Blogpost 31 22/06/17 (THURSDAY)

On Thursday, Guy, Sophia ran through the set to just recap on the work. This session was not as productive as i would have liked it to be as it was so short, due to other commitments. However, it was good enough.

The aim is to rum through the set properly with Sophia, a number of times till we can get all of the vocal parts and harmonies right.

Blogpost 30 21/06/17 (WEDNESDAY)

Today, both Guy and I practiced for 4 hours in both Band Skills and Events Management. This was very productive as we managed to run through the songs a lot of times. Slowly refining them each time we played them. The only draw back was that Sophia didn't show up due to personal issues.This did set us back quite a bit as we were planning to work on Harmonies with Sophia for that day.

The aim for the whole band is to work on harmonies with Sophia on some of the tracks.

Blogpost 29 20/06/17 (TUESDAY)

Today, I went to go and see Guy and Sophia by the river down the road as it was such a hot day. Here, we managed to practice through the whole of the set and update Sophia on the minor changes that we made to the songs.

My aim for this whole week is to get all of the songs to the best of my ability with the rest of the band, and finish the vocal harmonies with Sophia.

Blogpost 28 19/06/17 (MONDAY)

Today, both guy and I practiced for 2 hours. Throughout this session, we ran through the set three times and ironed out all of the errors that came up throughout. Both Guy and I found this to be a really good way to work and we managed to sort a couple of problems with the solo parts and timing issues with the rhythm sections.

My aim for next week is to continue working on the songs until I get it to the best standard i can possibly get.

Stage Plan / Tech Spec / Health & Safety

STAGE PLAN

Here is my stage plan for the concert at the Star Inn pub in Guildford. Here you can see that we have laid the stage out so that Sophia is in the middle doing vocals, Guy Ferris is stage left with the guitar DI'd and a microphone for singing, and I am stage right with an acoustic guitar and amplifier.

Here is the tech spec to the performance. 

In channel 1, you can see that we have listed Sophia (lead vocalist) to just have an SM58 microphone. 

In channel 2, you can see their is just an SM58 listed for Guy Ferris (lead vocalist)

In channel 3, we have listed an amp for me, that i will plug into before the show. we have also listed me to have an SM57 microphone however this is just an error.

In channel 4, their is just a straight DI for Guy Ferris Playing rhythm guitar.

Here is monitor mix 1, with lead vocals, rhythm guitar, BVs and lead guitar in monitor mix 1.

Monitor mix 2 which also contains lead vocals, rhythm guitar, lead guitar and BVs.

RISK ASSESSMENT

This a check list that we go over to decide on the risk that we might face, and the severity of the risk.

when then go onto talking about them in the Risk assessment form (Part B).

here is the risk assessment form. This just covers over what the problems are and how we can combat them when it comes to the performance. An example of one of the problems we might face, is Noise. This is a problem because too much noise can deafen you. A way we might combat this is by wearing earplugs. This then reduces the severity of the risk as we have some sort of protection that combats the problem.

Evidence Of Collaboration

Evidencing collaboration

Emails:

Throughout the past couple of weeks the group have been exchanging emails, about what we had to do and how we would do it. However this eventually got to hard to do as it took along time to receive the emails, as all of the members didn’t have their emails open and logged out after they had been on it. We eventually gave up with this idea and chose to use Instagram messenger throughout the rest of the weeks.

Here is an example of what we discussed:

Instagram group chat:

Here the exchange of conversation was much easier on all of us as we all have Instagram on our phones, so we could see the conversation as it was happening. This was really useful to brainstorm ideas and gather inspiration from each other, as it was very quick and easy.

Here is an example of what we discussed:

Texting:

Throughout the past couple of weeks, Guy, Sophia and I have been texting each other as a standard form of communication. We used this generally to remind each other on rehearsal times and other important events such as meet ups and band pictures.

Here is evidence of our discussion:

                 

    

Peer evaluation:

We also got peer evaluation from each other when performing the songs to different people. We generally got a lot of peer evaluation from Sophia, as she wasn’t in our group at the time but use to tag along on our rehearsals, as she didn’t have a band. I have no evidence of collaboration for this  however this was very helpful as it really refined our songs.

Poster for the gig + Online Promotion

Poster 1

For our first poster, we decided to take direct influence from Oasis, who we take a lot of inspiration from in our song writing. In this poster, we took inspiration from Oasis's debut album 'Definitely Maybe' by trying to recreate the album cover and the way they are positioned in the image. We also chose the colours for the poster to be very contrasted and lazy as we feel that this represents who we are, with our very laid back, happy kind of sound.

We also took a lot of inspiration from the text art and the cursive style of text that they used.  Here, we tried our best to replicate but added our own twist to it, with the addition of different coloured text.

I feel that this poster is very chilled and relaxed, much like Oasis's album cover and has a very acoustic looking quality to it.

Poster 2

Here is our second poster. For this design, we took direct inspiration from the 1998 video game "Grand Theft Auto". Our idea behind this, was to have a very nostalgic feeling around the poster, due to the use of the 90s style media. Here is the original cover art for "Grand Theft Auto":

We decided to use this, as it was very popular at the time that bands such as Oasis where at their peak and we feel that it really represents our sound because of this.

I feel that this poster is very nostalgic and stand out from the crowd due to the influences that we used, such as the colours and pictures

The poster that we have decided to use is Poster 1 as we feel that it best represents us, with its very laid back looking vibe.

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Online promotion -

We promoted ourselves online through a Facebook page that Guy Ferris made. Here is some pictures of the page.

Here you can see the front page for Port Jackson's Facebook page.

Here, you can see the gig date, displayed on the page