Thursday 17 December 2009


This what i will be doing in brain class is using flash and the time line of the advert we will be using.

Voice over : What i will be doing for the voice is to have deep toned voice saying the name of our radio and saying what we will be doing but not giving away to much detail


sound effects : The sound effects will really just be thing you hear in the open envirament such as door opening and closing etc.


Music : This will be music created by me just to go with the feel and the theme of the my radio play and also just change the automation when i want some thing to be held more clearly


What is your role in the performance project?
My role really is just to do the opening music for my radio play in my group and also the sound effects such as clapping opening and shutting doors etc

My main responsibilities really is to make sure everything in the radio play sounds correct and the music goes with what we are talking about in my group radio play

My entire task but be done before and after the radio play making sure the opening song is finished and the sound effects are in place.

The resouseces I will be using are really just logic 8 on the Mac computer for the opening music and also experimental as well such common sounds you hear

The way I will make sure that am working safely is really just by making sure I don’t break any of the equipment we are using and just to be sensible



What I have been doing so far in Mandy’s class is producing our on themed flyers of the south bank we where also visited by and newspaper editor which told about the work he does and how we could also improve what we where trying to achieve this was very helpful to me and has now allowed me to improve on my flyer my flyer is now finished and I will be putting on my blog
This where pictures we took when the whole class went to the south and i am thinking about maybe putting these pictures in the flyer im making which would make it more appling to the age group we are tring to reach out to

This is also a picture i drew of my friend which i will be also be put into the art section of my flyer
This a drawing of me which i done and used the scanner to upload it on the Imac this is so i could use it in my flyer this is because one of my event is art.

We took a trip to the south bank to do some research on how to develop our own flyers wee will be making so we took pictures of various of land marks in the area such as the london eye etc and we also picked up some flyers up on a trip during the day this was to help us look at some example on what we should put n our flyer just really more ideas the day was quiet a fun day and got a lot of things done.

Tuesday 15 December 2009


Greenwich area - The most famous thing about London Greenwich is the Old Royal Observatory from where time all over the world is measured. Another delight for your eyes is the world`s last surviving tea clipper, Cutty Sark. Among the historical sights that await you are Sailors` bunks, old cutlery, and dolls dressed as people. The tourist information office, at 46 Greenwich Church St, (open daily: April - Oct 10am - 5pm; Oct - March 11am - 4pm; Tel:0208 858 6376) should be your first place of call; they can answer most queries and supply maps and guides.

The Greenwich Time Ball - The bright red Time Ball on top of Flamsteed House is one of the world's earliest public time signals, distributing time to ships on the Thames and many Londoners. It was first used in 1833 and still operates today.Each day, at 12.55, the time ball rises half way up its mast. At 12.58 it rises all the way to the top. At 13.00 exactly, the ball falls. The Time Ball drops at 13.00 GMT during the winter months and 13.00 BST during the summer. Only the richest people could afford to buy clocks and watches of their own. Most people relied public sundials to tell the time. This led to different local times across the country, with clocks on the eastern side of the country about 30 minutes ahead of those in the west.The difficulties created by everyone using their own local time eventually led to the creation of Standard Time based on the Prime Meridian at Greenwich. There has been a market at Greenwich since the 14th century, but the history of the present market dates from 1700 when a charter to run two markets, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, was assigned by Lord Romney to the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital for 1000 years. Greenwich Market sits in Greenwich town centre within an area called the Island Site, which is bounded by College Approach, Greenwich Church Street, King William Walk and Nelson Road. The Island site forms part of the World Heritage Site, which also includes the National Maritime Museum, Old Royal Naval College, the Queens House and the Royal Observatory.

The buildings surrounding the market on the island site are Grade 2 listed, and were established in 1827-1833 under the direction of Joseph Kay. Later significant phases of development occurred in 1902-8; in 1958-60 and during the 1980s. The current market roof dates from 1902-08 and the buildings on either side of the market from 1958-60.

Greenwich Market trades five days a week but the shops, cafes, bars, pubs and restaurants around the Market are open seven days a week, including Greenwich Printmakers, the oldest-established printmaking co-operative in the UK.

