Website Progress

Our website is on its way to be completed. After struggling to get the tour dates on the website we finally did this, by creating a Facebook page and also creating a 'BandsInTown' account to make some of the tour dates and made around 10 in the UK and we are yet to create ones worldwide. We also added to the website the 'PURE HEROINE' album using our own album cover and using Lordes music from the album. We put each individual track at 99p and the whole album at £9.99. doing this makes the website look more professional and official.

Preveiw of CD

This is a draft for our CD insert booklet, back of the CD and the front. We asked around for feedback and it was suggested we don't use lyrics in the insert booklets as we don't have enough time to write all the lyrics on each page, and this would also take up a lot of pages which are not necessary. It has also been advised that we change the colour of the album cover title into a gold kind of colour as well as 'DAKOTA' on the back of the CD. Another suggested improvement was that we should use a different picture instead of the picture of the tennis court as it looks unprofessional. I will keep you updated on the changes that will be made, and hopefully we are able to make all the designs revolving the CD look better!

Filming : day 4 (our last time filming!)

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Target audience for our music video 'Tennis Court'

moon by Emily flax

Draft of our music video and feedback

hey! This is the draft of our music video, if you do watch it you'll be able to tell that there is a part missing, however, we have no filmed it put it into the video, meaning our final video will be coming soon!
From this draft we asked around and the following are some improvements we could make to make our video better, which we are going to act upon in the next few days. Here are the both positive and negative feedback we received:

  + Good knowledge of genre
+ Clarity of concept
+ Good quality shots
+ Appropriate mise-en-scene for genre
+ Good editing


- More similar pacing clips at the end as there was in the beginning
- 3.10 cuts a bit out of sync (fixed)
- 0.37 more in time (fixed)

Social Media : Facebook

We have decided to make a Facebook for our artist, this is similar to the Twitter page we created. But I think that more social media sites we more we are able to promote our artist DAKOTA. In Addition, Facebook allows us to do more than Twitter as it allows us to add tour dates and communicate more directly.

with fans.

Tour Dates poster

Dakota by Em Flax
In order to promote when Dakota is going on tour we made this poster and we are going to publish this on our website and on social media.

Website Progress!

We have started to work on our website and we are doing this on the website 'Wix', below are pictures of what we have done so far. We decided to use dark pictures for the background and simple fonts as this is what we are portraying in our video and with our merchandise as well, and doing this continues the theme of the artist. Our website isn't finished yet but this is how far we are at the minuet and there is still a lot of work that needs to be done before we can call it 'finished'.

Merchandise for 'DAKOTA'

Merchandise on our website and social media

After we created the merchandise we have posted them on our website, we came across the problem that the merchandise was only shown on male models and tried to find female models on the same website. However, there was none so on our website we stated that the merchandise offered were unisex.

we also updated our social media sites stating that the new merchandise was available to buy.

Filming : day 3

Today was the third day on filming and the location was the school tennis courts. Now all we need to film is the time lapse and this should take us around 10 to 15 minuets to do. We wanted to film at the tennis courts as we wanted to link the footage with the lyrics. One problem we came across was that the actual tennis counts weren't going up until after Easter, however we didn't have time to find an alternative location and we needed to film and finish filming on this location today. So we did film here and we are hoping that it is not noticeable. The essential things we needed were, the tripod, camera, tennis balls ( which we borrowed from PE), we also made sure that Amy wore dark and grungy clothing as this was the look we wanted the artist to portray in the video.

Our final logo!

Logo options! from emilyflaxman