Change of design

For our website I have changed the design as i feel it is more effective in displaying the themes we are trying to get across to the audience.
I have chose the black background as it helps display our dark appearance which is shown through our lyrics and music video. This background also links in better with our personalities and the concept ideas we try and portray.

Jake Wynne's advice

On the day where Jake Wynne came into our school and gave us advice on our music video. He said to us that we need to make sure our video follows some sort of pattern and structure rather than just using lots of random concept ideas that don't follow a certain theme throughout.

Because of this advice we have made a lot of changes to our video and added many different aspects to make our video more clear to the audience rather than them being confused. We have added many more performance aspects to our video and have filmed in a couple different locations. The performance aspects in our video have highlighted to the audience that we are a serious indie band with a unique theme throughout the video. This has been shown by following a concept theme showing we are unique and interesting showing things many other bands haven't shown before.

We also began to follow a theme of water by filming in a number of locations such as a river and swimming pool. We have also implemented other ideas that link to our theme with shots of us smashing bottles with water in and using premiere to slow down flow of water.

Storyboard - first draft

Here is the storyboard for our first draft with commentary

Falling for you - First Draft

Here is our first draft for our music video:

Final magazine article - 3rd draft

This was Ben's final draft for our magazine article

Track list

Steve was in charge of creating the digipack and putting the track list. The numbers for the tracks are written in Roman Numerals further highlighting a concept theme through the process.
The picture used in this photo is not the original that will be used on the Digipack.

Steve drum performance

Yesterday we filmed some more performance elements for our video with some tracking shots of Steve playing the drums. We filmed this out on the school field and made sure we had no houses or school facilities in the background. We filmed this on the field because this adds to our concept idea but also adds some more pattern into our video due to the performance.

Digipack designs

Website - Guns N Roses

I feel this is an effective website. They clearly show the bands logo in the top of the page next to the navigation bar.
The background picture is effective as it shows a picture of the band performing at a live venue, this shows the bands popularity as a packed crowd enjoying the music is shown.
The bar at the bottom matches the bands logo colour showing some sort of pattern to their band. The colour red could con-notate blood or even roses due to the blood relating to the guns and the red also relating to the roses in their band name. This makes me picture the colour red when thinking of this band and looking at their website.

Risk assessment

Here is another risk assessment for our next shooting location 

Website research

I liked this idea for a website as the bands colour scheme is kept throughout the page. The front page is very simple but effective due to the text and the bands picture. The bands picture is very casual and looks as if it was taken in a photo booth which i feel is very effective as it gives you a glimpse of the bands personality showing their relaxed approached.

Website - tour page

Here is the page for our bands tour dates.

Website - band members

Here is the band page of my website where all members are listed and a brief context is given.

Magazine article draft

Ben was in charge of creating our magazine article and here is our second draft

Risk assessment - 3

Here is the risk assessment for our 3rd filming location

Halfway Evaluation

This week we had be set with the task of making a halfway evaluation. This would include all our group members making a powerpoint with a preview of what we've been getting up to in the past weeks. This involves showing snippets of our website, twitter account and showing a clip of our MTV interview.

Magazine article template

This is the template we decided on to base our article around. The big picture in the middle of the article is eye catching and draws our audience to read the section about us. Information included in the article include tour dates, how the band formed and music inspirations.

Website gallery page

Here is the gallery page of my website

Magazine article ideas

Ben was in charge of finding inspirations for our magazine. He looked at articles such as NME and Radar. This was appropriate as many bands similar to ours have used these platforms. Bands include Everything Everything and SBTRKT.

More filming pictures - Swimming pool

Here are some pictures we got from our most recent shooting location

Website planning

Similar artist websites - Artic Monkeys

This website lay out had ideas i wanted to incorporate into the website i am currently making. The website keeps all navigation around the website at the top of the page above a picture/video of the band. I liked the idea of this website deign as it highlights similar areas in which our band is also trying to get across. The dark background used here could give off dark themes to the band and connects to our concept thought process. We have looked to keep our website simple to add effect to it like you can see in the artic monkeys site above.

Magazine article planning

As a group we had a list of what we felt should be included in our magazine article. This was our planning stage before we made the article properly.

As a band we had a list of what we felt needed to be included in our magazine article:

1. Information on the band
2. Black and white title
3. Editors name
4. Making the band relate able to the audience
5. Names and publication dates
6. Upcoming tours
7. Subtitles