DIY music used to consist of a C30 cassette of tunes which you'd recorded on a 4-track in your shed. You scrawled on it with some biro, or a felt tip if you were posh, shoved it in a jiffy bag and sent it to John Peel. But now, it's different, isn't it. Yes, it is. The Schema challenge is to record, distribute and promote a single from my bedroom in a 30-day timeframe. The resulting yacht-rock spectacular is called Those Rules You Made, and is released under the name The Schema on 20th August, via iTunes and a load of other online stores. My name is Rhodri, and this is the story...
	Buy The Single! from iTunes from us Our Links the VIDEO! rhodri.biz email MySpace Garageband PureVolume TagWorld Bebo Facebook App Assisted By drinkmilk Emu Bands likemind Lot 49 Films Marysia K HitSongScience DreamHost Mailing List Type email! Previous Posts It's Out Web ranking Online Press VHS, DVD, 320x240 MPG Endless profiles Mathematical Potential Facebook Question Assessment What Do You Think? In The Shops Archives July 2007 August 2007	Video Cost We shot the video on Saturday; the results are on YouTube, but I'm going to post a lovely-quality Flash version here later tonight. Alex obviously wanted to do a professional job, but - as with any creative process - it was a question of balancing high quality with meagre resources. She was, very kindly, working for free, so we got the budget down to: - Film stock: £117.50 - Digibeta cassette: £14.75 - Developing film: £105.75 Which is £208.50. Then I had to buy a couple of bottles of Perrier as props, making £211.50. Then we had to cover the costs of some of the actors, which added another £200, making £411.50. There's a couple more expenses still to come, one of them small, the other stupidly colossal; Westminster Council want £300 for letting us film On Their Land. But let's see if they bother invoicing us. For the moment, the Total cost: £540.04. posted by The Schema at Wednesday, August 22, 2007   +=+=+