have uploaded. You can use this software in a different variety of ways from the import from a hard drive, from this software you can add titles edit, add transitions differnt types of effects and a range of things you want to do. The drawbacks of this software is that it is quite basic transitions that there is not musch you can do with it in terms of basic fades you can which is similar to windows movie maker however the difference between the two would be that editing that Imovie will give a better finishing touch that you will be able to cut a paste where you want ceratin things to goin chronological order to make a home movie, animation  or what you want it to fit, like a multi purposed use.

Another editing software would be windows movie maker which I mentioned briefly before is quite basica that anyone can just make a basic transiton slide would not preferably be used to ake short movies or any sort more like a powerpoint presentation to show your demonstartion I know this because I had created an animatic on it during last year of my As Level where I had drew like a storyboard of what I wanted  consisted uploaded it on windows movie maker from the hardrive where I imported the picture and made a transition movie, wanst the greatest which is the main disadvantage of windows movie maker that it is just a basic tool to use.WMM however does allow to upload large files of transitions giving me a range to chose from giving the slides a better look but however when I tried uploading it onto my blog it kept freezing or crashing which was a problem for me instead I had to import the animatic on Youtube and upload it from their.

Things which can go wrong in the shoot

• Actors turning up late
• Being absent from school
• actors being absent or late
• forgetting equipment
• Not having permission to borrow equipment or venues
• Not having permission to borrow actors for that certain time periods
• weather conditions
• poor time management
• People not turning up for group meetings
• Things taking longer than expected
• Lack of cummincation between actors and group members
• misscommunication leading to arguments
• getting frustrated at your team members beause of a lack of progress
• Not letting everyone have a say
• Actors getting frustrated because plans keep having to get changed due to different various things
• Not knowing how to use all equipment
• lack preparation
• batteries dying on the camera
• Actors not knowing lyrics or what to do
• lack of rehersal time
• poor sound
• poor lighting
• poor focus on cameras
• have to reshoot scenes because they were not really good or because of technical difficulties at the time
• group roles not distributed equally
• getting frustrated because one group member taking more of the workload
• Personal issues between the group due to conflicts created in the group because of frustration that things are not going right
• Not comprimising
• being rude to group members
• constant excuse rather than getting the job done
• not resolving conflict when they arise
• One person dictating everything not really working as a group to bring ideas forward

Analysis of Kasabians website

Oasis website analysis

The general codes and conventions used in this website are shown in the band name and colours used in the background of the website it connotes that the band name is well established through the bold writing in the text box of the white lined outlined also the colour connotes that the dark background represents the rock part and the misty sunset of the concert picture in the top of the website showing that there is many people at their concert like most Indie bands and it also shows that they have a mass audience. The interactive multimedia is used in the links on the websites where you can pick your own album and see the track listed making the audience engage with the website more this has been done throughout technological convergence, also the colours used symbolise that people would easily recognise it with their unique name giving emphasis to it that it should be iconic and remembered. There is also other links were you can become a member to the site of this embeds the feeling that you can share your thoughts with the band and that there is links were you can purchase the merchandise also used a way of marketing the links above make it more accessible for people to use and establishes the band.

Analysis of Band websites

The website I am going to analyse is the Arctic Monkeys website, the background of the website of the dull colours and the video on the homepage of fans screaming showing that it is a concert implies that it is an Indie/Rock concert, the black and peach background establishes the cool collective way that sets out the genre. The news feeds on the website of their upcoming tours and bold writing connotes that its target audience will aim at young adults who want to have fun by going to these festivals and concerts that the arctic monkeys are hosting worldwide. The tabs on the top make it more interactive for people to use as this is a way of social media and promotion for the band as it is interactive and use of technological convergence used in everyday’s society as there is links to follow them on MySpace, Twitter and Facebook, also the Font used on the home page is quite arty and appeals to the audience that they can be socially interactive with the website being engaged to this cool context displayed on the homepage of the website. Also on the top tabs it shows a fan forum this makes it more interactive for Arctic Monkeys fans can share their views of what they think to the Arctic Monkeys meaning that it is more sociably engage able, Also there is a tab where you can go onto the store link where you can purchase Arctic monkey products this means that this also a way of promotion that people can purchase online gifts straight from the website.  

Tracking a artist throughout their career

The artist/ Band I will be looking at is Arctic Monkeys were originated from four group members starting off in Sheffield England which the background origin of this group there band name is also known as the death ramps. The way which Arctic Monkeys were marketed were through the internet from social networking sites such as My space this was a fairly new way to market a band as at this time during 2002, then soon after did a couple performances in there city centre and recorded tracks in 2flystudios were they recorded 17 songs where then soon signed by the record company Dominos in 2005 and had a record deal with Epic records making 4albums, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not,  Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007),

Humbug (2008–10) and their current album which is  Suck It and See (2011–12.

