Cutting to the beat

IIII\ S1 IIII\ S2 IIII\ S3 IIII\ S4 IIII\ S5 IIII\ S6 IIII\ S7 IIII\ S8

This isn't where I want to be\ S9

This isn't who I want to see\ S10

Staring back\S11 at me\S12

In the mirror\S13

It’s so much clearer\S14

Everything\ S15 better/ S16 when your nearer\S17

Hey what you drinking\S18

Maybe tell me what you’re think\S19 In\S20 g\S21

         III\ S22 IIII

 \S23 What if the zombies came?\S24

Would you still\ S25 be playing your sick and \S26 twisted game

We wouldn't stand a \S27chance in hell

In this \S28 post-apoc\S29 alyptic \S30 town\S31

IIII/  S32 IIII

Well\S33 what do I do\S34 now\S35

It's getting\ S36  too \ S837  Close  for   comfort\ S38 In this town\ S39

I don't \ S40  want to stay\ S41

But I can't \S42  leave either wa\ S43  y\  S44

I guess\ S45  I'll have to fight \  S46 through another day

     IIII\ S47

                                                                         

What if the \  S48 zombies came?\ S49

Would you still be playing\ S50  your sick and twisted \ S51   game\ S52

We wouldn't \ S53 stand a chance \ S54  in hell\ S55

In this\ S56 post-apoc\ S57 alyptic town\ S58

But I'll fight\ S59 till the break of dawn\ S60

Just put your\ S61 high heels on\ S62

And dancing\ S63 to your favourite\ S64  so\ S65 n\ S66\ g\ S67

IIII\ S68 IIII\ S69 IIII\ S70 IIII\ S71

So I’ll run and\ S72 I’ll run and I’ll run\ S73 a\ S74 w \ S75 ay \ S76

From everything you said to me\ S77

 

What if the zombies came?\ S78

Would you still be playing\ S79 your sick \ S80  and twisted \ S90   game\ S91

We wouldn't \ S91 stand a chance in hell\ S92

In this\ S93 post-apoc\ S94  alyptic town\ S95

But I'll fight\ S96 till the break \ S97 of da\ S98 w\  S99 n\ S100

Just put your\ S101 high\ S102  heels on\ S103

And \ S104 dancing to your \ S105 favourite \ S106 s\ S107 o\ S108 n\ S109 g\ S110

CTTB written up by Emma, shot no. inserted by Sam

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Lyric Anlaysis 2

Focus Group

The first question we asked was what the group thought would suit the song, Performance, Narrative or a mix of both. The responses we got from the group of 6 all said that a mix of narrative and performance would suit our song best. This means that our audience would prefer a promo that has both narrative and performance in it, so we will go for one that uses both. This helped us decide because we were caught between pure performance and the mix of both. This has helped us make the final decision on a mix of both performance and narrative.

 

Our second question asked about if they liked our idea or not, the idea we put forward was to create a narrative and performance based music video. It will involve two characters, a male and female. The female will be the main part of the performance along with band shots. The narrative shows the female character at war with her inner self (the zombie). The male character shows the conflicting relationship and how relationships can die out. It also shows a cheating relationship.

 

The group all wrote down that the idea was good and that they think it could work well, this tells us that our target audience, which our group where made up of, enjoy the idea and would like to see it done, this gave us confirmation on their likes and dislikes within the music video, all the comments also said that they liked the idea and none where negative and everyone liked it. All of the group said it would be “interesting” and a one said it could “create meanings”, two people also detailed how the lyrics would suit the theme and how people can change in a relationship.

 

The third question we asked was about mise-en-scene and what the group would think to be effect. We got a verity of different responses such as a house, a restraint and a public place. This gave us some interesting ideas of what we could do, especially to fit the lyrics. For example, The first part of the song, which talks about the singer being in regret and confusion, would be good to be shot at a house, this would make a more personal feeling for the audience to relate to the promo. The other ideas of a romantic place or a restaurant could also be used within the promo as a flashback of the couple together, the audience also said this would work so it may be a good idea to use.

 

We also asked about lighting and costume as part of mise-en-scene in this question, All of the focus group said that the costume should be “normal” clothes, such as jeans and t-shirts, this also fits in with our target audience so that is the idea we will use. They also said that the lighting should be darker but not very dark. This would be a very good idea as the lighting could reflect emotional pain and confusion if it is darker; this helps as we did not particularly think of lighting. The group also said that the darker lighting could create an “atmosphere” of darkness and emotion so it would be the appropriate lighting.

 

We then asked about what camera shots they would like to see within the promo. Every reply apart from one said that we should use close ups within the promo to show emotion as well as close ups on the instruments in the performance parts. The one that did not say to use close ups, put we could use over the shoulder shots instead, this could be used to show the relationship of the boy and girl in the narrative before the female found out about the cheating, such as in a restaurant talking. Two of the replies said we should also use mid shots, I agree with this as we can easily show the band members and narrative through them, most of the others said to use long shots so they could see the band, I also like this idea in the performance parts so it would be a very good one to use.

 

The final question we asked was which demographic they think the promo would appeal to. Every one of the 6 replies said that it would appeal to teenagers, 4 of which specified females. This shows that we have chosen a correct idea for our target group as well as song for them, this means we have chosen well. One reply said that we it also relates to broken hearted people, which the song does so we could emphasize this fact.

 

 

Basic layout of website

This is a quick mock up of how the website will look. It is a very conventional website for a band as it has all the basics on it that the band have, e.g. information and merch as well as having a conventional layout and image placement.

Job roles

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You Me At Six-Sinners Never Sleep Digipak Analysis

 

This is the Digipak of You Me At Six-Sinners Never Sleep. You Me Six are a pop-rock/punk band. As we can see, the digipak is in black and white and no other colour at all, even though this makes it rather dull, it is rather effective as we can easily see all the different line and contours of the shapes and letters. This is an effective digipak as it appeals to its audience as the image is clear. Also, it obeys the conventions of a digipak as it is Six panels, The inside consists of pictures of the band, holding plaques that say their names on them, this makes it an effective way to introduce the band as well as showing everything about them. However, there is a distinct lack of band information as well as lacking other similar things. However, the conventions of, Front cover, track list and pictures are still there. This digipak represents the band as pop-rock/punk because of the dull colours used as well as the pictures of the band and their costume fitting in with the genre as well as appealing to the audience, which is teens and young adults due to the fact that the audience will possibly wear similar clothing. This represents the band as younger and new, as the genre is about.

The meaning of this digipak is to show a rebellious side of music, such as represented by the front cover which is a board that is often held by criminals when they went to prison for their mug shots, this shows it as somewhat against popular culture as well as against certain aspects of society.