Live Music Work Shop
Summary of Unit
For this unit the class has been separated into two different group of 4 or 5 people. in my group I have harry hood, jasper lynch and Christiana. We have been told that we have to put on a performance based around conflict and we will have to do the sound and make a sequence of images to go along with the music. We would then perform it as the final piece. I have kept a dairy of ever idea that we had in the weeks building up the performance and I have shown a link of the final performance.
Conflict
In this unit I have decided to go in a group with Jasper Lynch, Christiana, and Harry Hood. The aim of this unit is to put on a performance that involves a video or a image in the background that all follows the same thyme. That thyme is the theme of conflict. The theme of convict gives us so much freedom because it is such a wide topic. Our firs goal in this unit is that we need to figure out that type of conflict that we want to use and how we want to present it. We have been told that we can use music to represent what ever type of theme we use and that we clan record and put together samples of moving speeches and of any anything that we want the ca link to our type of conflict. I heve decided to put our progress into a weekly diary that shows our progress as the weeks go on.
Practice Diary
Research
Week 1
The picture above is a picture that I took of one of the mind maps our group made on conflict. We were simply listing a lot of the different types of conflict and a lot of the different meanings that the word conflict makes us think of. We did get a wide range of things that we could use and i am going to talk about them in this chunk of writing because it is hard to read the hand righting on the mind map on the picture. We talked about the way that people can have conflicts in there head. For example people could be thinking about what to do and conflicting with different ideas in there heard we also liked this part of the mind map with paranoia and going mad and contradicting yourself. Another thing that we put on the mind map was the idea of people having regiment and having differences of opinion. We talked about hoes this is a very good idea because everyone can relate to people having arguments. We wrote down a arm on the mind map about war and that sort of conflict and how they case devastation and destruction they often achieve nothing but lots of pointless deaths. We talked about how war can relate to people wanting power and how power can affect people and make them fight over with people that keen a lot to them about money. We talked about the things that conflicts levee behind wether thats scares on peoples skin or wether that emotional and psychological scars and things that haunt poeple like past experiences of a horrible thing that has happened to them. One very famous example of a psychological scar that conflict elves behind is when solders who fight in war get post traumatic stress, this condition is also very commonly refuted to as shall shock. We talked about violence within the household and the way that it effects people and one thing that stood out to me is violence within relationships and the whole idea that kind of domestic violence.
Working winth the theme 'conflict'
Working with the theme
In the first week we were told everything that we have to aim to do with this unit. There are a lot of different things you can do with the word 'conflict'. There are also a lot of different ways that you can inter prate the word. This means that the word conflict will have different meanings to different people because there are so many different types of conflict that are happening in the world and that people do experience every day of normal life. I am in a group with Jasper and harry and Christina. We discussed in detail what the word 'conflict makes us think of when we hear it. We all had very different thought when we hear the word. One of the thoughts that came to Harrys mind that we discussed is violence and violence within households and outer sports of mainly domestic violence. The thing that came to Christians mind is physical fighting. We talked about some of the things we could do if we chose the theme of physical fighting in conflict. She showed us videos of kunfuu and carate fights and we talked about how we could make our image based around a fight that follows one piece of music that moves with the fight. I personally was never too keen on the whole idea of physical fighting because there are so many more things that we could do within the topic of conflict. And there are so many things that we could do that lots of people could relate to and if people can relate to what were doing then we are much more lightly to reach them with the meanings inside what were doing and keep there attention.
One of the ideas that me and jasper had was the idea of righting a poem of what conflict can be seen as and to have the poem being read over a selection of images and or videos. we could also give to poem a vocal melody if we liked it enough and we could try to right a song using it. we also talked about of the most obvious examples of conflict witch is the conflict that is happening around the wold every day and had damage economies and killed many many people. This is of corse war. We talked about how war is such a good way to get a meaningful message across to a audience because everybody knows about how terrible the Great Wars were. They also know the devastation the caused to people and to there families and the amour if destruction the they cause. We have also talked about religious conflicts and how they relate directly to a lot of the wars I the world and how if there were no more religious conflicts there would be a lot less wars because wars that are based around religion are pointless because there is no possible way on earth for rather side in the war to know for sure there religion is even true.