They are currently now one of Britain’s number 1 bands for the Indie/ Rock genre as they had been the only group to have the fastest selling album beating Oasis and soon after their success they had won 5 Brit awards, winning the best British group twice and been nominated twice for the Grammy awards. So from the success of their songs Mardy Bum and other songs such as View from the afternoon was a great hit and lead to the band becoming well known of them now touring worldwide and their next upcoming tour will be on the 21^st June.   

casting

Analysis of Kings of Leons

Click on the link below to view my slideshare


http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/16348647"

Arctic monkey analysis

Click on my prezzi in the link below


http://prezi.com/87k203zzopyw/present/?auth_key=px3oin2&follow=gsbksvbqo9xm&kw=present-87k203zzopyw&rc=ref-11608557

Music Video Timeline

The reason why I had chosen these designs are that because of my previous feedback of my logo design for the digi pack many choosing the angel so I had created some designs associated with Digipacks so these are some of the designs which I will later construct some more and get feedback which will be most suitable for my indie rock genre.

Views on other students blogs

Blogs I have looked at and analysed

Blogs I have looked at and analysed

The first blog I have looked at the  things I had liked in this blog was the use for interaction used here with lots of videos keeping the reader engaged, also giving tips and hints for the stuff of how to use technical equipments and what way they can be used in an effective way. Another thing I liked on this blog was a continuation of the tracked progress this student was making and kept blogging about the progress and good time management he was making showing his organisation skills. Also the level and depth this person has gone through this blog is quite good which I liked everything was well managed in chronological order and is effective because it is meeting the criteria which this student is aiming at trying to stipulate the audience he is going for, relating to the issue he is trying to go across to the viewers/readers of this blog.

The second blog I had analysed the first thing I had noticed was the eye catching website which would instantly catch the audience’s attention which is quite effective in many ways, also the level and detail this group had gone to in terms of their planning was extravagant as they had looked in many aspects of the benefits and drawbacks of what could happen in the music video they had explained this through a range of PDF documents and pictures they had taken of them constructing the project. The use of interactive multimedia is quite effective as they are not boring the reader with many SA’s as the website has plenty of links to YouTube videos.

The third blog I had looked at I didn’t particularly like the layout of the blog however I did like the level of detail and the way interactive multimedia used here. The good points about this is on the history of the music video the way the paged is displayed through the book turning the pages showing the history which I thought was quite interesting  and the use of videos to explain their work and alterations made along the way.

The forth blog I had analysed is much different from others because this one other like others is that it was not that interactive mainly jus long SA style writing which is quite boring and could stop the reader from carrying on reading it as it is not that interesting, however the positives about this blog is that there is careful constructive planning along the way that you can see the research which has gone into this project to make it successful. The analyst and depth this student has put into their research has been quite vast it explains how the connotations are used in the project of what the reader’s perspective would be.

Interview on target auidence 4

Interview on target audience 3

Interview on auidence research video 2

Interviews based on target audience

graphs from questionnaire

In this I had constructed a series of pie charts illustrating my analysis of what my findings are for my target audience, so I put together a slideshare to show this, click on the link below to view this presentation

http://www.slideshare.net/dilwar95/analysis-of-questionnaire-charts-15750511

Video from the concert 5

Video from the concert 4

Video from the concert 3

video from the concert 2

Videos from the concert

Concert I had went to 15 December 2012

I thought that it would be relevant to post this because it was a concert I had went to and I thought it would relate to the music video concept of promotion and target audience related of what type of people would go to concerts however it doesnt relate specifically to my genre and the audience it may appeal to,but however it did give me an insight of the target audience my genre would appeal to

18thDecember 2012 we could not film today because the actors of my music video cannot make it today so me and my partner (Alisha Janagil) rescheduled the shoot for tomorrow on the 19th December 2012 in our free periods because our actors will all be free but we are not going to do the performance part because it will be raining so we are going to do the narrative part for health and safety reasons.

Today on the 17th December we had a discussion with my film crew and actors that we were going to film today but because of an technical inconvenience this was not achievable in may ways, so we had to reschedule this tomorrow on the 18th December and we also had a discussion of what shots we are going to do and we went to the music class were I had booked the musical equipment for the performance scene we are going to do on Wednesday 19th December.

Questionnaire for target audience