Hello and Welcome to my A-Level Media Blog. My Name is Vivian Oparah [0621]. On this project, I have been in Group 5 and worked with Louis Caldwell [0131], Sebastian Hodge [0330] and Joshua Brooks [0110]. To navigate around my blog, you can click any of the headings under the 'Labels' subtitle on the side of the page - this will filter posts into the various stages of the project.
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"NTLS - Heart Skipped A Beat" Music Video


Our Music Video

NTLS Self-Titled Digipak Cover

NTLS Self-Titled Digipak Cover
NTLS Self-Titled Digipak Cover

NTLS Website

NTLS Website
Right-click the image and select "Open link in new tab" as this will take you to the official NTLS site

Sunday 19 October 2014

4 Key Decisions: Artist

With the audience, genre, record label and track all decided- creating an artist was relatively easy since we had already built quite a strong foundation. We listened back to Heart Skipped A Beat and realised there was a duet between a male and female artist. Initially we played around with the idea of there just being a male/female solo artist with the opposite gender as a feature. However, from looking at the strengths within our group we realised it would intelligent to have a two person, male and female collaborative artist, who we eventually named NTLS (pronounced nettles). We thought there is a gap in most genres for an interracial artist duo and so luckily, in our group there is a black female (myself) and a white male (Josh) who we decided will be the artists.

SBTRKT (pronounced subtract) artist on Young Turks record labelled who inspired our artist name.
NTLS produce Electronic/Alternative music with reference to artists on Young Turks record label like:
Jessie Ware & Sampha

FKA twigs


A similar male and female duo that we referenced was AlunaGeorge:
AlunaGeorge
We had a lot of styling ideas and were looking to create an artist whos look create clear navigation points to the fans, such as

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