Interview

This is the sort of style with the over-shoulder shots that we're going to use for our interview. However we are preferably going to have a white background, rather than black.

These are some example interview questions to help us choose questions for our interviewer to ask us:

here are four types of questions that students have typically asked artists in interviews.

1. Questions about the artist's personal history. For example:
   • When and how did you first become interested in music? How long have you been playing music?
   • What are your musical influences?
   • Does anyone in your family play music?
   • What kinds of times and places have you played music in your life?
   • What else do you do besides play music?
2. Questions about the stories behind the songs. For example:
   • Why did you write or decide to play that song?
   • What do you think that song is about?
   • What does it take to play a song like that?
   • What is special about that song?
3. Questions about musical style and attributes of the genre. For example:
   • What makes that a ________ song?
   • Are there different kinds of _________ songs?
   • What is it about the way you play that song that makes it different than the other kinds?
4. Questions about musical taste. For example:
   • What makes this kind of music "good" to you?
   • Why did you choose to play this kind of music?

-(Source: http://www.unc.edu/learnnc/cmc/yourown/questiontypes.html)


Questions that could be used in interviewing musicians.

1. When and why did you start playing?

2. Which instruments do you play?

3. What was the first tune(s) you learned?

4. Is your family musical?

5. Describe your family member's musical interests and abilities.

6. Which famous musicians do you admire? Why?

7. Which famous musicians have you learned from?

8. Who was your first teacher? Other teachers?

9. Describe your first instrument. Other instruments.

10. What are your fondest musical memories? In your house? In your neighborhood or town?

11. Were you influenced by old records & tapes? Which ones?

12. Who are your favorite musicians? Groups? CD's?

13. Have you been in competitions? Fleadh's? Any prizes?

14. Do you perform in public? Describe those occasions? Concerts, radio, TV?

15. Do you play for dances? Step-dancers? Describe the differences.

16. How do you handle mistakes during a performance?

17. Do you get nervous before a performance or a competition?

18. What advice would you give to beginners who are nervous?

19. Do you attend sessions? What makes a good session?

20. How often and for how long do you practice?

21. What do you practice - exercises, new tunes, hard tunes, etc.?

22. Do you teach music?

22. How do you balance your music with other obligations - mate, children, job?

The specific music questions and topics above are in addition to the standard name, address, age, places lived,
and other family and career data that you might obtain for completeness of documenting an individual.

(Source: http://www.tedmcgraw.com/Comhaltas_Reference_Docs/Interview_ques.html)


1) what do you feel as you play music? 
2) who is your rolemodel in the music world? 
3) have you ever thought, "this is what life was made for"? 
4) have you ever been so moved by a song that you cried? if so what was it? 
5) is there anything you would do differently in your career? 
6) who would you like to be as famous as? 
7) who would you want to do a tour/concert with? 
8) do you ever get lost in the music? 
9) how important is music to you? 
10) do you plan to make music for as long as you can?

(Source: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101016104711AAmUH4C)


These videos also show examples of questions and ways to answer them:

Blooper music

These are some examples of music that we will choose from for the background music of our 'Bloopers'. All of them are slightly comedic and happy to make that  clips more funny to the audience and make the audience feel more uplifted and happy.
The examples are blooper videos made by other people that we will just use the music from or get ideas from as it may be hard to find the actual music they use.

