Marketing Weblinks

http://tinyurl.com/lines-webisode

www.myspace.com/lines-webisode

www.twitter.com/lineswebisode

http://lineswebseries.spreadshirt.co.uk

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lineswebisode

http://lineswebseries.99k.org/

http://cdfilmslines.blogspot.com

All three episodes

I've posted the three episodes and and marketing links as future dates so that they stay at the top of the page and are the first things seen.

Reflection essay

Using your experiences on this project and relating your programmes to other webisodes you have researched, discuss how taking account of the online audience affects the process of showing creative work.

 

During the research, planning, marketing and production of our 3 part web-series, lines I have learnt just how different the process of making a web-series is compared to a T.V. show or live event such as theatre.

One of the main reasons web-series are so popular is the fact they are available to anyone with internet access, and for those with internet phones etc, they are available to be watched literally any time and any place. This new availability totally eliminates the problem of missing a program on T.V. or not being able to get tickets to the theatre. Another big advantage to only releasing it online means you don’t have to abide by certification regulations like the use of offensive language, narcotics or taboo social and religious issues.  A prime example of this is the 5 part web-series, living with the infidels.  Living with the Infidels is a comedy about a group of haphazard, British Muslim terrorists, a show like this would probally never be shown on T.V. because of the nature of it, but there are no rules or regulations stopping it from being shown.

Because it’s shown online, one of the best ways to advertise a web-series is online. Because our show, Lines was a college project, about students in detention in school, the most logical target audience are students of a similar age as the actors, so they are able to relate to what is happening. To access this target audience we decided to use social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter. We used Facebook because it is the biggest and most popular social networking site, giving us the opportunity to reach hundreds of people with just a click of a mouse. Myspace is mainly used by musicians as a common place to show their music, with this in mind we used it to advertise for music to use in our episodes and Twitter was linked to the two so what ever we posted on it came up on the other two. As well as social networks we also used conventional advertising techniques like postering around college to try attract others we couldn’t reach on the social networking sites.

By uploading our web-series to multiple sites and advertising on even more we get people viewing the shows at any time from anywhere in the world, this also meant we were able to get feedback almost instantly from all sorts of people. Anything from small, vague comments like “cool” or “alright” to 200 – 300 word evaluations.  But not only did we get comments on the videos, we were also able to get viewing information from YouTube telling how many people had viewed each episode, how many times they had viewed and where they had viewed from.

By gaining all of this information so quickly and so easily it meant we were able to act upon it immediately and improve the next episode. I think that our episodes have gotten better each time, and this is predominately down to this feedback. We were told the volume levels were too uneven and the camera work was too static and boring, with this in mind when making episode 2,  I made a point of getting the mic at a similar distance from each actor to make the recordings more standard and whilst Tim filmed more cutaways and closeups.

Transcript Word cloud

I then decided to copy and paste all of the replies from kirks transcript into wordle to generate a word cloud showing the most commonly used words.

As you can see the biggest words are all very positive like; Good, Like, Yeah and Well. although this isn't a 100% reliable form of feed back because these words could be taken out of context, however it is still fairly effective.

audience feedback transcript

Lines audience feedback session transcript of my audio by Kirk

(Show first episode)

1) What do you think of the concept of lines? 

“Yeah, I think it’s quite a good concept. It plays on a good concept. Like Recess in the 90’s, like that, was a really good series or the breakfast club, and it puts an original spin on it, so yeah, I think it was really good!” 

2) Overall, what did you think of the first episode? 

“It introduced the characters well, so you get to know each one of their stories, and sets it up really well, so you should be able to get the people interested and find out more.” 

“It was good introducing the character at the end it makes you want to watch the next one” 
What were the strengths and weaknesses? 

“It was written well” 

“The camera shots were put together really well!” 

“Had good timing, bringing the different camera shots in” 

“I shouldn’t have put my legs up when Zeke was doing his bit, as you can see my legs in the 
background!” 

3) Did episode 1 make you feel like you wanted to carry on watching future episodes? 

“Yeah, it was intriguing” 

(Show second episode)

4) What do you think is different from the 1st episode? 

