reflections on album cover shoot

We had originally planned to have two-shots of us in the locket (referencing the music video), but once we had put it into the layout, we realised it didn't quite work. But i thought I'd post the photos we were going to use as they're quite nice :)

Photoshoot for album cover and myspace

We did our photoshoot today, went well, got lots of pics, and yeah, happy with that :)

Digipack draft

Here is a draft of the album cover i drew, we may not stick to it 100% but its a good rough plan.

Editing

At the moment we're focusing on editing our video, and making our album cover and myspace, so haven't been blogging as much. There's some feedback on the blog about how the editing is going.

Second shoot

Here are some behind the scenes pictures from our second shoot. Since we only needed a few shots, the shoot wasn't very long, which was good.

Reflection on shoot

So our second shoot was on 11/11, and for some reason there was not much motivation. I think because it was the end of the day, dark and cold and rainy outside, and we all just weren't feeling great. Nevertheless, we powered through and managed to film all the footage we needed. The shoot wasn't our best, but it was OK. And the location looked GREAT (such a comfy bed too). I look forward to seeing the shots, hopefully we'll have a really strong beginning and end to our video (and middle of course...)

Shoot number 2

We've got our next shoot this afternoon to film the beginning and end sequences, which involves me in the purple dress in Holly's Mum's bedroom. Hopefully it shouldn't take TOO long, but we've got an extra tape just in case..

Band names

We have now started to properly think about what our band should be called, and since I am the main girl, with the others still playing a vital role, we thought it made sense for it to be "[someone] and the [somthing]'s".

I have been looking at baby name websites such as this one: http://www.momswhothink.com/baby-names/popular-baby-names-by-year.html

and have come up with a bit of a short list. I was looking for a name that isn't too common, but describes a strong character. This is just initial ideas of course.

Roxy
Sofia
Gina
Skye
Alexis/Alexa/Lexi
Savannah
Faith
Amber
Nikki
Ruby
Cassie


I think the best way to decide this is for all of us to pick a few names (maybe 10?), and then out of those names, pick one. Then we can start thinking about what the [somethings] will be.

Reflection on the shoot

I think our shoot went really well. We had made a shooting schedule, and managed to be ahead of it by about an hour and a half, so we had time at the end to experiment with different camera angles and movements. We got all the shots we wanted, and met Gok Wan, fashion guru, which was cool.

I took with my digital camera (new birthday present) so we got 100s of behind the scenes photos. We still need to shoot the beginning and end parts, which will take place in Holly's Mum's bedroom, but apart from that, I don't think we need to re-shoot anything, since we got over 2 hours of footage, and it looks pretty good.