Story Board

This is our story board for our promotional video.
The video will start off as just me and Charlotte (the members of the group) introducing ourselves in a medium close up, still camera shot. After this, the shot will switch to an over shoulder shot (over mine and Char's shoulder) of the interviewer who will briefly introduce our career past and introduce herself to us. There will then be and over shoulder shot (over the interviewer's shoulder) looking at us as we reply to the interviewer and have a short conversation. During both of these scenes, the non-diagetic is a backing track of one of 'our' songs. This will the change as the interviewer talks about our newest new video and so the scene changes to a snippet of one of our music videos that it set in a field.
      The video will then switch back to the interview where our upcoming tour will be discussed and promoted (with the music from the previous music video snippet in the background). A short promotional video about the tour will then be shown, showing the dates, venues, videos/pictures of our previous tour and a short interview with 2 or 3 of our fans outside a 'venue'.
     We will then continue the interview and answer a few questions from our fans off Twitter and Facebook. The questions will appear large in the center of the screen (with the website it came from's logo and the name of person who asked the question in the corner) at first and then will be in the bottom right corner while the question is being answered.
     We will then talk about our new single and then show a preview of our new music video for the first time ever. This video will be set in a white room where we are planning to have a slow motion pillow fight with feathers exploding out of the pillows.
     Finally, with the music from the previous music video playing in the background, we will talk about our new album that is due to come out soon with the interviewer.
     After that we will say goodbye to the interviewer. Bloopers/funny outtakes will then be played with comedic music in the background (which we will research).

Practice Photoshop editing

Us edited onto the O2 stage using Photoshop- It to cut both of us out of a picture and, over expose us so it looks like the lights are shinning on us (did this as the others already on the stage look like this) and resize us to fit onstage . As there are other people on the stage too, we're going to say they're dancers (only if we decide to use this picture as we are likely to edit another one). Planning on using this during our promotional video when we talk about our upcoming tour. We will have audio of the crowd screaming and have the picture being zoomed out on for effect.

Logo for music production comany

How Ya Doin' music video

We will be using the idea of just having a white wall as a background in our music video part of our promotional video. We are also going to try and get some pillows to have a pillow fight (like at 1:22).

We will also use the idea of having a phone in our video (like at 1:50) as the song we are covering is also related to a phone.

Music for music videos

We will be using the first chorus of this How Ya Doin' cover and the last chorus of the Best Song Ever cover for the parts of music video we'll show. We will advertise these songs as covers off our debut album which is only covers so that our audience can get to know us and our voices before we release an album with our own songs on as this would cost more time and money.

One Direction interview

This is an example of what our video will include- we will use things such as showing parts of our tour, music videos and an interview. We will also we using this sort of style witht he bright colours and pop-fun background music.

Selena Gomez Stars Dance Tour 2013 promo poster

This poster is to advertise Selena Gomez's tour for her album, 'Stars Dance'. The poster is very simple with the main thing on it being a picture of Selena Gomez (with the backroung blurred out) and her name in capital letters. This makes sure that it will stand out to people that have heard of or like Selena. The words 'Stars Dance Tour 2013' are also in capital letters and are in a different colour to the rest of the poster to make them contrast and stand out. On the letters S and E in the words 'Selena Gomez', there are stars to link with the name of the tour to show that stars will be a key theme. Also linking with the theme of stars, the main colour of the poster is gold.

One thing that it would have been good to include on this poster would be tour dates as people that see this poster cannot see what dates and venues she is doing and therefor may decide not to bother.

We will be using the idea of having a picture of ourselves and our group name being the main feature on the poster. However, we will probably use lots of bright colours, rather than one, subtle colour. However, we will advertise the tour dates and cities and the fact that it is a world tour on our poster.

Jedward Australian Tour Advert

This video is a promotional video for Jedward's UK tour. The non-diagetic sound in the video is John and Edward talking about the tour and a bit about themselves. It also has one of their songs in the background to advertise their music.

The video includes the twins' logo which they also include in some of their lyric and music videos. As well as advertising the Australian tour, it advertises their new music video, which is not out yet, to get people excited about it and encourages more people to watch the advert.

Where to buy tickets for the tour is advertised in a contrasting, standing out colour, red, at the bottom of the screen throughout a lot of the video. This makes sure that if people want to o to the tour, they are able to buy tickets easily.

Finally, each indevidual date and venue is advertised so that people know where abouts in Australia the twins are performing.

Some of our ideas are similar to the features in this promotional video. For example, we will be using bright colours to make our video show our personalities to be fun and blubbly. We will also input our own voices in our video, however instead of just having our voices in the background, we are planning to answer questions and talk about ourselves in interview form. We will also be showing parts of 3 of our music videos, similar to Jedward in this video who showed 2 music videos and rather than just playing one song the whole way through our video in the background, we will be playing several different ones.