Venue Research

For my print based task I am creating a poster for the artist's debut album, but I am also creating a half page tour flyer to promote it.
In preparation to creating this flyer, I needed to do some research into venues that would be appropriate for the genre of music that she plays and for the amount of people that may attend the concert.
Because she is a folk singer-songwriter, the best venues for her to play would be relatively small, intimate places where she can interact better with her audience. Also because this would be her first official tour with the debut album, it would be expected that not many people would know or listen to her music yet. Therefore, smaller venues would be best.
The picture below shows some websites that I looked at in order to get my research about appropriate venues:

 Here are the places that I have decided to choose:

1.) Olympia Theatre, Dublin - 1,600

2.) O2 ABC Glasgow, Glasgow - 922

3.) O2 Leeds Academy, Leeds - 2,800

4.) The Ritz, Manchester - 1,500

5.) The Leadmill, Sheffield - 900

6.) Albert Hall, Nottingham - 750

7.) The Institute, Birmingham - 2,000

8.) O2 Academy Bournemouth, Bournemouth - 1,800

9.) The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth - 500

10.) Concorde 2, Brighton - 600

11.) Koko, London - 1,500

12.) Shepherd's Bush Empire, London - 2,000

I feel it would be best to do more shows in London as it is the place where music is celebrated and experienced much more than in other places in the UK.

Broadcasting Task (Preview)

This is a preview of my promotional video for the broadcasting task. This is only the ending of the video, but I just wanted to experiment with editing software and with incorporating music with the video before I began editing the whole thing.

I used Windows Movie Maker to create this. It was easy to use and made the editing process a lot simpler. I will definitely use this software to edit my final video.

First Print Draft

Before creating my first draft for one of my print tasks, I did some research. I am going to create an album flyer that will be run in the music press. So to research this I looked up some album flyers that had previously been run in the music press.

This is what I found. Researching these different styles helped me to create my own album flyer. The consistency that can be seen from these flyers is something that I wish to incorporate in my print task as it looks much more professional and will look like it actually belongs in the music press.

Below is a picture of my first draft of my album flyer. I wanted to keep the consistency that most other album flyers have so that it looks professional, and I feel like I have accomplished this.