Playlist Plan

My Individual Plan

How will we present our music?

We will present our music by each of us presenting a minimum of 3 tracks to be placed in a playlist for our audience to listen to. We are going to use Youtube and Soundcloud to post our music online but rely more on Soundcloud. We're going to share our music on other social media websites like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram where we can post short snippets of our music and post a link where people who are interested can access the playlist with ease. Further more we are going to have individual art work for each of our tracks but have a similar background, so that it's obvious each person created their own, but it is still part of the same playlist, however I think it would be more efficient to chose a logo we all agree on and just have our names on the artwork on our individual tracks.

How will we reach a bigger audience than the Decades Project?

We will reach a larger audience than the decades project by using hashtags and other sorts of tags available on social media, this will widen our audience by both making it easier to find music relevant to them and knowing what type of music they will hear. Further more we will reach a bigger audience by choosing a specific time and day to upload our music onto social media, this will help because we chose this specific time as this is the time most people who use social media will be online so this will maximise our views. Moreover we will also share our music onto other social media with links to the Soundcloud post or Youtube post to increase our audience. In addition we will also use different art work on our playlist, on the Decades project it was the college's logo "WKC" this time we have agreed on a logo and have our own names on our individual tracks. 

What Research has led us to this decision?  

The research that led us to this decision was research we individually found by posting on social media and seeing what time got the most views. In addition we also knew what time to upload by looking into youtube accounts and sound cloud accounts that upload at specific times to increase views. Further more it was a mutual agreement to upload at the specific time.

Provide Examples of Contemporary Musicians that have influenced our plans for the project.

Artists such as "Bonkaz", "Chris Brown", "Bryson Tiller" and many more contemporary artists use different social medias to promote their music, they choose a specific time that they know the majority of their followers and main audience will be online, so it gets more publicity. Furthermore almost all contemporary artists today use artwork when uploading their work or even on cd's and records.

Provide Details from Class meetings.

http://wkcmiles.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/playlist-plan-class-meetings.html

What is my role in the project?

In the playlist project we all had similar roles of adding input and ideas of how to make this project more successful than the Decades project. Furthermore i added the ideas of hashtags and different uses of tags to make it easier to find our music. Furthermore we agreed we will all share the playlist on our different social media websites for more views.

What technical equipment will we require?

As we are posting on social media we won't need too much technical equipment, we just need a computer to upload our playlist and our own devices so we can share the playlist to our individual accounts. 

Class Playlist - Running order

Class Playlist - Running Order 

I think the order of the playlist should be : Felipe, Lorenzo, Keanu,  Kit, Taylor, Nick, Miles, Josh, Ryan,  Jack, Jesse. I think this should be the order of the playlist because the first two tracks are the genre of what i think the majority of audience want to hear, then since Keanu, Kits and Jacks songs aren't main stream music fit them into the mix, in hope the audience not here for a different genre of music will listen to the different genres to get to the songs they will enjoy. However i don't think the current playlist is bad as the tracks are fairly jumbled.

Playlist Plan-class meetings

Week 1 Class Meeting

In this lesson we discussed the success of the decades playlist, for example how many views or likes we got. We discussed what went well in the playlist and what went bad, like whether we shared it as a collective. Further more we also discussed how we will improve on our contemporary playlist, for example I added that we should use tags so we reach our target audience. We also discussed how we will get more publicity on our playlist like leaflets or different social media we can use.

Week 2 Class Meeting

In this lesson we discussed what artwork we could include in our playlist and whether we ant individual art work or the same though out the whole playlist. Further more we discussed how we will share the playlist on social media, eg whether we'll have a specific social media team or not and whether we'll have a specific time and date we'll upload.

Week 3 Class Meeting

In this lesson we discussed what time we would upload our playlist, the final discussion for artwork and what would go on our playlist cover. In addition we discussed what platforms we would upload our playlist and that an email would be sent out to performing arts students letting them know once the playlist is up.