More about the band "Midnight hour"

After just posting that blog about the video i watched that is similar to the song that we have for our music video. I did some research on this band and found out that they are an unsigned band just like our band. This could be helpful because we can see how they promoted their band. They do have a Myspace page, this could help us for the layout of our website page.

Similar Song To Our Music....

I really like this song that i have found, it's about running away. The song is called running away. Unfortunately this song doesn't seem to have a music video. So I have just uploaded it purely for the lyrics and the sound of the music. I feel that this song is very similar to our genre of music because there is only one main singer and we have only one singer in our video. I am going to do some more research on this band and find some more music video that will maybe give us some inspiration for our music video.

Sterotypical We May Need To Convey...

I have just had a look at this clip of the "Royal Tenenbaums" and it's a very graphic clip and we don't feel that we want to show the graphic side, but a lot of cases of people running away have a suicide case. We don't want to show this but we want to be able to show why our person in our video has run away, where she is running to, what has happend to make her feel like this. We can show this through flashbacks. We are going to have a non-linear narrative. We are thinking about including pictures of genuine missing people at the end and different statistics to make it more powerful and emotive.

Website Creation Software Ideas

I have been thinking about the website creation software that we could use to create of bands website and I have looked at a few different pieces of software, some of the pieces of software i have looked at include

• Interspire Website Design, I feel that this software is very simple to use and easy to work with but i feel that if does not have enough features to create an effective opening page to a website, i also think that the cost of the software at $395.00 for the standard edition is too steep for a new band to be using and I feel that realistically they would probably not have to funding to use this software.
• Serif Webplus 10. I have looked into the features of this software and it seems that it would be very capable of creating a decent website for a starting band, and for only $9.99 it would be an ideal product to use for a new band that needs a start up site i feel that we could use this then eventually move to more advanced software to create a better site.
• Macromedia Dreamweaver C4. I have looked into this software and i feel that this software would be a very good investment as it is a very adequate website developments software and we already have access to this software also so it would be a good way to start with this software then improve software if we ever became mainstream. I also feel that this software would be the best to use as we already have a good knowledge and understanding about the features and how to operate this software so i feel that we could implement the best site to our ability using this software.

More Website Analysis

Snow Patrol Website

I have just looked at the website for snow patrol and again I have found it uses a three colour Palette and that the colours all contrast each other very well making all of the information stand out. I think that this is a very good tactic as the dark background makes the text stand out and the audience will be instantly drawn to the information. I fell that we could take idea and mould it for our website not Necessarily have the same colours but the same idea of having one main background colour then two contrasting colours for the text, I feel that if we did this type of layout then our website would be very effective because all our text and information about the band will stand out to our viewer. I also like the music playing on top of the site of the site as it gives the viewer a taste of new music from the band and upcoming tracks it also gives the band chance to see which of their songs are played more than others, this is a good idea as they can see how to aim their music at their audience. I feel that we could do this also as being a new band if we played our music when the website is opened then if the viewer just happened to stumble upon the site they might hear the music and possibly like it, this could then end up the viewer looking further into the band and possibly buying the song E.T.C.

For our music video...

For our music video after recieving advice from Mr Smith, I feel that it would be a good idea to include pictures of genuine missing people, this will then make our music video stronger and effective and will have a more realistic effect on the audience. I feel that the audience will then be able to relate to our music video more as running away and going missing is common in the world and in the UK. So our audience can relate to this.

Using an image like this, will make it more effective and we could also put a statistic at the end of our music video to make it more realistic and it will create that powerful effect on the audience.

Crimewatch

After watching Crimewatch yesterday this gave me some inspiration for our music video, as millions of people go missing every year and some of the cases are people running away and this is what we are going to show in our music video, someone running away. I feel that our audience can relate to our music video as running away is a common case that is seen on the news or heard on the radio or in the newspaper. It happens alot. I feel that the audience can then create a connection with our character and wonder why she is running away. It will leave the audience with lots of questions and they can have their own interpretations which will make the audience become involved in our music video.

