Myspace page

Here is our finished Myspace page in all it's glory:

Here is a link as well

Album Cover Finished

Here is our finished artwork for Tear Down The Flagship's self-titled debut album:

Reflections on Final Draft of the video

Can't say I'm unhappy that the practical part of the coursework is finally over, and it's safe to say we've made a positively delightful promotional package.

I'm so happy about how our final video has come out, especially how we managed to salvage such shoddy lighting over the past 4 weeks. I think we've worked really effectively as a group especially in our decision making and it's made the project go very smoothly (with a few tiny bumps along the way!)

We really managed to capture the energy of our performance and create a strong sense of progression throughout and I'm really looking forward to answering about this in detail in the evaluation stages!

Reflections on the Final Draft of the Album Art

We finished the Album art today. It's looking cracking :)
It took us a long time to change the whole look but keep the same brand image, but we did this through the photography and front cover being of the sea.  I'm really happy with the outcome and feel it was a really good effort :)

Reflections on Final Myspace page

http://www.myspace.com/teardowntheflagship

I'm really happy with how our final myspace has come out, we managed to get in the black and white to colour picture effects with our green screen photo shoot, which went rather well :)
I really like the blue theme we've got going and I'm particularly proud of the waves crashing down on the logo at the top of the page.

We managed to work in a viral marketing campaign, "Design our new t-shirt" as band merchandise is very big right now, with band logos across the chests of  budding teens everywhere, so this idea gives them a sense of relationship between them and the band, while advertising the album, band, and brand image everywhere.

All in all I feel we managed to stick to the conventions of a website/myspace page, but make something that is enjoyable to browse :)

Reflections on first draft of the Album Artwork

We designed our first idea for album art today, sticking with the themes of the myspace.
However Ms B says that she doesn't like how it seems to be all the same sort of artwork as on the myspace.
We'll have to have another look at our designs and see what we can do to change it, but still keep our brand image.

Reflections on first draft of Myspace

Myself and Ben came up with a first draft of our ideas for the myspace page today.  We decided on a Nautical theme using lots of blues and also the waves from Simon's original album art design.  We have decided to go against the standard myspace page using a DIV layout to go on top, thus making a webpage that looks how we want it to, rather than how myspace does.

A cool idea we found from http://www.myspace.com/considerthethief where the pictures turn to colour when you hover over them and are normally black and white.  We liked the way the band members are shown right underneath the top banner and so we have put this into our concept.

We want to expand our page in width as we find the column of information on a standard myspace too thin.
Hopefully the actual myspace will come out how we designed it :)

Reflections on the Edit so far

We've been editing for a little while and it looks like the video is finally coming together.  It was all looking a bit pear shaped so we had a really intensive group meeting about our editing style and things have picked up from there.
I found a really good way of editing which was to find all the clips we needed for each section of the song, sync them up, and cut them all identically in layers to create what looked like a massive grid of shots.  We then put on the "Show Frames" option on premiere and it was like having a giant storyboard of options for every cut.  Its made the editing so quick as its really just a matter of which shot fits the couple of seconds the best.

So far we've done about half the song, having lots of problems with the intro but hopefully they'll be resolved soon.
The slow motion section Simon has done is phenomenal.

Reflections on Captured Footage

We've finally captured all of our footage from the Main Shoot and we've had some mixed reactions.  Matt and Simon both think we need a re-shoot but I'm determined that there is so much we can do with the footage.

From the looks of things we put the exposure way too low meaning that all of our footage is really dark.  However me and Ben have been experimenting with the Luma Curve tool on premiere and reckon with a bit of tweaking we can sort out the shots.

On the plus side, Simon's individuals looks fantastic and this is going to be a key visual hook throughout the video.

Main Shoot Reflections

We had our Main Shoot yesterday and I'm happy to say it went really well.

We managed to get all of our footage in the space of about 8 hours and even though it was an exhausting day I can tell that the performance will come across really well.
I'm really happy with how the set up came out with the huge amp stacks we created and it looks really realistic in terms of genre conventions, so helpful having everybody know how to play the song for that extra perfect convincing look.
Our actors were really good and didn't have any problem with such a long shoot because it was so much fun. We also got loads of opportunities to play around with the new camera, something I'd really been looking forward to doing.
All in all I thought the performance, lighting, angles and in general the way the shoot went was so well executed and I'm really proud of our group!