“Unlike in the first episode, where it was introducing the characters, the 2nd episode is different 
because it is playing to what these characters are like, so it’s a good marketing technique because people are like ‘why is this character like this’, and then they watch the first episode as well” 

5) What did you think of the second episode? 

“Overall it was quite good. It added new layers to the characters, added humor into it as well, like the ‘super spy’. 

What were the strengths and weaknesses?

(None Mentioned)

(Show third episode)

6) Do you like how the story has progressed over the series? 

“Yeah, I like how the characters have developed, and you learn a bit more about them” 

“There are also more things that you find out, which make you want to find out more, like the phone call, because makes you curious as to what’s happening there” 

7) What did you think of the third episode? 

“I thought it was good, I liked how it showed a bit of the episode before within the title sequence, and thought it was pretty good” 

What were the strengths and weaknesses? 

“Weakness id say, was a couple of Long pauses which I thought broke it up a bit too much” 

8) What would you like to see in future episodes? 

“Let Megan swear you can’t say she raises two fingers simultaneously and not make her do it!” 

(Would you want a change of location/ characters etc?) 

“I suppose a different location would be good!” 

“Be interesting to have them break out and running about!” 

Overall questions 

9) What ways did the characters appeal to you? 

What did you like about them and the social groups they represented? 

“Quite a good covering of all social groups” 

“Shows someone from each social setting” 

“Allows everyone to identify with at least one character” 

10) Do you think ‘Lines’ was marketed well? 

“Yeah, I heard it from facebook 

“I saw the posters” 

11) Are there any other ways you think we could promote the series of lines? 

(Not including facebook, myspace, twitter etc?) 

“Put a notice in the register” 

“If you have a friend who done another web series online, could advertise in them” 

12) Would you look forward to an episode four? 

“Yeah!”

audience feedback audio + photos

This is a video made by kirk of the audio i recorded and the photos Matt took at the audience feedback session.

audience feedback video

This is the video from the audience feed back session

audience feedback questions

Here are the questions that Mike and Tara came up with to ask a focus group on thursday:

What do you think of the concept of Lines?
(show first episode)
Overall, what did you think of the first episode? What were the strengths and weaknesses?
Did episode 1 make you feel like you wanted to carry on watching future episodes?
(show second episode)
What do you think is different from the first episode?
What did you think of the second episode? What were the strengths and weaknesses?
(show third episode)
Do you like how the story has progressed over the series?
What did you think of the third episode? What were the strengths and weaknesses?
What would you like to see in future episodes? Would you want a change of characters/different locations etc.
overall questions
What ways did the characters appeal to you, what did you like about them and the social groups they represented?
Do you think Lines was marketed well?
Are there any other ways you think we could promote the series of Lines? (not including facebook, myspace, twitter etc)
Would you look forward to an episode four?
Thank you for taking the time to come to this Q & A session, we welcome any further feedback you may have.

Audience feedback session

At the start of todays session, I was waiting out side the room we use for our set, to record the audience feedback when Mike turned up and told me and Dave the session had been moved to 1:05. Although this was a annoying, Kirk worked on organising the group ready for the next available session, which was 1:05. After discussion with Nick (1/2 of cram creatives) he was ok with the new plan.

In order to get everything organised Kirk set about sorting the following:

• Informed everyone in the group of the new time (1.05).

• He made sure Tara had the new request forms completed and ready for the new time / focus group discussion.
  

• Checked that everyone was briefed about the discussion (people who are attending) Also made sure that Mike had gotten them ALL to sign model release forms
  

• Mike and Kirk then scouted for a new location / room in which we were able to hold the disscussion.
  

• Once all of this was secured Tim and I were able to get the Camera and Zoom mics (accordingly)

• Kirk then got his laptop so the audience could re-watch all three episodes together and went to the new room to record.
  

