A2 Media - Album Posters

These are the two adverts me and James have put together. There are obviously slight changes between the two and there are possibly a few more changes to be made and edits to be done but overall these two adverts show the general idea of what we are going to do. If you could leave a comment and just say which one you think is better that would be really helpful.

A2 Media - Album Artwork

Today as well as refining the front cover of our artwork and changing it we also worker on a back cover for our album. We have added our production logo in the bottem left corner and we have also added the "Earache" record label to add authenticity for our project, to further add the authenticity we have added a bar code in. Overall me and james are very happy with how this looks, and once we have decided on which front cover we wanted to use we will have completed the front and back cover of our album. As can clearly be seen we have stuck very closely to the green and black colour scheme which is obviously a motif of the band and so hence why it has become such a common theme. Furthermore we have used the original artwork from the front cover to use on the back cover, we faded it into the background and then put the words onto the top which in turn creates the link between the back cover and the front cover to ensure they do not look like to entirely different products.

A2 Media - Album artwork

On James blog he has posted two versions of our album cover for people to vote on which ever one they prefer. So if everyone could just quickly go over to James blog and just comment on which one you prefer 1 & 2. We would really appreciate any feedback you could give us.

A2 Media - Album Artwork

Due to lack of progress on the filming side of the project me and James have swtiched our priorities aorund and we are going to get the print products completed before the end of this year giving us plenty of time next year to focus solely on the video. however we will ot forget about the filming and while we are doing the print products we will still try to arrange a shoot with which to get some footage of then band to use in the video. However the most recent progress we have made with the video is currently on our blog this template of which we will still carry on with as it still has some promising attributes to it and it will provide as an excellent template to use when it comes to us getting the final pieces of footage. Recently me and James got the album artwork for "Vortex" sorted out this was the rougb initial draft of it whcih we got:

Upon getting this we took to Photoshop and began changing it. Our initial ideas were the use the piece of artwork as a primary focus for the album having it centered in the album, from there we wanted to have the Vortex logo as is shown above fixed on the top once again centered on the artwork so it is obvious what the album is. From there we wanted to stick very closely to the Vortex colour scheme that being of black and green in this we wanted to keep the album cover like that with only black and green on it, to an extent this would make it a noticable motif for the band creating the finality that when you see the black and green you know it is Vortex. As for the name of the album we wanted to put it at the bottom of the album cover in green writing, but moreover we want to do it in a way in which is similar to the Vortex logo but at the same time is tangibly different to it to ensure that there is a clear difference between the name of the band and the name of the album. When putting all of this together this is what we came out with:

As can be seen clearly we have stuck rigidly to the green and black colout scheme and used an effect on the text of which makes it hollow much similar to the actual Vortex logo itself. Overall while this is just a first draft of the album cover I cannot see much more that needs to be done to the album we feel that the artwork with the green tints on looks extremely good and we are very happy with the quality of which it has to it. Perhaps the only changes we will make is maybe a few changes of text in order to see if any looks better or suits it more and perhaps we may increase the size of the Vortex and make it a bit more prominent on the album but apart from that we are very pleased with the first draft of the album cover and we feel confident that once we fix up the rest of the digi pak that it will be of professional quality.





A2 Media - Progress so far

A2 Media - Reflection

Despite the plethora of problems me and James have faced regarding the filming out our video we have still attempted to ensure that our planning and research has been up to scratch. Collectively both me and James have analysed and looked at several print products and several video products that have given the both of us a clear and definite understanding of the genre. We have not only singularly looking into the "thrash" sub genre of metal we have expanded out to look into the other sub genres such as death and power metal in order to gain a wider view of the genre and so what types of conventions we can convert and subvert in our final product. with regards to our planning we have tried to make sure we have posted everything we have designated and thought of, for example to numerous drafts and outlines of the album advert with several ideas posted about how we would want it to look and what we think would work best in regards to the genre trying to keep the feel of metal to the band. While doing this we are also trying to commune the consistent green and black colour scheme of which we intend to make the trade mark of the band ensuring that they will be recognised for this colour scheme.

A2 Media - Artwork

As mentioned in a previous post I have been talking to Dan Jordan about getting a piece of artwork for vortex from a website, well we have gotten a piece but however it is not the one we had initially planned on getting. Dan has been speaking to an artwork designer who has designed a logo for the band. The logo has the name "VORTEX" at the top and then shows a sort of demon face blurred across the front with a picture of the world at the bottom. Currently the whole piece is in black and white as it was hand drawn, however Dan has offered to me that we could use it if we managed to change the colour scheme into that which is typical with "VORTEX" as previously mentioned in earlier posts that scheme is the green and black colours. Therefore Dan has offered to let me use it so me and James can add the green colours in Photoshop then use it to create the Digi-pak. This links into our research with the print products in that they do always follow the bands specific colour scheme however vague that may be, an example is the "Mutant" cover shown in one of my earlier posts this of which alike to "VORTEX" focuses a lot of green but also futuristic images as that is what they often sing about.

A2 Media - Log Sheets

A2 Media - Print Products

Disregarding our serious bad luck with the creation of the moving product, I thought it would be worth having a look back at the production of the anchillery products. I have been searching and I have found a website that designs artwork, very similar to that of which are on the cover of Metal band CD covers. So I am intending to talk to one of the guys from the website (devianart.com) and see if I can get permission to actually use the artwork, the reason for this is the artwokr is a depiction of a man in a clearing of trees, which coincides greatly with our idea hence why we are going to try and get this for our dig-pak.

A2 Media - New Plan

Me and James have now run into contingency time on our project, we did not intend to film this weekend hence why we left ourselves this time as and emergency plan. So far I have recieved confirmation from the band memeber that did not turn up last Sunday that he is very much up for filming saying that he does owe us one in doing so. It now seems as if, if all goes to plan, we will be able to film on Sunday. At the current time I am trying to find out who will be able to go on Sunday, however me and James have both decided that if we cannot get it togehter this Sunday with the band that we will move onto a different idea and change cast completely and use the school stage to film to band however that will have to be discussed either after Sunday depending how it goes, or whether I can arrange to get filming done on the Sunday. As regards for Sunday we have already run into one problem which does not bode well, James is unable to film due to his part in rememberance day as he plays in the parade. However my parents have offered very kindly to keep their day free and so they have said they really want to help us get our filming done and so they have offered us use of their cars with givng us lifts there and back and picking people up and taking them home etc. Obviously this would be a great help to us and would seriously increase our chances of actually getting a decent amount of filming done meaning hopefully we can go out and get the filming done in one day and then focus on the narrative element. Also another good sign is that once again the weather is predicted to be good for the day which is extremely helpful for for obvious reasons.

