Will’s Creative Music Tech Blog

ok this one dose not work i have had so many problems with it so i am leaving my new blog is http://willog.wordpress.com/

Over the last few weeks in electroacoustic ensemble I have been using a Thermin, it have been both enjoyable and informative, I have decided that i must own one of these wonderful things. PLease comment and ask questions!

W

This week in Music for Digital Media we have been doing Foley work, I have been work ing in a group with Pj and NIck, to do the foley for a film, we chose Gladiator and have spent the weeks gathering our sounds and mustering our ideas, we have spent much of time syncing the sounds we have made to the film, This blog Post is only a taster and we will have something impressive to show in the morning class after wards I will blog the creation of the sounds and some more information on the production. Stay tuned
W

In this weeks lectures the class looked at both the adverting industry and adverts them selves, there sounds, music, and feel. At the start we viewed some work of Julio, and discussed what was there, why it was there and how it was done. The first thing we really though about was the brief giving the client, (in our work it was Julio), what they wanted and who for. I tried to think about the demographic audience of each advert. i.e. if a client ask me to do a piece for a children’s television show about purple monkeys aimed at pre-school age kids, having a sound track that is full of Break Beats and synths, would be total inappropriate, because that style of sound design would not interest most small children and may even scare and upset them. The mood of the moving image must be matched by the sound because Television is one of the largest forms of visual media the image will be the thing people pay most attention to, the sound behind it is used to enhance and even covey the mood. The problem comes in when the Client asks for something that you as the artist finds either musically wrong or when there wish’s are so far away for the current culture and identity of the place. In the monday lecture we also discussed the idea of the american dream (and globalization), often marketing group think that everyone wants the same thing and one stone will hit every bird, This of course is a ridiculous notion. The impression that these weeks lectures gave me was that working in the adverting industry is both interesting and incredibly hard, mainly because there is so much creative work, and very little time to do it all in. Yet I believe if I could deal with the pressure, I would enjoy it. I have had alot of trouble getting the advert i wanted to work. More soon.

W

Hello all,as I did not get a chance to blog last week this week I shall be doing both this week and last in one go.

Over the last two weeks we have been looking at the second music for digital media task 2, which was re-doing the audio on a cartoon, and then this week those task were viewed by the class and feedback was given by the class. I found this time very useful as I have had some problems with putting all the music to the piece of animation, mainly i found it hard to find the right sounds and instrument for each scene and mood. I believe i now have a much better idea of what to do.

W

As this week we did little learning beyond the logic stuff, I thought I’d add something fun!

Here it is Pachelbel Rant enjoy!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM

W

Today in class we started to talk about importing video into logic, we talked about film styles, SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) time code, and got the information and material for the first task. Key commands were also a “key” part of today’s lesson. I found today’s lesson remarkable useful as I had very little idea how to use video in Logic 8. Thanks Julio. As to the first task I am looking forward to  working on this task, and I think that if the rest of the module is like this so far i will both enjoy and (hopefully) succeed.

Cheers

W

Ok so the blog is hard to change and customise! sorry to all my members! hahaha of which as far as i know is noone! I’m all alooooone!

W

Hello world! Well the first class of MFNDM was pretty interesting, so much so that i went out and bought a new MacBook, yes thats right! Mainly because my old mac mini could not handle all the work and applications needed. Also i was so infused by the brief and the tasks, and want to able and do the work all over the place. I am looking forward to starting.

W

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