Here is a basic storyboard that i made, just to help know where things happen and what should be in the video at what places.

larger size can be found here:

http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq148/group2d/1.jpg

http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq148/group2d/2.jpg

http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq148/group2d/3.jpg

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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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My original Myspace

I made this myspace, although i said that the main image would get bigger, the background could be changed, and the sizes would be better, they didn't like it. I think i still have the HTML for it somewhere, i'll stick it up on some kind of hosting for a real impression. I don't want all this work to get lost.

Also while i'm here, i had some original ideas. Seeing as there were four of us, we could have had a theme based on the pack of cards, each of us would have represented a suit. I was playing around with photoshop to try and make a cover, i might have saved that somewhere too.

I liked it; not just because I had made it. I thought that it fitted in with the band's identity of wanting to not fit in with the norm.

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/

cover art

as we have decided on "the scarlet pimpernels" as our band name, and i have been thinking about cover art.
my main idea is a red rose/flower, on a plain white background. the rose will be vectory, like this http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/577172/2/istockphoto_577172-vector-rose.jpg but with the shape like this http://i.pbase.com/o6/91/43791/1/39531401.9W7F3NGv.6EET9042_web_red_rose.jpg .

i think there should be no text on the cover, or maybe very small writing ina corner, just as a convention. this is so that the main image stays striking.

Music video analysis