"Take a walk within the walls of my mind and watch my thoughts ravage the spaces between the walls"
- David Sawang
- David Sawang
Blog Topic Week 12: Final Report12/15/2016 It’s a good end to a successful trimester, and I have learned a lot this tri considering the fact that I am repeating it. I’ve seen improvement in myself this trimester, been able to get things done and the time management aspect of this tri has been an improvement. Let me go in detail as to what exactly I did this trimester and how I have improved and how I need to improve next trimester: EMP Remix: For my EMP Remix, I decided to do a remix on the previous trimesters Soundalike Project on Hoops by The Rubens. My EMP Remix was much better although I could have avoided making silly mistakes with the fm synthesis with regards to the the ‘chord’ midi effect and other technical aspects. But I think I successfully took the criticism from Nick well and worked on getting a better mix by following his advice and making sure whatever I was doing made sense and wasn’t there only because it was supposed to be there for the sake of fulfilling the criteria’s. I also had a problem with the grove template, but with Nick’s help with material online, I was able to identify why it wasn’t doing anything at all. All in all, I feel as though I successfully made a very decent mix and made sure my export was up to the mark and didn’t end with a click. Soundalike Project: For our Soundalike Project we collectively decided as a group to do Transmission by Joy Division. Safe to say I was very comfortable with the Soundalike Project as we planned everything meticulously from the beginning to the end so we didn’t really have any problems with how we were going to go through the recording process. My time management was put to the test during the soundalike project because we had everything planned in advance so any mishap would cause the whole project to not work, but as a whole team we did an amazing job at the end of the day. It really brought out a side of me I didn’t really know I had, the ability to work so fluidly amongst people I have never seen before. That was one of the biggest learning outcomes for me personally. Critical Listening: For my critical listening, I didn’t have a problem at all doing the ‘Stem Matching’ and the ‘In The Box Mix’. My main agenda was to just focus on it asap and just get it done so that I had enough time to spare for my Jingles. I thought I did pretty well with the ‘Stem Matching’ and the ‘Critical Listening Test’ conducted, although I wish I could have done better in the ‘In The Box Mix’ I was happy at the result and did everything well enough for me to then focus my attention on the Jingles project that was upcoming. I also had time to finish all my blogs in time which was a drastic change when compared to the previous trimester fail. Jingles Project: A lot of my previous blogs have been related to my reflection of the Soundalike or the EMP but I haven’t got the opportunity to speak about my jingles. The main agenda which I wanted to focus on my jingles was not to complicate things too much. I wanted to work on a premade animation so that I wouldn’t waste time compiling all the videos and not have any time for me to work on the folly and the background sounds. Ultimately at the end of the day I felt as though my jingles should showcase my ability to provide good audio for the video which is why I chose not to do anything with the video clip, this way I had enough time to work on the technical aspect of the jingles. My first jingle was episode 1 of ‘dick figures’ where I needed to focus on autotuning my voice and creating different dialogues and editing them to make them sound like they are different people although all the voices were in fact mine. It really helped me explore more on how I can modulate my voice to best fit the character and will further help me in the future to shape a character’s voice to best suit the character. I sourced some of the sounds on freesound and provided an edm background from abelton, although I wish I could have worked more on trying to get a better sounding backing track. My second jingle was episode 2 of ‘dick figures’ where my predominant role was trying to get the vocals to match the video. This is very similar to what I did to the previous jingle except I needed to change my voice to be that of a girl, that for me was one of the toughest things to do because it didn’t matter how much I pitch shifted the voice, it would sound unnatural. But then after doing research online about male and female voices, I used a vocal tuning software to change the rise and fall of my tone and change it to what I thought a woman’s tone would be and that helped significantly. Helping to setup the Jingles Page and putting up my work on the Jingles Page also gave me the opportunity to work alongside two really talented individuals and get positive feedback from them and get their support in my jingles project. We were in constant contact through social media and even trello to make sure each of us knew our roles and what we needed to do and whether or not we could do it. My communication skills has improved and my ability to constantly work with new people has caused me to look at situations in a different view. Conclusion: All in all I feel as though I have learnt so much during this trimester as compared to the previous ones. The fact that I have been using techniques I would have never thought I would be using really proves the fact that there is significant growth with how I deal with projects now than to how I used to deal with projects before. I feel as though the only way I have learnt more was for me to fail and realise my mistakes and do a better job in the future. Although due to personal circumstances of my getting into a bus accident really messed up my opportunity to try and make it to class during the last few weeks, I feel as though my adaptability has really improved with regards to my work flow and work ethic. At the end of the day, I have seen lots of improvement as well as seen the need for improving more and that I can improve more given the opportunity to. Below I have the links to the Jingles projects as well as the custom Jingles page: 1st Jingle: 2nd Jingle: Link to our Jingles Webpage: https://jjproductionweb.wordpress.com
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