Month: January 2024

SUMMARY

Focus / Instrument

Learning guitar, still practicing bass.

Intention (SMART Goal)

By March 1, as part of TEAM #7 as Guitarist, I will have evidence of A Completed Song by following 5 Best Ways to Start a Song for Session 4.

PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY

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

My Leaders in the field are King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. King Gizzard and the Lizard is an Australian band that makes a multitude of different genres with each album. As of now, they have 27 studio albums.

Primary Source

Secondary Source

‘Shanghai’ by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard has an incredibly catchy melody that you can’t help but sing along to. The structure of the melody has a lot to do with this.

Training Source(s)

• Learn complete songs 0:26
• Make a nice sound 1:17
• Play in time 1:33
• Call yourself a guitarist 2:12
• Always ask questions 2:58
• Gear doesn’t make you better 3:17
• Make your guitar playable 3:58
• 5 minutes a day 4:22
• Sleep 5:47

There were some more tips but I chose to not include them as they are more so for practicing at home, and I do not own a guitar.

SMART Goal Milestone Schedule

• Decide general sound of the song.
• Start recording/coming up with ideas.
• Have all sections of the song recorded.
• Mix the song.
• Complete the slideshow.
• Present song and slideshow.

PRODUCTION

SMART Goal Starting Point Evidence

Mushroom Metal

SMART Goal Ending Point Evidence

Mushroom Metal

An attempt at making a sludgy, distorted metal song.

POST-PRODUCTION – REFLECTION

21st Century Skills

Slideshow

I made a very unstructured and messy metal song.

Ways of Thinking (Creativity, Innovation, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving)

There were times when Garage Band was not working or was having issues. I was mostly able to solve these problems on my own.

Ways of Working (Communication & Collaboration)

when I was unable to get something to work. or didn’t understand something, I would ask a peer or my instructor.

Tools for Working (Info & Media Literacy)

I used Songsterr to look at tabs for inspiration for my song. I looked on Google for tips on getting a better guitar tone, I don’t recall what I looked at specifically though.

Ways of Living in the World (Life & Career)

This session taught me to get the necessary part of something out of the way before doing something else. Example: Record the guitar part and THEN practice instead of practicing the whole time and then recording the last second.

Reactions to the Final Version

None as of now.

Self-Evaluation of Final Version

This session could have gone a lot better. I didn’t get the recording done until the last second, so it is not mixed and is not what I would have wanted as a final product.

Grammar and Spelling

Grammarly

Editor

Liam

Simon’s ability to drum is on par with his ability to get hard work done, which is nothing short from incredible. Simon and I were in a music class together. Simon can come up with incredible ideas on the spot, with no effort. While talking with Simon I’ve noticed he is a very respectful individual. If any workplace is looking for a hardworking, respectful person, Simon is the guy.

Emerson’s love and passion for film is very visible. I have worked with Emerson on the production of multiple film projects. Emerson shows her passion for film through the hours of hard work she has put in just for a small part of a film. Working with Emerson is very easy, as she has a positive attitude and works hard no matter what. I would recommend Emerson to any Workplace looking to hire a hard-working, passionate individual, film-related or not.

SUMMARY

Role

Sound Designer

Intention (SMART Goal) for the Session

By March 1, as part of TEAM 1 as a sound designer, I will have evidence of having a soundtrack/score for our film by following How to Compose Cinematic Music (in 7 easy steps) for Session 4.

PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY

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

Primary

Secondary

Training Source(s)

Ben Burtt is a talented sound designer well known for the sound production and design of the Star Wars movies. He uses very interesting techniques for a lot of the sounds in these films.

• Use sound effects 0:26
• Boom perspective 1:18
• Record “wild sound effects” 2:16
• clean dialogue 3:15

• step 1 – Choosing a Key and Chord Progression 01:47 –
• Step 2 -Introduce Long Strings 02:58 –
• Step 3 – Using Short Spiccato Strings 04:09 –
• Step 4 – Writing a Melody 06:47 –
• Step 5 – Adding a Counter Melody 07:50 –
• Step 6 – Using Orchestration to add Intensity 08:56 –
• Step 7 – Ending your piece as it began 09:21 – Play through of whole piece with notation

Project Timeline

Pre-production Milestones

• Fill out the project tracking sheet.
• Finish and present the pitch.
• Finish the storyboard and structure the story.

Production Milestones

• The script is done.
• Capture all sound and footage.
• Edit the film together fully.

Post-production

• Finish the slideshow.
• Present the film to peers.
• Present the film to professionals.
• Finish the blog post completely.

Proposed Budget

Film budget sheet

Evidence of Team Planning and Decisions

The storyboard.

Concept art of the aliens in the film.

PRODUCTION – ACTION

The (FILM, SOUND, or GAME Creation)

Alien Film

This film is about a man saving people from aliens, with unique lighting, a cool soundtrack, and intense scenes.

Skills Commentary

Slideshow

POST-PRODUCTION – REFLECTION

21st Century Skills

Ways of Thinking (Creativity, Innovation, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving)

There was a point where we had audio missing for a scene so we had to do ADR instead. We had our editor go back and edit when doing certain scenes that he wasn’t in so that he would have more time to edit.

Ways of Working (Communication & Collaboration)

whenever there was a problem regarding missing sound or bad audio, I would tell my team so we could find out ways to solve it.

Tools for Working (Info & Media Literacy)

I took inspiration from old alien/sci-fi movies for the soundtrack. Not really anything in specific, just the overall sound you would think of with an alien movie.

Ways of Living in the World (Life & Career)

During this session, I learned how to communicate better and solve problems before they became too bad.

Reactions to the Final Version

All of the professionals said that the characters didn’t really matter, or that they didn’t really care about the character because there wasn’t really any context or background as to who they were. They also said the transitions could have been a little better. I think Keith also said the music or the film reminded him of a David Lynch film, which is pretty cool.

Self-Evaluation of Final Version

Overall I think we did a pretty decent Job. There were some issues with missing audio and poor audio quality. That didn’t really affect the film all that much though, as I was able to capture more audio. I think the soundtrack for the film turned out pretty good. The production was pretty good, but the story could use more character-building.

Grammar and Spelling

Grammarly.

Editor

Emerson

LOGLINE

Little gnome dude wants mushrooms but he cant get them.

PROTAGONIST

Little gnome guy.

PROTANGIONST CORE WOUND / MOTIVATION 

Need for mushrooms.

GENRE

Metal or something probably.

PLOT DESCRIPTION

Little gnome guy wants to get some cool looking mushrooms but he can’t get them because they’re too high up or something like that.

TREATMENT

cool little gnome world

INFLUENCES and EXAMPLES

Swans maybe? King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard maybe?

Sleep is your Superpower

• Matt Walker: Sleep is your Superpower

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Notes

Summary

Learn Better Practicing Techniques from Dr. Molly Gebrian

• Dr. Gebrian’s Videos about Learning and Music

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