There was no set lesson for week 6 and time was allocated to work on the assessments to prepare for submission. I spent a lot of time this week reviewing the work I have currently done to see if I like it and if it achieves the effect that I want it to. This is to prepare it to be transferred as a master track from Ableton Live Suite into Pro Tools for submission. Using Ableton Live to begin with has vastly aided me to help complete this assessment as I am very familiar with the software so aspects like navigation and taking advantage of the features of the software has been very easy to achieve.
This week I also revised last week’s material to help cement it into my brain. I think I will continue doing this in the following weeks as it is helping quite a bit actually, especially on the music theory side. I also have been doing my own study of music theory from a textbook as I see it valuable to have this knowledge.
While looking over my videos this week, I made some changes to each of the music accompanying the video, doing this has improved each video in their own right I believe. I added some reverb to various parts on the Nike video as it gives it a more “drum & bass” feel and this is what I’m going for as Drum & Bass reminds me of running, I also noticed that there was a slight timing issue with the transitions from 120 BPM to 170 BPM, I made the minor adjustment and corrected this. I also changed the key of the piece entirely from C major to D major, this is because I noticed the part I composed while Kobe is lining up a shot there was a chord that was not in C major so therefore, I changed the key of the rest of the piece to suit this. A comparison of the two parts are below:
During the week I watched one of my favourite Netsky music videos as it has a “extreme sport” theme and this help continue my inspiration and help fuel more of my creative thoughts for the Nike video. This is the video:
I also removed even more of the vocal gasps and noises I got from Splice Sounds for the Walking dead video as I found they were still quite distracting and very overpowering. I left a few of them and spread them out and added effects such as reverb and ping pong delay and it adds more of an effect with them being spread out then more often, I feel like this is a case of less is more.
I started to look at the effects and the track panning on the Unravel video and have been playing around with adding more parts to this as it seems simple however the fact that a piano part is carrying the piece, I feel like I don’t want to over complicate it by adding other parts.
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