AS LIVE - Unsigned logo design number two

Based on the Beatles Abbey Road album cover I designed this the second of my two logos. I personally think that as an idea it is relevent as for those people that pick up on the reference will be music fans and those who don't it is still clear that it is a music based show. If this logo was to get picked I'm not sure whether I would want to use silhouette or real people and if I was to use real people where I would take the photo. I have used the same font as in the other logo becuase i have already recieved possitive feedback. We shall see what the production team think.  

AS LIVE - Unsigned logo design number one

This is the first of my two draft logo ideas for presentation to the production team on the 15th. Obviously this may not be what Lauren has in mind but I will talk through my thoughts and how I came to this design. After seeing from a blog entry that Lauren prefured simple logo designs I discarded some of the more complex designs and started thinking about the show it its most basic form. 

Not having a musical bone in my body I think has come as an advantage for this task. This is due to when I think of music i think of the obvious elements. For example I have used the shape of a guitar pick as the main element. At this stage I have left it plain white but there is no reason that it couldn't be changed to another colour or pattern.

Having been told that the colours were going to be purples and yellows these were the first colours that I attempted for the text however I personally thought that the purple didn't work on the design. This is why I have used the yellow and orange colours as they were clear and alluring.

As for the image contained within this was originally a lonsom guitar which I tried in various colours. This looked effective but was lacking the passion for music that the general audience of the show would hold. Therefore the classic image of someone leaping into the air striking a note on the guitar presents this passion and joy of music which I assume wants to be translated.

I hope I have headed in the right direction for what the production team will be looking for.  

AS LIVE - YouTube, Vimeo and Email

Hey everyone I have set up a few accounts after the meeting with the production team the other day. So we now have a dedicated email address for the show which could prove useful for tickets and alike. So the accounts that i have set up are YouTube, Vimeo and a gmail accoutn. 


Unfortunately both Unsigned and UnsignedLive were taken on YouTube so the channel is names 'TheUnsignedLive'


The Username is: TheUnsigned Live
Password is: uns1gned


Vimeo
The Username is: unsigned.live.2012@gmail.com
Password is: uns1gned


Email
The address is: unsigned.live.2012@gmail.com
Password is: uns1gned

AS LIVE - Promo team deadlines

Items that we the promo team will be in charge of are the following:

• Logo
• Social Network Pages
• Youtube and Vimeo accounts
• Posters
• Leaflet
• Viral adverts - one long and two short
• Website
• Making of doc
• Title sequence

In todays meeting with the production team we agreed on some deadline dates for when some of the items above need to be done by, these as follows:

1. Social network pages to be set up as soon as possible - being done by Alex
2. Youtube and vimeo accounts to be set up - being done by myself
3. Each of the promo team is to come up with two logo designs to be submitted to production team on Thursday 15th March
4. Chosen logo elements must be generated by March 26th
5. Posters and leaflets created by March 29th
6. Viral adverts must be shot by April 27th
7. Title sequence completed by Early May
8. Behind the scenes ongoing throughout

Fiction Adaptation - Beginning my essay

I sat down earlier today reading through text books, finding quotations and planning the content of my essay. Part of my planning involved me working out what each paragraph was going to focus on and how many words I should have roughly in each. Well considering that I don’t particularly enjoy writing essays and that I thought I was going to struggle to find things to say I have actually enjoyed my afternoon writing. Admittedly I haven’t written a great deal in regards to the meat of the essay and answering the question of In adapting a novel the adaptor inevitably infringes the integrity of the original text but my brain got to work and my fingers tried to keep up. As the allotted 250 word introductions swiftly become almost double that and the following paragraph seemed to appear on the screen good and quick without the aid of copy and paste as would have been the case back in the day.

Granted if this kind of over writing continues throughout the essay I am going to be face with quite a hefty edit session come the end but I would much rather that than struggling to find anything to write about.

I hope that it is going as well for everyone else having to write this essay

General Update

There are times in life when everything seems so busy that you can feel that you're never going to get on top of the amount of work. With deadlines drawing ever closer, other projects and favours taking up more time than expected, spending time working a job so there is enough money to keep everything moving along and with a previously quite social life becoming more vibrant I presently feel like I am fighting a loosing battle trying to manage my time in order to get everything done.

However now that we have been given our job roles for AS LIVE I am now in a position to come up with some form of plan to get all of the things that I need to do done.

The first item on the agenda is to get my fiction adaptation essay started and completed by the end of the weekend. I have withdrawn a number of books recommended on the reading list and I have been pushing through War Horse with the aim of being able to instantly recall relevant examples when writing the essay.

Following the completion of my essay I would very much like to complete the pre production stages of the fiction adaptation unit and progress swiftly onto the production. Having been out location scouting and having my one man cast confirmed it is more or less a case of pulling the storyboard together and arranging a time that will be possible to film.

On a similar note I have been working on an entry for a film making competition having already started production I would very much like to shoot the remainder of the short within the next couple of weeks.

At the same time as these elements coming together I would also like to crack on with the second essay. With two job roles for as live being promotion and editing I am unsure if my essay has to be focused on promotions or if i can focus on the editing element. I hope this is the case as i expect that there is more information and I will simply find the subject more interesting.

The last film making element that I need to turn my attention to is the promotional material that between Zee, Alex and I have to produce. I am hoping that as there is a number of decisions and planning that the production team will need to do before we can really get on that this gap with provide enough time to get the previous elements done or close to it.

If I manage to complete all of these elements to the standard that I want, alongside other elements of my life, without having a nervous breakdown I will consider it a success,

I will endeavour to keep this blog updated to keep a record of my progress.

Fiction Adaptation - Novel Selection

It’s easy to forget with so much focus on the AS LIVE unit at the moment that I have plenty of work to get done for the fiction adaption unit. One of the marked elements for this unit is the 2000 word essay addressing the statement “In adapting a novel the adaptor inevitably infringes the integrity of the original text - discuss with reference to at least one adaptation.”  Having a very limited literary knowledge I started with films and work backwards to those that I knew had originally been novels.

Those that have been following my blog for the last couple of months at least you will know that I had a particular like for Steven Spielberg’s recent film War Horse when I went to see it at the cinema. So I have been out and bought the Michael Morpurgo novel that is where the story originated and thankfully it is only 182 page so I should be able to struggle my way through it. So I have picked War Horse as my reference novel and film. However as many of you will be aware War Horse was also a play performed in the west end. Unfortunately at present I haven’t seen it portrayed on stage which I’m sure would have given an interesting element to my essay and although I am hoping to see the show in the future I don’t think that I will viably be able to before the essays due date.

I hope that this essay proves not to difficult but like so many things only time will tell.