We are now coming to a close with the final project, I have been working on the digi-pack while Chris has been editing.
We've realised as the deadline draws closer that we have a lot of footage, but not good enough to put in the video, we have had problems with the Mac's at college, meaning it's very hard to edit at the moment, and seeing as we have to be finished soon, we're all quite stressed out. The frames keep 'dropping' meaning the footage isn't smooth and when you play it back there are pauses, and breaks, giving you an overall shoddy piece of work. Chris had done a lot of work in one lesson, but unfortunately the Mac failed to save what he had done, so we were back to where we were, Chris was able to re-do it all to the best of his ability, and I still think it looks great. Chris is doing a great job, as there is only him and I left of our group I think we've done considerately well. Luckily he can edit, I can't to save my life.
A lot of the footage we had shot was at the wrong angle, so predominately the footage we have used is of Jamie in the studio as we had the time, lighting, and no real hurry or distractions. Chris has synced up the footage to the music and it works so well.
All of the footage is raw, rough choppy but all in a good way, it really presents the song well, the Guitars are playing the introduction of the song, then band getting hyped for the performance this includes footage that we got from their Norwich gig when they are setting up and the trip we took there, and parts of band practice, as it's all short clips we need a lot of it to make it flow decently, and the finale which is again more of Jamie in the studio, which is also used throughout the beginning of the video.
It's lucky we filmed when we had because currently the band aren't getting on so well at the moment!!
Saturday, 20 March 2010
Thursday, 4 February 2010
Friday 22nd- Filming in the studio
Today we had the plan for the past week of getting the leader singer from Ten Years, Jamie, to come to the studio so we could film him solo. We had practiced the camera and lighting with Charlie from the group earlier on in the term, and we were set on creating that again and decided it looked professional, it was time we did this with the lead singer. It was too hard to get the whole band in, and being able to move around them is too risky with all the lights, cameras and tripods. So jamie being the lead of the band, just because he's the vocalist, it made sense to have him in the studio.
The plan was he was against the black curtains, but we didn't want to be able to see them, we wanted the appearance of a solid black background with hi9s face well lit up, weather it looks eerie, or glowing.
We played the song "Death" on a CD player, and he would have to mime the words. Thinking it was quite hard, he was immaculate with his lip syncing, and although he messed up a few times, all we were doing was editing the footage and more than half of it was perfectly just what we wanted.
The plan was he was against the black curtains, but we didn't want to be able to see them, we wanted the appearance of a solid black background with hi9s face well lit up, weather it looks eerie, or glowing.
We played the song "Death" on a CD player, and he would have to mime the words. Thinking it was quite hard, he was immaculate with his lip syncing, and although he messed up a few times, all we were doing was editing the footage and more than half of it was perfectly just what we wanted.
Thursday, 14 January 2010
2nd day of filming- Jacks house
We filmed at Jacks today, we got there at 6pm with everything being set up by 7pm we began. We were told they had to finish up at 8pm or around then so we needed, almost, to rush.
They had a new guitar player to our surprise, and the guitarist had brought his younger brother who wanted to do some promo shots of the band. So this room being fairly small had 5 members of the band, a photographer, and Charlie and I filming. Overall 8 of us in this tiny room.
Chris helped bring the equipment over, and then later went before we began filming.
With 2 lights in the room too, they were awfully hot and we had to really pay attention to health and safety as we wanted to be moving them around. There were plenty of wires dragged around the floor. Being a band that jumps around and moves about, most definitely fast paced, we had to be wary of them tripping over, breaking themselves, or equipment.
We decided that getting the new guitarist in wasn't too important as he hasn't been mentioned anywhere else, although we still we be putting him in the video, yet there won't be any information about him, and the past promo shots have been without him, the professionally ones.
We got all the footage we needed to edit, and it turns out we'll take about 5 shots from those two 25 minute videos because they didn't have time to sync the physical playing to the actual song, we so had to do this at a later date. The shots were good but rare, and we got the odd one which we thought would really help symbolise the genre.
We now have a plan for our next filming date in which we have too place the band ourselves, in a particular position so we can easily film them, and get particular shots of them without being too messy, and altogether we'll get twelve sturdy shots of the band.
They had a new guitar player to our surprise, and the guitarist had brought his younger brother who wanted to do some promo shots of the band. So this room being fairly small had 5 members of the band, a photographer, and Charlie and I filming. Overall 8 of us in this tiny room.
Chris helped bring the equipment over, and then later went before we began filming.
With 2 lights in the room too, they were awfully hot and we had to really pay attention to health and safety as we wanted to be moving them around. There were plenty of wires dragged around the floor. Being a band that jumps around and moves about, most definitely fast paced, we had to be wary of them tripping over, breaking themselves, or equipment.
We decided that getting the new guitarist in wasn't too important as he hasn't been mentioned anywhere else, although we still we be putting him in the video, yet there won't be any information about him, and the past promo shots have been without him, the professionally ones.
