Marketing an artist - Rueben J

Toward the beginning of this project we wanted to look into marketing an artist. We picked Rueben Jay, and was marketing him as a teen idol. We thought of ways that he could plug his singles on shows such as Johnathon Ross and Sunday Night Project. Also in girly magazines such as sugar and closer. Marketing him as a teen idol he would be involved in the whole social networking with facebook and myspace. This helped as understanding what is invovled in marketing a band.

Lyrics

Dear friend as you know
Your flowers are withering
Your mother's gone insane
Your leaves have drifted away
But the clouds aren't leering up
And I've come reveling
Burning incandescently
Like a bastard on the burning sea

Chorus

You're drifting like a fire
Buried deep beneath the water
You're pressing on your low low
Is stepping on my toes
Whose side are you on?
What side is this anyway?
Put down your sword and bow
Come lay with me on the ground

You competing like mud swings
Spastic and bodily
Whipping me into a storm
Shaking me down to the floor
But you run away from me
And you left me shimmering
Like diamond wedding rings
Spinning dizzily down on the floor

Chorus

You're drifting like a fire
Buried deep beneath the water
You're pressing on your low low
Is stepping on my toes
Whose side are you on?
What side is this anyway?
Put down your sword and bow
Come lay with me on the ground

instrumental break

Chorus

You're drifting like a fire
Buried deep beneath the water
You're pressing on your low low
Is stepping on my toes
Whose side are you on?
What side is this anyway?
Put down your sword and bow
Come lay with me on the ground

to do

Need to add ;
- song
- mood board
- storyboard

Story boarding..

Ideas and storyboards.

We are going to start the music video with our main guy walking in to an projection. The projection will be of the next scene and projected onto his t-shirt.

As our song is called Moths Wings its only natural we do something around moths. This was our original and main idea to let moths lead the direction of the video. A collection of moths will follow our main person and will bring colour to the video.

This was a tester i created on photo shop. As we are going with photo animation it has the advantage that we can use photo shop to individually edit the photos. However it is a very long process, in AS we done also done an animation were it was all hand drawn -I'm hoping that because we all ready have the main image it will be much quicker. Also we can learn from our mistakes.We were discussing ways that we can also involve the moths. We both had the idea of an umbrella as i it a sort of a hypnotic and draws you in. We would involve this with the city scene (below) and have someone within that scene with an umbrella which will lead into the next scenes. At the moment we are deciding whether to have this part photo animation or normal film.
This is the city, we are planning to have a cardboard cut out sort of like a pop up book for this certain part in the song where the music picks up. This is also alot of planning needed so we are going practice it first and if it causes alot of trouble we will scrap it. However i really want to do this.

More on The Crimson Cucumber...

In yesterdays lesson we looked more on our mood boards and the style in which we want it to be in. We have a lot of ideas at the moment and are aiming to do them all. The advantage we have is the song is over 4 minutes, so compared to all our latest films/filming that is a lot longer to have. Which will hopefully let us get all the styles/ ideas.

Will upload the mood board soon so can explain all the ideas.

one of the ideas came from the coldplay video- strawberry swing. I think coldplay have really good videos as don't stick the conventions or have a particular style- they like to be unique and different for every song.

More on The Crimson Cucumber...

In yesterdays lesson we looked more on our mood boards and the style in which we want it to be in. We have alot of ideas at the moment and are aiming to do them all. The advantage we have is the song is over 4 minutes, so compared to all our latest films/filming that is alot longer to have. Which will hopefully let us get all the styles/ ideas.



Will upload the mood board soon so can explain all the ideas.

14th September.. start of music videowork

Creation of band.

Im going to be working with Rebecca Hammond in this project.

Name of band - We had a bit of trouble thinking of the name and wasnt set on coming up with one today.However we did start to think about name and wanted something original and with an edge on it. Plucking names and putting together was just a silly way to start- but it came up with some good names. One we like was The Crimson Cucumbers. We are going to go ahead and stick to it.

The Crimson Cucumbers - 3 members - one main singer who is male. Two musicians- girl on keyboard, male on drums.

Back story- Meet in a uni, started with open mic nights. Got a small fan base which grew through the use of Myspace. Word got to an independant record label where they produced there first 2 singles.

Ideology- Dont agree with manafactured mainstreampop. Likes to be independant and unique band. Their main audience is late teens/ 20s. There a laid back attiude band and have an interest in Art and Music world.

Look- Smart/casual. Girls dress in insentric and quirky.

Record label - island records