Friday, 26 September 2014
Friday, 19 September 2014
Initial Concept Pitch
In our group we decided that Dear boy was the song that we are going to use for a music video and in our group we have our own interpretation of what the song is about. From looking at the music video we have decided that we believe it is about a girl and a boy who used to be together at a previous time. In the music video evidence of this is given by the fact that the singer of the lyrics is a female artists. More evidence of this comes from the lyrics themselves such as "Do you remember the old times?" which indicates that at a previous time there was a happy relationship. The lyrics indicate that the girl is chasing the boy and loves him, evidence of this could be seen in the chorus when it says "Oh dear boy, it's so hollow without you in a world with everything but it wont do. In our video lyrics like this have gave us the idea that we would like a narrative story about a girl chasing a boy that she used to love. The lyrics previously mentioned such as "Do you remember old times" can give us the opportunity so show the past in are music video as well as the present time.
The boy is represented as a Wild boy who this girl loves and wants to be with but the boy no longer wants this and we will represent this when we create our music video. Some of the verses in this song have key lyrics which gives us a large opportunity to make the video however we would like and as crazy as possible. One example of this is "Sweet love of mine, destruction aint a crime", with this lyric with have had the initial idea to show the destruction of the male character in the music video, we have the idea to throw a television from a building as this would show the destructive side of the male character and would allow us to create an entertaining and professional visual effect.
Other lyrics that we have thought could create an appealing visual effect is "Go dance in the woods" with this we have interpreted that it would be the old times as shown when it says "Do you remember the old times?" with this we can show the boy and the girl at a happy time dancing in the woods around campfire. To conclude we want the video to be 100% narrative about a girl and a boy, we have decided that we will not have a performance in the video as from our research we have noticed that in some DJ music videos there is no performance however the DJ often does make an appearance so to follow our research we have decided to include the DJ at some point in the video. To do this without including a performance we could show the DJ backstage meeting fans like some of the artist in our research often do.
The boy is represented as a Wild boy who this girl loves and wants to be with but the boy no longer wants this and we will represent this when we create our music video. Some of the verses in this song have key lyrics which gives us a large opportunity to make the video however we would like and as crazy as possible. One example of this is "Sweet love of mine, destruction aint a crime", with this lyric with have had the initial idea to show the destruction of the male character in the music video, we have the idea to throw a television from a building as this would show the destructive side of the male character and would allow us to create an entertaining and professional visual effect.
Other lyrics that we have thought could create an appealing visual effect is "Go dance in the woods" with this we have interpreted that it would be the old times as shown when it says "Do you remember the old times?" with this we can show the boy and the girl at a happy time dancing in the woods around campfire. To conclude we want the video to be 100% narrative about a girl and a boy, we have decided that we will not have a performance in the video as from our research we have noticed that in some DJ music videos there is no performance however the DJ often does make an appearance so to follow our research we have decided to include the DJ at some point in the video. To do this without including a performance we could show the DJ backstage meeting fans like some of the artist in our research often do.
Dear Boy Lyrics
So bold and fine
I've known you for some time
Whole life changed while,
Bones like yours and mine
Go dance in the woods, and
Down we go, down, down.
Do you remember old times?
Oh dear boy, I wanna follow you,
You're a wild boy, I am a wild girl too.
Oh dear boy, it's so hollow without you
In a world with everything but it won't do.
Oh dear boy, I wanna follow you,
You're a wild boy, I am a wild girl too.
Oh dear boy, it's so shallow will love do,
It's a time for everything and I call you.
Sweet love of mine, destruction ain't a crime.
For those who find love as a game like you and I.
Go dance in the waters of all the tears we've cried.
Oh boy, you're fine, do you remember old times?
Oh dear boy, I wanna follow you,
You're a wild boy, I am a wild girl too.
Oh dear boy, it's so hollow without you
In a world with everything but it won't do.
Oh dear boy, I wanna follow you,
You're a wild boy, I am a wild girl too.
Oh dear boy, it's so shallow will love do,
It's a time for everything and I call you.
Reasons for name choices
One of the first names that we decided would be shortlisted for for our final name choice is Detour. We originally decided that we would like our DJ to have some sort of meaning in his name and we thought the idea of going on tour or moving around alot would be a good idea. The reason that we decided tour would be a good idea is that it gives the impression that our DJ tours alot and is moving around all the time. The back story that we thought about was that from a young age our DJ was touring around the world. The De part of the name was just an idea to make it look more like a name of DJ as TOUR would just look like a word.
The next name that we thought of followed the same idea as Detour, the next artist name that we thought about was Exile. Once again we were set on the idea of having one word as the DJ name such as Avicii rather than DJ something such as DJ fresh. The reasons that we decided on Exile was similar to the reason we decided on Detour. We want our DJ to have a rough back story and come from a hard life. We thought that our artist should have left home at an early age so we decided on Exile as this would represent the life our artist had at a young age.