Wednesday is a food and homewares market day, Thursdays and Fridays specialise in antiques and collectibles and arts and crafts. Weekends and bank holidays attract arts & crafts and food stalls.There are a wide selection of specialist shops, bars, restaurants and a café, all open seven days a week.

Tuesday 10 November 2009


Radio play performance planning
Reece
Courtnie
Tanjiana

Are group have now chosen are topic base for our radio play which is 2012. This is quiet an important year for the whole of london and affects us young peoples lives the most. I say this because of the event that will be taking place such as the olympics which will give people jobs which is very much need in the economical crises that is going on at this time and how also people will lose businesses due to building work at east london and how there are myths about the world ending in year 2012.
Next time me and my group will be developing our script

Monday 9 November 2009

Unit 2- Performance
The 12 performances i have picked are
1. TV Advert-Compare the meerkat / Compare the market
2. Music gig - Radio head at the 02
3. Music gig- Michael Jackson This is it. At the 02
4. TV Advert - 118 118
5. Music gig- Chris brown at the o2
6. Music gig- Urban blow out 02 indigo
7. Radio- 1 Xtra Dj Cameo
8. Radio- Kiss 100 Dj logan sama
9. Comedy- Def comdey jam
10. Comedy- jamie foxx special
11. Music gig- Big fish at shepereds bush
12. Comedy- Bernie Mac HBO special
As a producers the things i would i need to do a music gig is organisation of the venue, dates and times and also including set up

Monday 2 November 2009


What i have done in my theme song was i first to set the atmosphere what i mean by this is i mean the instruments i used which is violins, cellos, bass and all string instruments to set the airy dark mood i was trying in infuse in my work which i done . Also in conjunction with this i also made sure that the music goes with the movie credits. What i then chose to do is to start the music with a strong upbeat for example sharp semi toned notes and all i done was move my intro around a little bit to the way i wanted it to sound.
The way i developed my theme music is that there is more or a different emphasis on each credit this is done by the number of track is had on a four bar or eight bar note. The ending of my batman intro ends on a strong note but gives that feeling of a dark begging but making it feel like the worse has yet to come type of mood. In light of what i have done for me to have gone about it differently i would gone in to a more depth with my melody and the leit motif.

Friday 23 October 2009


This is my front and back for My CD cover

So far what I have done in Mr smith class is composing the theme music for the batman opening of the film what I was to do was to set the mode by making it sound Dark and evil I have achieved this by making long sustaining sounds and using the right instrument sounds for example the violins, violas, cellos etc. This will add to me making a liet motif in my compression which then allowed me to make a melody something that is heard once and everyone remembers, this took a little time to perfect but I have finally archived this with Mr Smiths help. Now
I have completed the batman movie theme track for the opening of the movie. What we have also done with Mr Smith in his class was the NCFE music compression which I have completed also this different from the batman opening compression this due to me not so much focusing on the melody but this time making a beat which is my strong point and aloud me to play with what I have done by me adding a drum beat and changing the tempo from 105 to 140 which then I used frequency on the midi controller to change the pitch and give a more modern sound to the compression this is what I have done and will now be assessed by the team bored to see if I have achieved my goal targets in music technology side of the course.

Tuesday 20 October 2009

Cd cover research



This is the album cover of the rap artist Lupe fiasco it is quite an interesting look I say this because of the way it look in more of a definition he has made it stand out showing what he likes for example there are games floating around him and a boom box that he uses to listen to music is being held in his hand and the background is outer space so what I think he is trying to say is the things he likes are being talked about and that his music is so good that it is out of this world and he has made is album cover to attract a age group audience to buy his album with the way the colours and the overall design he is letting people know that his album is the best in the shop where as there other albums next to his he is making a statement and making sure it attract the consumer.