A2 Media - Filming

As I mentioned on my last blog entry we were due to go out filming on Sunday the 6th we had it all planned out and everyone was avaliable to go. I met the vocalist Luke Elton near mine and we walked in and met Jonah Lambton and my partner James Burton and we were all in durham at around 3:15 pm we went to Warton Park where we were due to meet Daniel and Micheal Jordan but Dan had not picked up his phone in a while so we did not know where he was or when he would get here. Anyway we waited in Durham at the film site for about three hours we did not hear a word from Daniel even though we must have rang him another 20 times. So we called it a day and walked back into Durham city, it wasnt until the night when i got a text off dan saying he had fallen asleep and only woken up recently. Needless to say I was pretty annoyed at the time but there is nothing that can be done it was a genuine mistake and so we will have to move on, currently me and James are having to have a serious think about our project and where we stand with it. There is one good point that has come out of Sunday, Dan feels very guilty and has said the next time I arrange something he will drop everything and come and help.

A2 Media - Filming

Yesterday we went out and began to film some of the narrative from it we filmed multiple cut aways however it began to get dark about half 4 so we decided to call it a day and head back. We would have liked to get more filmed yesterday but unfortunetly due the rain the woods we had intended to use were inaccessible and so we had to use a smaller set of woods, James has pictures of this place of which he will upload onto his blog. What we actually filmed seem to go quite well we utilized both the cameras that we had and so pretty much doubled the footage that we had which is quite good. Overall it was mildly productive and we did make a good start with our narratvie footage.

Today we are going out with the band to film the band, currently we have about an hour to hour and a half with the band before it will start to get dark, times have to had to be changed however the band have still agreed to come out and film. The time has been changed so that we are now meeting at 3 in durham, the drum kit and the drummer will be arriving a little bit later than that but they will be arriving straight to the site whereas we are walking to there from durham. Hopefully we will run into no furhter problems today and come out with a good selection of footage and so hopefully not have to do it again and so leaving us to focus on the narratvie element.

A2 Media - Props (Amps)

We have already arranged the majourity of props in which we had originally intended to use, however we had intended to use amps, mainly upon the request of Danial Jordan the guitarist. However upon further sepculation and research we have realised that for two reasons we do not need the amps. One that in a few of the videos we have watched, most notciable Evile - Infected Nations (see James Burton's blog), there are not any amps in the video meanind we do not need them sepicifically to film a good video. Also on a more practical side it would be difficult for us to get amps all the way to Durham and through the park so it is more practical to not have them, but also it does not degrade the quality of our work as shown by previous research.

A2 Media - Production Schedule

Date: Saturday 5th October

Time: 1pm - 5pm

Actors: Female actor (several people avaliable whichever can make it), Monster (Jonny Kelsey, Jonathan Moore, Craig Mullen whichever can be there)

Equipment: 2 Cameras, 2 Tripods, Story boards, Baseball Bat, Zombiesque get-up, Umbrella's

Detail: We are filming in Langley Park woods, in the woods we will make headway with the filming of the narrative scene. We will begin the chase scene using the two cameras to ensure we can attain a plethora of different camera shots and angles. Using the storyboards we know what shots we definitely want and need for these we will take multiple different shots of them and make sure that we have shots in different areas of the wood and different types of action, our main hope is to shoot a lot of footage more that we need by far, our reasoning for this being that we will be using the narrative primarily as a cut-away from the actual band playing and so the more footage we take this day the more we will have to cut away to. While we will be matching the shots of which we have shown on the storyboard, the storyboard was a shortened version of what we intended to do and so while out filming we will be creative and take shots and film what we think looks good just to make sure that we have more than enough footage.


Date: Sunday 6th October

Time: 12 -4

Actors: Daniel Jordan, Luke Elton, Jonah Lambton, Micheal Jordan. (We have one contingency to replace a band member if need be Jonny Kelsey has offered to step in if we need him)

Equipment: 2 Cameras, 2 Tripods, 2 Lead Guitars, 1 Bass Guitar, Drum Set, Umbrella's

Detail: We are meeting the Band at fram comunity center from there we are going to Durham in Warton Park where I have gotten permission to film from Durham County Council. We are intending on setting up on a circular piece of stone and having the band arranged in a typical band order with the drummer at the back. Using our two cameras and as we intend on the day before we are going to film more than what we need of the band and ensure we have more than enough footage. We will be filming the band in two shots, single shots, close ups, medium, long range. However one important aspect we must remember to do is the shoot the establishing shot of the band and the place of which they are filming in.


Contingency:

Further contingency plans relate to either filming next weekend or beginnning to use our time after school, if after this weekend this becomes a nesscity then me and james will produce a second production schedule detailing the dates of these shoots.

A2 Media - More Filming

We have arranged several contingency plans for the shooting this weekend but we have arranged to shoot the narrative on theSaturday before the Sunday and so we will ensure that by the time we get back on Monday the 7th we will be able to do an after school session and get a headstart and get ourselves up to speed with where we wanted to be at this point in the process. Currently the only problem we may have is that of who we are going to use for our victim in the scene in the forest i already have a volunteer for the monster and so that is sorted and i will arrange for a actor to play the victim, tonight i will post a production schedule for the weekend and what is going to happen.

A2 Media - Contingency

Currently we are running out of options and so we have sat down and thought about what we are going to do and we have come up with 3 different plans of how we are going to do this, however before we engage in our contingency plans we are giving it one more shot with the original band in Warton park and see if we can get them all down but we are going to do it so that without a doubt we will film on Sunday and get some footage shot.

1. Our first plan is to change the member of the band who cannot make it, one of the band members live in Bishop Auckland and he has struggles previously to make it however if he cannot make it again then we will replace him with a different person as we desperately need to get footage shot and preferably all of the band shot this weekend at least something to edit and create a rough cut with
2. The second option is a total recast, we have one band member who is definately confirmed for shooting so we will keep him and any other member who can make it. However the ones that cant we will have to replace possibly 2 or 3 members of the band.

