YouTube Strategies for Promotion

Nail the Thumbnail

Thumbnails are important for videos as they show a preview of what the video is going to be about, choosing a key frame in the video that attracts people for whatever use or gratification it's for may lead to more people watching your videos.

Promote on Social Media

If you want your video to get more views, don't be afraid to share the videos on social media. This is important because more people will know about the video through word of mouth, if one person watches your video and they like it they may tell their friends and family who might watch it after being told.

It's an easy way to promote your video, even if you just tell your friends.

The Content

People seek certain type of content on YouTube, wether it's for entertainment or just information such as news on all the latest gossip. It's important to nail the content that you make in order to meet a use for the audience, making content that people are interested in will attract them.

Tags

Putting the correct tags for your video will attract more people when it comes to the content you create,  it will narrow down viewers who have an interest in the type of content that you make.

Vlog Pitch Plan

Research into Media Studies Blogs

http://mediastudiescourseworkmattkitta2.blogspot.co.uk/


I found this blog from a group of Media Studies students from back in 2013, this will help us because it gives us an idea of what we need to do in order to make our music video, how we can improve the way in which we can meet our audience expectations.



http://a2mediamelissachambers.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/feedback-from-audience.html 

work in progress - story boarding

This is a picture of our story board, our ideas are based around a narrative love story gone wrong between a girl and her ex boyfriend. It revolves around flashbacks to happy and bad times in the based using the binary opposite theory. The locations are going to be mainly outside for the present day time filming and in various locations for the flashbacks of the couple together in the past.

Shots (NC)

Most Creative Still

As a group, we believe our second picture is the most creative. This is because we utilised inverted shallow focus within this shot. The building works add an unexpected level of creativity.
There is a range of angles used within the concept pictures as well as the use of focus from the shallow focus which creates a sense of distance between the point of view of the camera and the person walking behind the tree.

Our Facebook page

This is our facebook page for the music video we will be creating, it will contain our ideas that we would like audience opinion on such as locations and costumes, it will also be where some of the first stages of advertising will take place in order to get the name of the song out their.

Survey monkey results - audience research

   

This is our feedback from the survey monkey that we collected, from this we will take the audience's opinions into account when making the decisions about the final music video and the story boarding of the video.