We got all the footage we needed to edit, and it turns out we'll take about 5 shots from those two 25 minute videos because they didn't have time to sync the physical playing to the actual song, we so had to do this at a later date. The shots were good but rare, and we got the odd one which we thought would really help symbolise the genre.
We now have a plan for our next filming date in which we have too place the band ourselves, in a particular position so we can easily film them, and get particular shots of them without being too messy, and altogether we'll get twelve sturdy shots of the band.
Friday, 8 January 2010
Location to film, Jacks house
Location Finders Checklist
Production Title: Death of a Devil
Shoot Dates: 18th December - 22nd January
Location address-
Location contact: 0786374112
Location contact mobile number and Email: 0786374112
Location telephone: 07957480142
Directions from college to location:
Is the location right for the script: N/A right for our shooting purposes
How noisy is the location? Will recording sync sound be a problem:
Yes it would be, but in this case we're not syncing sound we film and put the track on afterwards
Is the location light enough?: We will need extra lighting
Is there a power supply at the location: Yes
Is the location heated: Yes
How long does it take to get to the location: 45 minutes
How will you get to the location?: Bus or car
How much will it cost to get to the location: £1.30
Is the location big enough to accomodate the cast and crew? : 4 band members, 3 crew, yes, just.
Where are the nearest toilets? : In the house
Notes: Filming in more than one room,and in the street.
 | Suffolk New College Rope Walk Ipswich, IP4 01473 255 885 |
| 1. | Head east on Rope Walk toward Regent St | 59 ft |
| 2. | Turn left at Regent St | 184 ft |
| 3. | Turn left at B1075/ Continue to follow St Helen's St | 0.3 mi |
| 4. | Continue onto A1156/ Continue to follow A1156 Go through 1 roundabout | 0.8 mi |
| 5. | Slight left at B1067 | 2.0 mi |
| 6. | Turn right at Paper Mill Ln | 1.9 mi |
| 7. | At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit | 0.3 mi |
| 8. | Continue straight onto Old Ipswich Rd | 0.1 mi |
| 9. | Continue onto Norwich Rd Destination will be on the left | 0.2 mi |
 | East Of England Co-op 53 Norwich Road Barham, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 0DH  |
Graph results of music genre question
From the chart above, it shows the genre of music on the left, of which there are twelve, and along the bottom are the number of people that chose each genre, altogether we gave the questionnaire to 25 people.
General pop, and pop punk seem to be the most popular amongst the few people we asked. We would decipher pop as the mainstream chart music, whereas pop punk music are bands such as Sum 41 and New Found Glory, which are interestingly fairly old bands.
On the graph those of which don't have a bar at all meant that 0 people preferred that genre. Each person was only allowed one vote, but now we think maybe 2 would have given us a more varied bar graph.
Our pop promo is being based on a hardcore band, now we did purposely stray away from people we assumed would like this genre, hence the result on the graph only being one. So we aren't sceptical about our video being popular, we know people that enjoy this genre. We though including this question although vague may give us a good idea of what the possible audience like. Considering pop punk was joint top I think this gives us an advantage.
One of the questions in the questionnaire was- what does the hardcore genre mean too you?
A lot of people we asked came up with the sensible answers we were praying for. Ideally at this day and age, hardcore is a completely different thing too people of an older generation, but sometimes not even that, people in their twenties and upwards have adapted to what hardcore is at this time. Hardcore as I've mentioned before has been popular during the time of facist yet as time went on the Hardcore used to be a genre of dance music, the kind of music that would be played when you went 'clubbing'. Many albums are still and have been released which is for example called a 'hardcore compilation' which is composed of all the mainstream DJ's and artist to do with dance/techno/trance, in a hardcore way.
I came up with the idea of going onto google, and typing 'Hardcore music' into the search engine, funnily enough the first link was a wikepedia link describing the genre.
- Hardcore, also known as hardcore punk, a sub-genre of punk rock music
- Hardcore techno, a style of electronic music
Another one of the questions featured in the questionnaire was:
Do you prefer a pop promo with narrative (more of a storyline) OR A performance (i.e. dance routine)
For this question, the people were split into two. The answer of 'a performance' had one more vote than the other. So generally they were liked as much as each other. Our video contains a bit of both, maybe not so much a dance routine, but a live performance, it gave us hope that not every video needs to be neat with a continuous story throughout.
We asked why one might prefer a video with performance, their answers were that it shows that artist/band for who they really are. Shows that the band/artist have real energy. They liked the fact that the whole video isn't acted and scripted, as if the band got to really choose what they wanted in the video rather than going by standard strict guidelines.
As for having a promo with a narrative people referred to sad videos mostly, which made us think that when there is a storyline within most videos it is a majority of the time quite sad, as it may be easier to portray a sad story through a video. Also if it were a more en lighting video they would probably include more of a performance. The people we asked enjoyed having a storyline in the video because they felt it could be something they can relate too.
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
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.
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
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
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