Evaluation

Album Art

This is my finished album cover for our artist. As the artist name is B Money i thought that the feel of money had to be incorpirated within the cover and i have done this by using a pound coin as the dot on the I.

I gave the cover a black and white theme for many reasons, firstly as it gives the cover a old school feel and the fact that when writting music it is in black and white so the album is going back to the source of them music.

The text i used for the artsit name and song title i believe give the cover edge as they look like music notes being wrote on a page. I kept the cover plan and simple as i want the audience to feel that the music is what we really want them to indolve in , there is no kimicks just purely god music.

I carry on the theme that the cover is purely about the artist and his music by immersing him with a glow around hom , making him the main focus.

Overall i am happy with my finished cover and believe that it gives off a pproffesional feel.

Evaluation Preparation

Once our video is finished we as a group have to evaluate every area of the video and discuss the pros and cons of it. There are many ways of doing this but we as a group believe by making a powerpoint presentation with print screens of our work will give us a good building block to talk about our video.

We will record ourselves answering questions on our video.
Before recording our evaluation we will rehearse our lines so the delivery is correct and everything goes smoothly.
The evaluation side of the coursework allows us to show the audience how we feel the video went and give them more of an insight into the videos background.

Final Filming

For our Music Video to be complete we had to film for one last time to gather shots needed to fill in every missing spaces. We only needed a small amount of shots and went to my house to film the sequences needed. We tried to use a variety of different camera angles and camera movements in our shoot to give the video the professional edge we fill we have already.

As a group we believe filming went smoothly and there was no hiccups, we gathered all the shots needed and the shot we got were of a high quality. These shots will help us finished our Music Video

The Showcase

Within our class we came together and put a showcase together, with fellow students and teacher to watch our music video before they were fully completed. We believed this would help us with the final stages of creating the video as we can see what is going well and what needs to be changed. The showcase would allow peers and teachers to give us feedback on how our video is looking and any comments they had on it. We hoped to gather feedback in a variety different areas, for example editing and lighting etc.

Our teacher gave us each individual student a sheet to fill out with question about our videos. The questions consisted of, what was especially good about the music video. Would you watch it again? If yes why? If no, why not? And did you notice any errors within the video?, the sheet also asked the class to rate certain areas of our video out of 10 , were ten is the highest.
The class were asked to rate the, editing, sound, camerawork and the synchronising of sound.

Once our video was shown to the class we then discussed the pros and cons of it.
The class believed that a positive aspect of our video was indeed the editing , the edits were in time with the beat and there was a variety of different edits to keep the video interesting. Most people rated our editing with a 9 out of ten score, however our we did gather a piece of feedback that the editing was out off sync at one point so we will have to change that.

However a negative side of our video was the narrative and shot repetition, peers told us that they did not understand completely the narrative and also that there was too many off the same shot within the video. This gives us as a group something to discuss and hopefully change in the near future.

My Album Cover

Looking through my blog you will see that I’ve analysed many album covers, this is because the next stage within creating my artist I am going to create my own CD cover for my artist. I hope that looking at other covers will help me with the layout and look of my cover. There are many things I have to take into account when designing my cover, the colour design, picture, size and text as it has to look good on the shelves but more importantly appeal to our target audience.

MySpace Profile for our Artist

As you can see above I have made a MySpace site for our artist, B Money. I have previously showed in older post artist use website to promote them and widen their fan bases. I have put together a MySpace as the site is very user friendly and will allow fans to have easy access to our artist’s page. A webpage for B Money will do many things to push his career forward.
Having a webpage will firstly gain him a bigger fan base as there a millions of people using MySpace and everyone will be able to look up our artist and become a fan. Fans are key to an artist progressing as without fans who is going to buy the records, sites like this will allow fans to post the artist hopefully giving feedback on current tracks and songs they wish him to sing in the future.
However to keep the image and style of our artist correct on the site we have to make sure the layout and content is suitable and will not offend people or lose fans he already has.
MySpace allows for music and videos to be shared so this will give us a chance to give our fans a taster into new tracks and gather feedback on them.
This is a world wide site and people from all over use it, so making a profile for B Money will do nothing but help us promote his music.

