This is my commercial task.It s not ready yet,cause it needs more sounds,mastering etc.I would love you to tell me your opinion,guys!!

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My top 5 for this week is :

1.i will survive – Cake

2.Blue skies – Ella Fitzgerald

3.- Baila el ChikiChiki- Rodolfo Chikilicuatre

4.Please be kind – Jane Monheit

5.fell in love with an alien – Kelly Family

Unfortunately this week Gareth had an accident so we didn’t do anything on the task on James Bond.We talked with Tom Hall about different kinds of microphones and how much it affects where you place the microphone to the sound of the voice or an instrument for example when we place the microphone off axis.Then we talked about earphones which are able to give 3D sound (x,y,z).

In week 6, we were asked to put music on a commercial.We watched plenty of commercials made for Greek channels,Spanish channels, Coca Cola and Mac Donalds with music made by Julio.We discussed about how well prepared you should be in a real situation that someone asks you to write music for a commercial and what kind of steps you need to follow.Moreover you have to prepare alternative versions in case they think what you prepared is not suitable.We also talked about different types of advertisements such as stings (that last 5- 10 secs), program previews (or next ons) and promos (30-60 secs).In the second half of the lesson we were asked to write a small melody on the logo of Mega Channel.Furthermore, melody is the first step we have to make before we start the orchestration and then we think about which instruments to use,we change rhythms and generally we experiment.

For this task i chose a car commercial where dancers are representing the engine of the car and with their movements they are trying to show how powerful this car is. Since the car is an Audi one,the dancers are moving in circles and in the end these circles become the circles of the Audi logo.I used EXS24 for melody and audio loops to give a rhythmical background to the melody.

In week 5 we re-recorded the dialogue between James Bond and Q , where James Bond was improvising his role this time.We recorded three different parts of the dialogue using different parameters of the same microphone- cardioid, figure 8 and omni.The microphone was placed in a way that it could face the wall.That helps you have better signal and not take any signal from the other microphone since the two voices were recorded at the same time.

The differences among the three different stages of the microphone are significant.I would use figure 8 for example for a dialogue in a radio show, cardioid for recording voice singing or talking in a film dialogue and omni for a commercial.

Then we used compressor to give volume and balance the voices and we took a detailed look at every parameter a compressor has, such as ratio, attack, release, soft knee,threshold etc. and how many different results you can have by changing all these parameters with different combinations.

Then , on that dialogue, we were asked to put sound events in specific times.

In week 4 we were introduced to the second task which is to record two voices with two condenser microphones based on a dialogue between James Bond and Q.We were taught where to find the right inputs and outputs, to use the mixer, to know where the phantom power is,how to speak from the control room to the headphones etc.Then we recorded three different parts of the dialogue with different voices adjusting the parameters each time for each voice.We have to be careful to take good,strong and clear signal from the voices without interventions.The results were amusing!

In week 3 due to my illness i wasn’t able to attend the lesson.But i was told that the students who went there that week had the pleasure to take a look at the Protools that we have in Hel 029 which is a program i was always interested in learning and owning.

In week 2 we continued with Chemical Brothers  piece , cutting sound waves, copying and pasting, changing volume using automation.I realized that i have to be extra careful when i have a new region and  i change parameters, because they affect the sound file.To avoid that you choose the region, you reverse it for example and then you save it as a new sound file to the library.Then you delete the previous one and you put the new version in the playlist.

In week 1, we have been asked to edit and create a new playlist for the piece “In dust we trust” by Chemical Brothers.We learned how to do beatmapping on a piece to synchronize the piece with the metronome and sound on time from the beginning until the end, using Logic Pro 8.Moreover,we were taught how to use crossover which gives interesting results and ways to pass from one loop to another.

My top five for this week !!!!!!!

1. Ring Of Fire – Johnny Cash

2.AC/DC – Money Talks

3.Mag Pie – Abraham

4.blue skies – ella fitzgerald

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