1st Poster Ideas For Our Band

This post is going to show the process in which I designed the bands tour poster. They all consist of a brick wall with some shining light on it, which connotes that there is something exciting on the other side as well as cohering with the name 'The Walls'. Also it hints some of the songs true meanings 'there is an end to everything, both good and bad'. It is a simple poster that doesn't require a lot of editing and synthetic looks. Purely because we are an individual band without a super high budget meaning we don't get professionals to get things done. We also wanted the brick wall to show an urban style of life as it transcends the idea of indie music, everything isn't perfect. In the future we hope to add our band to the posters/tour posters to give the audience an idea of what music we present.

Our New Logo

We have decided to change our logo font to Floydian as it is a more organic style font that suits the band as a whole. It's simple, smooth and suggests that the band isn't trying to heavily sell themselves to a particularly main stream audience. It will contrast the light and the dark sides of life in our day an age and the colours seem to relate to our previous media project giving us inspiration. The un-even writing represents how our music is independently different in every aspect, giving it an organic name. We will be using this font in our posters as well as our album cover in the future.

 

Our Target Audience Facebook Profile

This is an example of the type of person who would listen to The Walls

Risk Assessment

During the course of shooting our music video, which will be separated into two (working) days – one for filming the bands performance element of the video and the other for the main narrative. As well as this, a lot of our music video will be filmed in public which means you cannot guarantee the conditions when will film so precautions have to be taken.  There are many risks that needed to be assessed prior to the film day to ensure everything runs smoothly with no injuries occurring. I will present these risks in relation to our music video timeline.

Risk	Action Carried Out
Water from crashing cymbal could affect the electrics or camera lens	Filmed from slightly further out (using zoom) – drummer took precaution when filming this shoot.
As the narrative requires the boy to stumble out of the house steps – he could trip over and fall	The actor didn’t rush the action and took precaution whilst filming it
The scene where the father throws the guitar could hit someone or another car, or even fall out of the window during the action	We made sure he didn’t rush the action and took precautions. Also made sure there was no-one near (nor car) the line of fire
The low-angle shot where we have to film out the window the risk here is that the camera could fall out and break	The action carried out it is that we tightened the wrist strap to keep the camera more firm
Boy could trip up when running away from the house	Made sure his lace were tied up and took any further precautions, e.g. cleared any large rocks on the floor
In the scene where the boy meets up with the drug-dealer at the top of railway bridge – could slip if surface is wet	Made sure the surface wasn’t wet/take further precautions such as no fast paced movements that could cause any injuries
When the boy is sneaking upstairs he may trip and fall	We will make sure that when the boy is walking up the stairs he is making sure where he is going
The ‘fighting’ scene, which occurs on the same bridge, has similar risks and therefore similar actions need to be carried out to ensure no danger. The fighting could cause injury if done incorrectly	The fighting will be rehearsed and carefully done – the filming will be shot from far away to make it look realistic but also to ensure no close contact needed – limiting risks
When plugging in the instruments, they could get electrocuted.	Just make sure electrics are off when  you plug the cables in and then turn it on

After following these risk assessments we will have a risk free shoot day with no anomalies taking place. 

Jake Bugg Album Cover

Ramones Album Cover

Oasis Album Cover

Bands Similar To Ours - Kings of Leon

Kings Of Leon are an American rock band who stand out as an organic band. We can see this in the picture as the band members are not looking directly into the camera lens which showcases their counter-type to traditional synthetic rock bands. Three of the four band members are wearing dark clothing which signifies how they are less interested about their image such as pleasing teenage girls, which seems to be the focus from synthetic rock band's record companies. In our band we will have similarities with Kings Of Leon as the lead singer is going to be topless, with the rest of the band wearing organic and dark clothing in order to showcase a persona of traditional heavy rock.

The image above is in grey-scale which demonstrates how the band are organic and do not appeal to a female audience, as they accentuate their male star image. We can see that some band members have their hands in their pockets which shows how the band are very organic by the way they stand up. Their clothes  look different and the band members maintain a serious face towards the camera to portray their originality and how they conform to stereotypical rock bands who look very disconcerted, dark and sinister. Our band will be similar to this since we will be dressed differently and will have organic faces towards the camera in order to convey the rock image of our band.




