Album cover Part 2

After taking some pictures I used photoshop to edit them, making them sharper and having cool vignette's. I tested and experimented with the effects that I can use on the font and placed it in many positions. Here are the pictures:

Complete Album Cover

We created a survey and asked at least 30 students around the school which album cover they liked the most. In-fact 25/30 said it was the album cover that's bellow the text. Knowing that they like this one the best seems promising as it accentuates an organic/indie feel to our band. We also chose it because it is original and is deemed 'cool' by other students. It contains our band with the logo embedded behind us as if it has been inadvertently printed on a 'Wall'. The band members are all shown to have their own individual fashion and will appeal to certain female audience.

Photo Shoot for the album cover

We had a small photo shoot in school to finalise our idea on the album cover. We decided that we wanted to use a clear but dirty wall to make it simple yet ironic with the name of the band. It makes it seem as if we are controlling what has been going on behind the walls, which may generate many different meanings that will create a hype. We also decided to wear our own clothes that represent each-others qualities. This is purely because we are indie (individual) and like to keep things simple without revealing too many details, unlike synthetic artists who have to be glamorous and design the most revealing yet egocentric album covers to attract an audience. Our poses were influenced from the Kings of Leon, who all stand differently to show their individuality. We also used a background font to go behind our heads, sort of like the Ramones but with a more subtle and embedded look into the wall. Our font is still the same (Floydian) as it looks like a piece of edited graffiti that does not look too eccentric or eye catching. The main focus is to look like we are regular people who do not believe in flaunting everything we make or everything people see.

Email to record label for permission

Cast Choices

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1st Shoot day

Due to un-expected plans our narrative shoot day was interrupted as we found out we had a faulty tape which stopped us from doing it. However the week after we decided to attempt a performance element with the song what went down. We decided to book a studio in Mill Hill as it was cheap and the closest to making the performance element look as real as can be. We set up all the equipment and started to perform. None of us had actually listened carefully to the song so some of our song playing didn't cohere with the music. For example the main chorus includes many elements of techno instruments that have been edited carefully, hence why we weren't able to produce a smooth song and make it look like we are in time with it. We tried to use many different camera angles, such as man close ups of the singers face right up by the microphone just like in the original FOALS video. We also experimented by using many different close - up shots of the instruments, those like the ones in AC/DC's Thunderstruck where the camera is attached to the instrument. We also tried many wide shots of the band that looked decent as we all look like professional organic artists. However there were problems with the camera work, the footage was very out of focus as it was a new camera that we hadn't used before, the lighting we chose gave a very blurry grainy effect that didn't look 100% right as the room was especially dark. Our group was getting tired and quite stressed as were given a short time limit to film the song, so it was rushed at some points which lead to many mistakes that caused hesitations in the filming as well as irregular instrument playing. We also decided to turn the lights off at the beginning of the song which seemed good at the time but was actually a ignorant mistake as the lighting was dark already and we barely were able to see what the singer was saying, therefore it looked very amateur. Overall it wasn't a success but I managed to piece up the video to show that we have done something within this idea, so I incorporated my own type of teaser video of background footage of The Walls working on their new song. This will be shown in the next blog, but regrettably we have decided to change our idea because of this shoot day, due to the miscommunications and time between us, our new idea will not feature the same narrative and we will be filming in school. We will also be choosing a new song so we can make everything a little simpler so we don't spend so much time filming. However this footage didn't go to waste.

A change to our idea