Website Evaluations

http://gracestarr.wix.com/gracestarr

The website for Grace Starr really portrays her character as young, girly and pop like. The website will target young females which i presume the artist is aiming for. There is a good combination of videos, previews, magazine articles and information on the artist herself. All the writing is in a similar font and colour so it fits in throughout the whole website. 

http://nicholas-alexander.wix.com/realna

The website for Nicholas Alexander doesn't really portray the genre very clearly, However the blue effect has been used quite a bit, this may be his significant image. Like Grace star, here is a good combination of interview videos and articles. This makes the website more exciting tan just having plain text throughout the whole site. 

www.encodedmusic1.wix.com/encoded 

Having the black and white theme really stands out, there's also a comic feel to it which could be their significant feature. The website is very boy like and will attract more of the male audience than female. I really like the count down at the top of the screen as this adds excitement. 

www.thycosmo.wix.com/cosmo 

This website has a slight comedy feel to it with the props used and the bold writing and colour. However, the website is quite plain and simple, there isn't much going on in the home page. It doesn't really draw me in.

New website

Here is a quick screen shot of the new improved website. I recreated a new one as there was a lot of criticism for our first website, i also found that it didn't fit in very well with the artist himself so i changed fonts and colours to make it more appropriate.

Website Feedback

Permission for the song

Here we emailed The Rifles asking for permission to use their song for our A2 media music video.

Radio One Interview with Live Lounge

This is the new interview we recorded with our artist, Alex Echo. It is as though the artist is appearing on Radio One, with the logo in the corner and the little transitions at the start and end. We also added the logos on the microphone, to create more realism. We added our lip syncing in at the end, as though it was a live lounge cover, which is a common feature on Radio One. The interview was refilmed as we didn't think the first one was adequate. This one has better camera angles, the guitar in the background and better questions and answers.

Audience Questions

We had a group of 30 people, of all different age groups from 12 - 60. We asked them questions about where they would expect to find our song, from just the song with no video accompanying it.

Music Videos are most common online and on TV. There are over 35 TV stations dedicated to music in the UK alone and YouTube is a 24/7 access website which hosts most music videos released ever.

Of all 30 asked, they would classify the music under the genre of Indie. Some were more specific, stating 'Indie Rock'. They would expect a music video from the artist to be featured on TV and online, as it doesn't contain any explicit or controversial lyrics.

When asked if it would be inappropriate to people of a certain age, all participaters stated no.

We then asked if they listened to the radio, with which 80% responded by saying they do listen to the radio. When prompted to state a favourite radio station, 7 appeared, with Kiss FM being most popular. Other stations that were mentioned were Heart, Radio 1 and BBC Essex.

Out of all the radio stations that were mentioned by the questionnaire, the most popular answer to 'Where would you most likely hear this song?' was Radio 1, which is a mainstream radio station.

We then asked the most popular form of listening to music in general. The most popular answer was through an iPod or iPhone. The second was on the radio.

Twitter!

This is the official twitter page of Alex Echo, this is where the fans can get updates on his personal life and upcoming events.

Instagram Posts!

 

This is the official Instagram account for Alex Echo! we have mainly stuck with the black and white effect as this is quite indie similar to artist Alex Turner.

Alex Echo Article

Alex Echo Radio One Interview

Here is our first interview with Alex Echo on Radio 1. We are going redo the interview as one of the cameras died during the filming, this then left us with only one angle which doesnt work very well as we cannot see the interviewers face. We also think the location for the interview doesnt work very well and we are going to set out a proper interview layout.

Preformance First Attempt

Here is our first preformance attempt. We are only including the preformance at the end to close the video. However we feel that it doesnt fit in with the rest of our video, a lot of the activities are outside whereas this is inside with quite boring lighting. We are now going to refilm the preformance outside.

Swimming Footage

Here is the swimming footage put together. For this section we included two characters instead of one, we did this by having the first character pass the second the camera this was at 0:16 seconds. We did an equal balance of shots under and above the water.

Once each section is edited we are going to roughly put them together in one sequal. From there we are going to ask for opinions from teachers and classmates to see what we can change to improve.

Teaser Trailer