PODCAST 8: Reflecting On Journey so Far

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Industry Research

• What is indie + how does it work
• independant distribution 
• Not part of Big 3
• Beggars Group - Indie Conglomerate 
• Super Indie
• Distributed through big 3
• Digitisation
• Spotify, apple music, youtube 
• Disruption
• Digitisation making a large change to industry ways of practice
• Distribution
• First time in 2018 overall revenue started rising again since 1999
• Youtube
• Low ad revenue
• 2.4m streams for minimum wage in US
• Spotify
• Welshly arms
• 47 million streams
• $178,600
• Drake 
• 10 billion
• $38m 

Audience Research

• Mood-board
• Sample scenes
• Developed Genre research
• Influences
• Triptycon - facepaint
• Welshly arms photos - costumes
• Pixies - Female Bassist
• Website
• Social Media
• Web 2.0 - Tim O'Reilly
• David Gauntlet
• Convergence - audience + produced meet - "we media" 
• Dan Gilmor - Former Audience, passive to active

DigiPak

• Sample cover

Sample Scene

• Audience Feedback

Competition

• TikTok
• Social media announcements

Shoots

• Shoot Planning
• 2 performance shoots
• 1 narrative cancelled
• Cast change (Narrative)
• Cast change (Performance)
• Moodboards
• Location scouting
• Acting improvements
• Improved direction
• Mise - en - scene
• Shoot Planning: Performance 20th January (costume post)
• Researching through welshly arms photos
• Applied to lead singer
• Black Suit
• Influenced through other artists - simulacrum - baudrillard

Issues on shoots:

• Weather
• Cold
• Cut shoot short
• Photos for digipak were rushed
• Enthusiasm from a member of cast
• Lighting in car park
• Low lit - camera's adjusted to lighting different 
• VFX experimentation
• LUTS + color correction 

Editing

• Sample scenes
• Performance cuts