Website in Construction

This is the website so far. Looking good.

Music Video Editing Update

After the video shoot last Saturday, we came away with enough footage to put together the final couple of scenes for our music video. This includes the meeting of the band and the main character, and the final realisation of the mother that her child has been a victim of an accident. This is where the music video will end.
So far, we have around 55 seconds of video edited to a high standard. I think it's going pretty well. Whilst I am editing the footage we have so far, Ewan is busy creating the main bulk of the website, ready for this weekend when we do a photoshoot for the CD cover. These photos will also be used for the website, as a news feed post.
There are a couple of shots in the footage we have so far that we may consider re-shooting at a later date, but from now on our main focus will be on the CD cover and website, until the deadline for these has passed on 15th December.

Past Students CD Covers 1

This is an example of a high quality piece of past student work. I agree with the high mark as I think it is a great, eye catching design. The students have obviously taken their own photos, but they are well framed and placed. The idea of having the back of the photoframe on the back of the cover is a novel idea and a nice touch. The inside is just as good, creating a real old style indie image that doesn't over egg the visual pudding, but is still nice to look at.

Past Student Websites 1

 So this is the webpage for an artist called Daft Punk. The logo is further up the top and I couldn't fit it in. I think the use of colours is very reminiscent of all the 00's scene kid electro type music, so obviously appeals to the right audience. The overall colour scheme and look also melds well with the actual video. The section on the right showing fan comments is a nice touch and a nod to the interactivity that band pages offer these days.

CD Cover Mockup Idea 2

This is a second mock up I made, taking an art style I really like from an online game called Daymare Town. While I have never played the game, I feel the art style is really atmospheric and what we want. Like the last mockup, it's in keeping with Blink's recent cover art, but we still have our own spin on it. As this is from the Internet we can't use it, but I will be borrowing heavily from this art style.

CD Cover Mockup Idea 1

So this is a mockup I did on photoshop based on Sarah's design. Obviously we can't use this because the images and font are all from the internet, but I wanted to show the idea of a prominently hand drawn cover, black and white, to go with the covers of Up All Night and Neighborhoods. 

Potential Fonts.

When making our CD cover and website, it is vital to think about appropriate fonts that could be used for promoting the band and the image that comes attached to them.
Blink-182 have a very distinctive font, that is recognisable as being related to them as a band. When re-designing this blog page, I looked up the font that they use on their album covers and such like and found it to be a font called "Resurrection". I downloaded it from Dafont.com and used it for the header on this blog page. As you can see below, it is the same font that they use on their album "Blink-182":

It is worth considering using this font for our website also, as it definitely puts across the image of Blink-182 and makes our webpage immediately recognisable as their own.