Shot Inspiration - Going through a wall

I decided to test a certain shot to see if it would be viable to edit and film and it turns out it is possible. I keyframed one track over the other to simulate the crabbing through the wall, the cutting in the sequence is poor but it only intended to illustrate our opening and can be understood by our group members. It should be even easier to do in the final shoot due to even more wall possibilities. Here's the finished product.

MySpace Analysis

Enter Shikari

Enter Shikari have a great myspace, with interactivity, songs, bonus songs, tour dates (very important since they are a very performance driven band! Their success came from early perfomances on the St. Albans hardcore scene) videos and pictures of the band and links to money making merchandise sites. They came to prominence through the internet, including myspace and youtube, in particular one of their most famous songs 'Sorry, You're Not A Winner' (http://latymermusicvideo09ben.blogspot.com/2009/06/enter-shikari.html) spread across the internet like wildfire. The overall colour scheme and layout fits their new albums theme and they are building a huge portfolio of material for its release and post release. Overall a very successful profile.

Lostprophets

A very unique MySpace, moving away from the conventions of MySpaces, which follows a trend as a huge amount of followers move to Facebook, and here they are forming a promotional teasing site for their new album and look, with a couple of tour dates and videos. It doesn't give much away and such leaves a lot to the fans imagination and creates an enigma, which creates a hype.

Slipknot

A brutal site, really captures Slipknot's truly carnage loving essence. Contains various themes tying back to the band and in common with album covers and songs, most notably their use of the 'maggots' name they attribute to their loving fans. It's use of viral marketing such as inviting fans to join the 'Outside the 9' fan club is particularly effective. They also feature a word of mouth scheme where fans are rewarded for referring.

A Fine Frenzy

A fairly simple but effective myspace which features songs, pictures, blog posts and tour dates.

How not to do it:
MC Hammer

One song, no tour dates, no blog. No nothing. This will be an example to avoid. He's obviously not in touch with his fanbase and is such losing out on one of the most potent new marketing technologies.

Album Cover Research

MUSE - Origin Of Symmetry - (Best Album EVER!)

The main image used was the winner of a competition. Entrants were given the title and the band asked people to design artwork to fit, in addition to the winners, all the artwork in the booklet artwork were the runners up, and some of these runners up featured as single covers for the songs from the album. The image itself is very striking, as it is bright orange. The only pug on the cover is a small white box in the top left corner with the album information in a black sans serif font, which shows that the album cover is less about the bands identity and more to do with the image and the intepretation of the music itself, rather than that of other genres, such as Hip-Hop and R&B where the artist takes prevelance. For Muse this could be said that is their identity, in leaving the listener to think and delve deeper into the music. The image and album title share a disjuncture, in that the image is very insymmetrical.

The back cover is a mere plain white background with the track listing and institutional information in black underneath, the back cover then only exists to inform the listener of the tracks and not provide any more imagery for the listener to think about.

The inside sleeve features the runners up of the competition, along with lyrics from the tracks. It is more a showcase of the art rather than a showcase of the band, as the lyrics only appear on some pages whereas the art is on every page.

This was Muse's second album, but there are no striking differences from the cover design of their first album, Showbiz, other than the art itself. We can't really learn much from the cover alone about the band however, and the genre cannot be defined from just the image.