Interview of Ten Years

The whole purpose of this interview is too help the audience get an idea of who they are, who they want too be, and who they want too connect with, as well as getting to know the band personally, the questions are fairly vague, rather minimalist to give the full potential for a good answer and a wider range of answers, it's very much based on their music, and themselves as a band rather than a one to one interview. We want to know how they convey their image and who their ideal audience is, and where they'd like to be 'ten years' from now.

1) What are you listening to at this moment?

2) What bands/artists influenced you to start your band

3) Who is your favourite musical icon?

4) When you compose a song where do you get your ideas from and how does a song evolve?

5) Why choose the current artwork you have at the moment, does it represent anything in particular?

6) What tracks do the band most enjoy performing live and why?

7) How would you describe your current image and how to you want to represent and convey yourself to listeners and potential listeners?

8) Anything you would like to tell your current or potential fans?

9)Where would you like to be ten years from now? (ha ha) ;)


ANSWERS: Jake Bowman on behalf of Ten Years as well as himself

1. Wolves in the throne room, I hate myself, welcome the plague year, the effort, Neil perry, saves the day, make do and mend

2. Black flag, modern life is war

3. Jeffrey Eaton, vocalist of modern life is war. The album "witness" is perfection lyrically and musically

4. Find a rad chord that just sounds horrible and work from there then come up with a few riffs and I'm done. but lyrically most of the songs are more about my perception of the world and everyone it. its just my disappointment in everything I'm not much of an optimist. also we touch on subjects that I've experienced and the others in the band have experienced personally.

5. It just shows that we're not a band that accepts the way society is today. like I don't expect you'd see many people wearing a t-shirt with an inverted cross with some rotting heads on it unless you actually wanted to make a point.

6. I prefer playing our newer stuff live its more true to me and it's not like conventional hardcore it's darker with a lot of inspiration from other styles of music such as black metal, sludge, 90's screamo. our newest song ruins is the title track of our new demo CD that's gonna come out sometime in 2010 it pretty much is the epitome of the disappointment i feel, the lines;

"this world is in ruins
with no sense of hope i walk alone
but at least I'm comforted by the fact that
humanity is falling on its knees
with only ourselves to blame"

Sum us up pretty much. but yeah ruins is my favourite track to play its just starts slow builds up slows down and builds up again with a ending which is just havoc.. but yeah its my favourite track to play as its just full of energy and is one to get people moving.

7. I'm not one for an image i just have no problem in shoving how i feel down peoples throats whether they like it or not hence I'm not in this band for the popularity I'm in it to put my anger into something that's kinda productive. and if listeners get one thing from the band i want it to be that this world is going to hell for example the Copenhagen summit that just happened they're trying to save the planet but some countries wont budge what they've agreed to do so far is not enough, it's like are you fucking retarded? if you don't do anything the planets fucked 'cos you cant be bothered to cut carbon emissions in your country... yeah i hate everyone.

8. we're not gonna make a change, we're just 4 angry kids that are still fighting against the conventional way of life and want to let people know that this world is not a happy place deep down



DONE!


Hope you liked that, was it crazy enough for you?
the funny thing is ..its all true.

Here are the lyrics for the pop promo-
Death of A Devil

Why did you have to fuck my life up so bad
all i feel for you is pure hatred
if the rumours I've heard are true
then thank fuck you're gone
all i ever wanted was to see you fucking die
and now I'm stuck in this hollow
a never ending dream
this is my eternity
a dark hell from what nights never seem to end,
all i have is regret
regret caused by abandoning hope
and everything i could of loved
but may he have mercy on me
'cos I'm not a kid
I've had my last chance
and the glory never came
my last dance is over
the last curtain calls

15th December, first filming session

Today was our first day too attempt filming after last year this was only our 2nd time using cameras and it was a trouble having to get used to them again. We got there eventually with 2 cameras and 2 tripods as we trudged into town with the intention of filming people walking down the high street, just a few shots possibly about ten minutes altogether just to put some little sections into the video.
We decided against the idea completely and came up with another. We rang Jack the guitarist of the band, and asked what he was doing, as we were supposed to be using him to film as well.
Turns out the band had a gig that night, in Norwich. Who were we too pass up the opportunity? We decided to take up on the offer and got a train to Norwich so we were ready too meet the band there.

