22-06-09 – What Final Fantasy needed / *Advertises*
Okay! Slightly less intense week this week, but I still did a crapload of stuff. Par example…
- Getting paid for the advertisement on my website!
- Making my first review of a sample pack (I made a Dubstep Song!)
- Finishing my Final Fantasy XIII trailer music-to-video project!
- Working on my personal portfolio site design
- Scratch coming back!
- Seeing Transformers 2 with Pete and Scratch
- YAWA practice with… uh… just Kieran.
- Started recording for my boyband!
- LOL to the CAT.
*Sells Soul*
Not really. I only asked the good people at Primeloops.com, producers of the finest samples from Dubstep to Trip Hop, to advertise on my site because of their high quality goods and/or services.
That’s actually true, btw.
I really didn’t expect anything to come of it – I sent an e-mail off into the blue and got an advertising deal for it. Just goes to show that if you have a website with over 200 visitors a day and decent rankings on google for a popular electronic subgenre of music, you can profit if you send one e-mail. I think a chinese guy said that a few thousand years ago.
But yes, my first actual payment came through today, so I know they weren’t just screwing with me! Yay!
*Steps into Dub*
Ben, my contact at Primeloops, also sent me over some sample packs to review, saying that if they liked the reviews he’d increase my monthly advertisement rate. I am very fortunate I liked the sample packs, since I don’t think I could write a positive review about something which sucks.
But yeah, I also made a song with it as a part of the review! Check it out:
Straight after youtube-ing it, I got comments from people saying they thought it was rubbish. Being used to people whose parents never taught them to keep things like that to themselves, I just replied with calculated explanations of why I chose to make the song the way I did. Then one guy commented:
“Huge respect on this responce any one who takes a shot like that in good spirit is solid.”
Sometimes the internet can be an awesome place.
This needs more… awesome.
A while back I was looking for a music-to-video portfolio piece to make for my games music portfolio. I watched a trailer for Final Fantasy XIII (WELL looking forward to this game) and was disappointed with the music. Here’s the trailer they made:
It was such an awesome video, but the music didn’t seem to link with it at all. It didn’t have the energy of the footage. So I decided to make my own music to it. Here’s the result:
For my first ever foray into music for video, I am really proud of it. The music follows the action and the guitar is FRICKIN’ COOL 
I’d love to do more of this.
I like clouds.
I started designing my personal portfolio! (The current template is just temporary!) Check it out:
There’ll be a blog in the white box, btw. It’s not just a really post-modern artistic interpretation of websites.
And yes, the nav bar is being held up by a cloud and a planet. With ropes. Why not?
SCRATCH!
Finally The scrizzle mizzle scrizzle is back in the hizzle. We have already planned our weeks and started being productive. We get a zillion times as much done when he’s down here since we encourage each other. It’s great. I think when Kieran gets down here too we’ll be ridiculously productive.
Check out Scratch’s blog if you have a moment – www.dudeinadrama.com (See what he did there?) It’s about video stuff. It’s cool!
Lolformers: Revenge of the random introductions of characters with no explanation.
Wow, I saw Transformers 2 a few days ago and I couldn’t stop laughing. It was true to the series in that there were craploads of plot holes and they brought in a bunch of new characters without mentioning why they were there, but it’s okay because there are tons of giant robots beating the crap out of each other.
I’d really reccommend it, purely for the hilarious generic hollywood-ness of the film. There are so many slow down bits in the fight scenes, jokes that could appeal to the whole family and cheesy romantic sections that it had me in fits all the way through. Brilliant.
YAWA PAWA
Since Jamie was in NewQuay with his studenty buddies and Zak forgot it was Fathers Day and at the last minute couldn’t make it, it was once again just me and my buddy Kieran.
Earlier in the week I’d mixed two YAWA songs, “Watch Me Fly”, an epic trancey-poppy track which is pretty much my favourite YAWA song now, and “Epidemic”, a Gabba/DnB/Rap/Rave/Metal monster of a song, which is going to be so much fun to play live. We tidied up these tracks, reworked some of the less catchy lyrics into… more catchy ones, then uploaded a video of Kieran teaching you how to swing a guitar!
Useful stuff! That’s me singing the random autotune bit in the middle btw.
After spending a good deal of time on the YAWA songs, we took a break from all the recording and decided to do some…
Recording for Hot Girl Discount!
As Kieran put it, it’s cool that both our work and play are the same activity.
I loved some of the suggestions for the boyband name, especially “Mojo”, and Scratch had the idea for “V” if there were 5 of us, but I think we’re sticking with Hot Girl Discount for now. Possibly with an album “Attractive Ladies get in for Cheaper Rates.”
We started recording the vocals (I’d already made the music) for the debut song “Hard To Get (You don’t fool me)”. Sounds like a real boyband song, right? That’s because it is.
I actually cannot wait to show you all this when it’s finished. We’ll be making a music video too, so watch out for that!
Next week on Dave’s Blog…
I’ve got all organised with Scratch this week, so by next week I’ll have…
- 6 blogs
- started work on editing Pie and Scratch Episode 1 together
- A video tutorial
- A New Interabang song
- Finished a YAWA song’s outro
- A review
- Started the countdown to Interabang’s big release
- A bit more of my 2nd book’s plot written!
It’s like I’m getting back into sprint mode, yay!
AND THE BLOGLY QUESTION: What Music-To-Video project should I do next? Can you think of any cool game/movie trailers I could write pieces to?