The last and final name that we decide on to actually use as a permanent name for our artist. The final name that we decided on is Existence. The previous names that we shortlisted were Detour and Exile and in our group we both liked these two names but we still thought something was missing and needed to think more of the backstory. We liked the backstory of the last two names but we wanted to add something else to the name to make it more unique and to give it more of an impact. We wanted the name to represent the DJ moving around the world to go on tours as well as representing his rough upbringing. We thought that the name Existence would represent that when he was younger he wasn't noticed and only got the attention from touring and producing music. Therefore we decided on Existence as it represents all of this. The final existence name will look like this (eXistence) this is due to branding and the fact that the X will be such a huge part of the artist and will be used as his logo so that he will be instantly recognisable.
The next name that we thought of followed the same idea as Detour, the next artist name that we thought about was Exile. Once again we were set on the idea of having one word as the DJ name such as Avicii rather than DJ something such as DJ fresh. The reasons that we decided on Exile was similar to the reason we decided on Detour. We want our DJ to have a rough back story and come from a hard life. We thought that our artist should have left home at an early age so we decided on Exile as this would represent the life our artist had at a young age.
The last and final name that we decide on to actually use as a permanent name for our artist. The final name that we decided on is Existence. The previous names that we shortlisted were Detour and Exile and in our group we both liked these two names but we still thought something was missing and needed to think more of the backstory. We liked the backstory of the last two names but we wanted to add something else to the name to make it more unique and to give it more of an impact. We wanted the name to represent the DJ moving around the world to go on tours as well as representing his rough upbringing. We thought that the name Existence would represent that when he was younger he wasn't noticed and only got the attention from touring and producing music. Therefore we decided on Existence as it represents all of this. The final existence name will look like this (eXistence) this is due to branding and the fact that the X will be such a huge part of the artist and will be used as his logo so that he will be instantly recognisable.
Reasons for Social media pages
In our group we have decided that we would like our artist/DJ Existence to have multiple social media pages so that we can post updates and news about our artist to create a more realistic experience.
Firstly in our group we created a twitter page that would allow for fans to follow Existence, on twitter we have posted an introduction tweet to say that the twitter page will be used for regular updates. The advantage of using twitter is that it is easy to tweet information about gigs and updates, another advantage is that in our group we can use these tweets on our artists website to create a more realistic and professional website as our research has told us that on DJ's websites they usually have a link to social media pages and also show recent tweets. The twitter account is called @DJexistence and this is the username that people can use to locate the profile.
After creating a twitter account we wanted to further expand the way Existence can communicate and post updates to fans. We decide to create an instagram page so that we can post photos to the fans as well as information. Instagram allows for the artists to be able to only post images and on this page we will be able to post pictures of the album artwork and the website once they have finished.
Lastly we decided that we should also create a facebook account to further expand on social media. We noticed in our research that DJ websites often have links to facebook, instagram and twitter so we thought that to be professional we should have all three. The use of facebook is similar to twitter as on facebook we have created a page that allows us to update fans regularly. The advantage of having all three is that we can link them together easily, for example when we post a picture on the instagram account we can allow the app to also post an update on twitter and Facebook.
Firstly in our group we created a twitter page that would allow for fans to follow Existence, on twitter we have posted an introduction tweet to say that the twitter page will be used for regular updates. The advantage of using twitter is that it is easy to tweet information about gigs and updates, another advantage is that in our group we can use these tweets on our artists website to create a more realistic and professional website as our research has told us that on DJ's websites they usually have a link to social media pages and also show recent tweets. The twitter account is called @DJexistence and this is the username that people can use to locate the profile.
After creating a twitter account we wanted to further expand the way Existence can communicate and post updates to fans. We decide to create an instagram page so that we can post photos to the fans as well as information. Instagram allows for the artists to be able to only post images and on this page we will be able to post pictures of the album artwork and the website once they have finished.
Lastly we decided that we should also create a facebook account to further expand on social media. We noticed in our research that DJ websites often have links to facebook, instagram and twitter so we thought that to be professional we should have all three. The use of facebook is similar to twitter as on facebook we have created a page that allows us to update fans regularly. The advantage of having all three is that we can link them together easily, for example when we post a picture on the instagram account we can allow the app to also post an update on twitter and Facebook.
Facebook page
Another social media we noticed from our research that was popular for artists of our genre was facebook.
Examples include:
Instagram account
We created this page as we wanted our artist/DJ to be as realistic as possible, from our research we noticed that one way house music artists communicate with fans is by posting pictures on instagram.
Examples of this include:
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