Audience and Instituiton practice essay

Question 2

Steven Holtz

In the music world realm, digital distribution is the main reason why so many artists are successful.  Without all the streaming sites and apps most people wouldn't have the accessibility to listen to music that frequently.  Along with so many artists not being discovered because they are very limited to exposure and ways to promote their work.  Today's generation revolves solely around technology and social media, so the best way to reach out to people all across the globe is on the internet.  Distributors use online outlets to get their records in the hands of other listeners.  Each year the amount of people that stream music online goes up and up, and is continuing to climb.  Digital music distribution has taken the centerstage, digital surpassed sales of physical medians for the first time in 2015.   Most popular artists today are getting most of the viewers and plays off of social media outlets and music apps other than physical CD copies or music records.  As an artist, digital distribution has become a must in order to reach all of your potential fans, doing so increases your chances of being noticed, which can lead to your brand growing or being seen by a big time record label.  These sources are like digital record shops that contain the music all across the world, which makes everything more convenient for the listeners.  One of the most important reasons why digital distribution is going to be here for the long-haul is because of the profit that it gets.  It benefits all three sides. It's a win win win situation, including the artists, listeners, and streaming platforms.  The streaming platforms make money off of all of the artists paying to be on their site, all of the listeners paying monthly subscriptions or yearly subscriptions to stream music off of.  They also get a ton of money from advertisements that pay to be advertised on their site in front of all the listeners, it costs thousands and thousands of dollars for a fifteen to thirty second advertisement or short message.  The artists benefit because they get paid for every single stream that they receive, they also get to keep 100% of the royalties there’s no sharing it in between promoters and other management.  The artist also gets to make their name or known which can be used for other social media outlets which promote a ton of money for example Instagram, Twitter, TikTok they all pay huge amounts of cash to popular artists to promote their apps or sites.  Lastly, which is most important to the fans, the price of ten dollars a month is almost unbelievably cheap.  It could cost up to nearly thirteen dollars for a single cd album, with a ten dollar monthly subscription you could listen to almost every single published song in the world, all countries, all sized artists for the same price as a single copy cd.  It makes the most sense to continue promoting and streaming music this way.  Although, some people may say it's harder for the older generations to listen to music this way, because they aren't as tech savvy. While on the other hand you have to realize the world as a whole is progressively becoming more reliant on technology so sooner or later everything will be technology required, or made digitally.  So there's no way around this new time of life, which makes it smarter to just join the new wave of life now before it's too late and more difficult to catch up with all the new advancements and improvements. In Conclusion, digital distribution is on the rise and here to take the throne.  Taking social media life to a whole new level, for the better. Which makes everything relating to music vital to the digital world. 

nike

So much fun came into this commercial because i got to be the brains of the operation. Being such a fan of Nike and shoes, due to the fact that i am an athlete and gym rat i enjoyed creating this film. If their was one company i had to promote it would most defiantly be Nike.

music video

This music video was one of the very first films we recorded. The fact that it still looks this good is amazing in its self. I am the definition of a music fanatic so you can already imagine how much of a blast i had filming this music video.

final product

 This task was a great one to make we filmed for multiple days and had a great time doing so. It was so much fun and got to show us how far we have came since we first started. We knew so much more than we did before coming into this one and it sure did show. Im so glad for the great group of partners i got to have and develop with. I couldn't have asked for a better outcome of this final movie task.

ccr

So the representation of issues and social groups with our movie film is to connect with the younger audience.  It’s based on a fictional movie which most younger audiences attract to for example vampires wolverines and the list goes on.   So many people are tired of the life that they live in the reality that they’re stuck in so they watch fictional shows like this to get away from that the true misery that you’re suffering from and enjoy what life would be like with abilities  or different norms. Teenagers also enjoy horror movies so when you mix the two its bound for success.  Related to the other ccr's and the progressions i feel like as an individual i have surpassed my own expectations. I feel like i have developed so much with all the aspects of filming even with the ccr's.

Re-edit Blog

This editing day in class was a very special one because we finally put together our final pieces of our film.  It was very hard to get the editing to be perfect and smooth but we finally did.  We thought we were finished and we had our teacher check and then we realized we had a lot more improving to do. For starters we had too many seconds so we had to find ways to cut down time without removing any of our clips.  After that once we finally got the time down then we realized the transitions between scenes were kind of choppy so we had to work on this moving smoothly and making the flow into each other better.  Another thing our teacher told us we needed to improve was we had one of our title scenes last three slides and she thought it was too long so then I made sure to remove it and only keep it for the first scene.  Once we finished all those we had one of the other groups watch our film one more time and see how it was not from the summer anything we just wanted some personal opinions from other people outside of a group and then after that it was a job well done.  I’m very pleased with the way that my film turned out, i think its a great short film.  I honestly think if I was to sell this movie to a producer as a pitch I feel like they would buy it because it would be very interesting. I’m very hard on myself so I feel like if I enjoyed the film and the way that the editing came out I feel like everybody was especially another movie producer.  The editing studios were all working today in class with me today there is no lag no crashing nothing it all turned out great We remembered to bring our flash drive with all receive stuff and got to work.

Re-shoot Blog

The re-shooting film day was probably the most overall important filming day there will be.  This day allowed us to make enough re-clips to make sure that there’s a good one of each scene, it also allowed us to finish up on some missing signs that we did not complete.  Before we did the re-shooting film we edited in class so we knew exactly how we needed to reshoot some of the scenes exactly the timing the camera angles etc.  it worked out in our favor which we knew it would because we planned properly.  The recent day was also the most fun and action packed because we were able to be more lenient and chill with our time since we had a lot filmed already and we went into it knowing our game plan.  While we had a great time filming and made great progress and pretty much finished up all of our filming scenes for our movie scenes, I also had the most fun in general i Made a ton of new memories and fun moments that will last me a lifetime and I am so thankful to have been in this situation and then put with this amazing group.  I think it’s really hard to find a group text and have so much fun but be so proactive at the same time it’s truly a blessing.  It was also our second time having all of the group members together we are all very busy with school jobs and afterschool activities that it was hard to get us all together at one time so the reshoot gave us a perfect opportunity to work on that.  It’s always fun and can be productive filming with missing group members but there’s something different when everybody’s there it’s just like energy or connection in the air.  I also got to film a lot of my parts as the wolverine and it was so much fun wearing the mask and chasing around people with a knife scaring people, barking, making tons of noise and chaos.  I feel like the wolverine fits me perfect because it’s kind of where I am as an individual so I can express my personality into the film which means a lot.  I’m a big believer on what’s meant to happen will happen in this film as it is a great example of that, I got the play the true part of me As in some of the other films I don’t play this my character I kind of reenact somebody else.  Since this was an original film and was created from scratch and allowed us to all brainstorm and include our own feelings And thoughts in the making at the most original and wholesome film there could be.  You know it’s real when every day you wish you were here but I film because it’s so much fun and you’re so passionate about it.  It’s been a great learning experience and I am so proud of myself and seeing how far I’ve came I know so much about filming and I feel like I’ve matured and improved as an individual.  I did most of the camera work in the as long as I wasn’t in the scenes, and I can almost see the difference in how much more smooth and stable I am compared to when I first started out a few months ago.  Nothing in this world and always more than seeing my own progress so every time I pull up the camera it makes me want to go harder and better and better.