Episode 1 – Birth of the Cinema [edit]

-notes

• What panning is in film 
• Key point
• What a whip pan is 
• What effect a whip pan does 
• What else you can use whip pans for
• The 3 successfully reasons to use a whip pan
• Generate energy from a whip pan
• Emphasize the absences of someone 
• Whip pan for comedy
• Transition to set up to gag
• Commonly used whip pan 
• Cause the effect that someone was just struck by something
• Break down of someone getting struck by something
• Show one image, then another
• Use whip pans too?
• Consider the tone of your project
• Identify the right moment for a whip pan
• Identify them on a shot list

Adele

• What surprised you about professionally recording music?
• How did you handle being recognized in public? 
• Is your mom musical?
• Diaries songwriting process
• What did you do with the diaries after you completed the album?
• Which recoding challenged you the most?
• An alternate version of 21?
• Iconic style moment?
• Fashion icon
• who makes your Favorite eyeliner?
• The most valuable thing learned from producer Max Martin?
• Cure for stage fright?
• Advice for anyone getting started in music?
• Top 3 favorite sings you’ve created
• Favorite lyrics you’ve ever written?
• Favorite lyricist?
• Favorite composer?
• Dream duet partner?
• Most listen to album of 2020?

 

Summary

• • For this session, I really wanted to make something personal, that I was proud of. This song is about loving someone that you don’t want to love and it’s difficult but in the end, you just want to forget about them and just want things to be okay on your end. My goal was to make something I was proud of so I could share it with others to enjoy

Questions

1. Was it cohesive?
2.  Was the melody good?

Song

Peer Feedback

• • The melodies are really nice –  Marius
  • The voice goes so well with the chords of the guitar – Michael 
  • This is such a lovely sounding song –  Matthew 

• Role – Pick a role, listed above, to focus on (director, musician, coder, etc. refer back to Career Exploration work)

My goal for this session is to be a musician and performer.

• SMART Goal – What is your SMART goal?

by April 30, as a part of my melody project and to better understand melody, i will have created a song with a good melody behind it that is different than my other melodies, this will show over the next week

• Why – Why do you want to achieve it?

i want to achieve it because i wanna create something different and fun, instead of being sad and gloomy. i will show something someone would want to listen to.

• How – How will you achieve it?

how i will achieve this is by playing around with my instruments and finding something that fits and i can write lyrics to, or just finish the melody and work with it.

• When – When will you work on it? 3 times a week? What days? How long per day?

i will be working on it everyday so i can get a better understanding of what i wanna work on and what sounds good to compose.

• Resources – What resources do you need / will you use?

i will probably use songs i like to listen to and see what chords they use and a chart of chords i can do.

• Milestones – What smaller goals will you set along the way? Set weekly dates on a calendar. These are little celebrations of progress

• day one, i want to look at chords of artist i like and play their songs, writing down chords i can use and looking at a chord chart to see what other chords i wanna use.
• day two, i will study the notes that i decided to write down and see if i know how to play them or learn how to play them.
• day three, practice the chords till i can get them down and fiddle with the chords to make a chords progression.
• day four, mess around and find the chords i wanna use in the melody and create that structure.
• day five, write down the chords I’m gonna use and record lyrics that could go with it and listen to it and find the lyrics to go with if i chose to do that.
• day six, record the song and post it on Soundcloud and send Leduc.

• Heroines / Heroes – Who do you admire/ look up to that has done this before? Place their name(s) and a link to more info about them. Maybe Wikipedia?

Someone i really admire is Conan Gray, i really admire him because his songs are really inspirational and it makes me wanna write songs.