In the first week we were told everything that we have to aim to do with this unit. There are a lot of different things you can do with the word 'conflict'. There are also a lot of different ways that you can inter prate the word. This means that the word conflict will have different meanings to different people because there are so many different types of conflict that are happening in the world and that people do experience every day of normal life. I am in a group with Jasper and harry and Christina. We discussed in detail what the word 'conflict makes us think of when we hear it. We all had very different thought when we hear the word. One of the thoughts that came to Harrys mind that we discussed is violence and violence within households and outer sports of mainly domestic violence. The thing that came to Christians mind is physical fighting. We talked about some of the things we could do if we chose the theme of physical fighting in conflict. She showed us videos of kunfuu and carate fights and we talked about how we could make our image based around a fight that follows one piece of music that moves with the fight. I personally was never too keen on the whole idea of physical fighting because there are so many more things that we could do within the topic of conflict. And there are so many things that we could do that lots of people could relate to and if people can relate to what were doing then we are much more lightly to reach them with the meanings inside what were doing and keep there attention.
One of the ideas that me and jasper had was the idea of righting a poem of what conflict can be seen as and to have the poem being read over a selection of images and or videos. we could also give to poem a vocal melody if we liked it enough and we could try to right a song using it. we also talked about of the most obvious examples of conflict witch is the conflict that is happening around the wold every day and had damage economies and killed many many people. This is of corse war. We talked about how war is such a good way to get a meaningful message across to a audience because everybody knows about how terrible the Great Wars were. They also know the devastation the caused to people and to there families and the amour if destruction the they cause. We have also talked about religious conflicts and how they relate directly to a lot of the wars I the world and how if there were no more religious conflicts there would be a lot less wars because wars that are based around religion are pointless because there is no possible way on earth for rather side in the war to know for sure there religion is even true.
Some ideas and sugesstions from members of the group this week
Ku Fu ideaIdeas for music using the Ku Fu
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One of the members of our group called Christiana made a
suggestion this week that we could explore the idea of physical violence toportray the theme of conflict. She mentioned that we could film a Cu Fu fight for the video side of the performance. We did talk about Christiana’s ideas as a group but as a group we were not all as keen on this idea as she was. Jasper and I felt like in essence all of these different types of martial arts are really just different types of self-defence. And self-defence is just way to protect you from physical conflicts between people. I definitely don’t feel like using marcel arts like Ku Fu and Judo will portray the theme of conflict the way I think of it in my head. Another reason that we decided to abandon the idea of using fights and physical violence is that it is a bit obvious and we did all feel that we wanted a theme that has some substance and that takes a bit more thinking to get your head around and for me especially the whole fighting idea that Christiana was a bit to basic and we could aim for something more complex and sophisticated. |
Drugs ideaOne of the other ideas that one of the members of our groupcalled harry came up with is the idea of how people take hard drugs and they come dependent on those drugs to get them through there day. When people become
dependent on these kinds of drugs they will find it very hard to stop. Theymight have to try very hard and fight the urge to take the drug witch is a typeof conflict inside their heads. Another example of drugs causing conflict is alcohol. Alcohol causes a lot of conflict because when people are under the influence of it then they don’t tend to think so much about what they do and they just do it. Alcohol addiction is also another good one. But the rest of the group didn’t feel like this was a viable thyme and we decided that it wouldn’t be suitable for our video for the workshop or for our theme for the music. The reason that we didn’t like these ideas is that we are all 16 to 17 so we are under the legal age to consume alcohol and also no matter how old we are drugs will always be illegal. And it is a very hard this to film without getting in trouble because were hardly going to tell the actor to snort a line of something doggy for the film. For that reason we decided that these were not god ideas and that we should keep concentrating on a better theme. |
Ideas for the music for the drugs ideaas well as having a long hard think about the music for the Ku Fu idea. we also talked about the music for the drugs idea as a group. We though that fitting with the drugs thyme we should right some kind of heavy drum and bass kind of thing but then we had the same problem that we had with the Ku Fu idea witch was that we couldn't perform it live witch is the whole point so we decided that we should go the opposite way with this music. We thought about using violins and gentle acoustic guitars to images that are really live so it is like the two opposites showing contrast and conflicting against each other.
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Ideas and the problems and constraints we came across and how we solved them
We have come across a few problems along the way when we were thinking about some of the ideas above. One of big problems we found with the Ku Fu idea is that nobody in our group apart from Christiana knew anything about Ku Fu. This meant that we would have trouble acting out a Ku Fu fight. The way we sorted out this problem was by reading up a lot about Ku Fu on the internet. We learned that Ku Fu is not just a physical conflict, Ku Fu is also about mind games and taunting you opponents trying to make them make the first move and trying to get them to make a mistake before you have even started fighting.
