Media Coursework

We created a survey, where we put attached close, yes or no question and sent it to our target audience. We also recorded ourselves making the video and writing in the questions

We received a lot of positive feedback about both products from our teacher, however we still need a certain additions that will help our products look more professional and will appeal more to the target audience.

For the Website:

Put social media links on homepage
Add more to the biography (About Us)
Change "Discography" image
Change the photo of ALec near basic info to a picture of the band
Add prices on iTunes
Add Backstage photo to gallery
Put the Music video at the top of the website
Contact -> Fans get in touch
Merchandise

For the Album:

We needed to change the barcode so that it would be easier for the audience to access the album.
We also decided to

Add the legal information to the back cover
Flip the barcode so that it is the right way round
Need to add an album name under the band's name
Change the layout of the songs so they are in two columns

We did a photo shoot with all the band members with a very simple background and simple costumes.
We did this as a back up to use and edit for the website.

We took group photos as well as individual photos:

It is important for our band had chemistry on the day of the PhotoShoot

We showed our band a rough cut of the music video after the photoshoot. This was an important aspect of the editing and refining process. The band loved the rough cut and are very happy with the rough cut and the final product in the end

Sasha emailed the band that we selected to do a photo shoot. Although we already have a design for our digipack we want to have a photo shoot so that we have enough pictures of the band to play with and put on the Website.

Our photographer is Grace Phelps, who is willingly going to be taking the photos and will be giving them to us for free. She is a very good photographer and is doing A Level photography

We asked a few open and closed questions to a group of AS media students

DO YOU LIKE THE COSTUMES?

Yes, particularly the fur
Yeah they worked for their age
Yeah they look vintage and fits the song
Yes, they all work very well and fit the song
Costumes are good and show their friendships and team spirit
Yes I think they fit the woods and fit genre of music
Yes
Yes, they suited the characters really well
Yes
I like the costumes as they're different and colourful
Yes

IS IT OBVIOUS WHO THE LEAD IS?

Yeah
Yes, he was shown a lot
Yeah
Yes, it is shown really well throughout
Yeah
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

DO YOU THINK THERE WAS ENOUGH VARIETY WITH THE SETS?

Yes, especially with the projections
Yes, the contrast was good
Yes, I think the sets were great
Yes, there is enough variety
Yes
Yes, I think the sets were perfect
Yes
Yes, and the use of projections made it really exciting
Yes, I liked the shots in the woods and how they linked to the projections (girl in the woods)
Ys, I like the contrast of using the woods and the study
Yes

DID YOU GET BORED?

No
No
Nope
No as there is a lot going on
No
No!
No
No, wanted to watch more!
No
No
No

DID THE BAND PORTRAY THEIR CHARACTERS SUCCESSFULLY?

Yes
Yes, they were all childish which worked well
Yes, especially Charlie
Yeah, they all suited they characters very well
Yes
Yeah, they are all friends which is nice
Yes
Yes, really well. I liked the close ups of them playing their instruments
Yes
Yes
Yes

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVOURITE ELEMENT OF THE VIDEO?

Jonty’s drums
When they were running around in the woods
Their friendships
The woods!
The woods were amazing
Them having fun in the woods
The projections
The band in the woods
The funny moments in the woods
When they were playing in the woods
The projection of the girl on the t-shirt

IS THE NARRATIVE CLEAR?

Yes
Yes
Yes - the lost boys
Yes, they’re lost boys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes, the lost boys
Yes, but not entirely
Yes
Yes

DO YOU LIKE THE OVERLAP IN EDITING AT THE BEGINNING?

Yes
Yes
It worked
Yes, all the editing was very well done
Yes, very interesting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
I love the editing at the beginning, I think it is one of the strongest bits of the music video
Yes

DID YOU LIKE THE PACE OF EDITING? WHY?

Yes, it was very dynamic
Yes because it worked well with the pace of the song
Yes because it fit the song
The pace was shown well and there was a good build up
Yes, it fit the song’s pace well
Yes, it fit the song really well
Yes it worked with the slow and fast bits of the song
Yes, really exciting
Yes, it showed equal variety of all the sets
Yes, as it’s fast and different from other music videos, and pace varied so it’s good you showed experimentation
Yes, because it fit in with the pace of the song