Progress...

Yesterday, we had our narrative shoot. Although it didn't go quite to plan, as it was difficult to get many of the shots we wanted out of our actors, as well as issues with lighting outside, we still had enough footage to put into our video. After talking to Miss Blackborow, we decided to put the shots in black and white with a slight camera blur and in slow motion. We have gotten positive feedback for this. We also put a white effect around the shots to make them seem more dreamlike, and to distinguish them from the other shots. However, we have had mixed feedback on this effect, so tomorrow we will ask more people's opinions and should hopefully have our video completed by tomorow afternoon.
Today, we have also finally come up with a name for our group. At first we were thinking of 'Tainted Dreams', but realised that it would sound more like an album name. I then asked around about what people thought of 'Tainted' and with some feedback changed this to 'TainteD'. This plays on the lead artist's name (Daniel) and as we were planning to change Bernard's name, we are going to give him a name beginning with 'T' and are considering naming him 'Tyler'.
For our album cover we have already completed the inside sleeve, and today I began a draft of a back cover. It features a picture of Bernard standing at the top of stairs, leaning against a brick wall. Daniel's face is superimposed on the brick wall as if it is graffitied on or is part of the wall itself. I also experimented with different effects. We have a completed tracklist, and I have put this on the back cover. The tracklist is not in a conventional list but is spread out across the back cover, and following BLK's advice I made some of the track names bigger than others.

- Mel, for the group -