Filming Part 4

As you can see from the previous post, we are currently not finished our video, so we once again come together as a group and begin filming more shots for the video.
Before going out filming as a group we discussed the shots that we needed and to help us towards a high quality video. we not only disscussed the shots but also the lighting of the shots and the camera postions. We done this so that when filming all goes smoothly and there are no confusions.
Within this part of filming we gather a range of shots that we believe will have given us a great chance of produced a quality video.
We used a variety of places to film for the video to give the video a range of settings.

The video so far.

Below is the edited video we have so far, i believe the video is of a high quality and the shots we gathered give it a professional edge. However we are only around 1.20 in to the video so still have a vast amount of work to be done to reach the end. Hopefully the rest of the video will be up to the standard we are producing so far.

Filming Part 3

We have now edited the opening sequence to our video and are very happy with the results, the video so far is at the standard we hope to achieve.

As a group we went out to film the first verse for our video, this is a big chunk of the video so will take time. We had a few different locations for this part of filming so the video was not just a one setting piece. Filming went to plan and all the shots needed we got to a high quailty. Within our video so far there have been a variety of different shots and views and within the littke bit of editing we have done a vast amount of cuts have been used.

The video so far is looking good and hopefully this will carry on throughout.

Filming Part 2

The first stages of filming did not go to plan so we went out and filmed again , for this particular shots we went to another member of the groups house to allow for the shots we needed.

Not only were we re-filming our open sequence we was also changeing it by now doing the whole sequence in a first person form. We hope this form will give our video a differnet edge and make it stand out.

Although filming took a long time we got the shots needed, as a group we come together to discuss these shots and on the hole they are exactly what we wanted. This will now allow us to edit giving us a chance to see how the video is going to look.

Lumby Producky Filming So Far

So far we have filmed the opening sequence of our music video.
Shooting took place at a member of the groups house to allow us to gather the shots we needed, whilst shooting we took into account the angle of the camera, mis en scene, and lighting etc.

In addition to this we also shot a few seconds worth of film in the school hall, as in our storyboard auditions take place and we believe this was a good setting for these shots.

Although we got the shots needed for the opening of our video as a group we had a discussion and decided that the shots were not good enough to uses, therefore making us film them again. This will help us in the later stages off filming as we know no the level of shots expected and will not settle for shots of a low quality.

Story Board So Far

As a group we are now taking part in our story board plan and below is what we have so far. Each shot has a specific time length to go with the timing of the track. Also a list of characters and settings have also been shown as we know need to come to a decision on who is in the video and were it is going to be filmed.

Lumby Producky Storyboard

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Story Boarding

As we have now come to a decision on our final track Magic by B.O.B, we have got to storyboard the shots in which are going to take place within our video to give us an idea of how the video is going to flow, when edits need to be made and things such as the settings for our shots.

Our storyboard will be very specific as then once we are shooting we will know exactly what shot is going to take place and how we intend it to look. The story board will also have to take into account the track and as ours is an upbeat track with a high tempo i believe along with the group that many different shots should be recorded allowing for quick edits to keep up wit the beat of the track.

By having a detailed storyboard this will also give us helpful insights whilst filming and by having it with us we will see if we have collected all the shots needed.

How Artists Market Themselves

There are many different ways an artist can market themselves to promote their music. Use of social networking sites, for example twitter. Most artists have a twitter account which allows them personally to write status's where they can talk to their fans, discuss upcoming tours, single releases, and just gain a wider acceptance and popularity from their fans. This helps fans eaisly know everything about the singer. Artists also have facebook and myspace accounts which allow them to do the same thing, and also can upload photos of themselves. This a cheap and easy way of marketing, thats is up to date with society.
Another key way of marketing themselves in todays society is by using youtube. This allows artists to uploaded their latest music videos, as well as interviews and other clips of themselves. By doing this it not only gives their current fans a reason to buy their single, it gives the artist the oppurtunity to gain a wider fan base, from people that would not normally think of this listening to that artist or genre of music. They can also gather feedback from uploading taster songs, or new material and getting reviews from people who watch it on youtube, allowing them to know exactly what the fans want, like and dislike, allowing them to market themselves in an even better way.