The CD covers tend to be plain black with an image in the middle, which does not refer to the band or its members. The band's name is at the top in small text which conveys how the band aren't selling themselves by their name and are organic in the choice of image that they choose to be in the middle. Our CD cover will definitely feature some aspects of graphically designed images such as the ones that Kings of Leon have in their CD covers.



The website is vibrant and interactive, with animation being used in the main body of the website. The band have used a unique and organic look that is portrayed in their website since it differs from many other band's websites, including The 1975. Our website will most likely not feature use of animation, however the design can definitely give us ideas as to how we layout our website.

Fake Tales Of San Francisco

Rudimental - Not Giving In Analysis

Jake Bugg Analysis

 
As a group we analysed a similar music video to our own.

 

The Change Of Our Song

We realised that our timeline sticks to a 3 minute song and that the song itself is 5 minutes. By resolving this, I edited and cut our song in Magix Music Maker Pro so that it could fit in with the timeline.

The top screenshot shows the original song and the part being taken out so that it will fit the timeline. The second screenshot shows the same songs but the top row being the new edited one and the bottom as the original.

History Of Indie Rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Indie rock was extremely diverse, with subgenres that include pop, jangle, and lo-fi, among others. Originally used to describe record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. As grunge and punk revival bands in the US, and then Britpop bands in the UK, broke into the mainstream in the 1990s, it came to be used to identify those acts that retained an outsider and underground perspective. In the 2000s, as a result of changes in the music industry and the growing importance of the Internet, a number of indie rock acts began to enjoy commercial success, leading to questions about its meaningfulness as a term.

In the mid-1980s, the term "indie" began to be used to describe the music produced on punk and post-punk labels. A number of prominent indie rock record labels were founded during the 1980s. During the 1990s, Grunge bands broke into the mainstream, and the term "alternative" lost its original counter-cultural meaning. The term "indie rock" became associated with the bands and genres that remained dedicated to their independent status. By the end of the 1990s indie rock developed a number of subgenres and related styles. Following indie pop these included lo-fi, noise pop, emo, sadcore, post-rock, space rock and math rock. In the 2000s, changes in the music industry and in music technology enabled a new wave of indie rock bands to achieve mainstream success.

In the early 2000s, a new group of bands that played a stripped-down and back-to-basics version of guitar rock emerged into the mainstream. The commercial breakthrough from these scenes was led by four bands: The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Hives and The Vines. Emo also broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s. By the end of the 2000s the proliferation of indie bands was being referred to as "indie landfill".Indietronica took off in the new millennium as digital technology developed, with acts including Broadcast from the UK, Justice from France, Lali Puna from Germany and The Postal Service, Ratatat, and BOBBY from the USA.

Our First Ideas Of Our Album Cover

These are our first attempts of making an album cover for our band. We want it to be a simple yet organic cover that doesn't reveal too much about us but at least gives the audience a glimpse of what our music genre is. The brick wall in the background is just to show emphasis of the name as well as the music.It connotes that there is something behind it awaiting to be presented. The album is called 'Look Behind'. The filters give a certain authenticity to the cover and the guitar shows off the genre. However this is the start of the cover and we want to accentuate the originality by adding the band to the cover and making it seem as we are bringing the old into the new. An example of this is with the Ramones album.

We would like to feature the band to make it more appealing and that the public gets a better sense of what the album is really about. Also we will use a simple filter that coheres with the video's authentic grainy look and not making it too sharp. We want to make the cover as realistic as possible so we are going to go on a photoshoot and find the best place to photograph the band.