A2 Media - Movement

This is going to be a short post but i have been thinking more about how the final product should look and watching videos as i do in my spare time i realised movement is one of the most important things in a video especially a music video the music itself is constant and flowing and therefore the camera should be as well. Doing this i feel it will give the video a much better feel and make it alot easier to flow to and watch and for a music video obviously to "bop along" to. This is even more important with a video as fast paced as ours, we should therefore make sure most of all in the edit that we have a lessened amount of still shots and make sure we have some kind of ,whether it be large or small, camera movement or movement of the actors in a significant way not just simply playing an instrument, there is however one exception that being the vocalist often the shots of the vocalist may be still shots with no movement however I fear this could slow down the pace of the video, me and james will see how this plays out when we come to the final edit.

A2 Media - Filming

We have attempted to get out and film twice this week first of all on monday, this fell through because one of the members of the band could not make it. We has also created a new plan to film tomorrow but once again this failed as one of the band members could not make it, I am meeting one of the band members today in order to try and arrange some definate plan as to what we are going to do, but so far it is not looking good. By the looks of it it could be another week or two before we can get out with the whole band and so we may have to begin filming the narrative footage first rather than the footage of the band either way we should attempt to make sure that by the time we get back next week we have some footage to look at and edit on the computers.

A2 Media - Storyboard

This is the storyboard which is obviously shorter than the actual piece will be as this is mainly going to be used as guidelines as to what we need to film as well as showing us and reminding us multiple shots which we need to take. The reasoning for this is because alot of our video will be quick and fast cuts from each shot and so if we were to draw out a storyboard for each and every shot it would take probably 50 pages and would take such a long time that it would become a waste of time when we can simply condense it into this which we can glance at quickly to remind of how the video will look.

A2 Media - Vortex

On Thursday I attended the Vortex supporting Evile gig, and it was amazing. Vortex performed amazingly and it great to see them on a bigger stage than usual. Unfortunately my media work did not go as well, at the gig i took several pictures in hope to use in the ancillary files, but the room was often dark and the lights were constantly flashing and so the pictures i took came out blurred and obviously unusable. However there was a professional photographer there for Vortex who gave Vortex some photos when it comes closer to the time i will get in touch with Vortex and see if they are willing to let me use some of these in the digi pak even the album advert if we so wish it.

A2 Media - Project Reflection

Compared to my previous AS project much has changed since then; instead of working in a group of three I am now working with only one other person, more over it is a different person to who I was previously working with, which in itself could have been a risk of which did not work out. However so far the project is going quite well me and James are working well together and playing to each others strengths which is a very good situation for the both of us. In regards to the actual project I am doing, this is a significant change from the precious AS piece. Instead of creating a opening 2 minutes to a film or even something related to a film we are now doing a music video, which in some aspects mean starting our research right back at the beginning. Both me and James are very passionate about music which has helped us greatly with the project meaning we are willing to put more time and effort into the project. So far I feel that I have improved upon my previous piece in terms of research I have posted a lot more videos and discussed them in better focus of what i need compared to last year, at the moment my planning from last year is looking slightly better than from this year but i intend to rectify that with the process of multiple documents ready to be uploaded onto my blog.

The main things that differ from this project from my previous is several things obviously one of them being that this project is a music video and not a film opening. But we have had to re-think the whole way we are filming being that when we film a music video we have to text so many more shots at so many more different camera angles, this does however give us way to include a wider range of camera shots and angles which allows us to be more creative with our project. However there is some similarities in our previous project despite its premise as a film we did not actually include any dialogue mainly because we felt that because we could not use professional actors it might affect the quality of the work, this is the same for the music video being that we don't have to worry about whether the dialogue will be professional or not mainly because there will be no dialogue. In comparison I hope that we can make this project better than my previous hence why i have taken this time to reflect upon my precious project and realise what more I have to do like the extra planning such as log sheets, call sheets and agreements there are things like this that i did not do on my previous coursework and so I am hoping that by studying my previous piece and looking at what i did and didn't do i can use that to make this piece of coursework better than the last.

A2 Media - VORTEX

Tonight vortex are playing a gig with Evile in Durham at the Live Lounge! Whilst there however I will talk to some of the "cult" fans of vortex (also being one myself) and see if i can pick up a few more ideas for what would be expected of the band and what kind of things that they would enjoy seeing in a music video but also from a digi pak and an album advert. I will also take this opportunity to perhaps take some photos of Vortex and then upload if they are of good quality that we could perhaps later use in the digi pak.

A2 Media - Presentation of the Band

 

These kinds of images are typical of how I want the band to presented. Each of these pictures are typical pictures of the thrash metal genre which as mentioned is the genre in which vortex slide into, and so therefore when we take pictures whilst out on our shoot it is these types of pictures that we will be attempting to try and put into our digi pak and on the album advert. The most common feature of these is that of the dark clothing and the dark colours of the band and background in general. When me and James come to get these photos hopefully at the weekend we will be using editing software primarily adobe photoshop to potentially saturate the colours on the photos making them darker and greyer such as the ones above. Looking at the picture is quite easy to grab the tone of them, a darker tone that which separates this genre from other genres in general. Very importantly is the seriousness of which each of these pictures hole, the band vortex themselves are very much like this, while they do have a humorous side (Daniel Jordan's funny faces pulled during gigs) but at the same time they do and will retain a certain amount of seriousness during their performance and so attempt to keep this feel for the band keeping within the genre itself.

A2 Media - Genre

When making our video in intend not to subvert the genre but instead to adhere very close to all aspects of the metal video genre. The aspects of this being what is typically in a metal video. In order to gain an idea of this me and my partner James studied several metal videos looking at similarites and difference in between the metal genre as a whole and then at sub-genres of metal such as thrash (vortex's sub genre of metal), death and power metal. From the videos we watched we came up with a sumisable list of what features in the genre in which we are engaged :

• Quick fast paced edits
• Range of shots, from establishing, long, close-up, medium, two and moving shots
• Focus on the vocalist during vocals
• Singular shot on the guitarist frets during the solo
• Movement of the actors across the area playing
• Headbanging (actors)

Each of these things we noticed was present in the videos we watched and so in order to slide into our chosen genre we need to make sure that we ourselves include these in our video also.

A2 - First Shoot

On either sunday or monday whichever day we can gather the memeber of the band together we are intending to travel to wharton park and being our first shoot. For this shoot we going to filming just the band themselves and film the narrative on a separate day, by tomorrow we will have completed the storyboard and a shot log of all the different shots in which we need and more. Roughly we think the shooting will take 3-4 hours, however for the bands sake we are going to provide them with the new rockstar energy drink to keep them motivated. As planning has gone so far we will run the song a good few times even going over certain parts of the song using and ipod with the song on to sync everything up to make sure we have every second of the song filmed and more. We will most likely film in bulk 20-30 second intervals filming each about 8-10 times making sure we have every part of the video in every aspect we need.