One of the problem that we came across with the drugs idea is that it is very hard to film people taking drugs without getting in to trouble because it is illegal and it is very bad for you. We talked about how we could film the seen around the drugs and not actually film the drugs but
then we decided that that would not be good because it would be hard for people watching to know what is going on.
One of the problem that we came across with the drugs idea is that it is very hard to film people taking drugs without getting in to trouble because it is illegal and it is very bad for you. We talked about how we could film the seen around the drugs and not actually film the drugs but
then we decided that that would not be good because it would be hard for people watching to know what is going on.
My contribution this week.
This week I have helped the group and helped the ideas we have had to progress a lot. I think that I have helped by suggesting a lot of things
that we have liked. For example, the whole thyme of domestic violence was my suggestion and I wrote out the mind maps. Because of these things I think that the group has had a good start and means that we are on the right track to getting a good grade for this unit.
that we have liked. For example, the whole thyme of domestic violence was my suggestion and I wrote out the mind maps. Because of these things I think that the group has had a good start and means that we are on the right track to getting a good grade for this unit.
Week 2
This week we have been looking different types of conflict in more detail. We dedicated a whole session to writing up details mind maps on the board. We have also began to thunk of how we are actually going to put on this performance and why kind of soundtrack we want to have and rather its a song are a reading of a poem or lots of out here things that could tie into the thyme 'conflict'. In the session she spent writing up mind maps we talked a lot about arguments and how we could base our conflict thing on arguments. We thought that this was a very good idea because arguments are something that everyone can relate to. We went on to put arms on the mind map around the arguments part saying things about arguments within relationships and arguments within families and then what arguments might cause. These are things like suffering and pain and regret and sadness and frustration. We also talked about domestic violence and the damage that domestic violence causes. Those are things like physical damage and mental damage. We also takes about conflict within the mind and how a person can conflict two things within there own head and not know what to do in a situation and maybe have to choose between two things and they can't decide. Below i have uploaded a group of photographs that i took whilst we were writing the mind maps on the board.
Mind Maps we Made to Help us Think About the Different Types of Conflict
We spent a lot of time looking at different types of conflict and thinking about how we could use them and how we could put them into our piece on conflict. We wrote up a lot of our ideas on a mind map on the white board in the class room. We thought that this was a very good idea because it gives everybody in our group a chance to have an input and to add some of their thoughts and ideas to the mind map. We also though it was a good idea because generally speaking, mind maps are a very good way to present your ideas because they are very easy to understand. We began our mind maps with simple arms coming of them and then as a group we added more arms coming of the arms we had already made.
We spent a lot of time looking at different types of conflict and thinking about how we could use them and how we could put them into our piece on conflict. We wrote up a lot of our ideas on a mind map on the white board in the class room. We thought that this was a very good idea because it gives everybody in our group a chance to have an input and to add some of their thoughts and ideas to the mind map. We also though it was a good idea because generally speaking, mind maps are a very good way to present your ideas because they are very easy to understand. We began our mind maps with simple arms coming of them and then as a group we added more arms coming of the arms we had already made.
Domestic Violence
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You can see in the two pictures to the left of this paragraph that the arm we were working on at the time is an arm that was focused on domestic violence. As you can see in the picture on the far left there is only one arm coming of that says ‘domestic violence’. There was not further detail at that point. We then all talked about what domestic violence meant to us and how (if we wanted to use it as thyme) we would go about linking it to conflict. As you can see on the picture that is to the left of this paragraph and to the right of the picture that has harry in it with the first stage of our mind map, we have now added in a lot more detail to our idea of having a thyme of domestic violence. One of the ideas that meant we could link the thyme of domestic violence to conflict is that we could think about what conflict levees and what domestic violence levees. We talked about how domestic violence can levees scars and other types of physical damage on the human body. We also talked about how domestic violence can cause you to develop certain types of mental illnesses and thinks like depression witch in extreme cases have been linked to suicide. We also talked about how conflicts and domestic violence can hugely affect people’s confidents and make them self conches and insecure.
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Arguments
In the pictures to the right of this paragraph you can see that the mind maps are starting to take shape and that we are starting to look at more arias and we are exploring more possibilities and more possible thymes for our performance. The picture that is in the middle is a picture that shows the whole mind map with the section I have already talked about on domestic violence and a new section that is based on arguments and the different types of arguments and what they can do to you and things like that. We decided that this is a good thing to think about because everyone has had arguments so they can relate to other people having arguments. We put some words on the mind map which we thought were important things that argument and make people feel like. They are emotions that everyone will have experienced at some point in their lives so they are very good for people who are watching our performance to relate to. These are things like anger and pain and regret. We also wrote on the mind map some different scenarios in which argument might occur. One of the scenarios that we rite is a family scenario. Thus means any kind of argument in families. We also wrote about arguments in relationships. This is easy to relate to because in relationships there are often differences of opinions between the people in the relationship and they can quickly escalate to arguments.
