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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Shock Pilot - The final boarding call!

The Final Week
of the "Smokin' Tasers" release
OCT-31 / 12:01 AM CENTRAL U.S.

The Flight Crew web chat on OCT-24 reviewed the new mixes and discussed the week ahead. What we have now is a three minute action story about "Laura Croft" as a flight attendant foiling a plot to hijack a plane while using her martial arts skills and a well-charged pair of tasers. The current mixes are all available on the Shock Pilot site. Previous videos are available on YouTube.

Now is the time to let Shock Pilot know what you think of the mixes to date. Just reference the date of the mix in your comments. The mixes are distinctly different.

During the final week OCT-24 to OCT-31 the final mix version will be shown on SoundCloud.com/ShockPilot. All of the Flight Crew members are encouraged to listen and comment on the mixes there. SoundCloud is extremely useful for collaboration. It allows comments to be made along the time-line of the music. If you are music nut, that's very attractive and helps make the comments precise, but if you want to use any other means of commenting, that works too.

Smokin' Tasers (OCT-27) by ShockPilot

✈ The Flight Crew ♥ fans and ☊ listeners feedback is important. During the final week, as an update is made to the final mix version, the flight crew will receive an e-mail or direct message on Twitter. This is not #@$%! spam, just a heads up about the final mix and a request for feedback.

✈ The Flight Crew is welcome to invite ♥ fans and ☊ listeners to preview the mixes. Two simple ways for your friends to get on board:

1) share this blog entry and ask them to click here to join Shock Pilot mailing list
or
2) ask them to tweet @ShockPilot saying "I want to be on the Flight Crew".

Thanks to everyone for being part of the collaboration so far. It is absolutely going to rock!

✈ Shock Pilot - Flight Crew Artists ✈

Jonathan Jones, Steve Morton, Lady Southpaw

✈ Shock Pilot - Flight Crew Fans & Listeners ✈

See Shock Pilot's sites: Twitter & ReverbNation

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Shock Pilot - OCT-17-2009 - web chat recap

Shock Pilot ✈ Flight Crew
Smokin' Tasers / Web ✆ Chat Recap

Thanks for the discussion today. Can't say thanks enough for where we are now and how exciting it is to get this moving forward to the OCT-31 Halloween release. Steve Morton's and Lady Southpaw's content is now filling out the mixes and opening up new directions. A really fun project.

✈ The absolute deadline for content will be OCT 24 when the final mix is discussed on our web chat.

✈ Studio final mix work goes into high gear with OCT 29-30 marathon of mix, listen, repeat.

✈ The Flight Crew will have exclusive access to SoundCloud.com for the final mix process.

✈ The final release version will hit ReverbNation.com/ShockPilot at 12:01 AM OCT 31.

New mixes and content on Shock Pilot site....

✈ OCT 14 (full vox)

✈ OCT 17 (heavy drum)

✈ Steve Morton - wah wah guitars

✈ Lady Southpaw - spoken word and vocals

Invite ♥ fans and ☊ listeners to help preview the mixes.

Ideas for how to create the "fight scene"?

✈ a seemingly normal flight gets interrupted by some bad guys/terrorists

✈ in flight pilot chatter from "Dambusters", "Zero Hour", "Airplane", "Airport 77 (or to that effect)".

✈ create the idea that the music is an overheard channel surf of the in flight music stations (techno, rock, techno, rock)

✈ dialouge between the bad guys intercepted

✈ a big fight scene with fight sound FX, heavy on the kung fu

✈ airplane cabin atmospheric FX

Ideas for the art, images, promotion

✈ Graphic novel storyboard of the flight.... could animate as slideshow video for YouTube.

✈ If you feel so inclined, tell your friends about the OCT-31.

✈ Possible photo shoot with model in "Laura Croft flight attendant" uniform. With tasers pointed at camera.

✈ Opportunity for video production to promote through YouTube?

Have a great week.

Shock Pilot

Friday, October 16, 2009

Shock Pilot - OCT-14-2009 - New Content Mix

Don't panic, our flight crew and two Smokin' Tasers will save you.

The muse, "Laura Croft flight attendant with two very mean tasers", is fully engaged and electrified.

This week brand new content ideas arrive from Lady Southpaw (vocals), Steve Morton (guitars, bass, drums, FX), and Jonathan Jones (guitars, bass, drums, FX). These ideas as well as additional content, art, and media will be discussed in the weekly Flight Crew meeting. Still locked on target for the October 31, 2009 online release.

✈ Entire Flight Crew Web ✆ Meeting ✈

Saturday, October 17

9 AM PACIFIC / 11 AM CENTRAL / 5 PM LONDON

Invitation only. Invitations will be tweeted/emailed in advance.

Web: http://www.reverbnation.com/shockpilot

Twitter: @ShockPilot