Completed Album Cover

After weeks of working with photographs, logos and fake song titles, the album cover is finished!

The album cover has been sent off the the printers and we can't wait for our individual copies.

The finished design is at the top of the blog if you want to see it.

Rotoscoping...

After watching through our music video, we thought that the narrative was really good although the performance wasn't as good.

The different colours of the blue wall, orange costume, pink accessories, etc. were quite distracting so we've started to use a new technique of rotoscoping. What this does is make everything in the performance black and white apart from Angus.

We're very optimisitic that this will be done in a few days if we all put in some hours.

All going well

were making good progress on both our website and album cover. weve design the inner squares of the album with our band logo and a 4 close up of the band. Were dividing up the different pages for the website such as about us, contact us etc and have made a basic homepage.

Album Cover and Website Photoshoot

After staying behind today with our band, we got over 80 photographs to sort through and decide which ones go on our album cover, website and anywhere else we may need to put them.

Here are just a few of the more interesting ones...

Editing Music Video

After capturing the performance, the actual footage looks incredible.

I think that with just a few changes to brightness and contrast, it will look even better but we all need to be working on the post-production to get it looking perfect in two weeks.

Performance Shoot

After weeks of planning, we've just filmed our performance!

Overall it went very well, we managed to get plenty of shots to use from close ups to wides. We also managed to film behind the scenes to edit into a video if we get the time. And we've got plenty of photos to put on the website.

Now that we have all the footage, we just need to edit it into a music video and we're done with that part of the production.

inspiration

we were inspired by the filming and choreographey of performance videos such as Greendays "American Idiot" and will reference this for movements of the band and lead singer

Jack's Timetable

Hey guys, I managed to get hold of Jack's timetable:

 

Tada! We can organise everything properly now 

Also he just told me this:

• There's a tutorial on Tuesday's that can last up to a few hours which he might have to go to
• He has extra music stuff for an hour before lunch on Friday
• Thursday's have a half hour extra of German

So basically it's gonna be all after school stuff for him

Final update, he can't make this Saturday as he has to help out at an open day, but we can rearrange that right? But Tuesday 9th is thankfully completely fine

Studio Booking

Currently we are booking the Seward Studio for the following times:

A - Angus
I - Izzy
J - Jack
T - Tom
C - Claire
D - Dominic
K - Kerry
W - Wanda
R - Robyn

Wed 3rd - 12:30 3:45 - Technical rehearsal / teaching - C D K W
Thu 4th - P4 P5 - Photographs -  I T C D W
Fri 5th - P6 - Rehearsal - A R D K
Fri 5th - P7 - Rehearsal - I T C D W
Fri 5th - P8 - Rehearsal - A I T C D K W
Mon 8th - P2 P3 - Photographs - I T C D W
Mon 8th - P7 P8 - Photographs - A D K
Tue 9th - 3:45 - Real Shoot - All

To do before performance shoot

• Book studio
• Arrange crew/cast to be there
• Arrange drum kit and microphone
• Storyboard performance
• Shot list performance
• Scheduele day(s)
• Plan photos to be taken
• Practise lighting and strobe lighting
• Book any extra equipment
• Design the set
• Tom's costume