DJ Research

Zane Lowe
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/zanelowe/
http://www.home-taping.co.uk/

- Currently hosts Radio 1's flagship evening show from 7:30 to 9pm
- Also hosts 'Gonzo' on MTV2
- Began as a video jockey (VJ) on MTV presenting 'Brand:New' and 'Up 4 It'
- Member of the New Zealand band 'Breaks Co-Op'
- Previously worked at XFM before Radio 1
- Also works as a DJ, often DJing at festivals (opened for Foo Fighters at Wembley, 7th June 2008)
- Monday nights on his show features 'Fresh Meat' where three new bands' songs are played and rated with the winning song being played for the rest of the week. Past winning bands have been: Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, The Wombats, Bloc Party, Kasabian, Editors.
- Also plays new tracks in 'The Hottest Record In The World Today' from new bands/albums (was the first to play 'Crazy' by Gnarles Barkley live on air)
- Features live performances and interviews with celebrity guests
- His shows demonstrate a high level of enthusiasm for the music he's playing
- Won several awards for TV and radio shows, including one for each at the 2006 NME awards as well as two Sony Radio Academy Awards

This would be the sort of DJ that I think would play our song as he's very into new music and promoting new bands as well as having a wide appeal and is well respected in the industry.

Room Decoration

Here's a moodboard for some styles/ideas about how I see our performance room looking

Reflections on last week

Last week Angelie & I became a pair as Jennifer dropped Media. This has helped us immensely because we are now able to make decisions faster and there's less people to try to arrange. We have also decided not to use Jennifer as our hero, instead we are using our friend Melissa who we feel is more reliable and is better friends with Jazmin.
As well as this we've changed our location for the performance so that it is easier for just the two of us to shoot and we can leave it set up for as long as we like.
We also had a mega day of planning and got all our storyboarding done as well as making some decisions we'd been putting off so we're almost ready to shoot now!

Location address business

Hi hi :)
Hope your summer's been going well!
I'm not doing anything on Sunday so I'd be okay to come with you... just let me know! :)

Angelie xxxx

Interesting Advertising

Over the past few days I've seen some interesting/different advertising methods used by bands.
Bands including Slipknot & Trivium had banners being flown by planes above Reading festival (and Leeds I'd assume) with details of their tours (there were other bands too that I can't remember) and numbers to call to get tickets.
Fall Out Boy have released a free EP for download that features several artists signed to FBR Records which had a link sent to every person signed up to all of the artists' mailing lists.
A local Catalan band used the bull burning in the town to advertise themselves, they painted the bulls with information (singles, albums, band name etc.) before they were set loose to run through the streets where about 2,000 people would get to see them. (Totally agianst the priciple of the event but interesting way of advertising).

When I see more I'll add them =]

BLK FEEDBACK

plenty of progress demonstrated recently, well done Emma

Location idea

If we wanted a semi-gothic location, the library at King's Collage in London has teh perfect exterior. I was there today for the open day and from what I could see there would be no restrictions for shooting, however I'm still more inclined to use the previous locations we found because they are easier and visually more interesting.