Evaluation

Practice Sessions

I think we could have tried a bit harder learning the songs because we wasted a lot of time and consequently it was a rush to learn the last song in time for the concert. I think that we did well picking the songs though, all of us came up with ideas and we picked songs which matched our ability and what we enjoy playing. One downside to our band was that we didn’t have a drummer, if we did have one it would have made it a lot easier to allocate rolls in the band. Instead we ended up sharing jobs and switching instruments between songs, this consequently slowed our performance up at the concert.

Concert Prep

We spent quite a lot of time planning the concert, the whole group (both bands) sat down wand we discussed what we wanted out of the concert and what we wanted it to be like. We spent a lot of time designing the tickets and posters, this time gave us less time to practise the songs we would perform. We helped set up the stage on the day of the concert, we brought all the amps out and did sound checks for all of them. Overall I think we could of done more to make sure the concert was a success but it was a great night and it ended up turning out really well.

Final Concert

In my opinion the concert was huge success, we only received positive feedback about what a great night it was and how well organised it was. I think I could of performed a bit better, one of the songs I didn’t know the chords so I had to have the chord sheet on a music stand in front of me which didn’t look as professional as it could of done. Everyone else in my band did very well and played there parts perfectly. All the other bands were really good as well, there was a huge range in ages and styles. There was “screamo” band which was a bit of a shock to the crowd considering some of them had never heard anything like it before. There was a brilliant double act which consisted of 2 girls singing and playing the guitar, they were really good and gave the performance class. There was only the odd mistake from some performers throughout the performance but nothing major.

Artist Blog

We chose our first song by all sitting down and talking about what kind of stuff we all wanted to play, there was a mixture of genres and this helped us dertermine what type of music we should be playing to suit everyone in the band. We eventually decided and that we should mostly play and mixture of pop and rock. This decision led us to looking on our iPods from songs were fitted into this genre. The suggestion of this first song came from Sam and it was the only song we looked at, we all liked it and ecided to do it. This song was "A Day to Remember - If it Means a lot to You"

Our secong song took more time, we all went onto YouTube and looked at songs which we could do. We all found artists that fit the genre we wanted to do and then looked at songs from certain bands which weren't so popular. This eventually led us to "Frank Turner - The Way I Tend to Be".

Our third and final song came from a similar method as the second, but we agreed to look for songs in our spare time to save practicing time in lessons. We wanted a slightly more rocky song for our final song to end the show on, we looked and bands like Green Day, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Avril Lavigne. In the end we decided to "Nickleback - Someday", this song choice came from Drew and we all liked it and decided it will be a good song for our performance.

So in the end this was our fianl set list....

• A Day to Remember - If it Means a lot to You
• Frank Turner - The Way I Tend to Be
• Nickleback - Someday

I had to lead a rehearsal on our second song, this was near the beginning of us learning the second song. I decided to start iff by all of us playing along with the song, this got us warmed up and helped us rememeber the song from the day before. After that we did the song again with out the song and it went really well, we reapetaidy played the song until we started to have trouble with the change from the verse the the chorus. So we concentrated on this for a while until it was perfect. Then we played the song again all the way through again and it was a lot better than before. By this time it was the end of the lesson, I think that it went really well and we made a lot of progress.

Our Final Performance

Y12 BTEC Unit 24 from Harry Base on Vimeo.

Diary Entries

Diary Entries

Diary Entries

Marketing

The posters that we made had to appeal to a wide range of people so we went with a summerry feel, we rehearsal tickets and posters from concerts and festivals and then picked all the best parts of each sample and put them all in to our own poster/ticket.

 

Throughout the planning of the concert we were working as a team and making notes, this is a picture of the notes which we were making which really helped us organise a successful concert.

 



These are some pictures of the final outcome of the tickets and posters, this poster has elements from the posters we looked at initially and combines parts of each one which we liked.