A2 Media - Audience

The target audience for our video is already and established group as the band already has a distinctive and loyal fan base. The main target audience of the video will be in an age group of typically around 17-25 primarily obviously that is just general there are many people younger and even more so older who have listened to metal all their lives who will be interested in the video and the band and so to whom this will appeal to. However mostly this will be aimed at an audience of around this age, the type of people who go to gigs and will be right in the center or the crowd the ones who will be involved in crowd surfing, stage diving and most primarily mosh pits. The audience are, as mentioned, fanatically loyal they are the type of fans who travel miles to attend a gig, check the website everyday for any sign of new album release or music video releases. The research I have done into the audience have proved them to be a massive fan of the Evile - Thrasher video which is what our video is based on primarily with the addition of a narrative. From this therefore we know without a doubt when we have created our video it will receive positive reception from the audience it is intended for hence why we have adhered to closely to codes and conventions of the genre.

http://craig-mullen-a2-media.blogspot.com/2011/08/a2-media-evile.html This example from my blog shows just the type of video in which the audience love and this is how we will base ours on however this does not include a narrative hence we looking into several other videos, http://craig-mullen-a2-media.blogspot.com/2011/09/a2-media-deicide.html this entry from the Deicide video shows again how an inclusion of narrative can be effective. As with the Evile video I asked around in particular people who were fans of vortex and asked what they thought of these two videos both were recieved with popular feedback and so we know that what we are doing is something that is approved in the genre and we know that what we are doing and creating will indeed appeal to the audience which is obviously the primary intent of the video.

A2 Media - Scenario

We are currently in the middle of the making of the storyboard for our video. The scenario for our video which we have finally decided which obviously we have mentioned being set in Wharton park in Durham. For the general plot of the video will be focused most primarily on the band itself with the narrative integrated into that. We plan to have the band stood playing on a circular point of the battery in Durham and us while using two camera will continually focus on the band from several different angles shifting from close ups to long shots and two shots, to begin the video we will use a establishing shot setting the scene allowing the audience to see where the band are, and creating a general opening to the video to do this we will be moving up from the ground tilting the camera upward from an angle to reveal the band as they begin to play the song as the song begins to pick up pace we will jump straight into a shot of the band close up. We also intend to have as we begin a quick shot of the forest in which the narrative will take place in perhaps giving a slight insight into the narrative and how it will run, essentially creating enigma about what is actually happening in the narrative itself. From this we will focus most primarily on the band as they open the song jumping from shots of the drummer to the guitarist to vocalist to bassist repeatedly integrating two shots and long shots to close ups etc. Obviously at regular intervals as the song begins to pick up pace and really speed up we will make the changes from both the band and the narrative even quicker, the effect desired from this will be to capture the audience as soon as the video begins. The narrative in which we are using has changed slightly from the original idea, we now intend to have a scene whereby there is a chase or something of that nature occurring within the video in time with the song resonating the rhythm of the music with the narrative keeping the synchronisation with the music the band and the narrative. For the narrative we are inquiring into a piece of artwork in which we intend to get permission for which depicts a monster like creature with a baseball bat running through some trees, hence the forest scene, Daniel Jordan has offered to act as this creature for the narrative and we have a few people who are willing to be the victim or the person just generally being chased by the creature. We intend to keep this kind of flow to video changing the pace altering the narrative until the end where we will have a climax that will ultimately end with either the band or the narrative whichever we feel would look best we will play with the two in the editing process in order to see which we think is best, however it would seem most likely to finish with the band as that's how the video begun. While filming the narrative we while use obviously a variation of shots, but we intend to keep to an extent full view of the monster to a minimum mainly in order to keep the viewer watching and furthermore to keep them held in suspense and ideal and shocking end to the narrative would be a blood splatter on some trees to give the narrative a decisive and shocking end.

A2 Media - Clearance

This is an e-mail from Paul Ryan at the Durham county council, he has e-mailed me back regarding our filming and has very optimisticly given us permission to film our project at Warton Park which is amazing news for us. He has said he is very keen for us to film there and he is happy for us to film if we can give him the dates and times of when we will be filming at the park. This obviously finally gives us a secure location to film and begins to set our filming in notion.

A2 Media - Agreement with Vortex

In order to get permission to get the music, despite the fact we are friends with the band, is that we have agreed to help them as they help us. There is a metal festival, of which I attended with two of the band members, has a "New Blood" stage. The new blood stage allows unsigned bands such as Vortex to enter a music video and if the festival is interested then they will allow the band to play on the stage on either the Friday, Saturday or the Sunday. Therefore the agreement we have established allows us to use their music and themselves to be part of the video and in turn for their cooperation we will send them a finished copy of the video in which they can send into Bloodstock and have a chance of getting to play there. Not only the opportunity of Bloodstock but also by providing them with a music video it gives them that for as long as they need it and we have more time to sit and edit it than they would and so it works both ways with both us and the band. However we will also be giving them a copy of the album cover of which they are going to use to release their EP and so once again showing how our partnership with the band with be beneficial for all.

A2 Media - Clearance

We have e-mailed both DCC and the English Heritage, in order to inquire about using either the Battery in Warton Park or Finchale Priory. This is the basis of what we have e-mailed to two:


"We are A2 Media Students at Framwellgate Sixth Form in Durham. We are e-mailing you to inquire about filming our coursework at one of your sites, specifically                 . Currently we are producing a music video for our second year A-level project. We have researched the                       site and we feel that it would serve as the perfect background for our music video. Regarding the content of the video, we would simply be bringing a few pieces of musical equipment onto the site - two guitars, a bass guitar and a small drum kit - which the band would use to mime to. We will go to the greatest lengths to ensure that we do not generate a prohibitive amount of noise and we would aim to keep our presence on the site as unobtrusive as possible. We would certainly make sure that we did not get in the way of other visitors. We would also assure you that the monument will be treated with the greatest resepct; we simply wish to use it as the backdrop for the band's performance. If you would like further information, or a reference, please contact our teacher (Mr Earl) who can give you more information about what the filming entails. He can be e-mailed at https://vle.fram.durham.sch.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=26e6646554d0402bbd73d1a12aa4e551&URL=mailto%3achris.earl%40fram.durham.sch.uk. Thank you for taking the time to read this e-mail. We look forward to hearing from you soon with any news."

