MUSIC FOR PERFORMANCE task 1 24 11 16

ALIEN 3

In the clip the music  is played by an orchestra this makes it feel big it creates suspense and tension thats is meant to be frightening .it is very effective and makes you want to watch the movie.

BABY GROUP DANCING

In the clip the music is Hip-Hop and this makes the viewers become excited as the clip is about being young.

the mood is exciting and fun and the music keeps you engaged.

CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS TASK 2 final draft 17 11 16

THE ROBBERY

So  its Friday evening and the bank had collected and stored the weeks takings in the vault, it amounted to £40 million.The robbery had been carefully planned by Clive. They steal a van big enough to take all the money but small enough to be quick around the streets, Johnny is in charge of the guns, and Berry is in charge of the get away vehicle

FLASHBACK

Berry is at the steering wheel of the van before the robbery  ( he is a snitch talking to the police telling them that the robbery is about to take place ).Clive and Johnny are at the bank waiting with a rucksack that they had smuggled in via an insider security guard that was working for them and would be paid off after the robbery.
Clive enters the bank first followed closely by johnny. Clive is the insider and says to the other workers that johnny is setting up an account in the bank and thats their excuse to get into the main office upstairs. they walk into the office they armed there guns and changed there clothes and prepared themselves for what is about to happen.
johnny has loaded all the guns ready for the robbery and he added some C4 for the vault. He had a inside man working in the bank so they didn't need to make a big scene or setting of the alarm which would alert the police. they had more time than they thought. They went to the managers office forced the door and put a gun to his head, " take us to the money now' they ordered .He got up and told all the staff to do as they were told so that it could be over soon.They walked to the vault were the money was stacked on a pallet.They quickly filled the bags then ran to the exit, all this time the alarm didn't go off because of there inside man they managed to keep it quiet.
As soon as they left the building the alarm went off os they had to get into the van and drive as fast as possible.
It all went very smoothly, a bit too smooth as there was no chase or anything ? Anyway they get back to the lockup and start to unload the loop when " get down on the ground and put your hands where we can see them"."We have been doubled crossed" says Clive its all over. They are taken to the police station where the story unfolds and the other guys find out that Berry is the snitch. You wont last in jail they warn him.Berry turns out to be an undercover FBI agent who wouldn't be going to jail at all rather on to the next case which was on the other side of the country.
You can never fully trust anyone when you live in the under world..

CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS TASK 2 first draft 20 10 16

THE ROBBERY

So  its Friday evening and the bank had collected and stored the weeks takings in the vault, it amounted to £40 million.The robbery had been carefully planned by Clive. They steal a van big enough to take all the money but small enough to be quick around the streets, Johnny is in charge of the guns, and Berry is in charge of the get away vehicle

FLASHBACK

Berry is at the steering wheel of the van before the robbery  ( he is a snitch talking to the police telling them that the robbery is about to take place ).Clive and Johnny are at the bank waiting with a rucksack that they had smuggled in via an insider security guard that was working for them and would be paid off after the robbery.
Clive enters the bank first followed closely by johnny. Clive is the insider and says to the other workers that johnny is setting up an account in the bank and thats their excuse to get into the main office upstairs. they walk into the office they armed there guns and changed there clothes and prepared themselves for what is about to happen.
johnny has loaded all the guns ready for the robbery and he added some C4 for the vault. He had a inside man working in the bank so they didn't need to make a big scene or setting of the alarm which would alert the police. they had more time than they thought. They went to the managers office forced the door and put a gun to his head, " take us to the money now' they ordered .He got up and told all the staff to do as they were told so that it could be over soon.They walked to the vault were the money was stacked on a pallet.They quickly filled the bags then ran to the exit, all this time the alarm didn't go off because of there inside man they managed to keep it quiet.
As soon as they left the building the alarm went off os they had to get into the van and drive as fast as possible.
It all went very smoothly, a bit too smooth as there was no chase or anything ? Anyway they get back to the lockup and start to unload the loop when " get down on the ground and put your hands where we can see them"."We have been doubled crossed" says Clive its all over. They are taken to the police station where the story unfolds and the other guys find out that Berry is the snitch. You wont last in jail they warn him.

SOUND AND AUDIO PRODUCTION SKILLS task 3 Creating a Production 3 11 2016

1  What went well

The recording process went very well i understood the routing and i got good signals into the software mixer this helped when it came to mixing down the finished recording

it was good to place different microphones on the drums and see the different levels from each mic
i managed to get a good  separation from each mic that meant there was not too much noise spill from each mic this also made it easier to mix

2 what would you improve

I would spend more time on choosing the microphones for each job so i would test the microphones to make sure i got the best sound possible for each instruments, also i would like to spend more time comparing the different sound and quality between the condenser and the dynamic microphone.

