Vines!

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This a Vine to show other ways of Social Interaction with fans and the audience, many bands and celebrities use Vine as an easy way to show fans what they are doing although the videos are only a maximum of 7 seconds long. Vines are useful as they give a brief insight as to what the band are currently up to, fans feel a stronger connection and feel as if the artists are closer to them through this.Vines are very direct as they can instantly be streamed direct to fans, shared liked and even commented. Vines are also a great way of publicity as is other ways of social media as its basically free advertising as the app itself is free and people have more of a chance of seeing the video as social media is constantly around making it more available to people.

Poster> Album

Originally we were going to create a album cover plus the booklet for our album cover as this seemed the simplest and the most normal thing to do, mistake. After finding an album cover design that we as a group decided that we all liked we created the front page of the music video which turned out like the one above but shortly after creating this much to our disappointment as we thought it turned out great we realised that we would not be able to create this type of quality about 4 times as we also would have to include a back cover and a booklet but in terms of what to do next we think a poster will be much easier to do and we can dedicate all of our time onto one sole poster rather than many more hour creating more pieces for the album. The album cover was created using adobe photo-shop by Scott Jenkinson and includes a fade out image behind the logo and a skyline type image, similar to the one that will be used within the music video itself. After having a brief discussion with the group we came up with the following conclusion: " A poster will be much more easier, time efficient and will look better as we can apply more of our time solely on one creation.

We have decided to create a music album poster as a form of promotion, we have looked into what type of album poster we would like to create and we had a meeting with what we think it should contain and the conclusion we come up was that it should contain:

Logo

Album Name

Names of Band Members

Less colours 

Simple Decoration

House Theme

We are going to create a simple poster that draws the attention to just one item such as a microphone of musical instrument, we are going with the saying that "less is more". However cringey that sounds its what we as a group want as we think it will look more professional.

We have discussed that we should be keeping within the black and white them, thus making it simple and effective. As you can see in The Frays poster, they incorporate the band members within the poster and we're thinking of doing the same technique but in a different contents.  This is just one of our ideas.

Other ideas from music videos

After watching 30 seconds to Mars' lyrical video "City of angels" I think it would be beneficial to our music video production to create a similar theme to the one in the picture below , thelis type of image in my opinion looks really good and seems very powerful in my opinion, this type or scene could also be used to take up some time from the main scenes by doing this it just means that we have plenty of scenes available so we will not have less scenes than what the actual song length needs. 30 seconds to mars uses a setting that makes the audience gaze upon it and wonder what it would be like to be there. It really appeals to the audience as they see these images as they want to be a part of the music video and be involved in it.

The image(s) located on the right are the images we would like to recreate not in the exact way as we would like to add more focus onto the skyline of liverpool. Doing this will fit into our album cover theme which also includes the skyline within it. We will keep the blog updated as to whether this whole concept will work or whether it may fail and not work well. We expect the biggest issue to be with lighting of the background as ideally we would like to film this at night/sunset but this is harder to arrange within a group as plans have to be made weeks ahead of schedule.