FILMING DAY

We are starying back after school today in order to film our band shots, we are very pleased that we will eventually have all of our shots, this will mean that we can begin editing and make sure our music video is as professional as possible. We are filming in the drama studio so hopefully that will look okay. We will be in school for quite a while as we have to take all of the instuments through school. We have lost one of the actors and therefore I will have to be in the band scenes when i was meant to be filming with the camera, to get around this problem we will have to set up the camera on the tripod, however hopefully it will work out, if not we will have to re-shoot another day. Also by filming today it will mean that we will have some photos that will replace the copyrited ones that we have used on the print based products so far, so we can begin replacing them and uploading our print based products.

Magazine Advert idea

I have been working on our magazine advert, I have already posted an example of our template however I have updates this in am attempt to make it look more professional, I have included some music logos such as hmv and Itunes. I have changed around the order of the things on my advert, for example I put the band name in the middle and the album cover at the top and then on the other  one i changed it to the band namebeing at the top and then the album cover in the middle. I would appreciate some feedback one these to help me decide which one is better.  Also we have used the image of the album cover for the time being, we will replace it and put the one that we create onto the advert and edit the image to make it look more prefessional.

Front Cover Idea

I am currently working on the front cover of our magazine. We have decided to call our magazine 'Underground Sound' due to the idea that the band 'pulled apart by horses is quite an underground band and arenot very well known, the magazine will include many different music genres, not just rock music. I have just made a rough idea for our front cover; we still have not finished the band scene and therefore we havent been able to take any images of the actors that we are using. We should have this done soon.

Magazine Advert

The magazine advert was posted about a month and a half ago so i thought i would post it again to keep you all updated. We feel that this one is better as the colours and gradient are effective.

Print Products

Me and Greg are currently working on the print based products as we have already said. We have just scanned some digipacks that we are going to post on our blogs, these are what we will base ours on. They are from the same genre and therefore we are going to create something similar; we are going to follow the codes and conventions of this genre so that the audience realise what genre it is, this will mean that already established fans of the genre will be interested in the products, as well as the already established audience of the band. However the reason we are not able to blog any at the minute is the fact that we STILL have not got round to filming our band scenes, even though we had a date planned which was Monday the 7th we couldn't film on the day as one of the people we are filming was unavailable. We are planning to film tomorrow after school so we hope that we are able too and that nothing prevents us this time. This will allow us to finish our music video and also finish our half done print products. Meanwhile we are just carrying on with our ideas for the print products and altering the colours to see if any other ones look good, however we still think that the red and black gradient looks best for the magazine advert - the one I previously posted.

Sorrrry

Its been a while since my last post due to it being christmas and all, also i have been doing some revision for my january exams. However me and Greg have finally decided on a date to film the band shots! It is monday the 9th of January, after we have filmed this we will begin our final editing straight away. Over the holidays we have been working on some of the print based products and will upload these soon however to progress with these further we need to get the band shots finished first to use some still shots that we will film at the same time. So hopefully by the end of next week will have a final rough cut, if you get me? Then around 2 weeks after hopefully there will be a rough cut! If i haven't already mentioned our print based products we are going to make a magazine advert, a magazine cover and a digipak. The magazine that the cover is for and the magazine the advert will feature in is called 'Underground Sound' We think this is a good name because the band is quite underground as they aren't very well known and sound rhymes so we feel like it is a good choice of magazine name. Hopefully we will find a good typography for the cover to make it look quite proffessonal. We are very excited to have our products finished.