INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST script 1

AEM has agreed to do an interview with me now that the song is almost finished

Plan:

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Aem interview qs from harriet Barlow

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There's a font sheet with different font possibilities on the website draft that we can look at at the end

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MONTHLY VODCAST 1 Initial research/ideas + influences, the song, pre-prod, upcoming

The artist/song

• I wanted to make a music video with someone who would also be enthusiastic about the project
• Asked indie local electropop artist AEM, who only had 1 music vid so far if she would be interested
• others xyz
• very enthusiastic
• Is just finishing mixing the song, fake, now
• I am doing an interview with her this weekend about the meaning of it (social media - how to build, how useful, how she uses, how she engages with audience/brand/expectations of the vid/her musical influences/visual influences, intertextualities/her audience/primary/sec, interact/queer imagery/how does she access music video/any thoughts on UGC vids (spontaneous or no)/album art for digipak (say ideas if I do))
• Website - font sheet (headings/banner fonts)
• What she expects from the vid - electropop, specific, for one of your own (2qs)
• female artists on video she's found interesting
• colour/colouring - run through thinking (heathers)
• webisodes, staggard release

Pre-production

• Started general and genre conventions research
• Had some issues with getting it done to the standard I wanted
• Taking longer than originally planned
• Still been doing research on a range of conventions - Merch, effects of convergence and digitisation, how the music industry has changed, Goodwin
• possible influences form those (understand and apply) - 5-6 likely influences
• Initial ideas
• Some initial ideas for the video: gender bending date idea (Butler), dual identity/self sabotage idea
• Developed dual identity idea into looking at what's authentic/fake, self-sabotage/self-care
• Some narrative - Heathers intertextuality, croquet scenes (one based off of Heathers, the other Alice in Wonderland)
• The dual self is Winona Ryder from Heathers and Christian Slater (mr robot tv show, link), but both women - non-chronological and unclear whether or not they're the same person or in a relationship
• 2 sample clips so far
• Performance location scouting
• Influences: 
• Arian Grande - Thank u, next
• Iggy Azalea - Fancy
• Pixies - Silver Snail
• Alice Phoebe Lou - Skin Crawl
• Novaa - Club Paradise
• Megadeth - Hello me
• Social media - instagram finally working, twitter

Next month

• Finish lyrics timing sheet
• Make final vid plan
• Some sample shooting (with or without artist, experiment with things like powdered paint)
• Finish general/genre conventions research

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TBC LOCATIONS initial ideas

SOCIAL MEDIA already existing

AEM already has her won social media - instagram, Facebook

Her instagram

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There isn't an awful lot on her instagram

• Follows general aesthetic, hues of pink/purple/blue
• Neon/lofi
• Some audience interaction - BTS shots from her 1 music video, pics of her creating music on a mac

The new instagram (add link when it's made)

changes:

• even stronger aesthetic, neon, bright colours
• BTS footage form more shoots
• More clearly a music page
• More audience interaction
• WILL CHANGE THE LOGO

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Her Facebook

it has all the same content as her instagram on it, only a different profile picture and some links to media coverage of her last song City Ties.

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I'm not going to make a new facebook for her, as young people now don't tend to have facebook it's getting out of date, which explains why there's not much exclusive content on there.

BLOGGER RSS feeds

I've picked out some particularly useful RSS feeds for the sidebar of the blog.

There's a live feed from The Guardian music news, and music business worldwide. I wanted to add one for Promo News too, but there were technical issues with the formatting.
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BLOGGER links lists

Every Time I add a links list I will add a note here. This is to make my blog more user-friendly

• BLOGGER
• THE SONG
• THEORIES
• SOCIAL MEDIA
• WEBSITE

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early work in progress!

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TO DO LIST

• Top links list – set up social media + add (INSTA)
• Set up wix account + top links list
• 1 post of her official social media, link to new
• Locations post – publish and then add tbc, add what isn't there'
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  For idea updates, have 1 post that you keep going back to with date subheadings and updates
• brainstorm long list of possible scenes
• lyrics timing sheet
• casting + characters
• costume + props
• lyrics analysis (focus, narrative/concept drive) ask ema for interview
• major pack p17 - Goodwin
• sample footage post (knife and cigarette)
• context, then video reflection (influences, taking from and doing opposite)
• log of what tech has been used (hard/software) experiment with kit
• CIA
• Conventions - playlist vids I've been looking at, can be multiple playlists (links list of playlists, general, genre, influences, one epic of all 'vids i have looked at')
• list of themes + vids which fit (can be just 2-3 if they cover all, can be some contradictory ones) maybe soem very brief notes