Twitter Page TBC

Our Twitter page is where we post some of the new things tried out and images and videos of the filming that we have done and some of the comments which we get on there can be used as external feedback from wider sources and can then use this feedback to enhance our rough cuts and get more ideas on how to change or adapt the ideas which we have already used.

We get specific feedback from those who know a lot about the music video business and therefore can only benefit us when gaining such feedback. We feel that having a twitter account will also make our knowledge of the genre and the track much better by getting specific feedback from people and followers who like the type of music and the track we are doing our coursework on.

These are images of the various tweets which we have added up to the page

Evaluation Question 4 TBC

Research and Planning

For the research and planning of our coursework we used many different technologies to achieve such levels these technologies consist of Blogger, Facebook, Youtube, IMDB, Twitter, USB Sticks, Mac Computers, Gmail, Mobile Phones, Final Cut, Grab and Google.

Blogger is the place where all the information goes on how we progress and share what we have found in terms of research and the process of making some footage of the putting together of our music Video also all the vodcasts and podcasts of how the process of how our coursework is going.

Youtube is a very good and useful place to get video clips to compare and to post video's of how the progress of the music video making is going also we can share and embed previous video's of what are relevant to the subject for example video's of already successful Music Videos and other Viral Vids too

IMDB is the place which provides the most relevant information for music video creating and what sorts of things come from old already made videos and newly up to date ones which are very successful, IMDB is a online website which lets you look up any music video and director or any film and their casts. This is ideal for when we are researching or analysing past music videos.

Final cut pro is where the footage of the filming gets edited. This is the sort of technology that the pro directors and production company's use for music video creation in the world wide industries. It just shows how the world has been subjected to digitalisation and it benefits the people like us who do not have a lot of funding to produce the hugely successful videos.

HD Video camera's that we use to shoot the footage for our music Videos are so high tech that major producers didnt even use them about 10 years ago and they are more advanced than the one's they used back then. They provide us with an endless amount of opportunity to shoot the key footage and right frames to put our music videos together and with only an SD card as the storage device it is so much cheaper than the huge industry ones.

Audience Feedback from RC 1

From our first rough cut we have gained some feedback on which we have thought about and considered changing from our first cut. Some of these changes are experiments such as editing and others are changes that for sure need to happen due to the lack of footage in some areas so more shot variety is needed in some key areas
Feedback comments from sources of our target audience:

Steady Shots
Negatives

• Start on the train in between the chairs is shaky and needs to be edited 
• When the old man is walking past the shops with the walking stick in hand
• Club scenes are shaky but it has a good effect in a way but shouldn't be used as much

Positives

• Didn't see an unsteady shot and would be excellent if the nightclub shots were reasonably steady and if the shakiness was on purpose
• Steady shots throughout an all round good performance
• Good steady shots when the break dancing is in Slow-Mo 

Framing

Negatives

• End shot feet were out of the way and ruined the shot
• The dropping the tissues didn't exactly work that well so maybe another angle or frame for that one
• Dancing in the streets the framing was off due to the walls being too much in shot
• Average and some good shots

Positives

• The framing in the break dancing in the streets worked really well and was a good use of the urban environmental view to the song.
• The break dancing with the dutch angle worked extremely well 
• Good use of the framing with the police car in the shots

Shot Variety

Negatives

• Close ups needed of the iconic features of the old man
• More long shots and extreme close ups of the dancing scenes and in the club scenes
• More shots needed of the old man in the normal old man mode

Positives

• Alot of good shot variety within the whole video
• Good shot variety and a good range of different angles and locations
• Good use of shot variety in the urban town area and the dancing but needs a bit more maybe

Appropriate Material

Negatives

• People looking at the camera at the zebra crossing and all the cars at the begining  
• Need shots of the old man in the club to show the narrative continuity only one shot of being ignored need more
• Not convincing that he is an old man
• Club scene is too early

Positives

• The club scene worked well with the mad party thing 
• Suited the style and genre of the music and the style of the original artist
• Works well and most of it makes sense and you get some sense of verisimilitude

Mise-en-Scene

Negatives

• Seems like two videos in the club and in the street
• Verisimilitude lost on the type of shoes used
• Trousers seem different with the lightings of the weather 
• People looking at the camera from the public

Positives

• The club scene works well and suits the style of the videos and son choice
• The mise en scene from the sort of urban town feel works well 
• The way in which the character is in a lot of random different locations works well

MK (Mark Kinchen Artist Profile)

Also known as : MK, 4th Measure Men

Origin: Detroit, Michigan
Genres: House, Deep House, Dance
Occupations: Disc Jockey, Producer
Instruments: Turntable, Sampler, CDJ's
Labels: AREA10, Hot Creations, Defected Records, CREEP INTL, DJs Are Not Rockstars

Marc Kinchen, also known as MK, is an American DJ; music producer of house music. He hit No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1993 and 1994 with the songs "Always" and "Love Changes." Mark Kinchen also recorded the underground house music classic anthem, "Burning." "Always" peaked at No. 69 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1995. MK also hit the dance chart with "4 You," using the pseudonym 4th Measure Men. 

