Progressions of our Music Video

These are the two rough drafts and our final music video we have put together for our star. These three clips show how much work we have put in to improve it and make each one better. Altogether in the end we filmed 5 times to get exactly what we wanted so we could achieve a music video with fast cuts and good editing. We decided to get rid of all the dark drug shots as they were not very professional and were not very clear to see. Also it didn't make sense with the digipak as she comes across as very innocent and whereas in the music video she was mixing with people taking drugs so when it came to us getting feedback everyone was a bit confused.

Filming Proof

This is proof of all the backstage filming we have done.

Costumes worn for all performances

This is the black crop top similar to what Grace Starr wore to the first time we ever filmed her with the lights on in the background.

Grace wore the ripped tights when we filmed at Galleywood common with the sparklers.

This is the white skirt and top that Grace Starr wore when we filmed at her house.

Singing Performance in the drama studio outfit.

Grace Starr's Tweets

These are some screenshots I have taken for the twitter account we have made, we are constantly updating our fans on whats going on in Grace Starr's life.

Progression of digipak

Lara and I decided to improve our digipak front cover by adding the glittery background into the letters from the back of the CD cover into the front CD cover.We decided to do this so that both of them together looks more like a CD cover.


This is what the front cover looked like before:

This is what our front cover looks like now once we have edited it:

What we did to change it was we added the glittery background inside the words 'In Time'. To do this we drew round all the letters in photoshop and then we layered the background over the top and then positioned them so they were over the top of the normal letters.

This is our first draft for our digipak, we have got feedback from the class so we are going to change things and update it so therefore we can improve it. At the moment the digipak does not look like a real CD so we are going to make some updates.

We made a special thanks page to dedicate the CD to friends and family.

We found the problem with this design is that the background colour does not go with the rest of the digipak so we decided to personalise it even more and add some of the glitter.













This is another idea of the photo we had for the inside of our album but we decided that we didn't like it in the end because also the background colour of the image doesnt match the rest of the CD.

Photos from the 3rd music video shoot

http://www.photosnack.com/larapaigeeardley/third-shoot-shots.html


Here are all the photos we took when we filmed for the third time at Charlottes house. These photos show action shots, behind the scenes footage and us lot having fun. Lara and I are in one of the photos to show us working behind the scenes and there is also a cast photo of all three of us which is nice and it shows how well we all get on as a group.

Technology- Experimenting with new effects

I have been experimenting with a variety of effects on Adobe Premier. This helps when it comes to editing our music video as it will make it look more professional.

I have been experimenting with Adobe Premier so that I can give my group tips and ideas on how to make our video look better and make it more exciting. Here is a screenshot I took of some of the effects I have started to look at.

Here is a screenshot of Grace Starr filming her music video, we like this effect of have the lights in the background as this makes it show up more also it makes it look more exciting and like a professional has edited it.

Website Evaluation

1) NICHOLAS ALEXANDER:

Website: www.nicholas-alexander.wix.com/realna

Overall I like this website, it is full of information and about upcoming events and it is very clear who the star is. I like the interview video and it makes me look forward to seeing the final result.
What the group could improve on is making it a little bit more professional by doing a professional photo-shoot with a good camera and it would look even better if the green screen wasn't shown in the photo with Nick and his manager and then putting more of those photos around the website. This would therefore make it more exciting to view.


2) ENCODED:

 Website: www.encodedmusic1.wix.com/encoded 

The encoded website is good and I really like the idea of the count down clocks, as it looks really effective. To improve the website I think they could change some things around for example it is too wordy so it loses its touch and makes it less exciting. I think also it needs to have a bit more colour on it and a few more upcoming events to make it look more professional. I like the photos that the group have put on the website but I think they need to add more and for them to be able to do that they need to do a more professional photo-shoot.

3) COSMO

Website: www.thycosmo.wix.com/cosmo 

The Cosmo website is very slick and professional. I love how colourful it is and how quick everything loads when you click on it. Everything is so easy to access and if you are looking for something specific it is so easy to find what you are looking for. I like the way the photo-shoot is set out and this makes it look better.

To improve it they could put more information on the website to attract the fans even more. Also before they submit the final draft they need to check all spelling and punctuation as I have noticed some errors.


4) HYBRID BEAUTY

Website: www.hybridbeauty.wix.com/hybrid-beauty 
 I really like Hybrid Beauty's website it looks really nice and they have done such a lovely professional photo-shoot. It is very clear who the band is and it says all their names etc. I think the thing that lets them down is that they barely have any information on their website about their Band. If they added some more writing and details for example how they joined together and added some colour then I think it could be really good.


5) ALLEYWAYS

Website: www.alleywaysband.wix.com/wearealleyways 

I really liked their website and the photo-shoot of the band looks very professional, it would look even better if they had more photos of there band on there. I like the merchandise they have added too as this will persuade fans to buy things and promote the band even further. The website has nice clear colours to it, to make it look even more professional. The thing they mainly need to improve on is that it looks really empty at the moment they need to add a lot more information about their band and upcoming events.