I would need to spend time learning how to use the the software to improve on my mixing skills
at all times i had to make sure that i worked within the health and safety guidelines making sure all wires were safely put out of harms way and keeping the sound levels within safe levels, also we took plenty of breaks to avoid getting tired or straining our eyes...

Creative Writing Skills 15/9/16 SHORT STORY

So i went to a party on Sunday, it was the driest party cos i got there too late cos i was getting ready.Getting ready for me turns out to be a six hour affair cos i had to clean my creps and then picked out an outfit cos i cant go to a party uncoordinated . So when i get there i look the hardest .
When i get there it turns out that most of the people had left. we played playstation 4 and had a tournament on call of duty. people took it in turns to play music through the speakers. we all moved into the garden to let off some works =. it got a bit out of hand when someone from another estate came to the party with a actual gun looking for one of my boys so he shot it in the air. this made everyone sprint off including me. we jumped through the gardens across the road trying to avoid the opp boy. someone had called 5.0 so they came after us with dogs and flashlights we carried on running, there was about 10 of us. finally, we made it to a field and decided to wait it out there.

Based on true events...

DJ SKILLS 16 06 16

Today i demonstrated how to safely set up and use the DJ equipment to the rest of the class

The first thing is to safely unpack the DJ rig from the case, i had to make sure that all the wires were safely tucked out of the way and made sure that the speaker levels were not too loud before we i turned them on

This is the cross fader you use this to fade from one track to the other

This is me using serato on the laptop to select and playback the tracks from

I used the hot cue function also the roll the slicer and the sampler you can get some really good mixes using these functions

Here i have a selection of cues at different parts of the track so i can always go back to that point

Here is how we monitor the level it is very important that we keep the levels out of the red to protect the speakers and out ears

This is the filter function you can create some good sounds using this and you can put some good drops in your tracks

you can use this wheel just like a vinyl and speed up or pull back your tracks also you can scratch with this just like a vinyl record

Cross fader

This is the serrato program that we used

Here i am using the headphones to preview different tracks line the up an and then mix them 

In this clip i am using the auto loop and filter functions to create a cool sounding mix 

This is me in the mix using the cue function and then using the jog wheel having to make sure that the mix stays tight..the video is on my desktop in the DJ skills folder

 

Acoustic Recording Techniques The recording process 16 6 2016

Today we set up and recorded multiple input session using lots of different mics

The first thing i did was run the multi core behind all equipment out of harms way to prevent any one tripping as it is important to remember to follow the health and safety guidelines

Round the back of the piano

Round the table to the back of the computer to the audio interface

Here i am setting up the overhead mic that will record the Hi Hat 

We used AKG micro microphones to record the snare and toms

the are good for capturing a drum sound without too much noise spill as they are close to the drums this is a microphone on the snare

Microphone on the toms

Here we used the AKG S1000 Dynamic microphone to record the hi hat the  it was about 2 inches away from the hi hat and placed at an angle as you can see in the picture we found this to be the best position after some experimenting , you could place the mic under the hi hat as well with the results being close to the same

We plugged the Bass guitar directly into the Focusrite Clarett audio interface, it has 8 ins and 8 outs and because the bass was going directly into the interface it meant that noise spill would affect the bass channel so the bass player could sit where ever he wanted

we would line up the multi core to make sure that all the ins and outs correlate

Here is Lottie and Hamlet performing a little jam session with the multiple mic setup just to make sure that all the mics are properly lined up and that we are getting good levels on each channel. We then recorded a full track

We monitored the levels using Logic Pro where we would mix the track and add effects and dynamics at a later stage

The overall sound quality was very high and we managed to keep the noise spill to a minimum. Using logic we are able to adjust all the individual levels of each microphone and add any effects and dynamics which will add a professional sound to the track

We use Genelec monitors to listen to the play back from the computer and we had to make sure that the levels we carfully maintained to protect our ears, we also took regular breaks to give our ears a rest and stopped us from sitting in the same position for too long The finished mix was good quality, we used some dynamics to control the sound of the kick and snare to help keep the track sound clean, we used some reverb on the overall drum sound to bring the whole kit together.The bass is clean and we added software keys to bring the sound together.

I tried to add vocals but could not think of a good song so i wrote a fresh one and recorded it with me and Hamlet on vocals.

Finished mixes desktop in Kai Castles work folder