There were the following roles assigned for the session

Myself - Recorded audio with zoom mic (for transcript)

Tara - Question prompter

Mike - Question Prompter

Tim - Camera operator

Matt - Photographer

Kirk - Chairman (Minutes)

Success of the marketing

I decided to look how successful our marketing had been by searching for our web-series from the point of veiw of a fan and search the internet to see how easy it was too find the episodes, pages displaying info and and fan pages like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and the actual website. I'm only going to look at the first page of results as if people don't find it in the first page they usually just search something else.

I started by searching "Lines" in google, This gave me nothing to do with our web-series. i think this is because "Lines" is obviously a common word and there are far more, more popular sites with the word in it.

I decided that a more specific search would give more usefull results, with this in mind i searched "Lines Webisode" in google. this was, as i expected, a far more successful search. The first 2 results were our Myspace and Flickr pages and the 6th result was the Facebook page. This is pretty much a perfect result from the search as from both the Facebook and Myspace pages you are able to access all of our other pages with links.

Viewings graphs.

Here are two pie charts and a bar graph Tim and Tara made in lesson whilst i was uploading footage, the first shows the percentage of how people viewed the 1st episode, you can see that by far facebook is the most common way to view the episode, this was because from release at 7pm untill about 10pm i was posting the link every 15 - 20 minuets in a kind of viral marketing technique making sure it was in peoples live feed constantly. the next biggest is the youtube views, this is from people who are friends with us on youtube and viewing it directly from the page.

The second graph shows that the veiws of episode 2 have shifted even more so to facebook and is clearly the most successful way we have advertised the show and the easiest way for people to view the show.

This third graph shows how many views each episode has had day by day. as episode 3 has only been out for three days there are obviously no results for it past day 3, however on the first three days you can see episode one is far more popular than the other two. this is because of the amount we had built it up and gotten people excited about it by posting constant information and mini teasers of what it was going to be like. as each episode came out less people watched because it was wasn't AS exciting because they knew what it was about after the first one and only people that genuinely enjoyed it continued to watch.

Peer Feedback

Peer feedback
A couple of interesting shots
Strange narrative, cannot understand it (7 People mentioned this)
Cuts well
Characters work well
Sound levels are high & low (5 people mentioned this)
Taster bit / preview works well (3 people mentioned this)
Too much in one content in one episode (2 people mentioned this)
Good angles used
Jumps too much
Pointless shots used
Confusing genre (comedy or drama?)
Acting is not very good, could be better
Spy could of been done better, e.g appears in the room like is the skeleton
Silent moments ned sorting out
Need quicker cuts
Continuity works well
'Jaws' sound / music cuts in too suddenly & drops out to early



Teacher feedback (Pete)
Continuity with previous episode (costume, scripting) works well
Elliot's character has been developed well
Use of jaws music?
Suddenly goes silent
Much better editing than the 1st episode
Add footage, where it goes black / silent?
Like the taster for episode 3 at the end

Here is feedback that we had recieved from everyone in our class including ourselves and our teacher Pete.

Again people mentioned about the sound levels being a bit off. The main point that came up was that people are finding it hard to understand what is going on with the whole storyline. I think next time we need to try and think up of a better script, people had mentioned this about the first episode. The sound levels again are off, some ar elow some are high, need to always change the volume level of the computer/laptop to be able to enjoy the video.
People had said that the preview of the next episode was really good, and it helped them try to understand what is going to happen next

The other day I found this resource on a website. Which explains how to gain more views on youtube and also how to view the progress of your youtube views and also how to examine them.

Here is a link to the website: http://www.squidoo.com/youtube-super-star

Shown below is the information I found on the website:

Overview 

Two scientists have recently collected and researched many months worth of statistics on millions of YouTube videos. They've discovered any video belongs to one of four categories based on the number of views. The two categories you're interested in are viral and quality.

Once you understand how these categories work you can use this knowledge to your advantage and become a YouTube super star.

The essense

Videos on YouTube become popular because they get a lot of views. The total amount of views can be traced back to views per day. If you look at how these views per day evolve starting from the day you've posted your video you can estimate whether you video is viral or quality.

Once you get the hang of it you'll be able to hone in to the viral or quality 'effect' and actually trigger it for all your future videos.

