Review of our Videoshoot

Yesterday we shot our music video for 'How you like me now' it went really well overall all everything went to plan almost.

The boxes for our band and narrative shoot never arrived, so we filled the space with other things and it looked fine. Here is a photo of the camera on set. We are using Matt and looking at how to position the band.

Our second location is the butchers, Rawlings Of Cranleigh. It was a great meat locker and they let us use the hanging meat to film. We also looked at the meat in the locker, and it was perfect for our theme.

Ashen was made up to look frozen, this was really effective as he had just got out of the meat freezer.

Our third location was back in the studio and we changed the set around so we made a table out of pallets and added an armchair. This is where they played poker and the perspex was placed over the pallets to create a suitable surface for the cards.

To show the narrative of who won, Mike then drove off with Ashen, who was the frozen boy. 

The overall shoot was a success, everyone had a great time and the rushes look fab.

Email to Make-up Artist

Here is the email i sent to Sophie our special effects artist.

Website Draft

Jamie also created a website draft that looks really good. 

We would change the logo and background for the final idea.

DRAFT WEBSITE Two

here is the link tot he website!

Basic Website

This is are basic sketch for the website. It is the home page.

I made a draft

http://editor.wix.com/html/editor/web/renderer/edit/6f0174a3-c7a9-4254-a455-d901039557af?metaSiteId=90ad9eaa-855d-4557-a16c-e4ec98af0530&editorSessionId=A4BE1957-7E38-4487-8718-E1FD82009A13

Factors contained on a website

There are ingredients to building a website, most contain these and here's why:

Headings: used throughout some web pages to split the content into manageable sections. They may also be sub-headings, which can further direct the user to a particular piece of info.

Copy: The font and text in the boxes under the headings. These contains the information and detailed stuff.

Hyperlinks: there are links which can take the viewer to another page and can be linked to any word or sentence.

code to simple scrolling text

Scrolling text: the user can scroll through these areas of text, often used to fit a large amount of text in a small box.

Images: Almost all websites have images, they are really important because they look professional and they set the tone for the bands genre and themes.

Sound: A lot of artists use sound on their websites. Soundcloud is a common example.

How the visual style of the homepage represents the artist

Looking at Muse's homepage I have found a very strong theme throughout. All the pages have the same block font which is sans serif so It looks modern and casual. All the titles are in capitals, with bold black on white or white on black text.

Their products and music page shows all the album and it's art work. There is a continuous theme throughout the album artwork. Each one has used a lot of colour on a black or whiter background.  The artist name is always the same. It is MUSE with and underline and an overline.

The forum where people can debate things about the band and talk about the music is also in a similar theme to the webpage. 

The forum is important for a band with such a high profile. It brings the fans together and has a strong sense of community.

Analyzing the conventions of homepages

As a task my group have looked at different bands and their websites to see what shall differ or match when we create ours. I have linked the other blogs to the bands.
Charlotte is looking at Arctic Monkeys
Jamie is looking at Blur
Kristina is looking at Bob Marley

I have looked at Muse and their website, It is obviously a rock band. I can see this from the theme of dark colours, block writing and it is laid out like a blog.
There are several features on the home page such as 'News' 'TourDates' 'Images' and 'Shop' I think these tabs have been selected and chosen as they are the most important. They take you to other pages and these 'ingredients' or features can usually promote the band. They are the sections which will make money for the band.

The use of having the tour dates and the new albums as the biggest feature on the home page is important. It lets the audiences see when the latest album or single is going to be released, it might even include a photograph from the music videos which will give the viewer a feel for the song. The tour dates are important because it will encourage people to buy and secure tickets early, before they all sell out.

There is a feature at the bottom of the homepage which shows the stats of the page and also the bands following and how popular they are.

There is another section which shows comments from the public and tweets by the band. This is important to keep their star image and show the world who they are.

You can also sign in or sign up on the home page to become a member and receive news and updates front the band through your email. This is important to keep everyone connected and receive the latest news first.