Marketing ideas

Today i brainstormed ideas for how we could market our artist
they include:

- contestant slot on Never Mind The Buzzcocks
- features in the Metro
- attempt to get interviews in NME and Kerrang! (send them the album)
- secure supporting artist slot on The Academy Is...'s tour
- play venues such as Camden Underworld and Brixton Academy
- try and get slots on DJ's radio shows (realting to genre i.e. Mike Davies on radio 1)

Editing

Unfortunately the both myself and matt have very different ideas in terms of the direction of the idea and have therefore decided to part from max and mike and make our own video. We feel that both groups will have much more creative freedom in this way and therefore we will be able to create a more effective video. We will also comment on the progress of eachother's video and use aspects of their video to further our own.

Weekend shoot

I think our final weekend shoot went pretty well. We got quite alot done, the matt body stuff and the performance stuff. We shot the perofrmance atleast 3 times, each time with a different style (ie a calm performance, a cheeky confident one, and an aggressive one). However we still need to shoot the baseball bat footage such as the smahing of the telly which we might do in an alleyway near max's house.

Performance style

A lot of the main character's performance style has been derived from Keith Flint of 'The Prodigy'. The most inspiring performance is probably from the video for their single 'Firestarter' in which we see Flint in a abandoned tube tunnel. His punk dancing and rebellious style really suited the performance style we wished to create and I found it useful to watch this video before performing to visualise the aggression I would be attempting to create.

BLK feedback

some great postings/ideas here liam - well done

writing on screen

I think matt had an idea earlier about the singer in the abnd writing on the screen (as if he were writing on the wall). Whereas he thought it would be better to remove the words each time we go back to this shot, ie having only one word on the screen each time, i thought it would be better if we gradually fill the screen up with writing.

I think the style also works for this video, in which Kanye west writes on the screen aswell as words appearing on the screen when he sings them.
Kanye West - Good Life

Logo

I think that it important for our band to have a recognisable logo, as this could enhance the image and reputation of the band. It could also help marketing as we could create stickers, tshirts and adverts involving the logo, to create word of mouth discussion about the band.

Some band who have had success with logos include:

His Infernal Majesty

Nirvana

Blink-182