Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Audience Feedback

Did the music video keep your attention throughout?

YES NO

Did you understand the narrative?

YES NO

Did you think the transitions were smooth?

YES NO

If you made the video, what would you change?

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Did the poster catch your attention?

YES NO

What stood out the most on the poster?

TEXT PICTURE BACKGROUND

Did the poster appeal to you?

YES NO

If you were to make the poster, what would you have done differently?

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Did you feel that the digipak had enough information?

YES NO

Did you think that the colour scheme was fitting?

YES NO

What is your favourite image from the digipak?

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What would you change about the digipak if you were to re-make it?

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Thursday, 10 December 2009

Promotional Posters

Promotional poster are created to higher the awareness of new Cd's and albums that are out. They appear in shops such as HMV and also magazines such as Kerrang! and NME.
The posters are mainly portrait and include when the album is out, the name of the band and also the name of album. Sometimes they also include the name of the hit single.
Here are some examples:

















Digipak

A digipak is another way to describe a CD case. Digipak's usually include a picture of the artist along with the name of the band and the name of the released single. The digipak also includes a list of the other songs from the album.

Here are some examples:












Saturday, 28 November 2009

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Thursday, 26 November 2009

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Location Sheets


Name Of Location: Oliver Basma-Lords' House (Lead Vocals)

Address Of Location: 32 Hurst Mill Lane, Glazebury, Warrington, WA3 5NR

Contact Telephone Number: 01925 743950

‎Health and Safety: Be careful on the roads driving there as they may be wet and it will be dark,

make full use of headlights and always stick to the speed limit.

Date Of Visit: 7th November 2009




Name Of Location: Victoria Park

Address Of Location: Victoria Park, Birchwood, Warrington, Cheshire, WA4 1DG


Contact Telephone Number: 07754430919 (Laura Housley)


Health and Safety: Watch as the park is icy and muddy, wearing wellies and warm clothing will

prevent us from getting ill or slipping.
Date Of Visit: 18th and 25th November 2009

Friday, 23 October 2009

Cast Decisions

For our music video we decided to cast the band members, so as to portray them trying to 'make it big'. As well as using the four members (Jimmy, Bud, Joe, OL /Baz) in the band we are going to get extras to be the people who follow the band, we will get these people from the public who are in town at the time so to create a normal atmosphere with the film.

Interview with a Fan

How long have you been following Bazmaki?
'Since they first came about around late 2007'

Where did you hear about the band?
'I'm friends with members of the band so have been kept up to datye with their progress.'

What do you like about Bazmaki's music?
'I have always loved live music, especially alternative rock which is what Bazmaki's music is about.'

What is your favourite song?
'I really like EVILE the track you are making a video for but another one of my favourites is Black Sour Cherries'

Do you prefer listening to them or seing Bazmaki live?
I love live music so watching Bazmaki perform live at a gig is really brilliant although I do listen to them on my iPod.

Costume Ideas


Thursday, 22 October 2009

Band Information




NAME: Bazmaki

LOCATION: Culcheth, Warrington, UK

MEMBERS:
Ol - Vocals and Guitar

Bud - Bass

Jim - Drums

Joe - Moves


GENRE: Alternative/Grunge/Experimental


FORMED: 2006


STATUS: Unsigned




CONTACT INFO: bazmaki@hotmail.co.uk



Bazmaki are a local band from Warrington who regularly play gigs at The Pyramid and Parr Hall. They are popular in and around Warrington and are recognised for the new and individual sound. They write and produce all of their own songs and reherse in their spare time. Apart from being members of a band Bazmaki are studing at colleges around Warrington.

Anatomy of Song


Lyrical Analysis


Confirmation of Song Permissions

From: Oliver Basma-Lord (oliverbasmalord@hotmail.co.uk)
Sent: 08 October 2009 23:09:22
To: lucymccarey@hotmail.com

Here is it.
you can call it what we call it, EVILE, or make up a nice name :).
Bit annoying i can't give you a better one ohwells.
Hope you enjoy. Just say if you have any probs :)

Thanks
Ol.

Brainstorm of Ideas


Wednesday, 21 October 2009

Production Schedule

Song Title

– Evile

Directors

– Lucy McCarey, Craig Sheakey, Laura Housley

Producers

– Lucy McCarey, Craig Sheakey, Laura Housley

Client

– OCR Exam Board

Date Production Started – Friday 23rd October - Completed

Treatment Started – Thurs 15th October - Completed

Storyboard Started – 21st October - Completed

Shooting Started – 23rd October - Completed

Planning Started – 6th October - Completed

Post Production Started

Rough Cut Submitted - Submitted

Final Show Take - Submitted

Location, Equipment Required
Location- Warrington town centre and the Parr Hall.