My Video Research

Tonight i have done some music video research and i have looked at a wide range of rock styles of music and their music videos. Artists that i have looked at consist of Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Metallica, WhiteSnake, Green Day E.T.C. and while looking at all these different groups i have noticed that not one video i have watched today has there been a whole video consiting of actors, there has always been shots of the band in the video to promote them. I feel that this may make our music video very different as we plan to have the whole video consisting of actors to tell our story and not any shots of the band. I fell this would work as the audience may not get to see the band but they may get into the story and keep watching, this would then give the band more advertisement because if they enjoyed the video and the music the audience would then go and research the band

..... Rhys

More Music Video Research

This video i have researched is the song by Green Day 'When September Ends' again we feel that this song fall under the softer genre of rock and we also like it again because it tells a story throughout the music video. I like this videos especially as it is a very gripping video if you watch it as it has a very contradicting start and end. The start of the video has a young couple spending time together and both of them are happy, and as the video progresses the male is recruited into the army and, the effects that the army has on couples.

Rhys.......

Foo Fighters Website

http://www.foofighters.com

I have looked at the band 'The Foo Fighters' opening page to their website and i feel that the opening page to this site may be a little too simple as it is just a picture of them on stage and an E-Mail sign up box, i feel that we can take inspiration from this still thou as i think that the colour scheme of white and black works very well and I fell it is very eye catching and stands out. This is effective as it grabs the audiences attention and this is the target of our website page. I also like the tabs at the top of the site as it is easy to find an navigate thorough the site itself and from experience i know that if a website is harder to navigate then it is more likely the audience will click off of it, So i feel that we cold take some inspiration from the tabbed pages layout.

Rhys...

Another CD Cover inspiration...

As i have been inspired by Nickelbacks Soft rock song "Photograph", I decided to have a look at the album cover, i really like this album cover because it's simple but it draws attention. The colour scheme works well and using only 3/4 colours makes the album look a lot nicer. We both want to have an iconic abstract object on our CD cover and having an iconic symbol will link into our theory that we will be applying to our music video of "the semantic code" and if we use an iconic symbol which has connotations and denotations the audience can find their own underlying meaning. Having their own interpretations will make them more involved with our music and will also create a connection between the audience and the music, because they can relate to the interpretation that they have come up with.

Jess...

Cd Cover Idea...

Morning:) As we have both been looking at Greendays video "Wake me up when september ends" I decided to have a look at their album cover. I like quite a lot about the cover. I like the simple cover scheme. The 3 colours stand out and it instantly draws you in. The picture is has no band members on the cover and for our CD cover we want to be able to have a abstract picture because we think this will attract our audience more. However there are some things that i don't like about the picture. I think the picture shows blood and we don't want violence on our CD cover but the colour scheme we may use.

Jess...

Music video inspiration...

I have found this Video of Celine Dion "My heart will go on". Her music is classified as soft rock. I chose this song because the song tells a story and the story is shown through the music video. However in this music video the artist is shown and in our music video we want to make it a little different because we just want to show our story through the music video because we want our audience to be completely gripped to our story.

Jess...

Genre of music video...

We feel that the genre of our rock wasn't specific enough. So we want to make it clear that the genre of our music video is Rock but our music video is more softer rock. So we are going to classify the genre of our music video as "Soft Rock". Soft rock is a style of music which uses techniques of rock and roll and is also referred to as Mellow rock, Light rock or Easy rock. Soft rock usually contains elements of Folk Rock and singer-songwriter pop to make a softer sound and an easy listen. We feel that our music isn't heavy rock and it is softer rock. Having classified our genre we have know changed our target audience as we feel that are target audience will appeal more to 25-34. We still feel that a younger audience will listen to this that's why we are still targeting younger people but we feel that our target audience we chose before was too young.

Jess

Inspiration...

Watching "The Royal Tenembaums"
In class we watched "The Royal Tenembaums" and it gave us some inspirations for our music video. In this film there are a lot of hidden meanings and a lot of connotations in the film which makes it a lot more interesting for the audience watching this film. The director was very clever in doing this and it gives the audience their chance of having their own interpretations. We don't want our music video to be complicated but we want to be able to create a connection with the audience by allowing the audience to come up with their own interpretations. Having different symbols within our video will allow the audience to see the different connotations and this will create a connection with the audience.

Jess...