Friday, January 27, 2023

Music Marketing Blog Post #1

I was absent the first day we worked on this project, and so was another group member, so my group had picked the song without us. They also created a google sheet to divide up the work. Their organizational system did not make sense to me, but once they explained it I realized they had not divided the work properly or fairly. They failed to include a lot of parts of the project such as making the presentation and filming. I then made a google doc that was more organized and color coded. However, the work was still questionably split, as some members wanted to contribute more to the project.


This project intimated as my group made it clear from the beginning they could not record on the same day. Juan could film any day, but Prodigy and Shanttal could not. Juan and I had to find people to film with us. Shanttal had a vision where there would be lights on the singer's face, but we did not have enough people to hold lights… let alone lights. As Shanttal had the vision, she created the storyboard and it was very hard to read. We tried to understand it during class. She wanted to film later in the day, so the lighting would not be as bright, but we were busy at that time and had to film in the daylight. This made it difficult for the one light we had shining on the singer's face to be seen. The story board was also so hard to read, but eventually I was able to decode it. 



We have not named our band or developed a logo. We were thinking of basing our band logo on guns and roses. Shanttal came up with this idea and I thought it would be good inspiration. We started working on the presentation last class. Not much got done and I have a feeling they are not going to work on it over the weekend unless urged to. I’m currently stressed about making the presentation since I cannot work on it until Sunday morning and I do not know if that is enough time. I also have to make a new website because the current one is not showing the items I add. This has never happened before and I don’t know how to fix it. After the presentation is made I am hoping they can all call one day to practice the presentation at least once, but I know this is unlikely. 




Critical Reflection

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