Audience Screening!

Today we held the screening of our finished video to get some feedback from members of our target audience and our potential reach. It went really well! We've got some good feedback from our questionnaire (we'll post it up soon) which should really help us for the evaluation!

Technology

The wonderful Group 4 with the equipment we used during the project!

Technology:

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  [Video camera we had?]
  
  
  
• Canon Still Camera
• Microphone
• HD Mini DV Tapes
• Blogger.com
• Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS4
• Pag Lights
• Other small lights
• HTML Code
• Internet
• Google.com
• YouTube.com
• Photobucket.com
• Horsesmouth.co.uk
• Protagonize.com
• Myspace.com

Screening

Hey guys, I've made an event on Facebook for our screening - it's tomorrow at 12.30 right? So yeah... join and I'll make you admins and you can invite more people, wooh.
Click Here
Mia xx

Mia's thoughts:

Can we change the apostrophe at the beginning of 'Girl, Afraid' please? Erm, I don't think it should be exactly the same as the actual album cover but I don't know if I like the effect on the second one... Maybe just having it in black and white or something... but it might not stand out enough. Je ne sais pas!
Mia xx

Record Label Logo

Staple Records

Album Cover

I was thinking about Alice in Wonderland (yet again!) for inspiration for our album cover and found this picture, and we thought something very similar to this would work really well.

Mia says:

I added a few more to that, you might wanna look again :)
but yeah I know haha that's the only thing... but it's the title of a song by The Smiths who are apparently one of our influences... :)

Mia thinks:

Mary, I quite like it, it looks pretty cool, but not really as an album cover... Although if you want to do something like that, like, silhouettey stuff, I was looking at some art earlier by an artist called Jan Pienkowski that I thought about when we talked about these kinds of ideas for the cover, so I'm just gonna post a few good images I found that I really like. Just this type of thing, I don't know, not sure how much it actually fits with our artist... general album art... but I just think they're so beautiful. So enjoy!

...you get the picture(s)!

Mia xx

More on names...

 I was going to suggest Shakespeare's Sister but looked it up and it's already a band...
so thought I'd post the suggestions we were thinking about yesterday.

...yeah sorry, scanner not working, had to take a photograaaph.
But yeah, thinking about other ones, what do people think of any of these:

• Violet
• Silver
• Magenta
• Malice
• January
• May
• June
• Winter Fall
• Autumn (Frost)
• Hail
• Dawn
• Aurora (Latin for Dawn)
• Kaya
• Eden
• Eve
• The Tiger's Bride
• Girl Afraid  ?

Mr Ninkovic gave me a few - Cassandra (Greek, Κασσάνδρα, "she who entangles men") who saw the fall of Troy coming but no one believed her because of a curse; Circe; Calypso (but it sounds a bit happy), a sea nymph who imprisons Odysseus; Alcyone, who threw herself into the sea after her husband was killed but was then turned into a bird along with him; Pasiphae who "took pleasure in becoming an adulteress with a bull" (I reckon steer clear of that one : ]) or Persephone (a.k.a. Kore or Cora), Queen of the Underworld and embodiment of the Earth's fertility - the one who got kidnapped by Hades and ate the pomegranate seeds... Could also be shortened to Sephy?

Mia xx

Shot Lists & Planning Things

These are just photos I took of some of the planning we did when we were writing things down as we discussed them in the group... plus some lovely doodles, of course! There are a few bits from our Fences planning too, like the bit on the left in the pic below, and some of the things in the last picture.

MySpace

We've made the MySpace and we've also a Twitter account for The Cold Ones. Progress :) Haven't really done anything to it yet seeing as we're probably not going to actually use this name, but it's good to actually have a MySpace done and experiment with what we can do a bit...
www.myspace.com/thecoldonesuk 
http://twitter.com/thecoldonesuk
Mia & Selina xx