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Conflict within the mind
One of the other arms that we put on our mind map was a am that was titled as conflict within the mind. The photo that is on the right is a photo that shows the mind map when it was nearly complete. I will put a larger version of this picture below so that you can read all of the detail that we put on the mind map. In the section that we wrote about conflict within the mind we covered quite a lot of arias. One of the arias that I thought was very interesting was the aria on mental disorders. I think that this would be very affective thyme because it is a very sad thing and people will be aware of the affects that mental disorders have on unlucky people’s lives. They can ruin people’s lives and cause people to feel isolated from the world and make people feel like they are on their own. We wrote a few different types of conditions that are quite omen. The conditions that we rote are: schitsophina and anxiety disorder and insecurity.
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Talking about the music with the domestic violence idea.
we talked about what kind of music we wanted to do with the idea of domestic violence and we decided that we wanted to bass it around acoustic guitar. We talked a lot about what kind of guitar we wanted and we tried to play a lot of things and write things in standard tuning. WE eventuly decided that we wanted to write something for this song in a aulterd tuneing. We tried the tuneing CGCGGC but we did not write anything that we liked enough. WE then trued the tuneing drop D and we becan to get some good ideas. WE then further droped the high E and B down one tone so that the guitar was in dadgad.
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My contribution to this week
This week I think that my contributions have helped the group. We have been continuing to explore a lot of new ideas that link of all of or thyme ideas on our mind map.
Problems we came across this week and how we solved them
One of the problems that we came across this week is that I found that singing this song is very had in the morning when I have
just woken up because our weekly lesson and our weekly practice are in the morning. The way that we got around that is by dropping the tuning on the guitar so that it is more in my range. I think that we have done that well because we found that when I drop my guitar tuning and play that song on it sounds really good and rich and bass.
just woken up because our weekly lesson and our weekly practice are in the morning. The way that we got around that is by dropping the tuning on the guitar so that it is more in my range. I think that we have done that well because we found that when I drop my guitar tuning and play that song on it sounds really good and rich and bass.
Week 3
Ideas we Discussed for the Image part of the Performance
Exploring Still Imagery
This week we have began to think about the image part of our performance. We have thought about all of the different ways we could put images into our performance. One of the thinks that we spent a lot of time thinking about is how we could use still images and words to portray our theme of conflict. We discussed how we could have a slide show that moves along time with our music our reading or what we’ve we decide to do. This couud be a problem because we dont have anyone in our group free to work the slide show. We could solve this problem by asking someone from the other group to help us in our performance by clicking the mouse at the right time to move it on to the next slide. I think that this would be a good idea because it is simple to do and it could work well because we could easily project the image onto the wall behind us. This could make a problem for us because
This week we have began to think about the image part of our performance. We have thought about all of the different ways we could put images into our performance. One of the thinks that we spent a lot of time thinking about is how we could use still images and words to portray our theme of conflict. We discussed how we could have a slide show that moves along time with our music our reading or what we’ve we decide to do. This couud be a problem because we dont have anyone in our group free to work the slide show. We could solve this problem by asking someone from the other group to help us in our performance by clicking the mouse at the right time to move it on to the next slide. I think that this would be a good idea because it is simple to do and it could work well because we could easily project the image onto the wall behind us. This could make a problem for us because
Exploring live moving images
One of the other types of images that we talked about is how we could have real people in the performance as opposed to having still images or pictures or videos. We discussed how we could have some of the students from drama, acting like they are mad and pretending that they have been involved in conflict and that it has affected them in a few different ways. We have talked about how we would go about doing this idea. It would involve a lot of rehearsals and it would mean we would have to make sure that the acting went with the rest of the performance and didn’t just look weird. We talked about how we could try and re-enact some of the scenes from’ One Flew Over the Cukoos nest.’ The reason that we talked about doing something like this is because it is a very famous film and people would understand what we are trying to achieve with the images and that they are just a different way to show people with mental conditions and problems caused by conflict.