On November 10th, 2013 the Official Charts Company reported the MK Remix of the Storm Queen song, Look Right Through Number 1 on the UK Singles Chart.

Up to 25/11/13 MK has released 18 singles including remixes, with two albums from Defected Presents. 

Mk uploads all of his club visits and festivals weekly touring around the world. Here below is his YouTube channel of which he uploads them all to.

Below is a video of which i attended to in Leeds at Mission where i personally met him.

On the internet
RA DJ Page /	residentadvisor.net/dj/marckinchen
Twitter /	twitter.com/MarcKinchen
Discogs /	discogs.com/artist/marc+kinchen
Facebook /	facebook.com/marckinchen

Storm Queen

Morgan Geist, better known by his stage name Storm Queen is an American DJ from Wayne, New Jersey. His song "Look Right Through", was remixed by Marc Kinchen and had vocals added to it by Damon C. Scott. Morgan also mixed the song "TV River" in the album "LSD and Remixes.





In November 2011 Storm Queen released his debut single "It Goes On". In July 2012 he released "Let's Make Mistakes" as his second single. On November 3, 2013, he released the single "Look Right Through" in the British Isles. In the United Kingdom, the song entered at the top of the UK Singles Chart on November 10, 2013, becoming Storm Queen's first number one song in Britain, dethroning Eminem and Rhianna's "The Monster" from the top of the chart.







This New Jersey native was initially inspired by England's take on the sound of Detroit, but eventually tracked techno back to its Motor City innovators. When he began listening to music, however, it was the sound of early-'80s synth heroes like Devo, Severed Heads and New Order alongside early hip-hop, jazz and 60s Hindi film soundtracks.

Geist released his first 12" (via Dan Curtin's innovative Metamorphic label) while studying at Oberlin College in 1994. He formed Environ soon after, releasing powerful statements of purpose which showed his affinity for the more emotive strains of disco, techno, soul and all flavors in between. His debut album was released in 1997 and licensed to EastWest/Warner. 

Due Carear - Metro Area

Jesrani was from New York, with Morgan they both arrived at electronic music through their interest in rock music (Geist through the electronic sound effects he noticed in progressive rock songs, Jesrani through the electronic introduction to Rush's song Tom Sawyer, which he says "led me into Devo, Thomas Dolby") and both had been producing music independently since the mid-90s. Before forming Metro Area, Geist attended Oberlin College (where he founded his record label, Environ, in 1995) and was responsible for a number of highly regarded solo releases, while Jesrani began his production career as half of the groups Essa 3 and Acronym City. The two met through internet mailing lists in 1995 or 1996. After collaborating under the names "Sage." and "Phenom," they began Metro Area in 1998, releasing four 12"s on Environ under that name between 1999 and 2001. Edits of six tracks from these releases later turned up on their 2002 self-titled album. Both Jesrani and Geist are DJs as well as producers; in 2002 and 2003 they hosted a monthly residency at APT in the Meatpacking District, called Party Out of Bounds.

Digipak Inside

Looking at the insides of a digipak and looking at the common codes and conventions to these are that the images in the middle either run across the two panels in there or are just one single image on the side which doesn't have the CD in front of it. Inside the digipak there is sometimes text displaying the names of the composers for each song in smaller print than the song title. There is also sometimes a small handout which contains further artwork or images and song lists. The actual CD can usually be found in the main part of the digipak in a plastic holder with two panels to each side. So some digipaks can have two cd's within the card case, One for the actual CD and another for behind the scenes or some sort of DVD.

Digipak Research Front and Back

By just looking up and researching common codes and conventions it is clear that for the back and front cover there are only a few things which can be said that are common in most of the music video didipaks. take the design and colour codes for example. Just by looking at a few different ones you can see that the colour and design more often than not does run onto both of these which adds that sense of continuity to the digipak as you can see from these two images of the Police Album Outlandos d'Amour

Also a common feature on the digipak is the use of a record label sign which is also show on the back of this Police digipak where then you can tell who the artist is contracted with and when doing our own digipak we will have to add this in with our own and look at where to put this information. 

However the most common feature of a digipak is the song list or track list and this is seen on almost every digipak and this is a common way to give infomation on what the CD holds and tells you what exactly is on the CD and we will definately be using this on our own digipak.