Poster draft, developed - Lizzy

Animatic - Lizzy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7fAuTSGhrU&feature=player_embedded

Storyboard - Lizzy and Emily

Questionnaire results - Lizzy and Emily

Emily

This graph shows the results of when we asked 10 people how old they are, so we are able to work out the average age of the target audience.

Lizzy

 This graph shows that out of the people we interviewed, there is an equal distribution of thoughts on how relevant music videos are to the promotion of the band. This leaves our options open as to whether we make the music video's aim to promote the band rather than the song. Although, more people think that they are not very relevant.

Emily

The results of this graph show how many people believe that the magazine advertisement of the band could reflect on whether they would consider even buying the bands album.

 Lizzy

% of the people we interviewed watch music videos, and the other 50% do not. The people that answered yes, were more in our target age that we want to attract - this means that we have more chance of them wanting to watch our music video

Emily

This graph shows the results of how often people do still watch music videos, and the feedback from the questionnaire shows that people watch them at least once a week.

Emily

The results on this graph show that when we asked people about the colour schemes of a CD cover, which combination would work best for a music CD cover. The results show that people believe that bold, vibrant colours work a lot better as it captures the attention of the target audience.

 Emily

The results indicate that the majority of the people that we asked for the questionnaire show that they prefer the idea of having a storyline within the music video, therefore we are able to try and think of a way to add a storyline to our video. 

Emily

This graph shows the results of when we asked people what kind of music they like best out of the chosen selection above. The results show that out of all the choices given, the majority of people said they prefer to listen to indie music compared to any of the other genres. 

Emily 

The graph shows the result of how people find the relevance of a music video of a band when they are trying to promote their-selves/music. 

 Emily

Having the results of whether people still buy cd's helps a lot because it gives us an idea of whether we could find out if music video's are even worth having these days as most people will download from websites such as iTunes etc. These results show that the majority of people still do buy CD's. 

Emily

The results of the graph show that there is an equal amount of numbers of female and male  who were intereviewed which therefore means that we will have to make sure that when we produce the music video, and genre, that it will appeal to both Male and Female. 

CD ideas - Emily

When designing and creating ideas for a CD cover, researching simular genre artists are key. I looked at an Oasis cover and got some ideas of how the cover of the band we are producing a video for (Little Grim) could look like. The simple layout of text and the image taking up 2 thirds of the cover is very eye catching because everything is very easy to look at. The colours work together with the image being black and white, and all of the text apart from the album name; making it all stand out and catch the audience's eyes when it is placed next to many other CD's on a shelf in a store.

This particular cover of The Vaccines album 'Coming of Age' really caught my attention because of how simple it is. The layout of everything is very structured and centered in towards the middle of the cover. The black and white image makes the vibrant red stand out and both things work well together and really contrast each other. Even though the name of the album is not on the cover, the image seems to tell that story by the body language, attitude of facial expressions, clothes etc. the story being the idea of 'coming of age'. This idea could work well witht he band that we are working with and the title of the song.

     The cover of this album Foo Fighters 'Wasting Light' caught my eye straight away and thought that something like this would well very well with everything that we are planning for the video for Little Grim. The idea that is being planned has a big connection to this cover due to some parts that could be used within the video. I do also think that the cover is very striking and eye catching because of the black background contrasting with the bold, vibrant colours, therefore making everything stand out and catch the eye of the audience.The cover of the album and also when it comes to designing and planning ideas for the magazine advert/poster, without the album being eye catching it will not capture the audience's attention let alone the target audience that we hope would want to be the CD.

When thinking up ideas for the booklet that will go inside the CD I wanted the layout of the page to link with the cover, and song itself. As there is a storyline in the video, there is still a theme that is going on, it has a dark feel to it. The inside of the booklet seemed as if it could carry the story on inside, therefore having these two layouts to chose from would fit in well; a simple layout with an image that would link to the video; dark background, image of a prop, the band etc. any of that would be able to work for the booklet. The layout of the text from the second idea (above, right), I found slightly more interesting and eye catching to look at as has a more unique, original layout compared to a usual booklet, having the text the right way up istead of having to turn the page around to read the text.

The layout of the back of the CD can be very simple, with a dark background just like in the video and also on the CD cover. By having the text laid out in the centre, will allow us to then add smaller text running down the side, inspired by the Coldplay album (above, right) to make it slightly more eye catching. Text will be in a contrasting colour allowing it to stand out, and let the audience read the song title's with no problem.

Music Video ideas - Wild Youth, Daughter - Emily

Questionnaire - Lizzy and Emily

Questionnaire

1. How old are you?           10-14           15-18          18-24              25+

2. Are you male or female?              Male         Female

3. What genre of music are you interested in?     

Indie     Pop     Rock     R&B      Country     Rap/Grime       Dub-step      other

4. Do you watch music videos?        Yes         No

5. If so, how often do you watch them?   

Everyday        Once a week         once a month           other

6. How relevant do you think music videos are to the promotion of a band?

Extremely relevant        Quite relevant          Not very relevant

7. Do you buy CD’s?       Yes          No

8. Do you like the music video to tell a story?          Yes           No

9. Do you magazine adverts make you want to listen to the album?   

   Yes       No

10. Would you but a CD based on a music video or magazine advert?      

Yes      No

11. What colour schemes of a CD cover would you find more eye catching?

Pastel colours           Vibrant, bold colours           Black and white