One of the other types of images that we talked about is how we could have real people in the performance as opposed to having still images or pictures or videos. We discussed how we could have some of the students from drama, acting like they are mad and pretending that they have been involved in conflict and that it has affected them in a few different ways. We have talked about how we would go about doing this idea. It would involve a lot of rehearsals and it would mean we would have to make sure that the acting went with the rest of the performance and didn’t just look weird. We talked about how we could try and re-enact some of the scenes from’ One Flew Over the Cukoos nest.’ The reason that we talked about doing something like this is because it is a very famous film and people would understand what we are trying to achieve with the images and that they are just a different way to show people with mental conditions and problems caused by conflict.
Exploring the use of moving images through videos
We have also talked a lot about how we can use moving images and video images as the image part of our performance. Jasper and I were talking about this particular way to show the images and he mentioned that he has a friend who is good at camera work and he could help us out with the whole filming process. We have also talked about how we could use different effects on the cameras and different filters on the lenses to help us to give different kind of vibes on the video. We also talked about the different ways that we could show conflict in the scenes and how the image could move along with what we are doing in the performance weather it is a song that we are playing and we play along to a metronome in our ear or a poem that we time and begin at the right time so the images are in time with the poem. I think that this idea would work very well because we could use black and white in the video and we could project the image onto the wall behind us during the performance.
We have also talked a lot about how we can use moving images and video images as the image part of our performance. Jasper and I were talking about this particular way to show the images and he mentioned that he has a friend who is good at camera work and he could help us out with the whole filming process. We have also talked about how we could use different effects on the cameras and different filters on the lenses to help us to give different kind of vibes on the video. We also talked about the different ways that we could show conflict in the scenes and how the image could move along with what we are doing in the performance weather it is a song that we are playing and we play along to a metronome in our ear or a poem that we time and begin at the right time so the images are in time with the poem. I think that this idea would work very well because we could use black and white in the video and we could project the image onto the wall behind us during the performance.
Further exploring images through videos
We have discuss all of the different things that we could do in our video witch would relate to our favorite theme witch is conflict within the mind. I will upload some photos that show the mind maps we made in the lesson bellow. We have talked about the variety of different things that we could show in the video that would relate to the thyme and that would be reasonably straight thought for us to film. One of the ideas that we spent a long time thinking about how we could show in a image is the idea of smoking and how it is a drug witch can be used to relax yourself when you are involved in conflicts. Smoking is also addictive so there could be a element of conflict in that because your body craves it but in your mind you know that you shouldn't. We also talked about showing in the images some ideas that could lead people on to believe that the person in the camera shot suffers from some kind of mental illness. We had a talk about the different shots we could do in the video using that idea and one of them was a very simple idea that just involved our main character in the video walking up and down looking like he or she is thinking hard about something and showing some kind of anger and some kind of unusual things. I think that this is a good idea because in order to film that shot I do not need a lot of other things to make it work. Just my actor and my camera.
Talking about the characters in our video
We have also been talking about the characters in our video and if we want a lot or if we want a few. We have talked about all of the pros and the conns of having lots of people. One of the pros of having lots of people in the video is that it can sometimes be easier to get a powerful message across if you have lots of people showing that message in the video. We also talked about how having a lot of people can also be seen as a con in the filming process because the more people we get involved in our video shoots then the more people that we will have to organise and ask to take part and tell where to be at the right time and tell them what to do in the scene. We there by decided that for the sake of keeping our recording as easy as it should have to be and not over complicate things that we should have 5 people at most in our video.
My Controbusion to this week
This week I think that I have made some good contribution. I had a few ideas that I shared with the rest of my group about the images in the workshop. Inparticular the idea of moving image. It just so happens that jaspers friend is willing to help us put together the moving
images with makes it a lot better. I have also input other ideas this week like the idea of having a character who just sits there in the video and looks sad because he is suffering from some kind of conflict.
images with makes it a lot better. I have also input other ideas this week like the idea of having a character who just sits there in the video and looks sad because he is suffering from some kind of conflict.
Week 4
Songs that have influenced the music we have created for the performance
One song that was a very heavy influence to us is a song called bloom by the paper kites. I was inspired by the acoustic guitar in this song witch is simply one progression that loops round and round. I have learned that and then kept some elements of that picking pattern because I could play it well. That is when I wrote the instrumental guitar for the song that we used for the music. It was inspired by the paper kites. I also based some of the lyrics around the same kind of style of writing as the lyrics are written in the song bloom. One thing that i really like about the melodys in this song is the way that it all flows.
