my audition

Dear Jesse, 

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AC56G_CL199 - Music Production Level 3 - UAL (Kings Cross)
Date and time: 22-Apr-2015 15:15:00
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i applied at Westminster kingsway college  for music production level 3. i prepared for my audition by picking which beat, that i made, i will play for Phil (level 3 music production tech) my audition went really well Phil was impressed with my progression and gave me a place on the course all i need to do so i know im going on to level 3 is to get a merit on my level 2 course 

I didn't apply for anything else which is really risky. I want to keep studying but i could of applied at a different college  that dose music or do apprenticeships.

I didn't want to do an apprenticeship because i wanted to stay at westminster kingsway college  to do my level 3 music production course 

rehearsal techniques 6 week from march

at the start of march we was given task to preform 9 song at the end of the term to be honest my class was lazy at the start of week 1 we want out of class to get something to eat it was a waste of a rehearsal time. for the whole of that week we did nothing.

week 2 we started listing some song we wanted to do. life is a high way was done form the previous term, but had to put it on hold do to the film project, so we said that's one song. we decided we was gonna do covers and original song. for original song i want to do a original so i want and task myself on making a backing track for it.

week 3 i mad that backing track (with some help of Remael) but the people i wanted on it (Oscar and Lamare)  was too lazy and said the beat was too hard to write lyrics on. so i made another beat. they said that that beat was better so we started working on it at week 5 because of course they was lazy.  at the same time Alex's group came up with 2 song to do one cover on original blown away and the thing.

at week 4 we start a new song creepers we picked it up really easily. thanks to my teacher Luke the chords
were really easy to play.

at week 5 we was told that the performance was next week with that in mind we want all out on the song blown away got its singer (Oscar) my song was done and we got a new song done at the last min Chris brown see you around which made it 6 song.

life is a high way
creepers
blown away
the thing
see you around
and say no more(my original)

on the 6th week our last rehearsal want really well all the song we came up with sounded awesome and we was ready for the performance. thought we was all lazy at the start we all ended up making the songs we pick sound great.  

composer techniques and influenced

In my work I use a lot of techniques that composers used in different film. like. cluster chords to bring tension to the audiences. for one of the character I did a motif using strings  

Film Project Assignment

                               

                               Film Project Assignment. 

For the film project we learned different techniques to bring the film, we was assign to do, to life.
one of the techniques I use was cluster chords to bring tension to the audience and a sense of warning that something going to happen. we had to do a course on a composer and what he/she did. I picked Henry Jackman. he was the one who Composed wreak-it-Ralph and x man first class. 

We had a meeting with the drama student to talk about what they want in there film. they told my group they wanted something scary for one part of the film and for the rest we should think of what to do. I did the scary part on logic also the motif for one of the characters. one other of my group member did the theme for the film. on logic i also put in a fly sample and pan it to make it seem like its in the room and not just a sound coming from the film i got this idea from Morricone.this worked because everyone in the room looked around

For the performance we did to live gigs and we improvised on the film only a tiny bit. for our 2 live gigs i played piano with the string sample to give it more tension.in our last gig Lamare and Oscar sang and rap a song they made. they were talking about spies and how they need to lay low. It work because we all come together and worked as a team and shared our thoughts and opinion. Musician it work because we had go communication with one another.   

applying

i applied for level 3 music production Westminster king cross on Tuesday the 17 of march

Musical Skills

Musical Skills

Which of the following can you already demonstrate?

PRODUCTION	YES?	PERFORMANCE	YES?
LogicPro 9	Y	Notes on a keyboard	Y
LogicPro X	?	Performance experience	Y
Logic shortcuts	N	Learning something ‘by ear’	Y
How to record audio	Y	Reading music notation	N
Which microphone for what job	N	Writing music notation	N
Mixing Skills	N	Coming up with harmonies	Y
Making a ‘beat’	Y	Writing lyrics	Y
Programming Drums	Y	Reading/writing chord charts	N
Apple Loops	N	Key signatures	Y
Advanced editing techniques such as flextime, flexpitch etc	N	Time signatures (other than 4/4)	N

Do you have more or less for the course you plan to apply for?

How can you develop the skills you still need?

What I did on logic for the film

For the film I did a lot of thing to bring it alive. For example for one bit an actor was looking around as if there was a fly in the room so I put a fly sample to indeecate there's a fly flying around. Then I put a slap sample when one of the actors slaps the fly on the other actors head. My other work was the part of the movie when the killer/thief kill the victim. I used cluster chords to bring tension to the audience. In another part of the film 3 actors rushed to catch the thief/killer to make it funny I put jet sounds to indeecate the audience that there going fast.