Month: December 2023

Melody Research, Analysis, and Recording Project

Summary

this project is about creating a melody.

My First HookTheory Melody

Notes from Howard Goodall’s Melody Video

CueNotes
Write your questions here…
Write your notes here… 

Summary: Summarize what you learned from the video here..

Melody Composition Terms and Definitions

  • Theme: A long, flowing melodic idea.
  • Motive: A short, rhythmic idea (Beethoven’s 5th).
  • Period: 8-12 measures or a musical sentence.
  • Phrase: Usually 4 measures.
  • Antecedent (Question) Phrase: First 4 measures of a period.
  • Consequent (Answer) Phrase: Second 4 measures of a period.
  • Scale Degrees (C Major Scale)
    • Tonic: C (1 , 8) – Stability and resolve.
    • Supertonic, Mediant, Submediant: D, E, A (2 , 3 , 6) – Moderate tension, useful for transitions and carrying on an idea.
    • Subdominant, Dominant, Leading Tone: F, G, B (4 , 5 , 7) – Causes the most tension, leads to the tonic.
  • Steps: Any movement using half or whole steps.
  • Leaps: Any movement using intervals larger than a whole step.
  • Conjunct motion: Melody is built primarily out of steps.
  • Disjunct motion: Melody is built primarily out of leaps.
  • Repetition: Repeated material (i.e. motive) used to create a link between two phrases of the period.
  • Contrast: Two phrases that contain contrasting material to create tension and interest.
  • Variation: Halfway between contrast and repetition. The two phrases include some recognizable material and some varied material (i.e. taking ideas up an octave).

One of My Favorite Melodies

  • Find one of your favorite melodies at Hook Theory Tab Index of Songs
  • Embed a clean version of this song from YouTube
  • In writing, describe why you like this melody, and identify the musical key, tonic note, and tension notes
  • What do you notice about the note structure/pattern of the theme of the melody?
  • DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS AFTER COMPLETING THEM

My Second HookTheory Melody

  • Place a screenshot of the melody notes on HookTheory
  • Link to a .mp3 file of your second melody from HookTheory
  • Write a brief reflection about this melody. What do you like about it?
    • Where did you raise tension or suspense in the melody?
    • Where did you resolve tension in the melody?
  • DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS AFTER COMPLETING THEM

What I Learned & Problems I Solved

  • Write what you LEARNED from the research, analysis, and melody creation parts of this project
  • Explain how you SOLVED AT LEAST ONE PROBLEM
  • DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS AFTER COMPLETING THEM

Grammar and Spelling

  • Write what tool(s) did you use to check your spelling and grammar?
  • DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS AFTER COMPLETING THEM

Editor

  • Who was your editor?
  • Write their first name only
  • DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS AFTER COMPLETING THEM

Resources

Session 3 Year 1 Production Project TEMPLATE v.2

SUMMARY

Role

Screenwriter

Intention (SMART Goal) for the Session

By Jan 12, as part of team #1 as the Screenwriter, I will have evidence of writing a script that fits the format of a short film by following How to Write a Short Film for session 3.

PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY

Leader(s) in the Field / Exemplary Work(s)

I chose Spike Lee as my leader in the field for session 3.

Training Source(s)

Project Timeline

Pre-production Milestones

  • Pitch/storyboard
  • fibonacci cards
  • script done

Production Milestones

  • ready to film
  • All footage/sound captured
  • editing done

Post-production

  • film linked
  • film viewed
  • blog post done

Proposed Budget

Evidence of Team Planning and Decisions

PRODUCTION – ACTION

The (FILM, SOUND, or GAME Creation)

Detective

Skills Commentary

Slides

This session I mainly focused on properly formatting the script, as well as trying to make it fit with the film’s genre.

POST-PRODUCTION – REFLECTION

21st Century Skills

Ways of Thinking

This session we managed time efficiently enough to capture all of the sound and footage. we communicated well enough to have a fully edited film with all of the needed audio and footage.

Ways of Working (Communication & Collaboration)

We had a lot of good communication during this session. We communicated things like what each team member would be doing that day, or whether or not we had certain footage/audio.

Tools for Working (Info & Media Literacy)

I used a template for the script to format it right, and I looked at a few professional screenplays as references for what a proper script should look like.

Ways of Living in the World (Life & Career)

During this session, I figured out how important communication and planning are. If we hadn’t communicated about certain things our film would have been a complete mess.

Reactions to the Final Version

James commented on the lack of music in the film, which will be my main goal for the next session as sound designer. He said the writing was a little comedic, which was sort of the point, but he said it didn’t really fit with the film, which is fair. I was not here when we presented the film to the class, so I don’t have any peer feedback.

Self-Evaluation of Final Version

I think we made a pretty solid film production-wise. Though the story and dialogue could use some revising to make it fit with the film a little more.

Grammar and Spelling

I used Grammarly to check my spelling and grammar.

Editor

Elliot

Year 1 Session 3 Week # Work Log TEMPLATE.v1

Summary

My goal was to practice learning Hysteria by Muse for practice.

What I Did This Week

I practiced learning Hysteria by Muse

How I Did It

I looked at bass tabs.

What I Learned

I learned how to play Hysteria by Muse (almost)

Problems I Solved

There wasn’t really any problems.

What Was the Result (Picture/Video/Audio)

Embed media of work

How on/off Track Was I?

On a scale of 1-10 I would say I was a 9. I pretty much only practiced bass.