A2 Media - Costume

For the costumes in the video, we are generally not required to have costumes, all of the band members all dress in they way that is typical of the metal genre and so a clothing/costume code has little relevance toward our actual shoot. However the narrative will need some level of control, we intend to use most likely a "casual" clothing style to make the person in the video more accessible to the audience. Either that or we may try to find a hospital outfit if we feel it will work or is necessary.

A2 Media - Health and Safety

The places we are intending to film generall pose no danger to the safety of the cast, we are intending to film either finchale priory or the battery in durham whichever we think is best when me and James look further in detail. From both they are sites that are often subjected to public view and so from this we can tell that in these places will be safe to be in as they will be constantly maintained to make sure that they are atractive for public viewing but at the same time to make sure that they are actually safe for the public to be around.
   Secondly in  the places we intend to film there is certaina avenue for the ability to climb on walls etc, however considering the nature of the film a music video being that it would require equipment being on the person as well this would most certainly be a seemingly bad idea, however the idea of a guitar solo could be placed on wall that was perhaps not so high off the ground but slightly elevated in order to make sure it is still safe for the actor and doesnt place them at risk and doesnt risk the damaging of any of the equipment.
   Being aware of other people around is a problem we may have to face on the day, with us recording the band playing at this these locations we will be bringing out two guitars, a bass guitar and a drum kit. Out of each of these only the drum kit will be the problem, as for the other band memebers they can basicly just mime playing the guitars or at least not have them plugged in as to reduce minimum noise volume. The drums however cannot be muted and so they will be reasonably loud which could cause a problem but this will be brought up with the place that we are filming in, we will however as much as possible keep out of peoples way and be willing to move to the most secluded place around in order to keep out of way as much as possible.
   In terms of vehicle use, we intend only to use cars in order to get to the location there will be no cars involved with the actual making of the video. I have already requested use of my friend's car who has agreed to transport people and equipment I will inquire around more so when we actually sort out a definate date for beginning the filming.
   Regarding legality we do not intend to be doing anthing that is particular obscure or that could be considered as obscene in anyway, the only possible legal problem we could face is noise however I intend to go to the locations and experiment in order to ensure that we are not violating the noise levels which i think is possibly inlikely with one set of drums however the noise level may be undesirable for the owners of the locations and visitors who will inevitably be there on the day.

A2 Media - Planning

Over the course of the next two weeks me and James will produce a series of documentation to accompany our project and to allow us to ensure that everything will go smoothly and according to plan on the days of the actual shoot. The documentation we will put together will consist of:

• Production Schedule
• Prop Sheets
• Costume Sheets
• Call Sheets
• Clearances
• Booking Sheets
• Meetings/briefings with the team etc.
• Contingency Plan
• Risk Assessment/Health and safety
• Location Log sheets
• Edit decisions log sheets
• Storyboards
• Completeled script scenario
• Shooting schedules
• Personal log
• Pitch
• Treatment

A2 Media - Rough Album advert

This is the rough copy of our album advert and how we plan for it to look, obviously as we have found through our research the name of the band goes at the top, and much like the Antares Predator album advert we have decided to place the album in the middle of the page directing full attention to it. At the bottom we will have the band standing as shown in the sketch, and as further shown in the sketch they will have the all the production companies etc in the bottom corner as well. The scribbles down the center are in fact suppose to be lightening bolts, the idea for this just came from the work vortex itself, we had originally thought of flame but we agreed that lightening bolts suited the band better. The bolts that will be coming across the screen will be green, same as the logo, and as they pass through the logo they will fade out only to fade back in when they have the passed the logo and the digipak. James has already whipped up a quick draft which closely replicates my sketch, see his blog to find it. 

A2 Media - Album Adverts

This album advert featured on the back of a terroizor magazine and seen from the actual advert itself it has a slightly different format to the previous ones I have uploaded. With this advert once again the name of the band is clearly shown across the top of the page, as to it being the first thing to be noticed/read. The difference with this advert however is that of the size of the digipak being advertised, here the picture of the digipak takes up the majority of the page showing a different approach in which to take for the album advert. The paragraph at the bottom of the advert simply describes the band and the influences the band have used and why they have produced the album while doing so in a interesting style in order or perhaps entertain or amuse the reader.

This advert is not actually for an album but for a series of tours, however due to the sparsile nature of adverts being found online I felt this would be appropriate to upload as well bearing in mind that it is an advert in a metal magazine and so would conform to the conventions of adverts advertising metal bands. Firstly as ever the band name it sprawled directly across the top of the page as always this obviously being a convention of adverts of this genre. This advert however does something a little different, while it has the main information like the tour dates (on ours that will be the digipak) it shows the band at the bottom rather than artwork which is a possibility for us as it would be more accessible than acquiring artwork to the quality of some of the adverts.

Once again this advert differs again from most others that I have uploaded, this one like all the others does have the band name at the top of the page like all the adverts do. However this one does not feature a confirmed picture of what the album looks like it simply has a piece of artwork that, most likely, will be associated with the album and so allow the audience to link the two and realise it is the same piece of work by the same band. An interesting note on this album is that it included the date of release a lot heavier that the other adverts, this could be that the album digipak has not been produced yet or some other reason perhaps that they do not need to show as it will resemble the background of the advert itself too well.

This is the video of mine and James pitch, overall it went well. We talked knowing what we were going to do and how we were going to do it. Despite this however there were several issues raised in the questioning of our pitch, primarily the biggest porblems we had were; is our video going to be linked to the album in a specific way through imagery our are we releasing it almost like a single, and do we have permission or require permission to film at the Battery in Durham. Each of these problems we will face in due time.


Craig and James Burton's Pitch from Chris Earl on Vimeo.

A2 Media - Album Adverts

This alum advert much simalar to the previous one shown on my blog, has the album at the bottom of the advert. However on this one the band are used as the main focus for the advert, the main reasoning for this would be that it is a different type of metal to the previous band this being "folk metal", however it shows that possibly if we wanted we could use the band as the focus for the advert then simply placing a bakcground on the imagae and merely editing the picture as is done on this advert. Here the band "Finntroll" their music is focussed mainly around myth and lore, more specifically troll, hence why the band have been edited to this image being trolls themselves in the image. Once again the name of the band is at the top of the page as we will do for our advert, as also with the advert and what appears to be a convention is to have the producers at the bottom on the page either across or in either corner as in this advert. So for our production we will have the destruction production logo in the corner of the page.