Equipment required
Camera, Track, Bands instruments.

Transport Requirements
Car for use of transporting the track otherwise walk and use of the bus.

Crewing, Recruitment Requirements
The directors/ Producers will be filming etc. we are going to ask a group of people to be the crowd and the band have been emailed and are featuring in the video.

Treatment

Artist(s)
Bazmaki
Song
Evile
Genre
Rock/ indie


Outline of Narrative

The narrative story we have chosen for the band Bazmaki’s Evile is that of a linear order as we have decided to input cuts of the band playing a live performance, inbetween this performance we will input cuts to follow a girl through a park, who, as the song states, is running away. However these are not flashbacks and are still in the correct order.
Taking inspiration from the songs lyrics we have decided on the story of following the girl played by a college student through a park. whilst inputting clips of her surroundings and herself to give off the appearance that she is being stalked.
The video will start off with the bands amp which says their name on it so that the audience is clear from the start not only does the video have a storyline focused on the song but that the band are a key point to the video and will be easily recognisable for the audience to follow via their fanbase on myspace etc.
The video will have various different angles of the band playing and will contain lip-synching as well as alternative shots of the girl walking through the park.

The video will start with a number of different shots of the band and girl as well as the surroundings to give the audience an idea of what is coming whilst the instrumental at the begining is playing.
When the music involving singing starts we are going to have the band lip-synching and on the occasional word fit it exactly to the visuals. eg. "Runaway, Runaway..." we will show the girl running and on "You" we will have the girl as the focus to continue with the theme that #2you" could be referring to you as the stalker , the girll or the audience as the stalker.
By keeping the identity of the person watching the girl we are going to use steady, canted and POV shots to add to a mysterious unkown effect which relates to the unknown identity of "You" in the song.

We are hoping this will indicate to the audience the bands new search for their identity as they are running away from the feeling they lov which could be the girl running from a stalker, or she is a runaway trying to get away from her life or the band running away from sticking to the normal stereotypes which often indie bands are stuck with.When the band play the final chorus of the song the video will speed up after having the slow motioned effect throughout, to createe a different atmosphere which will show they are not conventional. The video will Climax with the band sitting around and having a good time to lighten the mood after performing, together.

Resources
Camera/Tape/Track/Crane/
Band-Drums, Microphones, Amps, Guitars, Speakers
The Band-Bazmaki

Props
No props are needed apart for the bands instruments at the gig.

Crew
Laura Housley, Craig Sheakey, Lucy McCarey

Budget/Costing
As this is for an A2 media project we do not have a budget and are trying to get everything for free. If we were going to create this with a budget we would have to pay for three camera men and equipment hire, location hire and electricity costs and also an actor / actresses to be in the video.

Thursday, 1 October 2009

Questionaire Results



The pie chart shows that over 50% of the people asked to take part in the survey were women. The gives an in bias results.



The majority of people who fillled out the survey were between 14-17. This makes the results slightly bias as there isn't a wide variety of ages. The video will therefore appeal to 14-17 year olds more.



The majority of people asked during the questionaire enjoy watching music videos which shows that the results of this survey may be slightly bias. The fact that most people enjoy watching music videos shows that it is a good thing that we are making one.


These results show that there is only a small percent of people watch over 5hrs of music videos per day. The majority of people watch around 1hr per day.


The most popular music channel that people watch is MTV. This shows that we should air our music video on this channel.

This Pie chart shows taht 50% of people preffered a linear structure to a music video compared to non-linear.


This pie chart shows that over 50% chose that they preferred it when an artist appeared in character.

A narrative based storyline came out on top with 55% which shows that we should think about making a narrative music video that has a storyline.


This shows that around 90% of the suryeved people prefer the visuals tolink to the lyrics. This means that we should definitly have visuals that link to the lyrics in our music video.#

The results show that 75% of people do not like repetitive dance routines so we will definitly not be including them in our viedo.

These results are quite even which shows that a wide variety of techniques should be used in our video.

Fast paced music appears to be the most popular so we think we should try and find an upbeat song.


Slow paced editing looks like the most popular. We think this is so that it is easy to watch and understand.


People prefer the artist(s) to appear in the video so we will be including the artist(s)



People prefer the music video to have dancers in so we will try and include dancers in our music videos.


70% of people prefer that the msuci video is shot in a location which shows that we should use a location instead of a studio.