What you'll need/who this is for

YouTube has the perfect tool for tracking the daily number of views your video gets. It's hidden behind the 'Insight' button on youtube.com/my_videos.

Open the Insight panel of your most viewed video now. What you'll see is a graph showing a history of daily views. You'll work with this graph in the next steps.

Step 1: determine peak day

Look at the graph that shows the history of views per day (or just 'views') and try to determine the peak day. This is the day that has gotten the most views since the day your video was posted.

You may find there are multiple peak days. If this is the case your video is neither viral nor quality. Check out the graph for you second most popular video.

Step 2: determine the category

Now that you've found peak day and you're sure there's only one you can determine the category your video belongs to. There are two important categories (I'm ignoring the two others because they tend not to generate a lot of views).

These two categories are:

•Viral or exogenous critical (EX-C): in this category videos rise to peak day very quickly. They rise anywhere from a few days to two week (rising in one day is not viral!).

•Quality or endogenous critical (EN-C): in this category videos rise to peak day slowly. They rise over the course of multiple weeks to months.

Rising refers to the period starting with the day traffic starts to pick up to peak day. In this period each day or week gets more views than the day or week before up until peak day.

Note: if your video is still fresh peak day may not have happened yet! If your video has been posted more than one week ago and views are still rising you most likely have a quality or EN-C on your hands. Congrats! However, in that case you won't be able to accurately predict how many views you'll gets.

You can do the calculation but you have to remember that the actual number of views will be higher, probably much higher!

Step 3: calculate how many views your video will get

Now that you know if you video is viral or quality you're almost ready to calculated how many views you video will get starting from peak day.

You only need to look up one more detail: the approximate number of views on peak day. You can find this on the Insight graph of your video. Try to be as specific as possible but don't hurt yourself.

Now click on this link and enter these variables:

•Peak day
•The number of views on peak day
•viral or quality

Click 'Calculate' and you'll know how many views your video will get starting from peak day. The number is an approximation, it can be off by as much as 20% in either direction. Still, it will give you an idea.

This information will help me analyse the statistics of each episode

Monday 25th January

Today we started with a class feedback session. first of all we watched episode one of lines, everyone made a few point about what was good and what we needed to think about adapting for filming episode two. we then did the same for Detention Deficit.

Pete then gave us a memo from CramCreative, the memo explained their veiws on the first episode and then gave us instructions as to what our next tasks were. it also gave us deadlines for the next episode and when the teaser trailer they asked us to produce needed to be online for.

(click image to enlarge and read memo)

I spent the lesson planning the teaser trailer with Mike and Dave. After college we got on to filming episode 2 and the teaser trailer. 

This filming session we decided to have Dave as the actual on set director as he is more vocal than kirk and the main problem last time was that people weren't listening to kirk and it too a while to get people to pay attention.

Dave was far more effective at getting people to listen, however was sometimes a little crude with his techniques.

I was once again sound man, the recordings were better this time as i had a boom pole to attach the Mic to and therefore was able to get the Mic closer to the actors. However we still only have a short range Mic so doesn't pick some things up well and others too well.

Paper work

This is an image of the feedback we got from the cast and friends on Episode one

Here is an image of kirk sorting through the risk assessments.

FeedBack

Here is a list of the peer feedback we received from the class:

• Sound levels need improving (some bits louder than others)(Mentioned 5 times)
• CD films logo to long (Mentioned 4 times)
• Credits are to fast at the end (Mentioned 3 times)
• Poor acting
• Opening sequence is to repetitive
• Editing of the video is good & works well
• Nice logos, they look well made and effective to the audience
• Poorly recorded narration
• Inappropriate music used throughout the video (including the opening sequence)
• Camera work could be better
• Too many cuts
• Script is too basic
• Poor cuts used
• Poorly planned
• The actors need auditions before acting in next video as they don't seem very confident in the first episode (Mentioned 3 times)
• Catchy song works well (Mentioned 3 times)
• The stereotypes are not clearly shown in the 1st episode
• Need more close ups
• Need more core content
• Visual gags of skeleton work well
• Need more comedy rather than drama to make it more comedic
• Continuity issues need improving (Mentioned 3 times)