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Our work towards the images
This week we have begun to do our filming for the video. We have found a location for some of the shots. This location is a cool little place in the collage grounds which ticks all of the right boxes. It is really old and derelict and it is not very well maintain, it is very dirty with rubbish lying
around the place and there was another thing about it that made it better than some of the other places that we considered doing our video recording at. There we bags of tar with were all chopped up really small. It looks like black sand like you can see in the picture, but this gave us the idea of writing out some of the lyrics to the song in the black stuff. The other places we considered to shoot our video at very very urban places like reading or maidenhead but in the end we decided against them because it is a lot more effort and we could do it just as well in the collage grounds.
around the place and there was another thing about it that made it better than some of the other places that we considered doing our video recording at. There we bags of tar with were all chopped up really small. It looks like black sand like you can see in the picture, but this gave us the idea of writing out some of the lyrics to the song in the black stuff. The other places we considered to shoot our video at very very urban places like reading or maidenhead but in the end we decided against them because it is a lot more effort and we could do it just as well in the collage grounds.
commentary on on the makeing of the vidio and exspaning what we were trying to achieve artistically
When we were filming the video we already knew what location we were going to use. We found this old place around the back of the photography department in collage. Is good at that location we cause the building looks old and warn and there are
big pillars witch could be preserved in a lot of ways by a lot of different people. In using this old grim looing building we were trying to achieve a feel that there has been conflict at this place and over time, the building has started to show ware and it does not look as good as it was when it was new.
We also made the charter in the video look really poor and dirty and sad. We based his look on somebody who looks like they have been sleeping rough on the streets. The reason we did this and the thing that we were trying to achieve was to make the watcher feel sympathy because the actor that we had is a young man and there is not real reason the he should find himself in a situation like that one where he is forced to sleep in the streets.
We also thought a lot about the use of the black tar to right the lyrics on the song. The reason that we did this and the effect that we were trying to create was an emphasis on the lyrics and the meaning of the lyrics. Si when people hear the song and they hear me singing the lyrics then the see the image of the lyrics on the video along in time.
big pillars witch could be preserved in a lot of ways by a lot of different people. In using this old grim looing building we were trying to achieve a feel that there has been conflict at this place and over time, the building has started to show ware and it does not look as good as it was when it was new.
We also made the charter in the video look really poor and dirty and sad. We based his look on somebody who looks like they have been sleeping rough on the streets. The reason we did this and the thing that we were trying to achieve was to make the watcher feel sympathy because the actor that we had is a young man and there is not real reason the he should find himself in a situation like that one where he is forced to sleep in the streets.
We also thought a lot about the use of the black tar to right the lyrics on the song. The reason that we did this and the effect that we were trying to create was an emphasis on the lyrics and the meaning of the lyrics. Si when people hear the song and they hear me singing the lyrics then the see the image of the lyrics on the video along in time.
Our work towards the sound
This
week we have made a lot of progress in the sound for the image. We have decided to bass it around a song of witch I have written called pretty scares. We had the idea of using the lyrics and righting them out. Here are the lyrics that I have written for it:
Pretty Scars Lyrics
Out of this, I’ve learned the truth or something else
That’s close enough, as if to say
That another day, tears us apart
And God I Hate, this twist
of fate Leaves pretty scars
But they won’t hurt and they won’t bleed
What’s underneath cannot be touched
It’s in the ground, what’s in the
past can’t follow you
It’s hard enough to get to sleep
When there’s alarm
bells still ringing
A bitter taste leaves no escape from the feeling
You punched too far above your weight
God only knows you’re not to blame
If you spent another minute in that place
Then fuck fate, it took
you’re innocence away
Yours are, Pretty scars
Yours are, Pretty scars
Yours are, Pretty scars
Yours are, Pretty scars
Ohh
You caught me off guard, but I ain’t got the nerve to say
Ohh
Leave all you’re pretty scars, cuz baby they’ll fade away
Ohh
You can’t fight the past, you’re stories left beneath your skin
Ohh
Whatever you’ve lost leaves pieces to be colour in
I have based the lyric on this song around the topic of deistic violence and abuse within relationships that cause people to have bot
sociological damage and physical damage. It is about what conflict dose to us and how it moulds us into different people and how sometimes life is not fair.
