Location scouting

Location Scouting

Hotel/ Condo
--> Novotel 

--> Pullman Bangkok hotel














--> Muang Tong Impact hotel


















--> Boarding House

--> Sick Bay

Outdoor Location
--> Asiatique

--> silom street

--> centralworld

--> JJ market

--> Grafitti location near Paragon

--> Terminal 21

Identify Audiences

Identifying Audiences

I have used padlet to illustrate my Audience Research here.

Codes and Convention + Audience Research

Audience Research

Today in class, 20 minutes i have spent doing an audience research for my music video.
It was more of an extra work outside class because I had to explore what other people think about my track for the music video.
The questions are open questions, therefore the answers should be wide range and should give a lot of feedback of whether the song links to our ideas or not. 

Here are the questions:

1) What genre of music would classify this as?

2) What type of audience would you imagine listening to this type of music?

3) Would they listened to this music? Explain their answer.

4) What sort of music video would you imagine this having (ask them to be detailed).

I have asked my friends both male and female to listen to my music and give me feedback on the track and what they believe should be in the music video.


The first one was Prim:
- She classified the genre as pop.
- she suggested that the type of audiences is mainly young girls and teenagers. But could also attract older audiences as well.
- She said that she would also listen to this track or this genre because it is relaxing and not boring.
- She believed that in this music video there should be couples going to the beach together, or going on holiday.
The atmosphere is positive throughout the song.


The second one was Mint (sister):
I wanted to interview her because she is a little younger than me and I wanted to know if she had the same style or similar tastes like people in older year groups.
- Firstly she classified the genre as pop
- Secondly, she said that the target market for this music is mostly young, female teenagers or adults.
- Thirdly, she would listen to this track because it is very soothing and its a type of music most people would find nowadays
- Lastly, she believed that the music video would have some perverted things in it. But other than that she suggested that there should be girls dancing and singing or telling a story through music.

The third one was Teekay and Bam:
- They firstly believed that the genre is edm and pop.
- They suggested that the type of audience is female teenagers.
- They would love to listen to this music, 
Bam said why not? but Teekay said that its a trend nowadays with these kind of genres.
- They feel that the lyrics are very "sexual" therefore the music video should include things with implicit meanings, also because the lyrics has starving many times, they believe there should be couples eating strawberries, whip cream etc.


The fourth one was Pete:
- Pete said that the genre is pop as the rhythm is downbeat.
- Pete suggested that the audiences are definitely "Millennial"
- He would listen to this track or the kind of music because its upbeat, cheerful, fun
- He thinks that the music video should be cheerful, fun and set at the park or somewhere with bright imageries.

Logo Planning and font choosing

Logo Plan

Today we felt kind of nervous since its the first week back from half term break and we have less than 3 weeks to do our digipaks and website. Even though the digipaks is first draft but I really want this to be done before Christmas so we get more time to do other tasks as well.

Below are the designs that abby drawn from her magnificent laptop. 
Our logo is an intertextual from the DJ Afrojack. It looks pretty simple but it can entice audiences a lot due to it simplicity and the uniqueness of the design.

Our design is also simple but original because we also used only the letter "A" because our performer is "Abby" therefore we want her to stand out the most therefore we use the letter "A" to signify her.

As a team we explore different fonts on different websites to choose the best ones and then narrow it down. These were my favourite ones...

In the end, we couldn't decide on the one that suites our logo the best and therefore we decided to draw our designs instead. 

The designs are hand-made and it also may look like her signature. This may appeal to audiences more as well because audiences will know exactly who the artist is by the signature.

After drawing up many designs, we have narrowed our choices down to these 3 designs. 
They are all cursive writings as it shows more femininity and because our artist is a female artist.

In conclusion, we decided to use this one. We felt that this one conveys best of what we are and it can be easily captured by audiences. 

Halloween Teaser

HELLOOOO

During this month (October), Halloween is coming up soon and Harrow Prefect team is doing a Halloween Haunted House so therefore we made a teaser for the students.

The shots were taken by Abby and I have edited most of the clip.
The theme was based on "The Purge" movie and so the clip was made in a darker environment and I have made the movements of the persona slower to give a creepier feel to the audiences. 

This was actually another practice before the real coursework of producing our music video.
I felt that this editing wasn't that hard compared to the prefect music video but I had to think more precisely about the music or sound effects that would actually capture audience's attentions. 

I had to slowdown the shots more from the original so it looks more mysterious and creepy 
if there hasn't been a vending machine there next to character, it would have looked better since it the scene will look darker and more mysterious.

Storyboard - Nine Key Frames

Storyboard

Hi blog,

Today we mostly talked about our main shots in our music video. 

Due to our average drawings, we decided to draw just the main scenes that needs drawing and the 6th, 7th and 8th scene we just wrote what is included because there are different shots that we feel is significant but it is still undecided.

The storyboard here gives us the main idea of the music video and makes it more clear to us what we need in our music videos and what shots and edits we need to entice more audiences attentions.

Digipaks Plan Official

In this lesson,

My girls and I, we started to look at the different digipaks and compare to what we want in our digipaks. 
I wanted something that is like "summer vibes" and shows more of a happy, positivity side to match the track that we are doing.

This is one of Afrojack's album that I feel has got my attention and is somehow can be use as apart of my digipaks. 
The face of the performer here is photoshopped and a sunrise is put there instead. Giving a different feeling to this digipaks and it makes the digipaks and the tracks more interesting due to the mysterious of the performer's face. 

This digipak is simple in its way and I believe that from this simple shot it can also bring complexity and entice audiences as much as the first digipaks. 
The location and the time taken is very significant for this digipaks as the colors of the background of this shot has to be a great color that would not drag too much attention and more attention on the performer.
This digipaks gives an impression of a sorrow kind of feel and more of a "heartbreak" tracks due to the way the performer is positioning her head and body. Also the dark lighting on the performer gives away that she is in a dark place and is not as positive.

For this digipaks, it gives a clear picture of what the tracks are mostly all about. The way the actors putting their hands in the air conveys that this is a "party" vibe kind of songs. Also the sun shine bright behind the girls suggest that these songs are fitted with the summer season as summer season implies that teenagers goes out more and "party".
I really like how the actors look like they are shadowed due to the sun behind them and it looks similar to the lights shone in parties that lit the place up!

This is another one of my favorites as it symbolizes clearly that this is a summer vibe and the short pants of the girl also convey that it is for the summer due to the more revealing of her body. 
The bicycle also implies that the tracks are very chilled and is for everyone who likes going out and likes exploring. 
The title "summer thing!" is very straightforward and therefore audiences know right away what or when they should buy this digipaks.

This shows less of the performer and more on what the artist's inspired or what they feel the audiences should feel for the songs in this digipaks.
The performer here is not shown because this may be their 5 or 6th digipaks and the audiences should know by now or because they don't want to be seen like most DJ do.