Here is the feedback we received from Pete (Teacher):

• When the character is holding the polos, there could of been a close up
• While I was watching the 1st episode, it felt as if I was in a theater, there needs to be more use of close ups and shot changes
• Voice over explaining each character works well, needs to be more narration
• Cut to show different characters
• More planning is needed prior to next shoot (rehearsals etc) to avoid bad acting
• High angle show works well, but panning shot doesn't work within the same shot
• Sound levels need improving / editing

Project analysis

Since the beginning of this project we have learnt a lot about really working as a team. We have come to realise that team work when under a lot of pressure becomes hugely different and far more difficult. To start off with, when we were in one group it took so long to make decisions what with having to run it past 16 people. It was decided the group should be split into two teams and managed by a student director in each team. This new lack of superior leadership (being lead by some one our own age not a teacher) caused people to make decisions without consulting each other, which in turn caused rifts between the group.

When we split into the two groups we decided who would be in charge of what and assigned job titles. I was appointed sound technician, because I have a strong interest in audio and have a good ear for what sounds good. I also helped Matt make the title sequence. Alie helped me with finding bands for the music. We did this by posting adverts on the social networking sites Twitter, Facebook and Myspace. As she is in charge of looking after the social networking accounts, Alie posted these advert, she had people send there replies to our group email address. Once we had a significant amount of replies I started listening to all the bands to narrow it down to artists that had good recordings and well written songs. Alie also helped with this as she didn’t have a lot to do and there were a lot of songs to listen to. Once we had narrowed it down to our five favourite artists I listened to different songs by the five artists and made notes about them in order to try decide which song by which band was the best for the sound track, I decided on the song Count in my head By Kids Love Lies. Alie listened and agreed that it was perfect, I then played it to the rest of the group and we all agreed it was catchy with good lyrics a fun song making it perfect. I enjoyed this as a responsibility because I am interested in how people react to different pieces of music and how different music will change peoples opinions in a piece of film. I didn’t feel I was stretched to my maximum ability but I also understand there are a lot of people in our group and not enough jobs to go around.

As well as finding a sound track I was also in charge of recording sound on set. I was excited to be doing this as audio recording is something I am looking at doing at University. I was disappointed with the out come of my recording, it wasn’t very good in my opinion and I could have done much better. Next time I intend on making sure that there is no other sound like vacuum cleaners people talking.

I feel personally given the circumstances I did my best but on the recording but I could have done better. As a group I don’t think we have worked well together, the project so far has been successful but we could have done far better if we had not of argued so much. But after last weeks long discussion I think we have worked out our differences and the second shoot will go much more smoothly.

Episode 1 feed back, Pre-Launch.

As soon as Matt had finnished editing and puting the music i found for it (Killing time by Centre Folds) on, we took the final version over to Nick (1/2 Cram Creatives) to watch and give us his critical opinion.

Nicks main points were:

• The background noise is un-profesional.
• The actors are clearly not confident in their lines and need practice.
• More camera angles, faster cuts and cut aways to make it more visually interesting.
• The show needs to be more interesting, comedic, dramatic, fast paced.
• It also needs to be more visually comical.
• Be more organised.
• Make sure everyone knows whats going on.
• Shoot everything twice to make sure we have usable footage.

With this in mind, after we have gained more feed back etc after the episode has been launched we will all evaluate our work in order to maximise the improvement in episode 2 and 3

Thursday 21st January

In lesson today after the big class meeting we re-grouped and got to work, Matt edited the first episode whilst i watched over his shoulder to see the rough first edit whilst i looked for music to fit in the episode. Tara, Tim and Alie made a poster in photoshop to advertise the launch of the first episode. Mike contacted the cast and organised to shoot episode two on monday. Dave animated the Cram creatives ident and Kirk kept everything organised and in check.

Tomorow the most important things to do are get the story board for episode 2 done and for Matt to finnish the first episode edit. i need to sort through the rest of the new bands and decide which song(s) are right to go in the first episode.