Wikipedia page on Conan Gray 

• Summary

• My First Melody

• Lesson Melody

• One of My Favorite Melodies

• My Second Melody

Melody Composition Terms

• Theme – a longer, more flowing melodic idea
• Motive – a short, rhythmic idea (Beethoven’s firth symphony)
• Period – is 8 measures of music
• Phrase – average 4 measures
• Antecedent (Question) Phrase – the first phrase is called this
• Consequent (Answer) Phrase –  second phrase is called this
• Scale Degrees – position of a particular note on a scale
• Tonic – start and stop notes. other words home 
• Supertonic, Mediant, Submediant – neighbor to the tonic note 
• Dominant, Subdominant, Leading Tone – the most forward movement away from home notes 
• Steps – any movement using half or whole steps
• Leaps – any movement using intervals larger than a whole-step
• Conjunct motion – melody built primarily out of steps
• Disjunct motion – melody built primarily using leaps
• Repetition – used repeated materials to create a link between the two phrases of a period
• Contrast – write two phrases that contain contrasting material to create tension and interest
• Variation – halfway between repetition and contrast. the two phrases include some recognizable material and some varied material

What I Learned and Problems I Solved

Summary

This session was very adequate. I got a lot of things done. I got a whole song done. layed voices up and got them close to matching. I used a guitar this time around. it sounded amazingly against my voice 

Role

Harmony

Intention (SMART Goal)

to create a nice harmony. to make a new song, nice lyrics, and to make something good

PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY

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

Training Source(s)

1:12 I gotta learn how to have a strumming pattern

1:01 to help with strumming patterns 

3:35 keep your hand moving even if you’re not playing that chord 

4:56 say out loud the beats your playing and whisper the ones your not playing so you can always tell how to play like in your head or out loud 

Project Timeline

I’m gonna start everyday tuning

then start warming up for 10 minutes or less

play around with my chords and write down lyrics

try to see what works together and have meaning behind my work or just do it for fun

and this will take most of the session

PRODUCTION – ACTION

The actions that I did was that i wrote my song and tried to understand if it went with the chords of the song and made sure that the lyrics all came together.

The (FILM, SOUND, or GAME Creation)

What I created was a song that had power and meaning to me. This song was just another song that goes with all the things that I’m trying to get away from or learn and grow from

Skills Commentary

Skills that I learned and put into this is that rhythm and layering aren’t the same things. The skills I put into this is that I knew how to add voices into the track i was working on and how to make it sound good.

POST-PRODUCTION – REFLECTION

21st Century Skills

I learned that planning is a major skill when it comes down to me getting sick for 3 days. I should always try to make the song get finish and then once done practice a few times and then get it recorded as soon as possible after doing that to make sure i have time to edit the tracks and have time to do retakes.

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

That I can do this and that I will be able to finish this work and get it done. I decided to find a way to do this song and got it done. 

Ways of Working (Communication & Collaboration)

I sat down and started playing chords and started to make up some songs of the chord. 

Tools for Working (Info & Media Literacy)

I used google docs, sound traps, and SoundCloud.

Ways of Living in the World (Life & Career)

I learned that layering sound and that’s not harmonizing 

Reactions to the Final Version

Lots of growth, have a great new sound. Great use of guitar, rhythm, and chord structure. don forget a title – Hendrick 

Self-Evaluation of Final Version

I could have done better and could have added more songs. I should have added more chords and added more sound but either way it was pretty good. 

What I Learned and Problems I Solved

Layering is fun and easy but making sure that it is perfect is hard but i will do it better next time to do it and add it into a song. 

Grammar and Spelling

Grammarly

Editor

didn’t have time for someone to look at it

Summary

we did really good and we had a lot of teamwork. I’m really glad we didn’t have much difficulties and problems because we just asked each other and if that didn’t work we asked the teacher for help on the things we needed to do

21st Century Skills

we started learning our new skills and what we now had to practice to do and we did that. we all tried to help one another if someone was gone or forgot their part and it was really helpful.

Reactions to Final Version

mic placement worked out issues. honest, not likely their position – Brian F.

Evaluation of Final Version

I recorded what I needed to work out and helped anyone if they needed it and I worked out all the kinks of mic placement and the volume of the things we needed to do

What I Learned and Problems I Solved

I’ve had problems with the files not saving and not switching it off mono. I solved that by remembering to checking if it was on or off and asked my team to see what I could do to fix that and we just decided to just redo the missing file again