6) ALEX ECHO

Website: http://sarahmaerz5.wix.com/alexecho

I really like the layout and design for Alex Echo's website. It is really well organised and looks nice and professional. The thing they could improve on is giving more details about the star and expand on things about him and how he was found etc. Also maybe they could put some things to do with them and the press to make it sound like they are really important and that everyone needs to be up to date with that star.

7) JAMES COULEUR

 Website: www.jamescouleur.wix.com/jamescouleur
My first impressions of the website were that it looked very professional, as you went onto it a pop up came up about twitter and I love the idea of all his tweets down the side of the website as this makes people want to follow him more. The photo-shoot is good, there are a lot of photos with James with his guitar, they could improve that my taking more that show a variety of his personality.  Overall when the website is completed I think it will look really good and will attract fans.


8) JAYA
Website: http://onlyjaya.wix.com/jaya

My first impressions of the website is that the picture of the star is professional but apart from that its front page is very boring and dull. The UK tour dates page is too wordy and makes it boring to read, and will make people switch off. There is not enough variety on some of the page the same picture has been used a few times. Some pages has too much writing and some do not have enough these need to be balanced out more to make it better.
Also the photoshoot is Jaya all in one outfit I think there needs to be more variety here to make it look more vibrant. Apart from that the website is good.

Tour Dates Poster

This is the first poster I have made to promote our star:

This is the second poster I have made to promote our star:

I made both of these posters on photoshop and have been playing around with the colour of the writing and the font on the poster. I have tried to find the font that is the most effective and will stand out so people can read it from far away. This will attract an audience more and will make people more interested. Also I have chosen the best photos of Grace so that people know her when they see her face. Also I thought it looked good that I have added her debut album in the bottom corner to advertise her even more.

Halfway Presentations

This is a video of everyone presenting their group so far and this includes our artist Grace Starr. This was interesting to watch because we could see what other ideas people had for their group.

More Tour Posters

Magazine Interview

Filming Reflection

How did it go?
In the end our group had to film 4 times to get it right. We filmed in 4 different locations with many different outfits and lots of different hair and makeup styles. We experimented with many different shots and angles to help make our music video look more professional.  For any props we needed to buy we split the money three ways so it was equal and therefore this helps towards our filming.

What went well?
What went well in our group was that we all get on really well and are all equally dedicated to our group and we all try really hard to work together and we all value each others opinions when it comes to filming and editing. We all knew what we had to get done and what we wanted to achieve this helped to make our time keeping skills very good, we all stayed organised and we haven't fallen behind at all in the process.

How could it have gone better?
We have learnt that we need to plan exactly what shots we want to film in more detail before we go to film. We also realised how many times that we have to go through the song to get it right, we realise we should  have filmed the song at least three times each time we changed the shot for lip syncing. This is because when we came to editing the footage we barely had any as we had to cut all the footage once we had found the bit we wanted.  

Photobucket for our website photoshoot

These are all the photos we took when we did our photoshoot to promote our star. We added all of these to our website.

Survey Monkey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RZW8KC2


Lara and I made a survey monkey to ask our audience about our upcoming star and this was the responses we got:

This is the feedback we got from our audience who completed our survey monkey, our music video is about drug and alcohol awareness to show teenagers the effects of these things and how dangerous they are. Our target audience is teenagers and above because our footage contains drugs and alcohol use, it is aimed at both genders to prove that teenagers get peer pressured into doing these sort of things.

Updating Social Media

We are constantly updating our social networking sites for our star, this is what they look like with more posts being added:

Audience and Institution

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RZW8KC2

This is a survey that Lara and I made to ask the fans and audience of our star.

Here are some questions that we have in our survey monkey.

Lights Inspiration

This music video has a really cool lighting effects that we could use for our music video. What I really like about it is that even though all you can see is the flashing blue lights in the background but you still focus on her and her silhouette, I think this really draws the audience in.
I like this idea for our music video, our group need to film again for the 3rd time to improve our video even more and I am going to show my group this clip and tell them what I like about it.

How we listen to music in 2014

This diagram shows us how the way we consume music changes over time. We have gone from records and stereos to CD's and now it is downloading music online.

People are downloading more and more songs online this varies from people downloading them off of YouTube and converting them onto iTunes and people buying them off of iTunes and that is how they then get played on the radio. So we need to make sure that we put a link to Grace's song and the music video on iTunes so people can view it and download it to listen to.

The Charts

What I noticed about the number ones in the UK was that almost all the artists are young and fresh and recent. I then compared this to our artist Grace Starr and we all agreed that she would fit perfectly into this category as she is fashionable, stylish and is a good singer that produces fresh songs. Her audience would be similar to Ella Henderson's, teenage girls and young women but she would also attract the boys by her singing, her look and attractive figure. This would also benefit our star into getting more fans too. 

 

 

 

Looking at the variety of songs on this list shows that if our artist on her second album decided to change the beat of the music and went for a different style she would still fit in because the variety on the top 40 is immense.