I feel since the big discussion this morning we are all finally back in order and working with each other and not against again.

Rift in the team and discussion to resolve it.

We have just had a 45 minute long class discussion about how we have all become worked up with each other and began taking it out on each other with inappropriate behavior and have not been working professionally, Nick did say that i was one of the more mature acting in the situation however i still think i let some people get too me at points and over reacted at points. The discussion made this clear to us and made us realise that if we didn't act on it soon we could jeopardise the project.

I think we have resolved the problems and will now work more efficiently, only time will tell.

wednesday 20th january

Today we started with a class meeting with Nick, we discussed what went well and what didn't when filming and he told us we should consider re-assigning roles. after that meeting, we split into our two teams and went to different rooms to discuss between us how we thought each person for filled each role. Mike made it clear that he wasn't happy with Tims camera work. There was also too many people on set and whilst Kirk is good at planning, he isn't clear and confident enough to be director. We decided Matt L will be camera man and Dave will direct for episode 2.

After this Matt L uploaded and edited the title sequence, I set out looking for more music to use in the episodes, Alie set up a Flickr account Tim and Tara uploaded videos and wrote up request forms for tomorrow.

the main artists i looked at were Jharda, Penny for the DJ, An Honest Contradiction and Centre Folds.

Tuesday 19th january

The lesson today started with a meeting with Nick (1/2 of cram creatives). Nick decided it was appropriate to deduct £20 off of each of our budgets due to Mike taking the casts contact details away and not coming in for a day meaning we were unable to contact the cast and Hayden in the other group (Detention Deficit) took the hard drive with all their footage on home and didn't turn up for the first 2 hours of the lesson. Although this was really annoying, i think it was a fair and realistic thing for Nick to do, as if we were doing this in the media industry we would have lost money for being careless and becoming behind.

The rest of the lesson was spent doing general organisation for the filming of the first episode at the end of the day. Over all i felt the shoot was successfull in the sense we got the first episode finnished, how ever i do think that we could have been far more efficient, to make the shoot go smoother i think it would have helped if Tim(camera man) Kirk(director) and Mike(script writer) had planned together how they were going to film so they didn't have to discuss as much on set. Also, although Kirk is very good at organising, he is far too nice and doesn't vocalise his instructions well and therefore people don't pay much attention

I was in charge of recording sound, i also helped Matt record the title sequence.

Lines logo

This is the logo Matt designed for the show, i think it depicts the show very well in a single image. It's the title written on a chalk board in chalk, this is a common sight in a typical detention room.

Monday 18th January

In todays lesson we had a meeting with Pete (1/2 of cram creatives) and discussed the deadline for the release of the first episode, due to both us and Detention Deficit not being able to meet the original deadline of wednesday, it was decided to move it forward to Friday at 7pm. The second episode will be put out on Tuesday at 7pm. These are far more achievable deadlines.

The main task needing to be done was the story boarding Matt, Tim and Tara got to work on that while Alie and i took photos, blogged and helped others in the class and Dave updated the social networking pages.

Friday 15th January

Today i was asked to go back to the Junction and film again, this time i was filming the sound check and interviewing the bands playing the Junction Fiver event. The footage is needed to make the promotional video we have been commissioned to make for the event.

Thursday 14th January

Today i wasn't able to be in lesson because i was film the level 2 diploma students in a samba workshop. We are using the footage as part of the documentary video we are making for Skill Set

Auditioning for the cast

After we had secured a sound track, it was time to head back to long road and audition people for the cast of Lines. Mike and a few others had put up posters around the college about a week ago.

The auditions were held in B102(our classroom) and were between 12:20 and 2:40, nine people turned up to audition for 5 main roles and 3 minor.

these are some notes Tara made on the auditionees, i would have made notes but was doing last minute revision for my exam.

Josef James - Very convincing, confident and knew the lines incredibly well - would make a good Jake.

Grant Cole - Also convincing and I think would play the part of Taylor well, once in costume etc.

James Amey - Confident and had the ability to feel comfortable, would make a great Seth or perhaps even AGENT1.

