Case Study: Bandcamp

Sources:

http://nzmusic.org.nz/resources/video/what-is-bandcamp/
https://bandcamp.com/artists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandcamp

Evolution Of The Band Logo - Session 4

Today we completed our band logo which Laura started by drawing a falcon in Paint. The reason that we thought we should include a falcon is because obviously it is a key part to the band name 'Firelight Falcons'. When it came to the colouring Laura suggested that we added oranges and reds as it fits into the theme of fire, which ones again reflects our bands name.

Here is the complete drawing Laura did:

Then I put my idea onto it by making it look more like a logo with a red background circle shape behind it with a yellow outline. 

Here is the development of it: 

Finally, we had to think of the typography on the logo. Tammy did some research and sent us ideas of what we could use. Here were our options:

Font choice 1

Font choice 2

Font choice 3

Font choice 4

We all decided that we liked font choice 2 the best. Therefore, I tried to find a font most like it and chose Kristen ITC in font size 36. However, then we had to decide on its placement.

Here are all the places we could have put 'Firelight Falcons':

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

We came to an agreement that we like it inside the main red circle at the bottom. Here is our final logo:

Development Of Merchandise - Session 3

As I have previously posted we have changed our band name to 'Firelight Falcons' which meant that we needed to start a new with merchandise ideas for our website.Today, we came up with 2 rough draft t-shirt designs that we will later develop and make more professional if we stick with that idea. Here are the 2 t-shirts (They both will be made available in black and white). 

To make the images larger click on them. 

Laura also completed a rough sketch using inspiration from Google Image of easy to draw falcons. We thought that this was useful as it will help us when thinking of more merchandise ideas.  

Here is a look at the brief sketch:

Ancillaries

Here are some ideas to help show a growth from our original proposal to our final overall package.

Being the examiner

Videos looked at:

 

A Change In Our Band Name - Session 2

In a group meeting today we realised that someone out of our class had already chosen to use a fox within  their band name and a logo centred around it. Therefore, as we want to be more original, Tammy, Laura, and myself have decided that we would think of a new name. However, we still wanted to keep 'Firelight' within our name and use alliteration to make it memorable, so decided on using 'Falcons' instead of 'Foxes'. Therefore, our new band name is 'Firelight Falcons', instead of 'Firelight Foxes' to make sure that we are different to the other group using a fox as their logo/name.We will now start to develop a logo, some merchandise, and other things for our new band name.

We have already found some inspiration for our logo, as well as some of our merchandise (we found these on Google images):

Here is a bit of inspiration for what sort of thing we might like to use for our band logo. We like how it is simple, yet effective, and also relates to our bands name.

Here are a couple images that we found which we think would look good on a bracelet, which can be something that we sell on our website. The shape of the falcon on these images will also be a good fit horizontally on a bracelet.

We will now be working on maybe sketching some things up from what has inspired us, and we'll also keep updating and developing our ideas.

Analysis on an artist/band website: The Vamps

Here is a textual analysis on the band The Vamps. The reason I chose this band is because they link to McFly as band members of McFly have co-wrote songs for them. Therefore, making this useful to when we start making our website.


Sources: http://www.thevamps.net/

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Stuart Hall's Reception theory linked to a music video

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Choosing a band name and beginning ideas on merchandise - Session 1

Today myself, Laura and Tammy decided not to use the original bands name McFly to make it more of our own. Therefore, collectively we came together and brainstormed some ideas to one another about the band name. After a discussion we settled on the name 'Lightfire Foxes'. We chose this as we believe that it represents the band's genre well and think that we could use an intertextual reference to a fox maybe in our final music video (making it more personal to the band that we are creating, as well as their style). This will fit the theme of the video as at points the settings will be gloomier and dark.

The topic of what type of merchandise our band would sell (that we can add onto our website) and the brand we are going to create was also considered. 

These are the colours which we have decided to sell the wristbands in: 

We decided not to make the colour range too vast as then some colours may not be liked by some audience members. However, we decided a key colour would be oranges and the red as it fits in with the idea of the fox.

Here's a look at 3 of the ideas we have so far for our wristbands. As these are rough drafts, they shall later be made to look more professional and more variations should be released. 

Production/ Record Company logo

We thought that it would be a good idea to think of a record company name and logo to help add to and create our overall package. The name we decided on as a group was 'LET Studios', firstly because it's the letters of our first names (Laura, Elsie, Tammy), and because we generally liked how the word 'Let' sounded in the title (it makes us sound productive).


Here is the final product, click on the photo to see it without wording:

Music video pitch