DARKBEAT RECORDS LIVE ON FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE & FLICKR

The convergence of music and digital technology especially the internet is growing at a rapid pace. Not only is the primary source for distributing music now the internet, but sites such as Youtube and Facebook are very effective marketing tools not only for independent record companies but for the larger ones as well. With the use of Web 2.0 we are now able to gain feedback to help us create the best possible production that we can.

I have set up a DarkBeat Records page on Youtube and Facebook. Below are the links to how you can access them.

Youtube Channel
Facebook Group

RECORD COMPANY LOGO RESEARCH

As part of this project we were also given the opportunity to be creative ourselves by creating our own music record company. This will be the name featured on our media products, as well as the company name advertised when we create Facebook groups, Youtube channels, Twitter pages etc. First of all we looked lots of different existing record label logos. You can see a montage of them below...

As you can see they're all quite plain, basic straight forward. All of them feature the company name in their own individual fonts accompanied with basic illustration and layout. We decided to create our own by finding a font on the internet and then giving it a glow on Photoshop and spacing out the letters far apart. Below you can see our logo.

PERMISSION FOR COPYRIGHT

As part of chosing an unoriginal song we had to acknowledge copyright rules, therefore we emailed Justin Timberlake's UK label Sony BMG to ask for permission using Cry Me A River in our music video.

Below is the letter and E-mail that we sent to Sony BMG as well as Timberlake's US home record label Jive.

9 Derry Street, London, W8 5HY
human.resources@sonymusic.co.uk