Magazine changes

After doing more research into Cosmopolitan magazine i found that it was notorious for talking about sex and men, so i immediately decided it wasn't appropriate for our audience of 9-16. Therefore i did some more research into teenage magazine in the UK, we only wanted it to be produced in the UK as it is extremely unlikely that a band breaks other countries before they become known in their home country. 

First of all i found Bliss Magazine, which is UK produced and appeals to exactly our audience range. However i again found that the last issue was produced in July 2014. 

The second magazine i found was Seventeen magazine which was exactly the type of magazine we wanted our interview to appear in. The only problem was that it is produced in America so we had to rule out that option.

Finally i found an English magazine, that appealed to our audience range and was still being produced: 

Logo

Throughout the website we have used a kiss, which we think relates to the genre and audience of our band. So we have decided this we be a continuous logo throughout our products, this will help with continuity.

On our website the kiss is pink with a white background, however for our digipack we need it to be purple with a black background to fit with the colour scheme so i have changed this around:

We chose this as it goes with our the girly theme of our band. Our audience is 9-16 so we think this will appeal to this age range, it is simple, cute and sweet which relates our name: sweet nothing.

Magazine research

Before we write our magazine article we are doing some research into what type of agazines appeal to what type of audiences, as it would be silly to put our article into a magazine that only appealed to women over the age of 25 as they aren't our target audience and most likely wont be interested in the latest up and coming pop girlband. 

I was going to make the interview in company magazine as it appeals to a younger audience than cosmopolitan but still shares the same features however after researching into it i found out they stopped producing the magazine last year.  So  I decided to put it in cosmopolitan magazine as i read it myself and they often show interest in the latest fashion and music which our band both portrays. Instead of an article i am going to make it an interview for our fans to get to know us better. So it fits within the magazine genre i am also going to make it more fashion based, so where we get our inspiration from both in our style and the music video, Who has the best style etc. In our photo shoot we are going to take some photos that will work within the interview as most of the times interviews have images with them.

Record Label

For our digipak we need to identify who our record label to so we can say who has the rights to our music. I did some research into who's record label Little mix, Neon Jungle and M.O were under. I found that both Little Mix and Neon Jungle where under record labels who belonged to Song Music Entertainment, do it makes sense if we to have a record label under Sony Music. 

Little Mix are with SYCO Music who are owned by Simon Cowell, i don't think will fit with our band as we haven't come from a talent show in which we would be exposed to his record label so it would be very random. 

Neon Jungle are with RCA records who release a range of different music from Pop to Country. I looked through some of their artists and found that we would fit within the record label. 

Magazine Research

I have done some research into the magazine our interview is going to appear in;

Magazine research from Frankie16

Digipak research 2

This is some more research towards our digipak

How to get a level 4

Level 4- 32-40 marks

The Candidate is expected to demonstrate excellence in the creative use of the following technical skills:

-Shooting material appropriate to the task set; including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing variety of shot sizes and close attention to mise en scene. 

-Editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use o shot transitions, captions and other effects.

-Recording and editing sound with images appropriately

-Where a candidate has worked in a group, an excellent contribution to construction is evident. 

Website- biographys

After doing research into girl bands website's we found that there were pages for each of the girls, showing their different personalities which allow's the audience to get to know the individually rather than just by a name. Various questions and pictures where shown on these pages. We decided we would do something similar so Sophie, who is designing most of the website came up with some questions and asked us to answer them:

Where did you grow up?

How did you get into singing?

who is your style inspiration?

what are your nicknames?

what is your favorite food?

What is your favorite colour?

Who are your favorite musicians?

What are your favorite movies?

what are your favorite songs?

who is your musical inspiration?

funniest little mix moment?

Favorite saying?

We also thought because our audience is of an age that will use social media we should include some selfies and pictures from our own social media to help them get to know us even more.

More editing feedback

Today I was editing and then Liv asked to watch it so Mr Amato and Mrs Brookes also watched. They gave us some feedback on what we had so far:

-Pace is key, needs more quick cuts as it such a face paced song

-The difference between the quality of the shots is visible

-The lip syncing needs to be more in time

-It needs to show more shots of us alone, showing our personalities- e.g when we are in front of the light wall pushing the guy away

-Not all the shots have to be singing, they can be just you 3 hanging out to set the scene and introduce your personalities

-When you have such good, strong footage (the nightclub scene) the rest needs to live up to that.

