Member Change

Changing the band members:

We have had to change the members of the band due to the lead singer not being able to make all of the deadlines for the shooting arrangements. This means that we had to change the band and add someone else into the band to cover for the lead singer. This also meant that we have had to change our already shot pieces of work, and we have to reshoot.

We have a couple of options, one of the options is to have our friend Terry be the guitarist of the band and delete all of our already shot guitar pieces with our original guitarist,Max, or we have the option to replace the lead singer with me or Terry, making the guitar shots completely acceptable to keep.We have decided to use Terry as the lead singer 

Guitar:Max

Lead Singer:Terry

Drums:Shaun

2nd Draft of Digi-Pak

2nd Draft of Digi-Pak

 

The second draft of  my digi-pak looks a lot better than the original one. This is because I have made all of the changes which were suggested, including changing the tree and the contrast and changing the two covers which needed to be changed.

This has allowed me to tweak  my idea in order to get a better finished piece, I am saying this because I had to change the left cover and in order to change it I needed to come up with an interesting idea, the idea changed from having the band appear on the cover and throughout the digi-pak to having no images of the band within the digi-pak. I was asked whether this will work or not and I believe that it will. This is because throughout a variety of C-D's and digi-pak's of similar genres there are rarely any mentions of the band within images. This is what inspired my digi-pak, since I saw all of the other ones did not show any images of any members of the band, I believed that I would much prefer mine to tell a story and show the suffering of another in order to get a true representation of who Tear Down really are.

 

The only criticism I have received which I do not know how to rectify Is the fact that not many people like my text on the front cover or its positioning, I do not know what font to use or where the placement of the album name should be. This is making the progression on my front cover harder than any other since I cannot decide on a solid photo, font and placement o my text.

First Draft of Digi-Pak

First draft of Digi-pak

This is the first draft of my Digi-pak and from this I have made more progression with my work. This has allowed me to get feedback on the work meaning I can look at all of the feedback and decide what changes I need to make.

Everyone in the class gave criticism toward my Digi-Pak, but it has allowed me to see what people thought was wrong with it. This allows me to make the changes, which I need to in order to make the Digi-Pak more appealing to the audience.

The usual comments were that i needed to change the front panel, since it was too dark and not visible enough. I also needed to change the left cover panel and also the inside cover panel. This was because the inside cover looked too much like it belonged on a indie album. The left cover was not clear enough and although it had all three band members in the frame they could not be seen since the image was too dark, it was not working so it had to be changed.

I was very pleased with my first draft since not much needed changing and people seemed to like the general idea which i had going on. This allowed me to only change a couple of panels and make my album look better.

Band Profile

This is the rough idea as to what some of our band members will be wearing. We have decided to take the traditional look of grunge and add a modern feel. This will help adhere to the modern "grungers".

Costume elaboration

Costumes:

After a discussion with my teacher I have looked further into the idea of the grunge style.  For this I have looked at bands such as Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Sound Garden. These three bands were very big in the 90's grunge scene and that is why they are the prime bands to look at. I have discovered that many grunge bands wear a lot of dark and loose fitting clothing and many have checkered patterns on them such as this.



This means we will need to experiment with our bands clothing a bit more but our final piece should look a little like one of the original bands but with a modern twist. To do this we will need to take elements from all of the old bands and their clothing and appearance and incorporate this into our band to get a finished piece, which looks similar to this.

Mood Board

Mood board

Possible ideas for the Bands appearance

Bands appearance:

Here I am going to talk about the possible ideas of the bands appearance. We want the band to look from the genre of grunge but at the same time we want them to look normal to show there is really no difference between people who like this the of music compared to someone who likes R&B, showing that the only reason why they are different is because they are not understood and are treated as outcasts so that is what they will become.

Things that the band members should have:

1. Possible piercings.
2. Some tattoos (not too extreme).
3. Love of the music genre (e.g. tops and other things promoting their band or other bands).
4. Some sense of grunge dress sense (maybe coat or shoes).
5. every one has been through pain and everyone of them has been or is still not understood.
6. Dark hair and longer than normal if possible.

This is what grunge used to loo like for the band Seether:

Notice the long hair and unusually dark clothing and especial the unique hair styles which each of them have. They all want to express themselves in different ways in order to give themselves their own identity. However since then the band has moved forward with the times and has adapted new styles with this. They have attempted to get their selves out of the depressive feel of music and now have a more upbeat turn to their music.

They now appear at concerts looking like this:

They have changed with the times and now look more acceptable within society and this is because they are fed up with setting a negative stereotype for the genre of grudge. Many of the band member have been though troubles but have seen the brighter side of life and now produce music not for people who want to be depressed but for people who wan a change in their life. With their change of appearance their style of music and meaning has also changed.

This is what we want our band to follow, setting new trends instead of adhering to old ones. The photo of Seether above is what we are going to base our appearance of our band members on. This is because we have a similar meaning in our music as they do making them ideal for what we want to do. 

Production Log

This is the production log for my band, Tear Down. The band focuses on the genre of post- Grunge and alternative, which makes my group’s job hard to find the specific element of post-grunge. It is difficult since it is such a niche genre and audience to the band but does open up the possibilities of new ideas.

Plans for Location:

For the location my group and me plan on setting up a dark area, which is lit by candlelight giving it the lowest key lighting possible. We have a friend with a shed that we can use in order to make some of the video in which our band members will feature. We will not show anything else happening in this scene except for the band members playing their instruments and the lead singer singing and pro forming other actions such as looking at old photos and enjoying his solitude. We need to find a wooded area where we can shoot individual scenes just showing the lead singer. This is because we chosen the song based on the backstory and past of our lead singer therefore it technically is his story.

Costumes:

We have had a real struggle when dealing with the costume design since it is such a niche genre the band does not seem to wear to "grungy “of an outfit but do not dress as casual as someone doing a here such as R&B.  Means we have to get the happy medium between the two. We have decided on going with the ideal black theme so this includes hints such as leather jackets and trench coats but not going any further with the jet black hair or anything along them lines. In a way we have attempted to make the band loo normal but make their style of music different in hope that others will not judge the genre based on a certain few with the black and the constantly depressed feel to the music.

Actors:

We had some trouble again with the actors since many of the people who were originally willing to help me have decided to back out. This has caused problems and has made us result to using one of my friends from outside of the school. This will cause problems if we need to use any of the equipment, which cannot be taken, out of the school since I cannot bring people in who do not attend the school. We have only decided to go with three people within the band in order to save the time of not only us but also others who are going to be used within the scene. We have accepted the help of a friend who is also studying media in return that we help him and we have also enlisted my friend from outside of the school, we have decided that in order to build up numbers of the "band" I am going to be placed within the sequence as well.

When it comes to the actors we have attempted to keep the feel of grunge by keeping the long hair of one friend and the piecing’s of another, as of me I will need to dress myself up to look the part in order not to stick out within the video. We nee to do one job and that is we need to convince the audience that we can preform the part as well as an actually band.

Checklist:

We haven't got many things for our checklist but what we have got is not very major and can be acquired with ease.

1  All band members

2  A garage to place our scene

3  Some "grungy" and black clothing

4  Possibly some black hairspray and fake piercings 

5  Some possible wooded area locations to acquire