Task 1 Conventions of the front of my album cover

This is a first draft of our album cover, it is not yet finished as we still need to place the name of the band on it. However you can already see how it conforms to most of the conventions of a girl band album cover.

• It features all of the band members on it
• They are all wearing fashionable clothing
• They all look attractive (making them more appealing to our target audience)

It also fits in with the retro star image of the band as the colours and the font are very retro and they are what you would expect to see on a retro album.
 

Different features of our website

We chose as a colour scheme for our website purple as we decided to have it as the signature colour for our band. The meaning of the colour purple is one of peace of mind, serenity, magic, royalty... It is said to be the perfect colour. http://crystal-cure.com/purple.html

The Home page of our website

One of the most important things of any website is the home page as it is the first thing that people will see when they access the website. So when creating the front page we had to be very careful about the choices we made and what we put on it.

Home page

We have on it a picture of all the band members, we chose this one as it has all of them and they all look good in it. On the top you can see the names of the pages of our website:
Home - Music - Videos - Photos - Contact

Home page

We also have a variety of other photos for fans to look at directly on the home page and the latest news from the band so as to enable fans who are in a hurry to be filled in about what the band is doing. We have a link to sound cloud for fans to listen to the band's 'biggest hit song' of the moment

Home page

There are live twitter feeds on the side so as to keep fans up to speed with the band's every move. We chose to place these next to the latest news so that they are easily found as they are in the most obvious place.

Home page

There is our band's latest music video posted at the bottom of the home page. If fans want to look at other music videos from our band they can access them on the video page of our website.

The Music Page

Music page

We have on our music page the lyrics to the song All you need is now. A link to it on sound cloud so that fans can listen to it and if they want use the lyrics to sing along

Video Page

Video page

On our video page we have the bands music videos and an explanation to why they chose to have this as a music video. This helps the audience see the bands point of view. 

Photo Gallery

Photo gallery

On this page all the photos of the band are available to fans.

News Page

News Page

News Page

On this page the band posts about what they are doing, up coming tour dates... It is a way for the band to communicate directly to it's audience and keep them up to date with what they are doing and when and where they are touring.

Continuing the creation of my website - Twitter feeds

I finally understood why the twitter feeds were not working correctly on the website, it was because I had accidentally ticked the box called Show on all pages and so the twitter feeds were everywhere... So now I have un-ticked it and the live twitter feeds are only on the home page of the band. This is perfect because it would be very silly to have a website promoting a band without the live twitter feeds to keep Reportage's fans up to date on the band's every move in direct!

The box I shouldn't have ticked

Our website

For the past few days I have been working on our band's website on Wix. I started off by adding photos and editing the presentation. We had live twitter feeds on it, however this was a bit annoying as if you moved them on one page they would also change place on other pages... I also added many photos to the website as it is very important for our artist to have a lot of pictures of them on it as we need to really set up the star image of our band as they are new artists. I also added some news about our artist and their first music video.

Reportage's photo gallery

Our home page with some photos and the latest news from Reportage

Adding the modelling shots to our new sequence

To add the modelling shots in without risking messing up the rest of our editing we created a separate sequence called 5D models. On this sequence we looked for the best place to add in new modelling shots. We then placed them in the sequence we were working on. This wasn’t difficult; we just had to make sure that they were in the right place of the sequence. 

5D models sequence

Continuing the editing of my music video

I have been adding the modelling shots in the past few days, this has been a very tedious process as it is very important that they do not come in to soon or too late.

• If they are introduced in the video to early this will confuse the viewer
• If they are introduced to late it will be equally confusing

A modeling shot

I also named all of these shots and marked the moments that are good as they are all very long shots and some of them contain moments that are very, very messy... So even though it seem to take up a lot of time it is actually

saving a lot of time in the editing process.

Mat and Luke's feedback on our first cut

Mat and Luke watched our video. They had a lot of very very use full feed back on what we should do to make it much much better.

We have a lot of shots that look good overall, however all the video becomes more interesting by the end, as the cuts are much more fast and this is more visually appealing. They suggested that we cut the longer shots so as to make video more dynamic!

They also said to us that shots work better when they are "grouped", e.g. when you can hear the base clearly you should have an ECU of the base guitarist hands playing, then of her face and finally move into a wide shot of her (all of these cuts should be fast). This makes the video less random as well as making it more dynamic. However, the downside to this is that we have to restart all of the editing from the beginning…

The modelling shots are very beautiful and extremely realistic. We therefore decided to use them more than we did in our rough cut. They work incredibly well in the ‘instrumental’ parts of our video so we will put most of them there.

Overall our music video is very visually pleasing and if we group our shots and add more modelling in it the video should look incredible!