week we have made a lot of progress in the sound for the image. We have decided to bass it around a song of witch I have written called pretty scares. We had the idea of using the lyrics and righting them out. Here are the lyrics that I have written for it:
Pretty Scars Lyrics
Out of this, I’ve learned the truth or something else
That’s close enough, as if to say
That another day, tears us apart
And God I Hate, this twist
of fate Leaves pretty scars
But they won’t hurt and they won’t bleed
What’s underneath cannot be touched
It’s in the ground, what’s in the
past can’t follow you
It’s hard enough to get to sleep
When there’s alarm
bells still ringing
A bitter taste leaves no escape from the feeling
You punched too far above your weight
God only knows you’re not to blame
If you spent another minute in that place
Then fuck fate, it took
you’re innocence away
Yours are, Pretty scars
Yours are, Pretty scars
Yours are, Pretty scars
Yours are, Pretty scars
Ohh
You caught me off guard, but I ain’t got the nerve to say
Ohh
Leave all you’re pretty scars, cuz baby they’ll fade away
Ohh
You can’t fight the past, you’re stories left beneath your skin
Ohh
Whatever you’ve lost leaves pieces to be colour in
I have based the lyric on this song around the topic of deistic violence and abuse within relationships that cause people to have bot
sociological damage and physical damage. It is about what conflict dose to us and how it moulds us into different people and how sometimes life is not fair.
Our ideas for the video - story line
10sec – start with black and come in on toms face and focus in
20sec – toms sitting around looking sad
30sec – tom lights a fag and drinks a beer
40 – Shot of the sky and tom looking up but then looking sad again
1.0 – me waling around in a skate part for a while
2.0 Me walking done a long path with a few others
These are some of the ideas that we have had that we filmed in the first film shoot. We did end up useing most of those ideas however we did not use all of them because we had to cut of a part of the film at the end to make it end with the song at the right time.
20sec – toms sitting around looking sad
30sec – tom lights a fag and drinks a beer
40 – Shot of the sky and tom looking up but then looking sad again
1.0 – me waling around in a skate part for a while
2.0 Me walking done a long path with a few others
These are some of the ideas that we have had that we filmed in the first film shoot. We did end up useing most of those ideas however we did not use all of them because we had to cut of a part of the film at the end to make it end with the song at the right time.
My controbusion this week
I have contributed a lot to the group this week. Mainly the idea of my song being used in the project and lyrics. I was there
when we were doing the filming. I put in some ideas that people did not like when we were talking about where the camera should go and what we wanted to happen in the scenes but I did contribute some good ideas that did make a difference like the idea of putting in a video of us walking down the long path between an castle green and Rother field. I like the way that that shot worked out and I like the way it was edited by jaspers mate.
when we were doing the filming. I put in some ideas that people did not like when we were talking about where the camera should go and what we wanted to happen in the scenes but I did contribute some good ideas that did make a difference like the idea of putting in a video of us walking down the long path between an castle green and Rother field. I like the way that that shot worked out and I like the way it was edited by jaspers mate.
Problems we came across this wee and how we sloved them
This week we came across some problem in the practices. They have been more of physical problems this week. One incident in the practice session this week was especially disruptive. I broke the high e string on my guitar while tuning and then jasper did the exact same thing. We
did solve this problem by me running home and getting some spare strings from my house and then we were back on track for a successful practice session.
did solve this problem by me running home and getting some spare strings from my house and then we were back on track for a successful practice session.
Video evidence from the film shoots
In the videos down below I have put on evidence of the film shoots. In the film shoots there are a lot of different places and a lot of different locations. We had a lot of ideas for these film shoots some of the videos that you will be able to watch bellow show us writing in the black tart stuff in the first location that we found that is down being the photography department at Rother field. It shows us in a place where we are on the top of a big slope looking down at our actor walking along a ridge on his own looking all lonely. There are lots of shots that are not used when we edited it all up but there are a lot of bitts that we do use.
EVALUATIONS
Evaluation without watching video of the Performance
I have not watched the video of the workshop so this part of my evaluation is purely based on the way I feel that it went in my head and how I
thought it sounded when I was playing it. When I was playing it I did think that it all sounded a bit dry, the vocals especially. This is because Steve made a suggestion to me that I should get rid of the reverb in the actual live performance and then add it in again when I am mixing it at a later stage on quebass.
I think that the piano part would have sounded nicer if it was a bit more subtle, but unfortunately I did not get the chance to bring that up in
the practice before hand. So if I were to do it again I would what the piano to be a lot lower in the mix also that it doesn’t overpower. I think that the video looked really good and quite professional thanks to jaspers friend and I also think that the section in the video where the lyrics are in time with the words that were written out in the black stuff was great. I’m great it worked so well because I was worried that the guide track that I did for jaspers mate to edit with would have been a bit rough because I was not playing with a click. But it was fine and I was very very happy with the final result. One of the things that I would have tried to improve in the video is the section where I am in the Scate Park because I’m just kind of standing around and it looks a bit random.
