Audience

Audience of video

Myspace analysis

Common conventions and features of a Music Myspace:
Box with artist name, profile views, last logged in, and a link to pics and vids.Band menbers section usually contains info on individual members, and maybe a picture.Space to list influences.Space to list "sounds like"Space for record label and label type.Music player, with popular/new songs from the bandList of upcoming showsList of blog postsTop FriendsCommentsThese things are standard for any music myspace, but some bands change these to suit their needs.

Example 1:
Dragonforce. http://www.myspace.com/dragonforce
Large logo and picture of the band right at the topstraight away plugging themselves, with discography and an advert for Ibanez "signature series" Dragonforce guitars, and "official merch store". Obviously very commercial.Doesn't use Myspace template, but keeps the two columns, for instance, instead of the box with the picture and band name etc, there is just this image http://thomashope.com/themike/Dragonforce/images/DF_side_01.gifUpcoming shows is not using myspace templateMusic videos all over the page.Clear. Pale text on dark background.

Example 2:
Bloc Party. http://www.myspace.com/blocparty
Plain black background, with white text.Standard Myspace style, with the info box clear. Has band logo at top of info box.Gig listingsBlog postsMusic videos in Youtube style playersuse the "General Info" box properly; lists band members in the correct section, and influences in influences."About" section has music videos, and a plug to buy latest album.At the top is okug for latest album, with link to interactive "Click here to build your own 'intimacy' mini site"

Example 3:
Gorillaz http://www.myspace.com/gorillaz
Super Standard myspace, has kept all of myspace's formatting without adding anything fancy of their own.Has pictures of the band members under each of their namesthe about section is very long, with slideshows of the band, and links to buy their latest album, and links to all their videos.It also has a long ~400 word bio section.the text is black on yellow text boxes, on a very Gorillaz-style hand drawn background

From this, i have concluded that in our myspace, we can realistically either keep the trad myspace layout, or do something edgy and different. We need to put on our song, or at least make it look like it. Also, we need photos of the band, on the page and in the pics section. We also need the music video on the page.
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Institutions

key music video institutions

My Feedback Questionnaire

I made an online questionnaire for the group, where we get emails to the group email address that i set up, of the responses to the questionnaire.

I also put the video up, obviously, so that people can watch the video before answering the questions.

i hope that this helps us reach a wider audience..

find it here: http://group2d.googlepages.com/

Music video analysis

Music video analysis

Lip Synching practise

(Repost from group Blog)

Here is a video that James and I made to practise lipsynching, nearer the start of the project, it's just taken a while to get onto youtube.




We thought it would be fun to do, we had a free afternoon and thought it would be beneficial practise, having been enthusised by the busted day.

xx Luke

Here's your group work on Marketing!

Music Video Research

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album research

1- +44 - When your heart stops beating

2) The Beatles - The White Album
3) Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
4) System of a Down - Steal This Album!
5) O.P.M. - Menace To Sobriety

6) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

7) Angelspit - Krankhaus
8) Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing
9) A1 - The A List
10) The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned

Typical Features

- All have a striking image, with the exception of The White Album, which is striking in itself, as it is just blank. Steal This Album is notable, as like the White Album, there is no striking image, but the message offered by the cover and title itself are rather contraversial, making the album cover as a whole striking without the need for a striking image.

- Most have the album name, except for the White Album, When Your Heart Stops Beating, and Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned. This is because in the case of the White album, the artist name speaks for itself, and the title of the album is descriptive of the cover. In the case of +44, it is a striking image of the band name, a band whuich was much hyped at conception, so the name speaks for itself. Always outnumbered, Never Outgunned is rather anomalous, as it lets the image speak over both the title, and artist name.

- All of them except Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned have the artist name. The White Album, although mot noticable, has the artist name embossed into the vinyl cover, which is why i chose to use the vinyl version not the CD version.

Ways of Categorising the Covers.

- The A list, Krankhaus, The best damn Thing, all have a striking image of the artist.

- Always outnumbered, Never Outgunned, Californication, Menace To Sobriety, Hold Your Colour, and When Your heart Stops Beating all have a striking, more artistically abstract image