LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO...PENNY & POUND

Penny & Pound describe themselves as a folk rock band from Bristol whose influences are the likes of Bright Eyes, Bob Dylan and MGMT. The band consists of:

Louis Borlase: Guitar, vocals, percussion, piano, keyboards, lap steel guitar, organ

James Worster: Guitar, Bass, Ukelele, Keyboards, backing vocals, Radio White Noise.
Joe Spurrell:The Drums

Penny & Pound are a school band that are currently writing, recording and playing songs and are recording an EP called 'Collection of songs'. There also serious about getting signed onto a recording label and making it big. They kindly agreed for me to base my A2 production on them and after listening to there music I felt very inspired. As its the kind of music I would normally listen to it helped me to understand what kind of look there looking for.

I'm going to interview them to find out a bit more about them as a band and find out what there 'look' is.

Bands MySpace page:

http://www.myspace.com/pennyandpound

LastFM page:

http://www.last.fm/music/Penny%2B%2526%2BPound

Creativity?

In one of our class discussions we talked about defining creativity. What does it mean to be creative?

An example which I saw suggested that creativity works like violence (Mark Readman OCR Media Conference 2009). I don't totally understand his logic, but i hopefully by the end of the course I will have more of an opinion on the subject of creativity.

Although on the same power point there was this, I quote from James Oldham 'For a great song...you need a great chorus, you need a great voice singing it and then I think you need to be original with the instrumentation, the arrangement. You just need to give people something different.' I see this as an inspirational quote that works like plan for my coursework and connects well with my musical project. :)

Draft Timeline

October '09

• Finding an ideal band to base my project around
• Research the conventions of a good promo pack
• Start planning a storyboard for my promo video
  

November '09

• Research into camera angles, lighting and other thing related to filming
• Begin production on the promotion video
• Look into marketing music

December '09

• Start planning the cover for the DVD
• Continue editing promo video
• Start creating the cover on Pages
• Research into conventions on music promo adverts in magazines

January '10

• Start production on the advertisement
• Finish production on promo video
• Finish production on DVD cover

Another year for me at Marlwood school doing media studies and looking at the OCR options for the brief has go me very excited. So for my Media Studies A2 advanced production I've decided to choose option 1 which is;

'A promotion package for a release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:

• a website homepage for the band
• a cover for its realise on DVD
• a magazine advertisement for the DVD'

I will produce a music video, cover for the DVD and the magazine advert. I've chose this option because I wanted to take full advantage of my experience I had during AS on 'Pages', where I produced a cover of a magazine, contents and a double speared. This experience will help me to create the cover of the DVD and the Ad. Although I have never done a project were I have to film anything and edit it I have a lot of experienced guys which can help me out with that. I have also had Apple Mac training on the new 'iMovie' software which will come in handy when editing.

Now for the research...