Audience's opinion

I have started drafting out questions to ask a focus group such as 'what music news channel do you watch?', 'what kind of music do you listen to?'... 
We value other people our age's opinion because they are the people we are looking to be on our website therefore it has to fit to their recommendation's and needs, if we are going to be a successful music news website.

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Earmunch Logo

When designing the logo we knew exactly what we wanted, it was just the case of creating it. We wanted the logo to be “cartoony” and “playful” so that it would appeal to a younger audience but also wanted to keep a sense of seriousness to emphasise that our news channel is for teenagers rather than children. We decided to go on www.dafont.com to search for a suitable font, there were several fonts that some of us liked and some of us didn’t but after searching for what seemed like forever we found a font that we could all agree was appropriate – SC Gumkids.

This is exactly what we were looking for, playful but not too playful. We decided that to make the logo more interesting there should be a bite out of the ‘E’ and our monster icon should be sitting on top of the ‘M’ and that we wanted to logo colour to be blue. I took these ideas home and played around with the logo on Photoshop and was able to create this.

The team were happy with my efforts but we then thought that the use of sky blue for the logo was too childish and thought that too make the logo appeal to a more mature audience we should change it to purple, so that’s what I did.

We all agreed that the logo is suitable and so this is the finalised version.

These are some sketches of the logo and our trademark monster that I produced just before I started experimenting on Photoshop. The monster was a spontaneous addition to the logo and we felt it was a perfect representative for our company - a monster wearing headphones, so when people think of Earmunch they think of the monster. The logo sketches were for comparison to see if there were any other ideas we could potentially use but we already knew what we really wanted.

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Deciding on colours for the logo

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Analysing SBTV logo

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Analysing MTV logo

From analysing this logo so far we have realised that for our Music news channel to be successful our logo must be simplistic yet stand out simultaneously.

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Thinking of ideas

We have just been giving our tasks. We need to think of the type of news we are looking to publish, who we want to read our news and a 1000 more other things. 
After some time we have come to the conclusion we are going to call our News channel TFM, which stands for Television, Film and Music as these are all things that strongly influence our life as media students. The name sounds good but a bit too familiar, maybe i'm thinking of TFL.

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Hi, my name is Kaira & I'm part of the Earmunch news crew. I have a passion for media because it awakens my creative side, enabling me to compose my thoughts & ideas visually/audibly . Our groups creativity was shown through our original, RANK productions Thriller opening sequence; whereby we created our own storyline, directed, filmed, made props and edited it ourselves, i was also able to display my secret talent by acting as a dead body. 

Creating this music news channel will hopefully further develop my skills & knowledge of the media industry. Music is something that interest's each individual member of our group; being a young teen, it plays a huge role in my live.

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Wassup, my name's Arthur and I'm part of the Earmunch News team. 

I enjoy being creative and artistic and plan to incorporate these attributes into the design and production of our News channel. Last year I did a lot of the music making which I enjoyed, and I also plan to do it this year as well as editing. All of us play a huge part in producing this News channel and we hope to be as successful as we were last year with getting tasks done.

I have a huge interest in music and creating this news channel should be fun.

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Hiya Nicky Here,

Our news channel is called 'Earmunch News' and it focuses on local music, which I find a very interesting topic. I have learnt a lot from our previous project producing an opening thriller sequence. In which increased my knowledge on film and editing. I have learnt how to film, edit using Adobe Premier and Photoshop. I found editing the director's commentary very enjoyable last year.

Every member of the group is involved equally in producing our music news package this year and we are all very excited.  I am excited to work on this news package, because I would like to do Media in the future and this will increase my skills and knowledge in many ways. 

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Hey its Riya!

I am part of the group producing 'Earmunch News' and we have decided to focus on music news. Last year we produced a thriller opening sequence called Oblivious and I really enjoyed the filming and editing of it. I also acted in the thriller which was very enjoyable. I have learnt how to use Adobe Premier and Photoshop which will help me a lot for this assignment.

This year we all have a very hands on role in all of the aspects of this project so that we can all have input and opinions on everything. The skills I have learnt last year will help me make this news package. One of the main roles I have is being the journalist on camera.

I am interested in Media and Journalism so this is the perfect project for me.

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