Digipak research- Girlbands

I did some research into girl bands similar to ours first albums. I looked at the front cover, cd cover and back cover to get an idea of the conventions that appear in some of them. Below is my research and analysis on the digipaks:

Digipack Research- general

To start my research I didn't want to narrow it down to just our genre of music, i wanted a general overview of different types of digipack in every genre. I picked four artist's that i personally like and looked into their design and style.

Logo Ideas

I decided to try out some logo's for our band that will be used on the album cover, I first started trying them out on paint and then asked for some feedback. 

Feedback-

Mrs Brookes- the G and S don't look as smooth as the rest, looks broken up. 

Will-The S is to boxy, but the E's are good. The G is to squiggly, needs to be smaller.

Ben- Its nice but i agree with Will

Mr Amato- I like it, but the kiss should be bigger

Feedback

Will- Its too babyish, the E's aren't as good as the first one

Mrs Brookes- doesn't look professional, looks like a child's scribbled, try actually drawing with a lipstick

Ben- I like the scribbled look you are going for but could be neater

Mr Amato- I prefer the first one. 

Miss suggested I try out some handwritten logos in lipstick as this was the look we are going for:

                                       

Feedback

-Myself- i thought the colours resembled a Christmas theme to much however I really liked the written style. 

Mrs Brookes- she preferred this style to the ones I tried on paint, however she wanted me to continue testing out different ones. She didn't think the colour scheme was to christmassy but she thought it should be brighter. 

Feedback-

Myself- I thought and knew this was the messiest one but I liked a few of the letters

Mrs Brookes- she didn't like the T of G as they were so messy but liked the brightness of the pink. 

Overall this was the neatest of all the written logos however it still wasn't as i wanted it. 

Miss then told me about the website Dafont.com where i could design and use any font I wanted, so it would look more professional. 

I really like both of these styles as they look like they are hand written so they make them look handwritten and therefore our audience will be able to connect with us on a more personal level. 

Both are very similar so I am going to ask the rest of my group which they prefer or if they have any other ideas. If they like them then we will change the colour to suit the 'pop' genre as black has darker connotations and doesn't fit with our target audience. 

One of these will be used on our album cover and other promotional products like our digipack. 

Inspiration from personal experience

For my 18th Birthday I was brought tickets to a festival called- HOlI Fest which mean festival of colours. The day involved hundreds of packs of powder paint being thrown in and over the crowd, for me this inspired the some of the ideas in our music video, especially the design of my UV paint as I wanted it to look splattered which was how I looked at the end of the day at the festival. 

Director Study

 This is my director Study on Jake Nava, I chose him as I found he had directed a lot of the music videos I am interested in and I watch so i found researching him interesting. 

Goodness Gracious

This video is done in a similar style that we would like ours to be, the song is also of the same genre. Ellie Goulding uses lots of UV lighting and neon colours which are some of the main themes within our video. Some of the shots and locations are also similar, we are going to have shots in a club and a car like there are in this video.

Social media

Today we set our our twitter and instagram accounts, we will each have accsess to both and be able to post what we want-

Twitter- @sweet_nothing_3

Instagram- _sweet_nothing_

Facebook- Sweet Nothing 

Choreography

As i have a dance background I have choreographed a section of dance the chorus of our song, we are still undecided as to who will be doing the dance and whether we will be in it or if we will get others to perform it behind us. However we know we will shoot it in the club, most likely on the dance floor.

Below is a video of me just marking the choreography:

Props List

For our video there are a number of props we will need:

Glitter

This will come from ebay- £1-£1.99

UV body paint

These will also come from ebay- pack of 6- £5.00

Glow sticks

We have a school but we may need to buy more for the large scale project we are planning

Microphone

There are two microphones at school, however we will need to buy a third

Make- up

We each have our own make-up, if we want different clours we may need to buy more

Personalized love heart sweet

This is something we might have as an extra thing, we thought they would look cool with our band name on.

Inspiration

As we were doing our photo shoot we needed inspiration for new poses so we researched some more pictures, we found these and took some ideas:

Photoshoot day 1

Today we shot our first photo shoot for promotional material. We did this is a green room and we will then edit the background to make it look how we want which is likely to be a very simple white background. For this photoshoot we all wore black clothes that suited our own style.
We planned to also shoot outside in front of a brick wall however the weather and light prevented us from doing this.

So we are planning to shoot another photoshoot on Thursday when the weather is supposed to be much brighter. For this photo shoot we will all be wearing similar clothing but it will still represent our individual style, edgy, girly and diva.