Website

We have been using the website Wix to create our website for our country artist.

 

This is our front page for our website. The big picture of Fen is a slide slow to show Fen in different situations and to give the fans some pictures which they can look at. It gives the front page some variety rather than just having the same picture every time you go on the website. After researching into different country artists websites they all had links to Facebook pages or twitter accounts so we added in a Facebook and twitter account for Fen which her fans could look at. 

This is her twitter page

 

We had lots of troubles using Wix because every time we moved a layout on one page it changed every page which became a serious problem because we became restricted to how much we could change. I then decided to create a new website for our artist but using a different layout which would be easier to use.

This is the new website which I have created. It still has the same feel as the old website but has a nicer layout. I was researching into other country artist and came across Taylor Swift who had a really good section to her website which was labelled About Me. It was full of random quirky facts about Taylor which bought her fans even closer to her. We decided to do this with her artist so that her fans could get closer and find similar qualities to Fen.

Editing music video…
This the editing I have done so far for the music video. I have split the clips up into three sections - Begging, middle and end. The editing has gone well so far but I found using Final Cut Pro difficult at first(its more complicated than what I am used to-Imovie)  but after a while I got the hang of it and now I feel I can use it well. The feedback I got from the teachers is that I need to cut on the end of sentences rather than in the middle of a sentence otherwise it looks a bit messy. Another thing which could be better is that I need to spread out the storyline section because at the moment the storyline bit happens all to quickly - I need to spread it out during the music video otherwise the audience will get bored if we mainly have shots of Fen.I also need to add in the last strand which we will shoot in the studio…Once we have filmed this section and I can make the changes needed and finish it off….

First shoot day evaluation....

We packed up the car with the camera, suitcase, photos' and flowers and off we drove to Bramley with the cast and crew. When we got there we walked about 5 minutes towards our first location
(the first bridge).


When we got to the bridge we got the camera out and set up our first shot. We placed Fen under the bridge next to the wall for our still lip sync shot. We filmed a close up, long shot and then a medium shot. We then did the same shots but on the other side of the wall but we for one of the shots we tried Fen looking away from the camera which was nice because it didn't make it as intense.

There was a tiny pool of water with a plank over it which we filmed as Fen crossed it. This was nice because it showed the audience how she got to the wall. We then did a still of Fen walking down the pathway towards the bridge. We filmed her walking looking straight into the camera then without her looking past the camera(again for variety). We also tried her walking without singing the filmed her walking away from the bridge for the final shot as she walks into the future.

At the begging the sun was out so we got one shot of her lip syncing with the light on her face which was the best shot because it made really atmospheric. Sadly after this the light died down but at least it didn't rain.
We decided to shoot Fen in her hat for the walking and the standing still section which was worked well because it was a contrast to our other actress who did not have a hat. The hat also looked really nice on fen and brought out the blue in her eyes.
Overall the Fen section went really well. It turns out the best shots of Fen where when she was not looking into the camera so it would have been nice to had got more shots of that but the shots we did get will work really well. If the sun had stayed shining then that would have also been perfect but when we come to editing then I am sure we can up the contrast or brightness of the over the shots to make them look the same.

We then got back into the car and drove to our next destination which was the second bridge. Our actress Darcy was wearing a red dress with flowers on which I had chosen. It fitted in really well with the theme of flowers and the red stood out really nicely making it look great on camera. We put all the photo's and flowers in the suitcase whilst she was carrying it to make it heavy for her to show that she has a lot of memories. We filmed her a couple of times walking towards the bridge but had to stop a few times due to cars driving down the track getting in our way.
Once the cars went by we carried on. We then filmed her from the front walking towards the bridge to show different angles. It was very cold outside so in-between shots we had to cover her up with warm coats so otherwise she would look cold on camera and feel uncomfortable

NEW PHOTO SHOOT...............

I took a photo shoot of Fen for our album cover and website images because even though those pictures of Fen were great , they were not taken by any of the group therefore we did not feel we could use them. I went out and took photos of fen then edited them, trying to capture the style of the previous photo's because we loved those photos.

I took the photos outside in the greenest area I could find because I felt it was important to give it a country look. Some photo's are with Fen and her a guitar to give it that songwriter feel then some are her on a bench which I found(the bench had flowers on it which I felt was perfect as it is a theme throughout our digi packs).

These are all the edited the pictures

 

Here are the best 5 images which are ready for the website.