A2 Media - Manowar

A2 Media - Album Adverts

Venom is a heavy metal band, considering to have majourly influenced thrash metal so they are relevent to the band vortex in the way that they would advertise their album. From the album cover it is plain to see an obvious colour scheme the black and gold and solver scheme is obivously someting either from the album or from the band in general. The way the advert is set out is quite simple really, the main bulk of the page is taken by the band name and logo, this is something we will replicate in our advert, taking up the majourity of the page with the vortex logo and band name. The very top includes a slogan referencing the album, perhaps something that gives a small insight into the album itself. Futhermore, the prominant idea of the band name and logo taking up the majourity of page is that it makes sure that as soon as the reader of the magazine sees they page they are instantly alerted to the fact that this is venom, and so if they know the band they will check it out if not they may check out the band and from there buy the album.he actual product itself being the album is focussed on the bottom of the page, revealed in different segments showing perhaps the album and the digipak and the special editon or bonus dvd that may come with a more expensive version of the advert. However in regards to the actual positioning of the album, it is positioned at the bottom of the page as if less focus is placed upon being that there is more focus on actually getting the band name notice rather than the albums. Nontheless the albums at the bottom of the page are a nesscity them being shown at the bottom underneath some kind of image that depicts the band vortex.

A2 Media - Album Adverts

Regarding the full A4 pages of album adverts, I havnt been able to find any on the internet that are of any use or that would be suitable in a way, and so I have bought Terrorizer magazine and simply photocopied the adverts out of there, once i have photocopied enough that are relevent to the project I will begin to post them on my blog with some level of analysis into what is common thoughout them and what is not so common.

A2 Media - Deicide

This band much like the Hammerfall video previously posted are of a different genre of metal to the band we will be covering, however this video still proves useful in being able to establish what is needed in a metal video and with this one more so what is needed when a narrative is present. The narrative in this video is obviously a zombie apocalypse or at least something along the lines of this, initially the video starts off with no music whatsoever, just the noise of the video itself as in the narrative setting the scene almost like an establishing shot. The actually music of the band starts very suddenly with hardly even a split between the video and the showing of the band, also notably the music does not begin at the same time as the band is shown, a little bit of the story line is shown before the band actually appears. What is interesting about this video is where the zombie and the band member are standing in the exact same position, which is good as it links the band with the video creating a sort of affinity between the two. Also at the beginning there appears to be as usual the mass amount of quick edits between the band members and their instruments, but at the same time there is little reference back to the narrative for a while, then as the music begins to kick in, the switching between the two becomes more and more astute. Noticeably though, there are parts again where the band and the video are incorporated together where they might be standing in the same way or doing the same thing etc, this is quite interesting and if possible could be included in our final project when it is discerned what the narrative will actually be. One thing that is worthy of mention, is that motifs fit for certain parts of the video, such as when there is a common riff played it will go back to the band, when there is a common drum part the video switches quickly from the band to the narrative almost in time with the music. This is a good example of how the narrative should go with the music, the way that the two are similar in the mood and context. Another particularly good example of this is the guitar sole and the guy being chased by the zombie. These two are linked in a way that during the chase the guitar is shown as typical in a metal video, but at the same time it refers back to the video showing constantly the chase from a long shot, back to a close up of the guitar. This sort of action is clever in several ways, one of these is it keeps the viewers attention, it keeps enigma for the viewer in the way that the video is kept on being split by the band and so obviously the viewer wants to know what happens in the narrative mainly out of sheer curiosity therefore the quick switches of band to narrative and good in keeping the viewer hooked and keeping their curiosity peaked. The video ends as suddenly as the music begins with a sudden stop to the music and the video, almost creating a sort of sigh from the viewer but more so expectancy, as in they still don’t really understand what has happened but nonetheless it they were able to watch it all the way through.

A2 Media - Evile

The band “Evile” is one of the many bands that influenced that band “Vortex” the band that is the focus of our final project. The video for this song is very identical to the actual idea we have for out final project also, the location and the lighting are both two things that we will not be able to use as well as they have been done in this video. But there are particular elements of this video of which we feel would make a very good addition to our own project, namely the continuous cylindrical movement of the camera around the band that seemingly repeats itself while at the same time cutting off several times to different band members that is in fitting with the song. This idea of a continuous shot being interrupted and then fixed again is what me and James did in the initial preliminary project, not however to the extent or to the quality that it is done in this video but nonetheless we attempted it. The reason why this is a good technique to do in this type of video is to do with the fact that there is no narrative to accompany the video, and so it uses this continuous shot to act as a backbone to the video giving it a following or an underlying tone and structure. Some of the other pivotal points to make about this video is such things as the focus on the singer, and the shot that is used, very often when the camera is on the singer it is a straight up medium shot pointing directly at his face, the advantage of doing something like this is that it does enhance the emphasise on the singer and at the same time breaks down the video from the moving shots and the angled shots in the video. There is also an occasional long shot down, showing the band in the distance making them look in fact quite isolated, but also setting the scene of the video alerting the viewer to what is going on or not going on as the case may be for this one. This idea of isolation fits into the genre of music to which it resides, the metal genre is not a mainstream genre it does not enjoy the massive success like those bands in the charts instead it could rather be called more of a niche genre into which the fans are extremely loyal and dedicated to the genre itself.

A2 Media - Hammerfall

This band are not actually of the same genre as the band we are actually using, but they are still metal they are just in the genre of power metal rather than thrash metal. The band called Hammerfall made this video for the song "Any means nessecary", despite the fact of this being a different sub genre of metal i felt that this video lends an important insight as to what qualities a metal video that does contain a narrative if a very small one. The video itself contains a narrative or at least another element besides just the band playing the narrative of this story seems to be that of an explosion in reverse until at the end when it is fully reversed it is redone again. With regards to the actual song itself the use of the flames and the explosion in general relate to the title of the song “Any means necessary” suggesting they are willing to use any means necessary to get what they want. Not only this but in the video we can see multiple times where the band is being put in slow motion or they are not playing in time with the song due to the slow motion, this sort of element could be something we could incorporate into our final piece using the slow motion shots to create a sort of emphasise on a particular part of the song or a particular player in the band, but at the same time simply using it where we have not been able to sync up the music to the video. The content of the video is pretty much the same as any other metal video we have looked at, there are multiple shots of different length and angle on different members of the band and a constant slow motion is used seemingly on the drummer the most to put emphasis perhaps on the way he hits each drum and the symbols which is an interesting idea. However much more noticeable in this sub genre of metal is the focus on the singer this is one part from this video we will have to disregard. Furthermore the linking of the song with the video in a way in which when the song slowed down just before the guitar solo the music video had a sombre moment where the singer was moving toward the detonator, the timing of something like this really sets the scene of the video and the song which shows that when we begin to plan our own narrative we will really have to think about what we can do and how we can link it up with the music in a way to create such atmospheric effects that are related to both song and music. Also with the use of narrative we can defer away from the actual band and then so forget about the syncing of the music for a while examples this here is when the flames dance across the front of the screen consuming the full screen.

A2 Media - Preliminary Project

We finished the prelininary project creating a 1minute music video for the song raining blood by slayer. From this small task we have learned many things, one of these being to shoot from alot more angles, in out actual shoot we thought we had covered alot of angles using our experience from past projects, however we found upon reviewing the footage that we had not included a large enough variety of shots in the video, this being because it is the first music video we have created and so when we do our final project we now know to include a much wider range of shots in a music video than would be required for a normal video. Not only this but we also learned the importance of matching up the video to the music, this was not particulary done well when we did this video certain parts were synced up but then there were other parts of which didnt seem to fit with the track in anyway and so we know when we come to our final project to use footage of the band playing the actual song in the video, in this way it would ensure that we would be able to accurately and professionally be able to sync the music with the video. we now know how important the syncronization of music to video can be in improving the asthetics of the video and how professional it looks in general. Also we realised the setting in which we had choosen for our video was not actually suitable for what was happeneing in the video, being that it seemed like a live performance video, when there were in actual fact no shots of reaction from the audience which made it ultimately difficult to ulitmately depict a performance by the band. Futhermore upon futher study we realised during the original video there was a shot in the background that wasd in a constant motion and the video would be constantly referring back to this elongated shot which would withhold a motif within the video. Finally we have to come to the conclusion that for the video the inclusion of a narrative could be vital. In the video, the live perfomance can obviously not be replicated as we do not posses the means to do so, but we can recreate some sort of narrative to the video and for the song we choose, in order to do this for the fianl project we will ahve to study in depth the song and see what connotations we can gather from it and from that we can come to a conclusion of what sort of narrative would be appropriate for the song and moreover the video. As from suggestions we have heard we think it would be best to include a narrative over the band the playing so while jumping back to the band playing the song, we would also jump to the narrative that was behind the video in essence. However not all of our video was so bad, there were a few aspects of the video that were very comparable to other metal videos and the camera angles we used and the syncronization of the music to the video, an example of this being at the beginnning of the video where we had the drum beats perfectly synced up the the music itself and it looked really good and very effective. Also our use of lighting was something else that proved to look very qell done in the exported product, particulary the use of the red lighting at particular points making the video directly related to the song "raining blood"  the obvious relation to blood depicted from the red.

A2 Media

This is the finished preliminary task in doing this we have realised several things and factors of which contribute to quality of the video, tomorrow i will post an in depth entry detailing each of these and how we can repair them in order for the final task to be shot.

A2 Media - Preliminary Project

Me and james has completed all of the filming for our preliminary project, we went into the hall and set up a drumkit, guitar and bass. We had me plaing guitar with my long hair suited to the metal style video, jonathan moore on drums and greg wilson on the bass guitar. From there we began to shoot from multiple different angles posing and moving in different ways much alike to what we had seen from previous metal videos. We also included multiple close ups being either from one side of the guitar to another side of the badd created a angle of which destroyed the 180 degree rule in a way of making the video seem very quick and so in the edit we will actually be able to switch together shots from diffferent angles combining it into an edit whereby it will be extremely quick and fast paced creating a simalar effect to other metal videos we have viewed. One thing which we did not do was have a stack of amps avaliable to use, however we did incorporate many themes of metal videos such things like "headbanging" and "devil-horns". We will begin editng next week when we have had our videos converted to an editable format.

A2 Media - Preliminary Project

Today me and James went to the main hall and set up one of the school drum kits which we have gained permission to use, we set them up (see james blog for pictures) and then we filmed some test footage on them. We also got a guitar and filmed me doing the typical "headbanging" feature of metal video, we will post this kind of footage on the blog and we are planning on  filming tomorrow.

A2 Media - Research

Audience

Musician and filmmaker Rob Zombie observes, "Most of the kids who come to my shows seem like really imaginative kids with a lot of creative energy they don't know what to do with" and that metal is "outsider music for outsiders. Nobody wants to be the weird kid; you just somehow end up being the weird kid. It's kind of like that, but with metal you have all the weird kids in one place."

Heavy Metal fans often go by the name of "metalheads", "headbangers" or "thrashers". Each of these obviously has connotations to the music itself the music that these fans follow like a religion. Typically heavy metal fans have developed a culture of alienation in regards to the rest of society, they tend to see themselves as outcast and refuse to conform to mainstream traditions, espicially in regards to music. In many regards this is where the long hair, symbol of metal fans, comes in it is almost like a rebellion against the typical demands of society to have short and tidy hair, fans of metal feel that they need to rebal, if against nothing at all sometimes. The long hair, leather jacket, chains, studs and patches are what define metal fans, and the folow tradition by ritually going to concerts and taking part in onling band websites etc.

In regards to the music itself the term "sell-out" has become a term frequently used in representing people who turn away from metal music and drift toward lighter rock radio music. Using this we know that in order to target our intended audience we must actually represent the fans of the genre as well, by this we must make sure that our video is not a "sell-out" so its not mainstream and does not conform to mainstream tradititons.

A2 Media - Preliminary Task

While me and James have still more research to do we have now decided to begin our preliminary task which is a small snipit of a music video which we will create so we can get an idea of whether what we want to do is achievable or not. The video will be about 30-60 seconds, the idea so far that me and James have come up with is to use the song "Raining Blood" by Slayer, the video of which has been analysed in James Blog. We aim to prodce a piece which is similar to other videos of the same genre such as the anthrax video, and the two other videos which i am currently trying to upload on the blog but with much difficulty. Hopefully me and james will have looked at 6 videos between us, from this we should have good idea of how our final project will. We will also be able to determine the aspects of our final project purely from the aspects of our preliminary project as it will show to us how we need to film and how much we need to feel.

A2 Media - Research

The video begins with a whole shot of the band, the band is also mostly sillowhetted at this point. Right at the beginning the whole movement of the band itself is very quick and fast paced, not only this but the edits are very quick as well, the way that the camera almost instantly jumps from the singer to the guitarist to the crowd or the drummer. this is the sort of style and look that me and James are hoping to achieve, by filming multiple shots from many different camera angles in hope to try and be able to jump quickly from one band memeber to another. Also visable is the way the guitarist, singer and bassist are stood together in a ling of three, and they are shot either from the side or from the front to include the drummer as well. It is these types of shots which really set the atmosphere for the video, in the way that they show they band and make it obvious the presence that they have on stage and the presence they have in general in the way that they dominate the stage and know what they are doing and effect that we would like to recreate in our video. Futhermore there are multiple shots of the band "headbanging" which is a common metal theme and so obviously including this is very important. There is combinations between the music and the video whereby when the music appears to slow down a little bit as does the video where it goes into slow motion created a sort of suspended effect. Also at multiple points in the track there are points when the music has a sort of outburst effect at this point this is mirrored in sync with the video itself in that the band might jump or there might be a vast amount of quick cuts etc. Also another feature which is very important regarding the atmosphere of the music to the video is the speed of the edits, most importantly when the music tempo speeds up so does the cuts and edits, but at the beginning when the music is slower it is slower and less cuts. Also another factor seeming common is the way that the singer is focussed on when he is singing and he shot from multiple different angles, giving the idea of multuiple perspectives and the speed created when the camera appears to jump from one angle to another in the shot. Also in the video there are shots of the crowd moshing, which is something that shows the passion the fans have for the music which is very effective in the video itself. the idea of putting a crowd into the video would be something that could be extremely effective in creating the effects of speed to the video. Furthermore the element of excitation is added to the video via many aspects of the scene, mainly the shots of the crowd. In these shots which show us the crowd attending the concert we can see the raw passion the fans have for the band, the way the fans are acting in this promotes the band in itself making it seem like the band can really put on a good show for their audience not only does it promote the band itself showing off their stage athestics and their general presence as a group, it also highlights to the viewer whethere they are the type of person for that music. The quick and fast paced edits and the scenes of the crowd going crazy, the general energy of the band on stage, really cuts the viewrs in two. It cuts the audience from those who enjoy the music and dont, those who would go to a concert for Anthrax and be going crazy in the crowd. In this way the music video allows the audience to define themselves in regards to the music, if they are not a crazy and excited as the people in the video and the crowd then they shouldnt be watching it or listening to the music.

A2 Media - Research

Me and James have begun to look at music videos from the chosen genre now, from the initial videos we have watched we noticed several common elements:

• very fast paced edits, these being used along with the music to create a very quick mood and very fast paced video which works well with the music which itself is very fast paced
• there are a plethora of close-ups used in multiple different angles whereby sometimes it would be close up on the singer, then other times it would be a close up on the guitar player, in particular his guitar
• there is also focus on the musicians and attempts to bring them together in shots or sometimes use of a long shot would include the whole band
• we have also noticed that generally there does not seem to be a story element, the videos tend to instead put massive focus onto the actual band itself rather than a particular story element to it
• there are however cases where this story element is present for example in the "Hanger 18" by Megadeth there were alien, but the focus always came back toward the band

This is just what we have noticed from a few videos however we will post three or four videos each and analyse these in detail looking at the deeper elements of the videos.

A2 Media - Research

Me and James have begun to look into videos and album artwork at the moment we are planning to look at advertisements later on, but here are some of the album covers we have found which we think we can use and take ideas from in order to create our own which fits into the style of the genre:

This album cover from the band Mutant is quite a simplistic one, at least compared to the others, the background idea and the small picture is a good idea for us as it would be a lot easier to do rather than actually producing our own concept art which could prove alot more difficult to create and produce. Also the idea of the band name at the top and the album/EP name at the bottom is something which seems to be very common on the front cover of the album something of which will be quite easy for us to do. Furthermore what is very obvious with tihs album cover is the futuristic feel that is given to it by the colour scheme, looking at this we have established the importance of the colour scheme of which gives it the futuristic feel. We now know when looking at this how powerful the use of colours can be without a doubt we must ensure that with our album cover we think over carefully what colours we want and so considering what effect we want the album cover to have on onlookers. Demonstrated with this is the "sciencey" feel with is adressed through its colours and so we must think whether we want and angry, calm, or neutral feeling to our album.

This album cover taken from Metallica and their album Death Magnetic, this album cover again in comparison to some of the other albums does not consist of massive amounts of artwork, in fact in our research we found that the coffin on the fron was actually a hole leading into the digipack which could perhaps be and idea we could incorporate into our project for our digipack. However overall the album is a good influence for is once again it is not massively complicated and so would be promising for us to be able to do something like this. A difference is the writing being in the middle of the album, this is something different to many of the other albums and obviously influenced by the type of artwork that the album shows. From this album the colour scheme perhaps has a less obvious effect than the prvious, but clearly the colour scheme has been thought of in relation to the actual artwork on the screen being that the white space around the outside is clearly used to draw emphasis upon the piece of artwork situated within the centre of the album. The dark colour scheme is done as a representation of the band itself being a thrash metal band their music is quite dark and so is a representation of what the album actually consists of.

Evile's album cover for their second album Infected Nations is a design which we would like to replicate being that it suits the genre perfectly. However, producing artwork of this level is not anything me and James would be capable of creating, and so it would require us either finding someone who could or commissioning a professional to do it for us. While this would give us a brilliant final piece it may not be the most practical idea for us to go by, being that it would be time consuming and due to the tight deadlines we work to it could mean that producing something this complicated and detailed would not be possible for us. However when looking at this we had the idea of maybe combining this with the other albums maybe getting some artwork on a smaller scale and blurring it out around the edges rather that using the full album. This album shows us again the idea of the band title at the top and album title at the bottom which is something that seems increasing popular in the genre.

This album from Metallica is one that me and James think we could really work with. Rather than actually using the whole album front full of artwork we could use a smaller part of the album and simply place the name and titles at the bottom of the screen in order to fill the cover and make it seem professional. For this we originally had the idea of using a theme of one of the songs and doing basically the same as this album cover as something like that would like to imitate being that it is a more simplistic version of an album cover which would be a lot easier for us to produce, not only this it would allow s to produce something while easier but it would be a lot better than if we tried some really complicated piece that would consume our time and perhaps put us behind on the project.

Slayer's album world painted blood, is another album which would be one of the easier ones to produce due again to it not being massively coated in artwork, and so would not require us to spend copious amounts of time to produce it while still looking very effective and very typical of the genre. This album shows us a new way of placing the titles with the album title behind the name of the band, however this can sometimes make the album title difficult to read and so this may not be a choice that we would consider. However the style of writing in this album would be very good as it is very typically "metal" which would be a good influence for us to base our style of writing on.