Our Music Video Timeline

Time	Shot description	Camera/Editing Techniques
0:00	Black flickers to old fashioned countdown (5s countdown after 1s of black flickers) b&w	-
0:06	Dean signing first line (Col) grainy	Close up
0:09	Still running shot of busy rundown urban area – each crash (b&w) shows name of band and song (0.5s each)	Still shot
0:11	Shots of the singer and band playing (col) grainy	Close up
0:14	Quick cuts of run down areas	Still shots
0:16	Shots of band and singer (col) grainy	Close up
0:19	Shots of individual instruments (guitar , bass and drums with water)	Medium shot / close up
0:21	Band playing all together (col) grainy	Wide shot
0:24	2 cuts from angles of the house and boy slams the door on the last bang	Wide/ medium
0:26	Boy stumbles out the house	Medium
0:31	Close up of angry dad throwing guitar out the window	Close up and high angle to give dad power
0:35	Low angle shot as boy picks up guitar and curses at dad	Low angle shot
0:42	Boy runs away from the house	Tracking shot
0:47	Stops running, shown out of breath, gets a text from the dealer	static shot to close up
0:50	Eyeline match of the phone	Eyeline match
0:53	Pop-ups of text conversation on where to meet	Close up and pop ups
0:58	Boy looks up at shop window of guitar	Over the shoulder and close up
1:01	Owner shoos boy away	Ots or medium
1:04	Boy puts hood on	Close up
1:07	Boy jogs off to meet up location	Tracking shot/ from behind shot
1:11	Pan of rundown location (train in canons)	Pan
1:15	Shots of the dealer	Medium, low angle
1:18	Dealer gives boy money to deliver	Shot reverse shot
1:23	Dealer pats the boy in a patronizing way	Over the shoulder
1:26	Boy walks away with money in pocket	Static shot
1:29	Boy goes to walk past guitar shop, turns walks back and looks at guitar	Medium shot
1:33	Boy pulls money out of pocket	Eyeline match
1:34	Boy looks at guitar	Eyeline match
1:35	Boy looks at money again	Eyeline match
1:37	Boy walks into shop to buy guitar	Eyeline match to pan
1:39	Shot from inside the shop as boy hands owner the same money he just received from dealer	Eyeline match and over the shoulder
1:41	Boy walks out of shop and past camera	Static shot
1:44	Shot from inside the house as boy walks in and quietly shuts the door	Still shot
1:47	Shot from lounge door of boy walking up stairs	Pan
1:49	Boy looks into lounge and sees dad passed out with bottle of alcohol as he is sneaking guitar upstairs, (tv is only lighting in lounge?) and back to boy walking upstairs	Shot reverse shot
1:53	Boy sitting on end of his bed just playing some chords	Medium shot
1:57	Cuts straight to another day of boy walking home from school	Tracking shot from infront of boy
1:59	Boy walks onto bridge and sees one of the dealers and goes to turn back but other dealer is already behind him, medium shot of dealer making money sign because boy didn’t deliver it, sugar glass bottle or knife	Long shot, Low angle and high angles and shot reverse shot – fast paced
2:01	Quick cuts of them beating the boy	Close ups
2:05	Boy gets up with blood on his face	Long/wide shot – the more zoomed out, the worse the acting can be.
2:07	Boy starts walking away	Still shot – boy walks away from camera
2:11	Cut to outside a restaurant boy walks in	Still shot
2:13	Boy walks into a toilet and looks in the mirror	Close up
2:16	Boy bends over to wash his face	Close up
2:18	Boy lifts his face up as dean – wearing clothes he would for the band with an apron round his waist	Close up
2:20	Dean leaves the loo after checking his hair	Close up
2:22	Dean takes the order of a table to show he has now changed his life around has a job.	Shot reverse shot, eyeline match to pad where he writes order
2:26	He hands order in, takes his apron off and pulls out guitar from behind counter	Medium shot
2:30	Starts running out the restaraunt	Pan
2:33	Cut to outside edgware station	Wide shot to show location
2:36	Kieran waiting outside edgware station twirling his drum sticks	Medium/ close up
2:38	Over the shoulder of dean running to the station and high fives kieran	Over the shoulder and medium
2:42	They turn around and james has pulled up outside with joe in the car and tells them to get in instruements in the boot to highlight their organic nature	Close up to james and joe
2:45	Dean and Kieran run and get in the car, all smiling and drive off	Medium shot
2:49	Different shots of the rehearsal studio i.e sofa, instruments	Pan
2:51	Cut to band plugging instruments and tuning	Close ups of amps and instruments
2:54	Cut shots of them laughing and talking	Medium shots
2:56	Band play out the rest of the song	Wide shot with another close cuts of band members and emphasis on dean being successful in his dream
3:11	pan across to tour poster and zoom in and comes into focus	Pan,zoom, focus