Monday 31 October 2011

Advertisement


Our group decided to create a t-shirt and hat product for the merchandise of our band, we decided this because these products are the most common clothing for a boy band.
This is an idea of how our name would look if we had it printed onto t-shirts. We would have the font of our logo on the shirt for the real version. A way to progress this piece of advertisement would be to do different images on the shirts. For example, we could have a band image on the front. Or have individual band members on the front.
Other forms of advertisement could include posters, with similar styles that are on the the t-shirts. We could aslo look at doing stationary for those teens who are still in school. Bags would also be a good form of advertisement. These are all good for our target audience because these are all things that teenagers have at that age.

Casting

Zac
18 Years Old
Strong point: Vocals
Idol: Stevie Wonder













TJ
18 Years Old
Strong point: Dancing
Idol: Michael Jackson









Reece
18 Years Old
Strong point: Vocals
Idol: Justin Timberlake













Tyler
18 Years Old
Strong point: Song writing
Idol: Gary Barlow










Kate
18 years old
Part: The girl all the boys want

Audience Profile


View more presentations from Tom Brown

Production Plan

Before we start filming we will need to verify some things and also finalise them.

- We need to add our photos of our location that we are shooting at

- We need to make sure we have our costumes for shooting

- Photos of our cast and what their role is within the video

- Check the weather for the dates we will be filming

- Get to grips with how we are editing

Monday 17 October 2011

Questionnaire - Feedback

1. What is your age?

Everyone who answered our questionnaire was between the ages of 16-20, which is what our target audience's age would be.

2. Who out of the music artists below would you consider to be an influence to you?

4/10 people said that the artist that influenced them was a rock band. e.g Linkin Park, 4/10 people said that the artist that influenced them was a rapper. e.g Eminem and finally 2/10 people said that the artist that influenced them was a pop boy band. e.g JLS.

3. What is your favourite style of genre?

3/10 people said pop.
1/10 people said indie.
3/10 people said rock.
4/10 people said R&B.

4. Our target audience for our band would be, teenagers.
What fashion wear do you think will apply to our target audience?

from the answers we received the most common reply was skinny jeans, converse, tight tops, chinos and vans.

5. What is your favourite pop song?

From the answers the most common was from Katy Perry - E.T, this can help us because we could then use an insight to her music video that could have an aspect of Katy Perry's.

6. What do you think should be in a pop music video?

From the answers we received the most common answers were, a story line, dancing and fun scenes. From the list we do have all of them planned to be into our music video.

7. Do you like movies such as Twilight?

7/10 people answered that they like Twilight, which is good because of the supernatural powers that we have put into the storyline which has an element towards Twilight.


8. Do you think it is a good idea for members of a pop boy band to have their own significant identity look?

100% of people answered yes to this question, this also helps support our image of each band member having their own super power and image.

Thursday 13 October 2011

The Script TV Advert Analysis


Digipak Analysis Linkin Park - REANIMATION


Tenacious D - Tribute Music Video Analysis

Tribute Music Video

Genre Characteristics:

Jack and Kyle don't look like typical rock stars which shows shows parody
Guitar would represent a live performance of a rock band
The video is not too serious which relates to Jack Black being a comedian
Jack Black rips his shirt which shows chest

Relationships Between Lyrics And Visuals:

'We looked at each other', Jack and Kyle sing these lyrics as they look at each other in the video

Relationships Between Music And Visual:

As the music builds up the the video changes between the stories
As Jack does the electric guitar solo shows the visuals of a flash in the background
As the music starts fades out at the end of the song the devil dies and the story finishes

References To The Notion Of Looking/Voyeurism:

The camera is positioned where the screen would be which gives the audience a different view

Intertextual References:

Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters is in the music that plays the devil
Ben Stiller walks past the booth in the music video
The CD 'Tenaciuos D' at the ending of the video which comes out of the photo booth

Wednesday 12 October 2011

Questionnaire

Questionnaire

1. What is your age?

10-15

16-20

21-25

25+

2. Who out of the music artists below would you consider to be an influence to you? (Please Circle)

Take That

The Script

Linkin Park

Jay-Z

Slipknot

James Morrison

Eminem

JLS

Other (State Below)

…………………………………………………………………..........

3. What is your favorite style of genre? (Please Circle)

Rock

Pop

Hip-Hop

Indie

R&B

Rap

Other (State Below)

………………………………………………………………………….

4. Our target audience for our band would be, teenagers.

What fashion wear do you think will apply to our target audience? (E.g. Skinny Jeans, Chinos, Converse…)

………………………………………………………………………………..............................................................................................

5. What is your favourite pop song?

……………………………………………………………………..............

6. What do you think should be in a pop music video?

………………………………………………………………………………..

7. Do you like movies such as Twilight? (Please Circle)

Yes

No

8. Do you think it is a good idea for members of a pop boy band to have their own significant identity look? (Please Circle)

Yes

No

Record Label



Polydor Records, under the parent company of Universal Music are known and experienced for the boy band genre after working with The Wanted. With countless Top 10 singles and albums, Over 50 past and present artists, 80 years plus of experience, this is our favored choice for the label for our boy band to be signed up to.


Artists signed to Polydor who are similar to our boyband:
ABBA
A-Ha
Bee Gees
Girls Aloud
Jonas Brothers
N-Dubz
OneRepublic
The Osmands
Pussycat Dolls
S Club 7
S Club 8
Take That

'Boyz 4 Now' Mood Board Pictures


In our 'Boyz 4 Now' mood board we have shown:



  • The lyrics of the song that we have chosen, 'It's Gonna Be Me'

  • Ideas that we have created from gathering some target audience profiling

  • The powers that each band member would have

  • The loctaion of the places we could set our music video

  • The indentity of each band member

  • Intertextual references from films

  • Boys bands that we would try and create the same look for

Monday 10 October 2011

Jay-Z & Linkin Park Digipak Analysis


Digipak Lesson

A digipak is a CD which has a cardboard cover with artwork from the artist photoshoot/music video promotion.

The codes and conventions are that the artist would relate to the music video and their image from the style/make of the digipak. The track list on the back of the case, the record label, the barcode, the artists name and album title on the spine of the album, DVD logo for the music video.

A record label would release a digipak rather than a CD jewel case because it is cheaper to produce, it is good to use for promotional copies.

The consumer would prefer to that the album was a digipak because it is smaller and lighter than a CD jewel case and also that it would not break as easily.



Tuesday 4 October 2011

Music Video Brief


This is the brief that we are using for our boy band called 'Boyz 4 Now'. The ambition of the band is to try and become the next generation of boy bands that can exceed in 'Take That' and 'Westlife's' footsteps.