planning- our website so far.

We are currently half way through editing our website. After a lot of thought we decided that our webiste didn't look 'artisty' enough so we decided to scrap the original website and choose a new layout and style.

We chose to stay with wix.com as it is a very simple and easy website maker, also it gave us a 'music' category we could choose from. We feel the new style of the website is better suited to the genre our artist is in as it is rather 'different', also it is black and white which is conventional of our genre.

Here is the progress up to yet:

 

 

planning- conventions of a website.

I decided to make a prezi of the conventions of a website from artists in our genre. I thought this could help me and Rachel pick out ideas of what we could include in our website. I got the information by researching different websites from artists in a similar genre to ours.

planning- new filming.

At the weekend Rachel went out to film the rest of the performance section for our music video. She and the actress went to some old garages near to where they live as it is easier to get to and it also matches with the conventions of our genre. In one of Katy B's music video she walks through some estate past some garages which we have taken inspiration from as Katy B is an artist from our genre.

As the nights are getting darker earlier now Rachel needed to film quite quickly but not too quick that she would rush it and it would look unprofessional but just so the clips don't look different when it comes to editing. However when I was editing today none of the clips looked like they had different light which is good because if not it would mean we would have to re-film again. When she was filming she said it was kind of tricky because the garages she was at was on a kind of slope therefore it made the camera a little wonky. She told me she had resolved this by finding an old slab from where she was filming that she could rest one of the tripods legs on. None of the clips when playing back look wonky therefore it was a good idea.

As Rachel has filmed the majority of the video I thought I would take control on editing the music video, I am then learning how to use premiere pro and making contribution to our video.

planning- making changes to our music video.

Whilst we was editing our music video we realised that none of the narrative fit with the rest of the video. When previewing the video we thought that it didn't look right with the different locations, also in the narrative part she is meant to look rather depressed whereas in the performance section she is happy and enthusiastic therefore we soon decided that it doesn't make sense when pieced together. When thinking about it too we didn't make the narrative clear enough so the audience know what the video is supposed to mean.

Thankfully we still have the camera which means we can re-film and replace the narrative with more performance shots. We have decided to make the whole video to just be based on performance as most videos in our genre do this anyway. Even though we had filmed plenty before we think the best idea would be to re-film in another location. As deadlines are drawing upon us closely we need to get the filming done soon so we can edit again.

This weekend Rachel will go out with the actress to film again in the location she has decided on.

planning- website.

Earlier this week me and Rachel started our ancilliary task which was to create a website for our artist. We chose to do it on www.Wix.com which is a really simple, free website builder. We are halfway through completing it so we hope we can manage to get it done for christmas when our deadline is.

We previously looked up other well known artists websites that relate to our genre and we noticed they have a lot of information on their websites therefore me and Rachel took inspiration from these artists and came up with 8 different links/pages we can put on. Here is a preview of the pages.

Here are some previews of some of the pages we have completed:

 

 

planning- social media.

I have created a twitter, facebook, instagram and youtube page for our music artist Ninah J. Me and Rachel thought this would be a good idea as these days most music artists promote their music/products via social media. Also it helps you keep in touch with the younger generation more as they use a lot of social media websites today.

We previously researched that our target audience would range from ages 15-25, therefore making social media websites for our artist makes it easier for this audience as they tend to spend more time on the internet than reading books or magazines.

As well, social media websites keeps the audience updated at all times and fans find it great how they can 'stalk' their idols via the internet.

Here are the screenshots of the websites I created:

Twitter

 

 

 

Facebook

 

 

 

 

Youtube

 

 

Instagram

planning- location.

As I haven't already I have decided to make a blog post of all the locations we have filmed for our music video. Some are screenshots from clips we have taken.

Sutton Lawn

 

Bedroom

 

 

Living Room

 

 

University Halls 

 

 

 

Photography Studio

*PHOTOS SOON*

planning- filming finished!

We have finally completed filming all of our music video, we have looked at all the clips and chose the best from each repeated shot we filmed. They look really well done and I am proud of what we have managed to do.

We have done each clip to the best of our standards and hopefully that is enough and we don't have to re-shoot any!

We need to start to edit our music video now with the help of our storyboard/anamatic which tells us how long each clip lasts and where they come in the video. And then me and Rachel can also start doing our digipak and website for our artist.

This is the completed schedule we used:

planning- filming the outdoor shots.

On Sunday me and Rachel went out with our actress and filmed the outdoor shots. We also filmed some of the lip syncing and thought it went really well.
We found a graffiti wall that we thought would go well with our music video and fit our genre, which is where we filmed today. I thought it was a very fitting location and will look good in our final music video.
Here are some photos we took whilst out filming: