I have registered a URL for a website for my digipack.
At the Moment It only goes to the Group Blog but once I have designed my own site, it'll have it's own page.
WWW.HWSERA.TK
I'm not sure if we can access it from school although I believe we should be able to, as it won't contain anything it shouldn't.

There are more to come, I didn't get chance to upload all of my images.
The images consist of us editing and filming What I've Done

Tonight we completed our filming for our final version of our music video.
Although now we have to edit and complete the video by Friday 3:10 and put it on DVD.

I will update blog with evidence of filming etc tomorrow.

By the way if I haven't already posted about our final choice of editing software we will be using Sony's Vegas Pro 9

Today we filmed our final version of the music video.

I think that it went well overall, although We need to get 3 more shots that we didn't get time to film today (I had to leave early as I had an interview), but except for these shots, which we plan on filming Saturday, the filming overall went well as we got lots of filming done, we got photos of each other filming, and performing. I plan on uploading photos to the blog soon, but I need to get them all first

Previously our band was called Leaking Pipe (Click here, for a link to a previous post about band name and logo's by Darren King) but we thought that this was too similar to Linkin Park plus it was cheesy and frankly not very good, although at first we agreed to use it, Personally I wasn't sure about it but didn't mind using it as I couldn't think of anything else that we all agreed on. A couple of days ago we decided that we didn't like the name, and needed to change it, so we all gave ideas for the name but at least one of us didn't like it. I suggested the name HW's ERA which we agreed should be our bands new name.
As Darren has the job of creating logo's and is the main designer of the Album, he has designed the new logo for the Band. I hope to upload the image of the latest logo asap, I can't upload it right now as I don't have a copy to do so.
Personally I am allot Happier with the name HW's Era than Leakin Pipe, I think it sounds more professional and more like a name of a rock band.
Our Logo is a hand grenade which has the Letters HW printed on the Inside of the main section of the grenade. It kind of looks similar to this picture although the handle/pin is on the right and has HW on the Centre. The HW has been cleverly incorporated into the design of the grenade as it blends in with the colour and design.

We are filming tomorrow (Thursday 18th November), as long as everything goes correctly e.g. we get the permission to use the drum kit in broughton, we'll be filming at my house in my garage.

(It won't look like this when we are filming)

We will be filming until about 3:30/4pm from 10 o'clock, I believe that this will be plenty of time but if necessary we will be able to film there again, when we need.

This is a very quick video of the location that we may film.
I have had to change the audio using YouTube's audio switcher as I thought I had turned my Microphone off, as me and my dad was talking, turns out I didn't

These are pictures of where I believe would be the best place for us to film, plus there are a couple of pictures of me, the clothing and shoes in the shots that I'm wearing, are what I had thought of wearing during the performance, although I'm not positive about the jumper as I'm not sure if it fits correctly with everything else, whereas I think the scruffy skater shoes and skinny/slim jeans along with my scarf fits what I want my characters profile to be like.



The location shots differ, but not in location they are only in my house either my living room or garage, I think my garage will look better with my door down, as it will make the mes en scene look grungy, dirty and altogether more of a location where a rock band may film, as it doesn't look like a typical garage, you may be able to tell it's a garage but with posters etc on the walls and doors it will be disguised.
I have asked my dad to put an extra 4ft florescent light in, as we have a spare which we kept from when we redecorated. This should give us plenty of lighting in there, as it will have two 4ft florescent lights and if we need it we can add more by using halogen lamps which can be plugged into a nearby socket.

To see my Flow Diagram of Music Video Production
click the image


(Gliffy (hotmail account))

These pictures are of either my garage or my living room, where I think we should film for our final filming.
In the living room, all of my dogs toys etc won't be in there whilst filming. I just forgot to pick them up.
In my garage I won't have anything on the left and right walls except for posters/pictures that I will put up, plus  from the back wall I have some white sheets that I'm going to use to cover up my freezer and two work benches which are  covered by blue and green blankets, on the right side of the far wall I will be able to remove quite a bit of the stuff there, but I have put some plywood in front of them for now to give an example of roughly how it might look.

All of this is only if we decide that we want to film here, personally I believe that my garage is the best place to film as we would be able to film here all day without any restrictions. I have also asked my mum and dad if we would be able to film in my living room during the week or weekends and they have said that I would be able to do so.

I am remaking my flow diagram as I produced my original version on the internet, but I found out afterwards that I had already used my allocated save space, on other projects e.g. ICT coursework, so now I am having to remake it, and I won't be interactive like I had hoped it will probably be just a picture unless I decide to make it on flash and then embed it.

I like this picture, as I think that if we had a similar photo but as front cover to our album, with similar titles and art around the picture.
This picture came from a Calendar, that I didn't get around to throwing away, just hung the new one on top of it.

We have decided to use Twitter and Facebook for our Band, for our Twitter acounts we are going to have one each and then one for the band, the band members will be both personal and professional, I think it was a good idea for us to do this as this is what quite a few professional bands do, a prime example of this is Paramore, who have a band twitter account and then individual twitter accounts Such as Hayley Williams' yelyahwilliams twitter

My Twitter Account is DaveKiedis
Darrens Acount it DKing92

These are pictures that I took on my camera. They are either posters that are either mine or my brother Alex's. although there are about 6/7 (maybe more posters) the majority of them are old green day calendars that we would be able to cut the pictures of and use them.

The reason I thought of using these types of pictures was because where we was thinking of filming (my garage, photo's will be uploaded soon) has a white breeze block wall, which I'm not sure would fit our filming requirements, so if we cover these with appropriate posters then it will help.

These pictures are of Broughton Astley/Sutton in the Elms BT phone exchange, I Like this location becuase of the building. We would have as the background setting, I believe that this location looks more industrial and grungy which is closer to the type of scenery/location that we require for our music video. Although I liked our draft location, I believe that it didn't quite fit our requirements, for our music performance. The benches and the ornate stone wall doesn't fit our genre of music, Although I did like it, especially how the guitarists and singer had the chance to be on elevated and the drummer and drumkit was based on the floor, this allowed us to switch positioning between the regualar places of the lead singer/guitarists adn the durmmer, but I think that it would have been good if we could use something else instead of the benches as they weren't appropriate.

Although I do like the suggested location I can't be positive that we will be allowed to use it, I have to ask my Dad, but haven't had chance to yet, last night I was filming until quite late and on Monday night,  it never crossed my mind, as I didn't think to ask. I think we may be allowed, but if we are there may be BT van parked in the Exchange's car park.

Tonight, we filmed our story scenes of our draft, we are missing about two or three shots as it got too dark for us to film any more, but we are very happy with the shots that we got, tonight.

We now have to edit our filming and put it together as a draft film by Friday, which I fully believe can be done. As we are using our own software we will have access to it at home as well as school, which should allow us more time to complete the editing.

These are pictures that I took on my phone, whilst filming the band performance sections of our music video.

Here are some pictures of us filming, there are more to come but I currently can't get them off my pc, should be up by tomorrow.
I haven't got any pictures of myself (on my phone) filming, they where taken using either damons or darrens camera. I'll try to put these up as soon as possible

We are going to attempt to film our story scenes tomorrow, Me, Damon and Darren all have study periods last lesson tomorrow, so we are going to go home during dinner and film for the rest of the day, as long as everything goes OK... I hope it works this time as it's about our 5th attempt for our filming, and 2nd for our story scenes...

We are having problems filming again... we are struggling to film, due to dates that we and our actors/actresses are both free. we are also considering filming our band performance at a different location as the current may not be suitable to our type of music video.

(pictures to be uploaded later, once flickr grants me access to my account)