It's the end of our project and the end of the group, for good! Sad times! However, it's been awesome awesome working together & our hard work has definitely paid off! Thanks to all the teachers for being fab & helping us through all the song-changes and reshoots and problems : )

Goodbye!

Love, Group 4 xx

-THIS BLOG IS NOW CLOSED-

Copyright Clearance

When we decided on our track, Eyes on Fire by Blue Foundation, it had already been released as a single. Because we didn't want to get into any copyright infringement trouble, we emailed the band to ask permission.

We haven't yet had a response, so we went ahead with our music video.

When we uploaded the video to YouTube, we received an email saying that although we had used products owned by Universal, we didn't have to do anything.

Album Cover

This was our first album cover:

but Misses B & D said the inside cover was boring and would be a disappointment after the front cover. As we only wanted some sort of graphic and it was too late to take photos anyway, we used a picture from one of our test shoots of a tree with some crazy colourful wool over it (it's on the blog elsewhere) and made it match the colour scheme of the cover. New cover is below!

We have our name!

Evie

www.myspace.com/eviemusicuk

www.twitter.com/eviemusic

Artist Name!

We're thinking of The Cold Ones as the name of our artist!
We can always change this...

Shot list

Shot List
Do your thang, Mary!
Mia xx

Epic Journeys' Launch

We've decided to go with more of an online release for Epic Journeys, though they will release their album in shops at a later point [which will be discussed later on]. The online release will consist of a few stages:

• Firstly, the new single will be available to download as part of iTunes' Free Download of the Week [similar to Lenka] - raising band awareness, plus, everyone loves a freebie!
• This is likely to be followed by the release of a digital EP with a few tracks off the upcoming album and a few B-sides, available to download from their MySpace/website/iTunes [free/relatively cheap price?]
• Lastly, their album will be available to buy/download online concurrent to its release in shops [May/June-the summer's hot new band!]

Also, while coming up with a band image, we came up with a super-cool marketing strategy for the band. Because the Dr. Martens are part of their signature look, we thought we could have the band design their own Docs, and with each purchase fans are given a special promo code which entitles them to a free download [it could be a song, a ringtone, wallpaper etc]

On the release of the band's album, Epic Journeys will be attending a special signing at HMV's flagship store [Oxford Street], where they will get to meet fans etc. Fans can also get wristbands from behind the counter which admits them to an extra-special acoustic performance session by the band. This is a great way of marketing the band because not only do fans get to meet them, they get to hear them perform, all under one roof, how awesome!

From this it is clear that their third-party affiliates would include:
HMV
Dr. Martens
iTunes

Welcome!

Welcome to our group blog!!

We hope you enjoy the musical treat we have in store for you :)

The group

xoxo