Friday, 10 September 2010
Initial ideas
In the build up to my bad I came up with a band history, just as an idea on who they were and what they went through as well as how they met.
Theodore-Jackson also known as Teddy and James-Anthony were originally in a cult math rock band called The Revolvers, didn’t gain much media interest. The band was dismembered after they claimed that things had become “to serious” and they wanted to have more “fun making there own music”.
Waldo and Otto were part of a small band in Bournemouth called Foot Meets Face; they first met and formed there small yet to be a huge success at an all boy’s school called Rugby. They played in small venues in and around the location of Rugby first at small pubs then when the word of there band was flouting around they then moved to bars, just trying to make a name for them self’s. Then they gained the opportunity to do a recording of a debut E.P. in Hall; after playing at a Truck Festival.
In 2003 they parted to go there separate ways to find new carers.
Guitarist Otto-Wackhew changed his name to Ottow-Jackson after many years of grief from his peers at school and college, is the only member of the band that completed his degree at the college of North West London. Each of the band members quit there respective universities including Teddy and James leaving there English courses at Bournemouth University when the band got signed to XL Recordings in London by Bill Perkis.
The lead singer of The Angle Range also known as Block Party heard some of Waldo and Otto’s music from Bournemouth as well as Teddy and Jackson’s from there band called The Revolvers, give the record label XL Recordings a heads up about the band members that he heard.
When they made there first song in 2007 called Infinity, it was a mix between electro, with more pop and rock as well as drum and bass. The song was a hit in the summer of 2007.
The bands musical influences are varied, with the band members citing minimal techno, Ather Russle, fat boy slim, knout rock band such as hormonix, talking heads and manijunava as well as the jester as the main source of there inspiration, as well as the ever developing music type, there musical style however, can be more directly linked to various genres such as indie rock, drum and bass,electro, punk dace, math rock, dub step and techno.
In early Autumn after there first song called infinity in the summer of 2007 they then started produced there debut album. It was produced by Dave Sitek who during the time period was also working with a band called The Foals. The band however, decided to mix the album them self’s in the end starting that Sitek made the first master copy of the album.
Jackson has started multiple times during various interviews that regardless of the speculation of how the first album was going to and how the public were going to react.
They realest there debut album entitled the arch enemy's on the 27th June 2008 in the UK and in the Autumn the 12th 2008.
The album was a commercial success in the United Kingdom, regardless of what some of the records thought, the debuting at #3rd in the UK album chart.
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american rock inflences
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8JpqFh6TAw
The idea for this song was to have all four band members dressed in suits
the first ideas were to make the charicters to look a little like this.
Another idea we had, was to use the drum and bass genre and add in more or increase the
volume of guitars / drums used in the tracks, for example we thought we could use Watercolour by Pendulum and have our band perform in a white box whilst in slow motion paint balloons get thrown and dropped on them. We thought it would be visually exciting if we shot it in slow motion from different angles, for example we thought about tilting the camera directly up into the air and place cling film or a glass cover over the top and film a balloon hitting it in slow motion.
Stop motion (also known as stop action or frame-by-frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence.
Another idea we had was to use stop frame animation. For this we looked up videos on youtube for inspiration and to see how it was done.
We all really like the idea of using stop frame animation in the same way as 'The Pen story'.
We looked up similar videos to see how it was done in different ways so we could decide what would suit our pop promo the best. Here are some of the videos i've found so far including a video on how they did 'The GIANT pen story'.
This is another way of using stop frame animation that we liked. This one is still shot with cameras but then each photo isn't laid out after one and other and photographed again like 'The Pen Story'! Here the photos have just been played one after another without see the boarder and solid picture in the frame itself.
I have also included how they made this music video too.
We want to animate 'Now is Everyone' in this way creating a kind of story. We like the way 'the pen story' goes around a room which has inspired us to possibly do something similar.
However, the only floor with this idea is that it may not work and may take too long. We only have one day to film so it may be impossible to accomplish. this is not going to happen, so we are trying to come up with another way, still use the same sort of idea but have the stop motion part still in there but not all the way through.
this is one of the best kind of music ideas that i have seen in a long time, the way that is has been edited is amazing, the way that the have edited to look as if it is in stop motion, then jumping from computer screen to computer screen. clever stuff. take a look for your self's.
http://www.myspace.com/nowiseveryone/videos/video/102862406
Now Is Everyone MySpace Video
Above are images of the band we are making a pop video for. They are called 'Now is Everyone'.
Here is some initial information on them...
Members:
Elliot Henson - Vocals + Keyboard
Joe Colley - Bass
Kris Bell - Guitar
Will Phipps - Drums
Genre:
Rock/Alternative
Hometown:
Farnham
They are a very new band and haven't quite worked out their image which makes this project exciting for us because we are going to have to work from scratch and create and promote this band for REAL instea of pretend.
A look at sub genres
Music can be divided into many genres in many different ways. Due to the different purposes behind them and the different points of view from which they are made, these classifications are often arbitrary and controversial and closely related genres often overlap. Many do not believe that generic classification of musical genres is possible in any logically consistent way, and also argue that doing so sets limitations and boundaries that hinder the development of music. While no one doubts that it is possible to note similarities between musical pieces.