It took place in 'The marquee' pub, a very grotty pub, where there weren't many people, but it was after all a Tuesday night. There were 3 bands playing, and Ten Years were the 2nd on the bill- which was a good place to be!! The first band warmed the crowd up and then Ten Years began to develop some atmosphere into the place. The headlining band was the one that everyone came too see, so either way, the bands all, brought in the people.

Charlie and I were at the ready with our cameras, but no tripods, we wanted all handheld footage to give the filming a bit more of an 'edge' with a more authentic feel. The disadvantage to this was there was a lot of footage that could have been excellent but the lack of lighting definitely tainted a lot of what we got. As you can see from the pictures below, which aren't that clear anyway, there isn't a lot of lighting in the place, it's basically a garage extention. A really good venue though, but we should have thought to bring extra lighting, hopefully the footage will turn out well!

The Back Room-
THE BACK ROOM at Marquee Norwich has quickly become one of the best up and coming venues in Norwich with some great acts and a great atmosphere to match, at THE BACK ROOM we strive to make the gigging experience as easy and enjoyable as possible and will help out in any way we can. We have a team of regular promoters who offer you the best in up and coming bands from across the uk and overseas. THE BACK ROOM is a venue run by musicians for musicians and we stay true to this by making all the shows as low cost entry as we can. We hope to see ya at a show soon!

Group Treatment: Cinematography (My Contribution)

For our tasks to be completed accurately I took into consideration various rules, codes and conventions use by professionals, when filming with ay type of video camera. These include "Framing" "Match on action","180 degree line rule" and "Handles" amongst many other things.

Although we will be using many rules too film, we can't make the video entirely smooth, the typical characteristics of our video should be edgy messy and gritty.

For the establishing shot, we wanted the whole band, in a VWS (Very wide shot) along with a long shot, this will then contain the landscape but gives the viewer a more specific idea of setting. A long shot may show the viewers the building where the action will take place, such as our brick wall, with a very minimalist background. We want the members of the band to be wearing clown masks to give an eerie feeling to the whole video, or just the beginning to create a an intense impact for the audience.

In slow motion we'll slowly zoom out, and a low angle is a camera angle that looks up at the subject. This is the opposite of a high angle and makes the subject look more powerful. This can make the audience feel vulnerable and small by looking up at the character. This can help the responder feel empathy if they are viewing the frame from another character's point of view. four will hopefully reach the floor at the same time and there'll be a 'booming' sound effect, as they hit the floor. 3rd shot will be a close up of all four mask faces fitting tightly into the shot.

We will also be using space in four ways

1)INTIMATE
Eighteen inches away. Distance of LOVE, COMFORT, TENDERNESS between individuals

This will be used during the middle of the video, when they are all hanging out. And we can just get natural shots of them. It'll be very much like a documentary or following a band on tour.

2)PERSONAL
-Eighteen inches to about four feet away. Reserved for friends and acquaintances

This will be used during the middle of the video, when they are all hanging out. And we can just get natural shots of them. It'll be very much like a documentary or following a band on tour. Considering they are all round one band members house, we'll get the atmosphere and comfort that one will have in their own home.

3)SOCIAL

-Four feet to about twelve feet away. Business and casual social gatherings

4)PUBLIC
-Twelve to about twenty feet away

Detailed Synopsis

For the synopsis, we have collaborated our ideas and the treatment has been delegated to each member of our group, and I agreed to be the producer, and film most of the footage, and over all look over the entire group, and therefore the Treatment for the Cinematography of the video.
Only Chris and I are now in the group, as a member has left, so we are both taking more than one role.
We have changed the orginial synopsis quite a bit as we realised we can't do everything that was planned before with just the two of us.

Begininng: We want the band getting ready to play a gig, we want them warming up and getting the crowd ready for thier performance. We want to show the raw emotion and basically, blood sweat and tears that goes into getting ready to perform to a bunch of strangers.
There will be no establishing shot, only randon shots throughout of the whole band. We want to follow the fingering of a guitar and sync it upto the music.

Rough Synopsis

For the synopsis, we have collaborated our ideas and the treatment has been delegated to each member of our group, and I agreed to be the producer, and film most of the footage, and over all look over the entire group, and therefore the Treatment for the Cinematography of the video.