What we i have been doing with Mr smith in is class is looking at the movie batman this is due to that fact that i have been creating the open sound tracks for the movie as one of the task we most do. The movie was made in 1989 Directed by Tim Burton and the producers where Peter Guber, Jon Peters, Michael Uslan and Benjamin Melniker the film was made in the duration of. The classic movie batman was made in New York but they made a twist to making a darker more sinister new New York by calling the seating Gotham city
In 1982, Burton made his first short, Vincent, a 5:52 black and white stop motion film based around a poem written by Burton, and depicting a young boy who fantasizes that he is his (and Burton's) screen idol Vincent Price, with Price himself providing narration. The film was produced by Burton's girlfriend at the time, who was an executive at Disney. During production, Burton maintained an office at The Disney Studios. The two co-authored a screenplay titled "True Love". The film was shown at the Chicago Film Festival and released, alongside the teen drama Tex, for two weeks in one Los Angeles cinema. Burton later abruptly ended his relationship with his producer-partner-girlfriend. This was followed by Burton's first live-action production Hansel and Gretel, a Japanese themed adaptation of Grimm's tale for The Disney Channel, which climaxes in a kung-fu fight between Hansel and Gretel and the witch. Having aired once at 10:30pm on Halloween 1983 and promptly shelved, prints of the film are extremely difficult to locate, which contributes to the rumor that this project does not exist. Next was the live-action short Frankenweenie, starring Barret Oliver, Daniel Stern and Shelley Duvall (an early supporter of Burton's work).


Although Burton's work had yet to see wide release, he began to attract the attention of the film industry. Producer Griffin Dunne approached Burton to direct After Hours (1985), a comedy about a bored word processor who survives a crazy night in SoHo that was passed over by Martin Scorsese. However, when financing for The Last Temptation of Christ fell through, Burton bowed out of the project out of respect for Scorsese.
Danny elfam was the man who wrote the score for batman 1989. In 1985, Tim Burton and Paul Reubens invited Elfman to write the score for their first feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Elfman was apprehensive at first because of his lack of formal training, but with orchestration assistance from Oingo Boingo guitarist and arranger Steve Bartek, he achieved his goal of emulating the mood of such composers as Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann .In the booklet for the first volume of Music for a Darkened Theatre, Burton described the first time he heard his music played by a full orchestra as one of the most thrilling experiences of his life Elfman immediately developed a rapport with Burton and has gone on to score all but two of Burton's major studio releases: Ed Wood, scored by Howard Shore, which was under production while Elfman and Burton were having a fight, and Sweeney Todd, an adaptation of the 1979 Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical.

Burton has said of his relationship with Elfman: "We don't even have to talk about the music. We don't even have to intellectualize – which is good for both of us, we're both similar that way. We're very lucky to connect" (Breskin, 1997).
A definition of screenplay written text that provides the basis for a film production. Screenplays usually include not only the dialogue spoken by the characters but also a shot-by-shot outline of the film's action. Screenplays may be adapted from novels or stage plays or developed from original ideas suggested by the screenwriters or their collaborators. They generally pass through multiple revisions, and screenwriters are called on to incorporate suggestions from directors, producers, and others involved in the filmmaking process. Early drafts often include only brief suggestions for planned shots, but by the date of production a screenplay may evolve into a detailed shooting script, in which action and gestures are explicitly stated. Underscore means music that is played softly underneath other, usually characters talking.
Closing credits or end credits are added at the end of a motion picture or television program to list the cast and crew involved in the production. They usually appear as a list of names in small type, which either flip very quickly from page to page, or move smoothly across the background or a black screen. Credits which crawl either right-to-left (common in U.K. television programs) or bottom-to-top (common in films and U.S. television) are also known as rolling credits. This term comes from the early production days when the names were literally printed on a roll of paper and wound past the camera lens. Sometimes, post-credits scenes or bloopers are added to the end of films along with the closing credits.
The movie was made in 1989 Directed by Tim Burton and the producers where Peter Guber, Jon Peters, Michael Uslan and Benjamin Melniker the film was made in the duration of. The classic movie batman was made in New York but they made a twist to making a darker more sinister new New York by calling the seating Gotham city
In 1982, Burton made his first short,
Vincent, a 5:52 black and white stop motion film based around a poem written by Burton, and depicting a young boy who fantasizes that he is his (and Burton's) screen idol Vincent Price, with Price himself providing narration. The film was produced by Burton's girlfriend at the time, who was an executive at Disney. During production, Burton maintained an office at The Disney Studios. The two co-authored a screenplay titled "True Love". The film was shown at the Chicago Film Festival and released, alongside the teen drama Tex, for two weeks in one Los Angeles cinema. Burton later abruptly ended his relationship with his producer-partner-girlfriend. This was followed by Burton's first live-action production Hansel and Gretel, a Japanese themed adaptation of Grimm's tale for The Disney Channel, which climaxes in a kung-fu fight between Hansel and Gretel and the witch. Having aired once at 10:30pm on Halloween 1983 and promptly shelved, prints of the film are extremely difficult to locate, which contributes to the rumor that this project does not exist. Next was the live-action short Frankenweenie, starring Barret Oliver, Daniel Stern and Shelley Duvall (an early supporter of Burton's work).

