shaun hollywood: December 2009

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Audience Feedback

Audience Feedback:

1. Did you like the muisc video?

Yes

No

2. What did you like about the music video?

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3. Did you like the editing techniques?

Yes

No

4. Do u like our poster?

Yes

No

5. What do u like abour our poster?

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6. Do you like our Digipack?

Yes

No

7. What do you like about our Digipack?

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8. Which character do you think is more relatable to the viewer?

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9. Did you follow the story of the video & what part did you like most?

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10. Does it meet your target audiece?

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No

11. What improvements would you make to the music video?

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12. What improvements would you make to the Digipack?

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13. What improvements would you make to the poster?

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14. Did you like the Band and think their song was good enough for listeners?

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15. what is your personal opion of this music video as a whole?

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Final Poster

Thursday, 10 December 2009

Copyright concent

Cast Decisions

We have asked one of our friends to star in our video as the main female/“The girlfriend”. We wanted to use a person who was around the same age as the girl in the real band so that when our actress lip-syncs; the visuals fit the voice in a roundabout way.

Also we referred back to our audience research and saw that our target audience is mainly girls who are aged 15 to 17 years old. We have chosen a song and video theme, which is in a way quite biased and in favour of female opinion.
Also the girl we have asked already has a full A-Level in
Theatre Studies and has a lot of acting experience and she too is a Media Studies student so we know that she will take our direction well.

We decided that “The Girlfriend” and the male actor we will chose to play the “boyfriend” in our music video have to be comfortable with each other so we chose a friend of our main female to play the “boyfriend”.

Similarly, with the girls we have asked to play girlfriend’s friends, we wanted the actors to appear natural and comfortable together and so we are using friends of the actress who is playing girlfriend.

Interview with a Fan

Question 1: How long have you listened to Snakes Hate Fire?

I have listened to Snakes Hate Fire for three years now because their songs are really funky and I enjoy listening to them as I travel to work.

Question 2: What is your favourite song of Snakes Hate Fire and why?

My favourite song is ‘Innocent’ because the storyline of the song is about a person lying and cheating on their partner and this also happened to me around about the time that the song was released it helped me decide to go it alone and I have become a stronger person because of the song.

Question 3: What type of genre is the music?

The genre of the band Snakes Hate Fire is glam rock pop. I think they are quite similar in some ways to the band No Doubt – the band Gwen Stefani was in before she went solo. They both have female vocalist with powerful voices and the rest of the band are men.

Question 4: Have you ever seen the band live in concert and where?

I have seen the band live in concert twice now once a headline show at The Tavern in Wigan and also when they were the support act for popular band The Mission District at the Roadhouse in Manchester. They are great live performers and I am always checking their Myspace page for tour news and looking forward to the next time they are playing live.

Question 5: Do you feel that you can relate to their lyrics and why?

I believe I can relate to their songs within the lyrics because with the song ‘Innocent’ I was going through the same thing that the song is about and it helped to cheer me up alot more when I was down and depressed after my boyfriend cheated on me just like what happened to whoever wrote the song in the band.

Notes on the Band / Artist

Band Name: Snakes Hate Fire

The band is made up of 5 musicians from Manchester (Grace Tither on vocals, piano and guitar, Adam Bradbury on guitar and vocals, Phil Rigby on guitar and vocals, Tom Booth on bass and Mark Tither on drums), together, they create catchy pop-rock style music. The band was created initially as a backing group for Grace, but after working together so well they decided to try to make it as a band together. The first EP, titled 'Everything' was recorded in October 2008, and all the songs on it were written by the band.
Considering the short space of time they have been together (since March 2008), they have had great success and have sold out venues including Manchester Academy and Liverpool Barfly, on top of this; major record lables have shown a keen interest in them this year.

Digipak

This is our finished Digipak.

Photos used in the Digipak

These are the unedited pictures we aim to use our Digipak:

CD Posters

These photos are adversising what the CD shows with the band on and they sometimes have the same image as the album cover, they show the same name as the album cover as the posters are advertising the album in the first place, with the date and how much it is to buy the CD. and you can buy most of these new CDs at big mega stores called HMV and Virgin Megastores.