LOL, you're riDICulous sometimes =P 
I guess we can just try out all the things we discussed. We'll basically be drowning in rain anyway. [Insert more whinging here.] It's gonna come not that long after our DZZZZ moment (for anyone who doesn't speak Mia, the masked figure & girl mirroring each other and the spark and the hands and the blaaah) so I dunno. Also, wasn't that supposed to be representing some sort of change? In which case, we need to work with that more... Like, wasn't it originally going to be the moment they switch/join character or something? But we changed things round a bit. So like, just the girl becoming aware of her alter-ego and taking the steps to do something about it. Apologies, I'm just thinking in-type. Umumum. Maybe she could take the mask off of her and push her to the ground or something... oh but they've already fallen on the ground. I don't know...
And what about the whole going backwards thing?
Yeah, you're just living your life, there's nuffin' crazy 'bout you :)
Ooh that's interesting... any halls of mirrors we have access to? That'd be THE BOMB. But actually when I think about it it would be crap. Ignore. Something to do with the duality of the self.
I think quirky casual but sort of dressy casual, if you know what I mean. I've had style inspirations, I'll fill you in tomorrow :)
Miaaaa xx

[Don't] Bet your bottom dollar...!

12 it is.
Indeed. She did say something about setting up a shoot in school, which we can do, but what are we doing with the background then? If we find the time, which we won't, we could just find other random places if we have a theme of some kind pour le album - and we have to come up with something vaguely related to the tunnel thing if we're using that for the back cover - which can be as tenuous as it's possible to be, really... as long as there's some connection I think...
So yeah, we need to find a time to do that and costuuume.
AND. ENDING. ANYONE???
Mia xx

Weather tomorrow...

Little bit more detail - so it'll be raining on and off when we start.... Also it's heavy rain at 6am tomorrow so it's probably gonna be really nice and muddy and wet - bring umbrellas & maybe someone could bring some sort of sheet to leave all our stuff on.
Also, guess what? The max. temperature has gone up by a whole degree to 13! Yaaay!
Aaanyway. Got more name ideas, and I don't think you actually do have to choose the URL when you sign up for a MySpace, just the name which I'm guessing you can change, and if you can't never mind. Hope no one minds if I set one up now using my email address. I'll just put Group 4 for now or something.
Mia xx

update: you do have to choose a URL.

Tomorrow

Also actually, I'm not gonna be wearing the same dress in the promotional shots am I..? So are we actually going to do them tomorrow, and if so where?
Mia xx

Names

Thanks Miss B & Mrs D! Yeah, I'd like to use a character name, I was thinking about old Greek myths and stuff, but yeah, I'll have another little brainstorm and then we can all pool our ideas together and come up with something SPECTACULAR.
And about the Violent Delights thing - before Mary gets all annoyed about New Moon, it's Romeo and Juliet! But yeah, Violent Desires... That probably also means there are other good things like that we could take from old Shakespeare. It would go with our artist....
ALSO, for tomorrow:

• GROUP PICTURE
• ending (which we need to decide precisely on!)
• promotional shots for ALBUM COVER and MySpace
• maybe a bit of a video diary thing in character to put on the MySpace or something?
• RAIN. If it's going to be raining - which it is for most of the day it seems - we need to utilise this; might just be light rain though which will just be a nuisance, although a little less likely to give us pneumonia

Are we meeting at 12 or 12.30, and at the location or at Oakwood Station?
Mia xx

Mia wishes to announce:

I'm not going to be here on Friday because I'm going to a lovely posh school for Latin lectures and so won't be in :( Don't miss me too much! Hohoho xxx

Project Progress

We really need to start thinking more about the band website and the album cover; I suggest a BRAINSTORM SESH to that effect, yeah, YEAH!
Also, as we had to cut the song down from about 5 minutes (we've got it to about 3.35), I thought it would be a good idea to do another lyrics breakdown with all the timecodes ammended, as well as some of the lyrics we've now removed so I've done that... Hopefully it'll make things a bit easier :)
Mia xxx

P-P-P-Pictures

REAL TUNNEL SHOOT NUMBER TWO

Selina bringing out the shot list!

"I can put my whole fist in my mouth... wanna see?"

Trying to get to Diagon Alley...

EYES ON FIRE. YEAH.

Loving the temperature.

(Trying to be) keeping warm with tealights...

Selina is an old woman.

Bhavika is thinking about me running in slo-mo...

Mary is perturbed.

Mia is crazy.

Mmm, lovely tunnel walls... if I could use one word to describe them, it would definitely be clean. (Sarcasm, btw.)