"Take a walk within the walls of my mind and watch my thoughts ravage the spaces between the walls"
- David Sawang
- David Sawang
Final Report5/6/2017 It’s finally the end of the trimester and I have to say that I’m pretty happy with the work I’ve put into this trimester. Although it has been a slow start for me, I managed to pull through by double timing in order for me to complete all three intensives, i.e. Music Production, Live Sound and Post Production. In this final report blog I will talk about each of these intensives as well as the added podcast which I needed to do. It was difficult at first, trying to cope with 2 blogs at a time for week 5 to 8 (since I missed the first 4 weeks) and Tim was not happy with my performances in my intensives, but I somehow managed to turns things around after the KPI meeting with Tim when he scared me shitless saying that there was no need for me to continue this trimester because I was going to fail anyway. Lets now get into detail about my time in Trimester 4.
Music Production: My main role for the music production was basically to play most of the instruments and give our group the quality they needed. But three weeks into the music production, I realised that my artist could not make it to record his vocals and so the group had to rely on me to sing the song. Now here’s the interesting part, we decided that in the second week that we needed a proper melody and so we brainstormed on how we needed to tackle the particular melodic construction and decided to fuse all the melody concepts which we came up with, and introduce them into the song as parts (verse, pre chorus and chorus). So it was my duty to take the pre written lyrics of distant friend and rewrite them in such a way that it would fit the syllable count and also change the flow of the lyrics to avoid them being too repetitive. I had to subtract and add words which I thought would best fit the song and focus more on a story line than just random sentences put together to make a ‘cool’ line. I realised that rewriting, composing the music, composing the melody and structuring the song played an important role in music production and that when I am working on a single, I need to wear multiple hats in order for me to make a successful song. Although I would prefer working on the desk and protools more, I feel as though music production really showed me how I am not just limited to the desk or daw, but exposed to everything that makes a good song a ‘good song’ Live Sound: Live sound seemed a bit strange for me, because I had missed the first class and so I had no idea what was going on, I literally had a deer in headlights expression the whole time. Like a cow looking at a new gate, I was just trying to process what everyone else was doing and had to absorb everything then and there, although at times I wish I wasn’t so duh, but I managed to get the gist of it. The only thing that scared me the most was the desk, and I hadn’t laid a finger on it until it came to the 15 minute mixes where <insert Hotel California pun> I was thinking to myself, this could be heaven or this could be hell <badamtis> though it initially turned out to be the latter, it slowly shifted on being positive because I realised I had learned so much in that 15 minutes than I would ever do in the whole intensive. This intensive also taught me how I’m not just a sound engineer but also showed me about stage setup and making everything look pretty like (for the ladies performing) and setting up the stage lights and ambience lights and the projector and the fair lights and the…. You get the point. Post Production: Personally post production was the pinnacle of all experiences because I had never looked at a video clip and thought about the possibility of recording an empty room to make a video of an empty room come alive. It changed my perspective of sound because every thing on earth has some sort of sound associated to it. To erase sound from a video of an empty room is like to erase eyebrows on a persons face, something just doesn’t seem right at first glance and then we notice something’s not quite right. The concept of layering sound also intrigued me because I’ve never looked at the various components within a video and thought of creating sounds of what I saw and layering them to create one sound which sounds perfect.
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