Complete music video on YouTube

We recently finished our music video and have exported it on to YouTube. This now allows us to gain views from everybody on YouTube and they have the option to leave us any feedback that they may have. This site will attract views as people can search for the song or the band and our video will come up as the search. Increasing our views on our video will help to see if anyone has some feedback as they are able to leave comments and like or dislike it.

The next step is to put the final video on to our blogs and on our band website for The Shape Of The Earth.One we have put the video on the website we will be completed it and be able to focus on little bits we can do in order to generate more marks when we hand in all of our completed work.

I am very happy with our final video and we have been able to complete it to the standard and with all of the idea that we had. The group overall was very happy with the outcome and the work we have put in has shown through our final music video piece.

Audience feedback; First look

We decided to show people who are similar to our target audience the rough cut of our music video. We recorded their reaction for our evaluation questions. At first we thought our rough cut was good enough to be our final piece. Upon viewing it again after hearing people’s views we have decided to make a few changes.

Here are some of the comments made:

§  The theme reflected the mood and lyrics

§  The video would have looked better in all black and white

§  It looked like a previous music video

§  Seemed like the character was just walking around

§  Very creative video which evoked a wide range of emotions in a short space of time

We took everybody’s comments into consideration and are planning to tweak the video before make it our final piece. Due to this we have had to film more shots to replace some of the scenery which has delayed the editing process once again.

Rough Cut

After facing so many issues with Adobe Premiere Pro we have finally finished our first version of ‘Alone In This’. We are planning to show this to our teacher to get feedback, along with sharing it with groups of people that fit our target audience but for now this is our video.

QR code

We have created a QR code to put on the back cover of our digipak that links to the website page we have made for The Shape Of The Earth - Alone In This music video. We done this by using a website called www.QRstuff.com in which we was able to create this free of charge. We have put this on the back cover with the bar code.

Our digipak

We are now putting together our digipak for our music video and the band The Shape Of The Earth. We have used a picture of the main character from the front view and the back view for the front and back cover of our digipak. We thought that these images would look very effective as it is set in one of the locations that we see the character in within the music video. The rural woods that is the location, also adds to the fact that she is alone, gong with the title of the song and the digipak overall. There is a lot of area surrounding her within the photos and this also emphasises that she is on her own. For the front cover title, being Alone In This, We made it the same font as what is on the start of the music video. This shows that they are linked and really shows that the music video is of this song and from this digipak. We have also made the writing on the digipak front cover the same colour as the main characters coat in the image. This pulls the digipak together and makes the colours and images flow.

Filming completed

Today we managed to completely finish our filming and took pictures for our digipak front cover, back cover and disk.
We have done the handheld shots and the ones where the main character meets other people that show her glimpses of happiness.
We are now in the process of putting all of our final clips together and editing them into our music video for Alone In This by The Shape Of The Earth.

Website Research

We looked into websites in order to build up an image of the type of website we want to create for The Shape Of The Earth band we are doing a music video for.  We looked into websites of indie bands in order to make sure we was creating the right look and feel for the correct genre of our band, song and music video.







We looked at Kodaline's website and got an idea from this for our own website creation. We liked how they have done there headings alone the top of the page onto the other points of the website. An example of the headings are things like an about page. We have imported this idea into our band website.

Two Door Cinema Club are another popular indie band that we have researched into in terms of their website. We have taken the idea of their upcoming gigs being on their home age of their website as we feel it has more coming on when people first click onto the website itself.
We have put two of the most recent upcoming gigs on the home page of our own website.





Tom Odell is of the indie genre and there are a few elements we have taken from his website and put onto our own
We have placed our bands most recent music video (being the one we have created) onto the home page of the website. This is something that was inspired from Tom Odell's website.
We have also taken the idea of putting the CD cover on the home page also. This attracts the audience in and gives there more to look at when people first go onto the website. We have been able to do this on our own website by putting on our digipak front cover for Alone In This by The Shape Of The Earth based around the music video we have created.