In the end i think that our performance did portray confict very well because it left it open to interpretation by the people who were wathing. All along we wanted inroduce more and more themes that provoked a responce in the audience. Ted from the outher group said that it made him think of the conflict in the big cities in the uk.
I have not watched the video of the workshop so this part of my evaluation is purely based on the way I feel that it went in my head and how I
thought it sounded when I was playing it. When I was playing it I did think that it all sounded a bit dry, the vocals especially. This is because Steve made a suggestion to me that I should get rid of the reverb in the actual live performance and then add it in again when I am mixing it at a later stage on quebass.
I think that the piano part would have sounded nicer if it was a bit more subtle, but unfortunately I did not get the chance to bring that up in
the practice before hand. So if I were to do it again I would what the piano to be a lot lower in the mix also that it doesn’t overpower. I think that the video looked really good and quite professional thanks to jaspers friend and I also think that the section in the video where the lyrics are in time with the words that were written out in the black stuff was great. I’m great it worked so well because I was worried that the guide track that I did for jaspers mate to edit with would have been a bit rough because I was not playing with a click. But it was fine and I was very very happy with the final result. One of the things that I would have tried to improve in the video is the section where I am in the Scate Park because I’m just kind of standing around and it looks a bit random.
In the end i think that our performance did portray confict very well because it left it open to interpretation by the people who were wathing. All along we wanted inroduce more and more themes that provoked a responce in the audience. Ted from the outher group said that it made him think of the conflict in the big cities in the uk.
Evaluation of our ideas in the weeks building up to the performance
I think in the build up to the performance we did have a lot of very good ideas and we did think about it berry hard. I think that we made the right decisions along the way to drop certain ideas and things that we thought we might do. For example I think that we definitely made the right choice to drop the ideas we had to film our video in maiden head. Also one of the decisions that we made right at the end of the practice dairy where we decided that we would benefit if we shorten the piece a bit and didn’t play the last section of the song so that the video would be able to be shorter and we would be able to make sure that it was up to a good enough quality.
I think in the build up to the performance we did have a lot of very good ideas and we did think about it berry hard. I think that we made the right decisions along the way to drop certain ideas and things that we thought we might do. For example I think that we definitely made the right choice to drop the ideas we had to film our video in maiden head. Also one of the decisions that we made right at the end of the practice dairy where we decided that we would benefit if we shorten the piece a bit and didn’t play the last section of the song so that the video would be able to be shorter and we would be able to make sure that it was up to a good enough quality.
Potential for further development
I think that there were a lot of things in the ideas that we had for both our music and our moving image had still a lot of things that we could have gone into more detail on and explored further to over all, send a more direct and meaningful message to the readers. I think that there was one thing that stood out to me more than most and that was that we could have made the music a lot better and give it a lot more feeling and make it feel more in feel with the theme by using a digital effects processing unit of some kind which means that you could apply reverb to the sounds being played and chorus and phases and a lot more. I think that that would have made the final performance more memorable.
Some things that in my view would had made the images we captured better and the videos that we recorded is that is when we found our idea and we know what the ideas is about we could dive deeper into the roots of the idea and make it more unusual in the video. We thought about the idea of domestic violence but we over looked the obvious and we went to the emotional side of things.
One aspect of the piece that i am sure that i could have improved further if i had more time to do it is the harmonys in the music and the way that the harmonics could be played with some oohhhhh. The reason that we didnt put in more harmopnys is because we didnt have enough time to get it all sorted out and herry in my group is very new to harmonys. This meens that if we come back to play the song again there is a lot of things tat we can do to make it better.
I think that there were a lot of things in the ideas that we had for both our music and our moving image had still a lot of things that we could have gone into more detail on and explored further to over all, send a more direct and meaningful message to the readers. I think that there was one thing that stood out to me more than most and that was that we could have made the music a lot better and give it a lot more feeling and make it feel more in feel with the theme by using a digital effects processing unit of some kind which means that you could apply reverb to the sounds being played and chorus and phases and a lot more. I think that that would have made the final performance more memorable.
Some things that in my view would had made the images we captured better and the videos that we recorded is that is when we found our idea and we know what the ideas is about we could dive deeper into the roots of the idea and make it more unusual in the video. We thought about the idea of domestic violence but we over looked the obvious and we went to the emotional side of things.
One aspect of the piece that i am sure that i could have improved further if i had more time to do it is the harmonys in the music and the way that the harmonics could be played with some oohhhhh. The reason that we didnt put in more harmopnys is because we didnt have enough time to get it all sorted out and herry in my group is very new to harmonys. This meens that if we come back to play the song again there is a lot of things tat we can do to make it better.