4 boys, with no time for anyone.

First scene standing on a wall, posed together all in clown masks. Then they all jump off in the same time, landing feet first on the ground at the same time.

We then want too get a shot of them all having a laugh as boys do, and as their all close, we want to show that as a band and as a group of friends they are even closer, through a bond of music.

It’ll be footage, in the house, on the street, and other public places where they’re together, playing the Xbox, eating, talking, and just generally wasting their time away together, when they aren’t practicing.

There is also a scene in the high street where we will get them to stand in the middle, during the morning, midday and evening. So you can see the transition through the day also there is an underlying connotation of their journey through the video.

Lastly we will get the band to perform at Jacks house, their other friends will be attending wearing the bands merchandise enthusiastic with the performance.

Planning and design for print adverts

The genre of the band is Hardcore, from this I have come to the conclusion by looking at other print adverts is that it is too be kept simple, and dark. Perhaps an image of the band would fit it well, as if it is thier first album, and you want to embed an image of this band into the public audience heads. The initial idea is that they know who the band is for furture reference, and if all is kept similar you will be able to take more in from the Cd cover, and print ad.

The ideas that I felt were needed to be taken into consideration were the elements of continuity; by this I mean the images used within the promotional package. I felt that one image should be used for the magazine advert and poster which will derive from the CD Digipack, this is so that the audience can relate to one another through the use of an image as it is easier to remember an image than a name of an up and coming band that you have never heard before. It would be wise to choose a different effect for each image, say one was made black and white, and the other sepia.

My ideal set would be each image having a coloured tinge to each image, not to the extent to which you cannot distinguish the images from one another, but just a slight tinge, so you know that the image from the cd cover, magazine and poster are all the same image just with a different effect, just to add a bit of variety to the designs so that it doesn't seem to the audience that the band is plain and bland. We have kept it all simple so that fans of the band would understand that it was the same band from one item to the next.

Planning and deisgn for cd digipack

We have had an induction on Photoshop and to be fair, a very short one. It's ridiculously hard to use, but I have managed to work around it.

Following a class discussion, I had a few ideas about what our DigiPak should contain. As a class we agreed the DigiPak/CD Covers should contain:

• Band, Song and Record Label logos
• Titles - Band, song/album name
• Track listing
• Copyright Protection logos and information (©, ®, ™)
• Barcode & Price
• DVD details - age certification or 'Parental Advisory: Explicit Content' label
• Pictures - front, back, middle (inside and outside)
• 4-Sided with 2 Spines- 2 pics outside (front/back covers), possibly 2 inside
• 6-Sided with 3 Spines- 3 pics outside (front, middle, back covers), 2 inside, with Production pics or a "Production & Artwork" booklet
• Collector items
• Competition entry forms
• Limited Edition - 'Exclusive DVD included', 'Bonus tracks', or 'uncut version'.

Then, as a class, we also discussed the Contents and Features to be included on the DVD in the DigiPak, depending on whether we had a DVD in the DigiPak or not. We agreed the DVD should showcase the artist.

We have used a 4 piece digipack template, with the inside cover where the CD sits, and another picture to the left of it, and of course the front and back cover.

While being at the bands house we had a chance to take a few pictures of them, and a member of the band has a little brother who also took pictures. We used the pictures of the band practicing in the cellar, and one just against a wall.

Initially the picture on the front is just a silhouette of the band, and I think is brilliant, because it's simple yet effective, instead of overloading the album cover otherwise, it's a good portrayal of the album name, and the way the band would like to be seen.
The back cover runs along the same theme with a black background, keeping it simple. The font is all the same, and grey in colour. With this we have added a bar code, copyright symbol, and track listing.

"Insert Picture"

This is the final copy of what i have done and features the front and back cover, the back of which I've kept quite simple and dark because I think it has all the characteristics of the band. As for the inside, where the CD goes, is a personal picture one of the band members has drawn on paint and shows the lighter side of the band, just being friends, and having a laugh.
Also on the inside is a picture of the band in performance which is quite a nice picture, and I have edited it to the best my possible standard for Photoshop...which is quite poor to be fair.