Tim Sykes - Less confident but lines said with a lot of effort and enthusiasm.
Elliot Hickey - Confident, good acting skills and could relate to the character well, would make a good Seth.
Tom Jakes - Very comfortable and convincing, also felt comfortable and knew the character well, would make a great Zeke.
Angelica Thomson - Nervous but nonetheless convincing, knew the character well and was able to relate to them.
Jennifer Green - Convincing, led the part of megan well, was also confident and showed good relation to the character.
Catherine Montgomery - Convincing and very confident - read the lines well.

We decided on these actors as these characters

Jake Wood - Josef James

Taylor - Grant Cole
Seth - James Amey, Tim Sykes, Elliot Hickey
Zeke - Tom Jakes
Megan - Angelica Thomson, Jennifer Green, Catherine Montgomery

Short list of bands

last night I sat down and listened to all the bands that had replied to our advert (17 in total) and picked out the five that i thought were most fitting to our show, takinging into consideration the look, age, gender, genre and quality of recordings.

The five artists i ended up with were

1. The Joe Public


2. An Honest Contradiction


3. Kids Love Lies


4. Jharda


5. Jambo Reign

In todays lesson i showed Alie the list and we listened to them all, made notes and worked the list down to three, deciding Jharda and Jambo Reign didn't really suit the look we were after.

The notes i made were these

• The Joe Public
  

Strong sound

Enthusiastic towards being

• An Honest Contradiction
  

Right look

Songs are kind of similar to each other

I know them personally

• Kids Love Lies
  

Right look

Energetic sound

• Jharda
  

Powerful music but not the right sound

Not the right look

• Jambo Reign

Good sound

Well recorded

To old

Well recorded

Varied songs

After this we chose one song from each band and played them to Kirk and Mike and between us we decided Kids Love Lies had the best sound for what we wanted. the song we chose was 'Count in my head' as it was very up beat and energetic

The agenda for todayy

Things that I need to do today ...

Look through all of the music that we have been sent or linked and sort which acts fit the style we are after.

Choose some music that we like and are likely to use.

Message the bands that we would like to use.

Keep updating facebook and twitter with information about the show.

The hunt for a sound track

Today the hunt for an artist to provide a sound track for our series began to look a lot more hopefull, i posted an advert on Facebook and Alie posted one on Twitter and with in less than an hour we already had about 5 replys from bands, asking us to consider there music to use. By the time i got home and looked we had over 20 replys from bands and solo artists. We asked the artists to link us to their myspace pages as thats the easiest place to to listen to them.

I don't think we would have any where near this much choice in music and not nearly this quickly if it wasn't for social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and Myspace.

Tuesday 12th Jan

Today we all got straight back into the same roles as yesterday.

Nick (executive producer & 1/2 of CramCreative) told us that both teams needed to appoint a production maneger, they would be the ones incharge of organizing the paper work such as model release forms, request forms and risk assessments.

As a team we decided Tara should take this role because she is the most academic and efficient with formal written tasks. Her first task was to write up a request/risk assesment so we are able to use the class room at lunch to hold auditions.

monday 11th jans lesson

The lesson today largely consisted of general house keeping, i posted reminders of the auditions on the facebook and twitter profiles whilest Alie set up a myspace account to enable us to reach an even wider audience. Mike continued adapting the scripts to get them as good as possible, asking advice and peoples opinion through out. Kirk kept note on everything going on and planned where the project needed to go next lesson and Dave went between the group helping where needed.

after i had updated the social networking sites i got onto organising the sound track for the series, i discussed with the others what genre of music they thought would be most suiting, i made the point that the shows cast are genrally slightly rebellious hence them being in detention. there for it would be fitting if the music had a slight dark sense to it. this may come in the form of a gritty guitar riff or maybe a deep bass wobble in a dance track.

artists i looked at were unsigned indie band My Little Red Door and up and coming elctro DJ/Producer PennyForTheDJ

this is a link to My Little Red Doors myspace pagem -http://www.myspace.com/mylittlereddoor

PennyForTheDj: www.soundcloud.com/pennyforthedj