Band Promotion: How to Shoot Conceptual Band Photos
If you are a new band, you will eventually need conceptual band photos for your CD packaging, album art, website, press kit, posters, shirts, and other stuff needed for band promotion. Now you DO NOT want to slack off in this department because it’s your way to get noticed. I will say it again: Good […]
Online Music Licensing Resources
Music licensing is the licensed use of copyrighted music. It also ensures that the creators of musical works get paid for their work. In layman’s terms it can be viewed as leasing your property out to someone for a fee, based on how and where they intend to use it, and for how long. What’s […]
DVD Packaging: Dexter Evidence Bag
This DVD packaging of Dexter TV show is another proof that their promotion guys are really working hard to create a brand for this hit TV series. Do you still remember the fresh “human arm” they placed in a grocery store in Spain? Or the bloody fountain in LA? Undoubtedly, these guys are experts in […]
Indie Filmmaking: Your Advertising Budget- $1 Million or $0
9 Practical Film Marketing Tips Every Indie Filmmaker Should Know
Make the film you and your talent want to make. Inherent in that is finding talent who wants to make the film you have in mind, and making that talent very happy to be working with you on your project. A good name makes for great marketing, and often name talent has got a following […]
5 Highly Entertaining Album Covers
Mooi Besoedeling- Zinkplaat This album has a scratch-off ink layer on the front and back, as well as a guitar pick to scratch the ink off with. You will certainly get a different kind of high with all the scratching! Christmas songs by Eunice Elizabeth Olsen and Rennie Gomes You can actually sew your messages or artwork […]
DVD Packaging and Customer Purchase Decisions
Maybe because of financial or time constraints, we do not give much attention to how we package our DVD. We just choose a decent photo for the artwork, a plain-looking case, and a good set of trays. After all, what matters most is what’s inside, right? What matters most is the content-the film! Yes, that […]
A Mastering Engineer’s Guide to Final Mixdown
Choose a reference. Find a major label track with the tonal balance you’re looking for – ideally something that hasn’t been totally decimated in mastering, since you’ll be comparing it to your unmastered tracks. If you followed my earlier advice on using a reference during the mixing process, you’ll want to use the same track here. […]
Indie Musicians: It’s normal to take awhile. Just Fight your way through
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, […]
Musician Advice: The Importance of ‘Thank You’
If there is one thing that musicians and artists should know, it’s that “getting there” takes a long while. It’s not just because of your talent or your skills that will make you a success- it’s also because of the hard work of a thousand people. Some lent you their instruments, some offered their homes, […]