Although Burton's work had yet to see wide release, he began to attract the attention of the film industry. Producer Griffin Dunne approached Burton to direct After Hours (1985), a comedy about a bored word processor who survives a crazy night in SoHo that was passed over by Martin Scorsese. However, when financing for The Last Temptation of Christ fell through, Burton bowed out of the project out of respect for Scorsese.
Danny elfam was the man who wrote the score for batman 1989. In 1985,
Tim Burton and Paul Reubens invited Elfman to write the score for their first feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Elfman was apprehensive at first because of his lack of formal training, but with orchestration assistance from Oingo Boingo guitarist and arranger Steve Bartek, he achieved his goal of emulating the mood of such composers as Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann .In the booklet for the first volume of Music for a Darkened Theatre, Burton described the first time he heard his music played by a full orchestra as one of the most thrilling experiences of his life Elfman immediately developed a rapport with Burton and has gone on to score all but two of Burton's major studio releases: Ed Wood, scored by Howard Shore, which was under production while Elfman and Burton were having a fight, and Sweeney Todd, an adaptation of the 1979 Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical.
Burton has said of his relationship with Elfman: "We don't even have to talk about the music. We don't even have to intellectualize – which is good for both of us, we're both similar that way. We're very lucky to connect" (Breskin, 1997).
A definition of screenplay written text that provides the basis for a film production. Screenplays usually include not only the dialogue spoken by the characters but also a shot-by-shot outline of the film's action. Screenplays may be adapted from novels or stage plays or developed from original ideas suggested by the screenwriters or their collaborators. They generally pass through multiple revisions, and screenwriters are called on to incorporate suggestions from directors, producers, and others involved in the filmmaking process. Early drafts often include only brief suggestions for planned shots, but by the date of production a screenplay may evolve into a detailed shooting script, in which action and gestures are explicitly stated. Underscore means music that is played softly underneath other, usually characters talking.
Closing credits or end credits are added at the end of a
motion picture or television program to list the cast and crew involved in the production. They usually appear as a list of names in small type, which either flip very quickly from page to page, or move smoothly across the background or a black screen. Credits which crawl either right-to-left (common in U.K. television programs) or bottom-to-top (common in films and U.S. television) are also known as rolling credits. This term comes from the early production days when the names were literally printed on a roll of paper and wound past the camera lens. Sometimes, post-credits scenes or bloopers are added to the end of films along with the closing credits.The movie was made in 1989 Directed by Tim Burton and the producers where Peter Guber, Jon Peters, Michael Uslan and Benjamin Melniker the film was made in the duration of. The classic movie batman was made in New York but they made a twist to making a darker more sinister new New York by calling the seating Gotham city
In 1982, Burton made his first short,
Vincent, a 5:52 black and white stop motion film based around a poem written by Burton, and depicting a young boy who fantasizes that he is his (and Burton's) screen idol Vincent Price, with Price himself providing narration. The film was produced by Burton's girlfriend at the time, who was an executive at Disney. During production, Burton maintained an office at The Disney Studios. The two co-authored a screenplay titled "True Love". The film was shown at the Chicago Film Festival and released, alongside the teen drama Tex, for two weeks in one Los Angeles cinema. Burton later abruptly ended his relationship with his producer-partner-girlfriend. This was followed by Burton's first live-action production Hansel and Gretel, a Japanese themed adaptation of Grimm's tale for The Disney Channel, which climaxes in a kung-fu fight between Hansel and Gretel and the witch. Having aired once at 10:30pm on Halloween 1983 and promptly shelved, prints of the film are extremely difficult to locate, which contributes to the rumor that this project does not exist. Next was the live-action short Frankenweenie, starring Barret Oliver, Daniel Stern and Shelley Duvall (an early supporter of Burton's work).

