Website Analysis

This is a screen shot of the main page from Nero's official website. This site was completely empty much like their Facebook page, there has been no activity for a good few months I have put this blog post off for a while hoping that there maybe some sort of update on the website as well as their Facebook page.

So instead of using Nero's site I have decided to use a different site from a different artist like Skrilllex. As soon as I visited this website I could see that there was quite a lot going on. One of my favourite things about this site is that when you open the site you get a quick look at the sites home page and then the artists tour dates and locations. This is something that I think I could gain marks from, so I am considering making one of these and placing it on my own site as a pop up.


After closing the tour poster I am presented with the home page of the website, as you can see this is a basic layout. The navigation bar is quite simple but does keep  with the house style of the site witch seems to be white backgrounds and thin red lines to create borders between sections.







Here is some screen shots from the Skrilllex site, these pages display the albums that Skrilllex have created. I to plan to have a section in my site with some past albums that my group have created. I don't think I will display my albums as simply as it is done on this site, I could use a slide show to display my album cover.

















This is a screen shot of the online store for Skrilllex on their official site. It is always a great idea to have a store on your website, I think I could come up with some designs for products such as t-shirts, hats, jackets and shoes. There will also be the more predictable products such as copies of albums, posters and limited addition merchandise.

This is a shot from Skrilllex's Youtube channel, a link was provided in the navigation bar on the official site. There was also links to their Facebook, Twitter and Tumbler accounts.

Twitter Analysis

Just like all artists Nero's Twitter page pretty much has the exact same posts as their Facebook page. " Sorry to have left you in the dark for so long. The 2nd album is coming 2014." This is the exact same post as displayed on their Facebook page, This isn't surprising as it is important that their fans all receive updates from them across all forms of social networking so that they feel reassured.

Facebook Page Analysis

This is a shot of the official Nero Facebook page, there doesn't seem to be a lot of content. The last post was in November of last year apologising for the lack of updates and state that the new album will be coming in 2014. I shouldn't be surprised as their website was the same, there wasn't any updates relating to their music except one telling us that the new album will be released in 2014.




As  I entered the photo albums for their Facebook page there was large portfolio of images ranging from old album art to photographs from their concerts. This is nothing surprising as all artists collect photographs from their shows as well as using past album covers in their portfolio.






I could stage some photographs for my own portfolio but I doubt I will be able to get the same quality images as seen in Nero's images. I will have to use a hall or some sort of stage and have people pose, I will end up running these images through photoshop to attempt to create the same sort of light and lazer effect like on these images to the left.




This is one of the final sections of their Facebook page, this is almost like a little forum for the fans. So they can ask questions on such things as tour dates and releases of new albums. Again I believe that this is something I could do for my page, it should make it more interesting than just a normal Facebook page.

Risk Assessment

After looking back on my plan for this video I have realised that there are some things that could go wrong during the filming or prep. Hopefully nothing will go wrong but just in case I thought I could make a list on what can go wrong so I can be ready for it.

• Camera could die whilst filming
• May not be able to compromise a day all the actors in my video to be on location
• My main actor for video could back-out
• The location may be quiet busy when filming (HOPEFULLY NOT) 
• Bad weather, but may make my video better

These are quite minor issues that may happen, as I have stated in earlier posts there will be free running in my video. This can be a major issue if there are any problems, hopefully not but my actor could injure himself in the middle of filming. This is why I have spoken to him about if there are certain stunts that he is unable to do as I know that he has injured himself in the past with certain stunts. This will probably cause the most worry for me whilst filming but I don't expect him to do anything he  cant handle.

Worries

I am still yet to start filming my music video, this is worrying me as I am running out of time. I should have most of the shots for my music video by now but unfortunately I do not, My actor is still busy with other business and still tells me he wants to be i the video but I am not sure how much longer I can wait. I need to start filming within the next week, if not I may have to think of something else.

Music videos with free running

This may not be an official music video but it does link with my own work through the free running content. I decided to do this as I thought it would good idea to see what sort of shots and camera angles work with these types of videos. This example seems to show quite a few clips that  are slowed down creating more effect while they perform. It would probably do me well to do the same to some extent, to be honest i fell it would have been better if they slowed it down just a little bit more so I think I will slow it down even more.

I feel this is a more interesting video and a better example to use, as I stated before I would prefer the video to have much slower clips. This video has a lot slower clips as well as other effects that the other does not. For example there was a clip near the start of the video where a clip just paused for a couple of seconds, I thought this was interesting. Im not so sure that this effect would work in my video but I will look back and listen to my song again to see if there is somewhere I can fit this effect in I will.

Film Trouble

Unfortunately I am yet to begin filming on my music video, the actor I want has a rather packed schedule so therefore i have not had the chance to gather footage. I have spoken to this person and he has assured me that he will be free to work with me within the next few weeks, hopefully there wont be too big a gap between filming posts in the future.