Vinyl- the colouring process

Hi guys, so today has been eventful. Me and Connor decided to try colouring a vinyl.
We did this by purchasing a vinyl, and spraying it with acrylic paint- it turned out really well....

Just to add, we did this outside, as the acrylic spray has many dangers. Additionally, we recorded our step by step process,  to give you an idea of how we achieved this look. We used the Nikon coolpix bridge camera and Windows movie maker to edit it all together- enjoy :)

Vinyl research

Hey guys, so I did a little more research on the use of vinyl and also included some information about Hepworth's theory- be sure to click the link and check it out...

                                                                      

                                                                          Vinyl research

Our vinyl draft

Hi everyone, so Me and Connor decided to create a vinyl draft, to scale (12 inches), in order to give us a rough idea of how it would look, and design ideas, here is our draft with explanations...

Vinyl usage research

Hi guys, I thought I’d carry out research on vinyl usage and how people in the 21st century have started to use vinyl's again. This research supports Mine and Connors decision to create a vinyl.



I gathered my research from http://techgeek.com.au/2013/08/15/why-is-vinyl-becoming-popular/

Vinyl designs research

Hi guys, so Me and Connor have been thinking that although we want to create a vinyl, we need to focus on the design, however, the designs are endless. We recently just researched a few design ideas that we may want to create...

Our two favourites were the simple sleeve pocket and a album that opened up.

1) Me and Connor really liked the simplicity of the sleeve pocket idea. We would still use our initial cut out idea we had, where the foreigner icons on our album cover would be cut out and buyers would be able to see the record. We then thought about adding a information booklet at the back of the record, which would include information on the songs, and other information on the band.

 2) Additionally, Me and Connor like The Beatles album and how it opened up and presented two pockets, both with information packages and vinyl's. We really liked this idea as it was different to any other album we had seen. We also liked the extra details such as the images. However, we feel that this idea would be difficult to achieve, as our band is just starting out, and so hasn't got much of a history to present on the album.

Me and Connor have decided to go with option 1, as it will be much easier to achieve due to our band just starting up. Option 2 requires a band history, which we simply don't have.
Additionally, Me and Connor found a website that enables users to download templates, this helps us a lot when trying to size our album, as it gives us the correct measurements. 

(here is the site which we used; http://www.cravedog.com/pages/templates.php)

Vinyl idea #2

So guys, I recently mentioned that Me and Connor wanted to create a vinyl for our album. We've discussed a few options in order to make our vinyl cover stand out.

1) Me and Connor came up with the idea of making the 'Foreigners' on the front of our album cover made out of wood. We thought it'd look effective if the Foreigners were not 2D but 3D pieces of wood in the shape of the outline on our album. This was the first idea we came up with which meant it had a few faults. Although this would look great being 3D it does face a few issues, one being that they could fall off completely, which wouldn't be appropriate as it's an album.

2) Instead we came up with a second idea. We wanted to focus on the Foreigner, that's why we came up with the wooden idea. Instead we thought of making the foreigner icons completely transparent. By doing this, it would mean people would see the vinyl itself. We felt in order to make this stand out more, we would make the vinyl all white in order to seem like a cloud matching our sky theme.

3) As I mentioned in point 2, Me and Connor wanted to make a colourful vinyl as it will be visible. We came up with multiple ideas, one being creating a sky look matching our front cover. We would do this by spray painting our vinyl a sky blue colour. Then using a white paint to create cloud shapes. Although this may be very difficult to achieve, we feel it would look great in contrast with the front cover of our album.

I'll keep you updated on our progress...

Location change

Hey guys, so we have received an email back from Chesterfield bowl and they said we could film there....

I thought I'd put together a small slideshow of Chesterfield bowl so you could have an idea as to what was there- there is a small arcade within Chesterfield bowl so we can still add aspects of an arcade within the  music video.

No title - Kizoa Movie - Video - Slideshow Maker

Risk assessment

Hi guys, so Me and Connor have just completed our risk assessment for our music video. Throughout our video, we do face a few risks, so we felt it was essential to carry out an assessment.

Vinyl analysis

Hi guys, so I've recently had a look at a few vinyl albums in order to gather some inspiration for mine and Connors vinyl. My favourite out of the 4 I looked at was The Beatles album so I decided to complete an analysis on this, here it is...

Vinyl analysis from 10lowean

Motion tracking- review

Hi everyone, so here is my review on motion tracking, and also what Me and Connor achieved, enjoy....

Website process- 4

Me and Connor have been adding to our website- we've almost completed our video section.

We decided to add in a quote from a reliable source, to make it seem to users that we're a well-established band. Additionally, as we haven't quite completed our video yet, we decided to create a image saying 'video coming soon' in different pastel colours, this is only temporary as we hope to have completed our video very soon.

Filming process- 3

Hey guys, so a few days ago we filmed the Matlock bath scenes. We did gather clips outdoors, however, when we came to film inside the arcade, we didn't get permission to film. Here is a clip of our process

Instead, we have come up with the idea of filming inside a bowling ally which I have emailed before hand seeking permission.

We have also come up with the idea of filming at either Mine or Connors house of the cast playing board games; we'll let you know how it goes :)

Website process- 3

Hi guys, so Me and Connor have added to our website, with a music section, allowing users to download the song.

For the purpose of this screengrab I had to condense the screen so all information would fit on- on the website, the font is much bigger. This section of our website didn't take long, as we already added the song to our music, this allowed us to just click on this, and it automatically uploads our album cover and song.

Motion Tracking- research

Hey everyone, so Me and Connor want to add the title of the song within our music video, but we want to use motion tracking to create this, as 'normal' text can look boring. I found a very useful youtube clip on how to create this as we wasn't sure how to make this effect.




The effect seems simple to make so I won't be making notes on this new skill, I'll let you know how it goes...

Website process- 2

Hi everyone, so Me and Connor have recently just completed our tour date page on our website, and it's looking great.

We decided to do a little bit of research on local arena's. We didn't want the arena's to be big as our band is relatively small. Additionally, we looked on other small band websites to discover the prices of their tickets so we felt £20 was a perfect price. We also linked ticket master onto our 'click here to buy' button.


However, when Me and Connor pressed the preview our website button, we noticed users could not go onto other pages once on a page. We decided to add a menu button on each page of the website so users could click where they wanted to and go on any page.