The top editor sometimes has the title executive editor or editor-in-chief . This person is generally responsible for the content of the publication. The exception is that newspapers that are large enough usually have a separate editor for the editorials and opinion pages in order to have a complete separation of its news reporting and its editorial content.

The executive editor sets the publication standards for performance, as well as for motivating and developing the staff. The executive editor is also responsible for developing and maintaining the publication budget. In concert with the publisher and the operating committee, the executive editor is responsible for strategic and operational planning


A gaffer in the motion picture industry is the head of the electrical department, responsible for the execution (and sometimes the design) of the lighting plan for a production. Gaffer is a traditional British English word for an older man or boss. It is essentially a variant on grandfather, used as a term of respect for a village elder, and applied to those in charge of workers since the 19th century. It has been used for the chief electrician in films since 1936.[ His assistant is the best boy.[

Sometimes the gaffer is credited as Chief Lighting Technician (CLT).

Experienced gaffers can coordinate the entire job of lighting, given knowledge of the time of day and conditions to be portrayed, managing resources as broad as electrical generators, lights, cable, and manpower. Gaffers are responsible for knowing the appropriate color of gel (plastic sheeting) to put on the lights or windows to achieve a variety of effects, such as transforming midday into a beautiful sunset. They can re-create the flicker of lights in a subway car, the motion of light inside a turning airplane, or the passage of night into day.

Usually, the gaffer works for and reports to the director of photography (the DP or DOP) or, in television, the Lighting Director (LD). The DP/LD is responsible for the overall lighting design, but he or she may give a little or a lot of latitude to the gaffer on these matters, depending on their working relationship. The gaffer works with the key grip, who is in charge of some of the equipment related to the lighting. The gaffer will usually have an assistant called a best boy and, depending on the size of the job, crew members who are called "electricians", although not all of them are trained aselectricians in the usual sense of the term. Colloquially they are known as 'sparks'.


On films with very small crews, the electric (lighting) department often consists of only a gaffer, a best boy, and a few electricians. The grip department may include only a key grip, a best boy, and a few grips. On very large crews these numbers can hit up to 12 or 24 grips or electricians per department and include full time rigging crews and additional photography units, depending on the situation.

Best boys are responsible for the daily running of the lighting or grip department. This encompasses many responsibilities including hiring and scheduling of crew, the ordering and returning of lighting or grip equipment, workplace safety, timecards, expendables, loading production trucks, planning and implementing the lighting or rigging of locations and/or sound stages, coordinating rigging crews and additional photography units (if applicable), handling relations with the other production departments, overseeing the application of union rules (if applicable), and serving as the main daily representative of the department with the unit production manager and coordinator of the film.


Friday 18 September 2009

Research on album covers


Once your music has been produced to such a high standard, why let a poor cover design or unprofessional imagery come between you and your public?

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Graphic designers will email and communicate directly with you to achieve the perfect design for your CD or your music to your budget, and in a format suitable either for litho or laser reproduction, depending on the number of CDs you intend to duplicate. Problems at the sleeve printing stage are one of the commonest causes of delays in CD production - why not avoid the stress prior to the launch

Tuesday 15 September 2009

CD Cover Research

What i have been looking at so far are artifact but in fact what i have also learned is that mostly every object we use on a day to day bases is an artifacts a few examples are chairs,pencils,mobile phones, etc but the main subject we are looking at in this subject is the history and the way album cover are made and why they are so important to the way the artist is looked at.

The cover became a part of the music culture at the time. As a marketing tool and an expression of artistic intent. The term expression can never be used likely due to the fact of the great deal artist of today take in making sure the right statement is being thought when the consumer buy there product. I say this because of the album picture i have already see seen hear is one example, this is this is the album cover front photo of the artist Nas this is and intregin photo due to the fact as the consumer its will stand out from everything else so to say the way is enhances the name and brodens the idea that his ablum is the best and there is no other compition.


Friday 11 September 2009

I am the greatest the best of all because im the grestest i have a really big magic wand because im the greatest 'Nananana nananana Hey hey hey' Im the greatest