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Audio/Visual Composition Update

10-11: Audio/Visual Composition, Brian R, Jesse W, Jori Ketten, Jose G, Karl O, Laura Cetilia, Liam H, Malachy H, Process

A/V Composition has been busy!

On February 15 we worked in Sibelius, learning about crescendos, decresendos, and slurs. We reviewed dynamics (which we learned about last week), and how to score. By the end of class we wrote our own pieces and shared them.

On February 22 and March 1, we learned how to use iMovie. We used footage from the internet to create visual landscapes for our Sibelius pieces from February 15, considering the tone of our pieces, how to highlight different accents in the music, and the effects of contrast between sound and image.

On March 15, we shared our iMovie pieces with Laura, who had been away, and started using Logic. We learned how to use the zoom recorders and recorded ourselves playing scales. We brought these scales into Logic to edit into new compositions.

On March 22, we finalized those compositions. On March 29 we mapped the compositions in order to start working on a visual score (adding matching visuals corresponding to the notes used in the composition) in iMovie, and on April 5 and 12 we worked on finishing those videos and starting to recording pieces we are working on in our lessons for our final projects.

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Hey, it has been a while!

Josh R, Josh's Updates from College, Process, what's new

So, I got great news, I got a version of Logic Studio, so I have been messing with Logic again. I used a technique I learned from Henry Kerins, which was to chop up sounds in a song using the slice and scissor tool in Logic.

I then inserted them into the Sampler instrument in Logic, something that Henry taught me back in the Media Lab class, to move the song around where i want the sounds to sound.

I then added a rock/ Hip-hop drum to the song, all done by me =).  Last but not least I thought it was missing some funk, so I added an organ to the song, with a very syncopated rhythm I learned about in Music Lab.

Enjoy this track everyone =D!!!!!! Listen and spread the knowledge and experiment.
[audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/RockandDrum.mp3|titles=RockandDrum]

– Josh

Media Literacy

10-11: Documentary Production, August P, Blog, Cendy C, Federico R, Glademil R, Jori Ketten, Nohely F, Process, what's new

On March 28 we talked about media literacy. We started out discussing what we mean when we say media, and from there we picked several categories of media we engage with regularly (YouTube, text messages, etc) and designated M&M colors for each category. Then we sorted M&Ms based on how many times we engaged with those different forms of media over the past weekend to get an idea of how much and how often we are exposed to (and influenced by) media in our lives. The results made everyone think.

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We moved on to talking about literacy, and why literacy is important. We took a media literacy quiz quiz together, and talked about the various ways you can create (and recognize) persuasive or subjective media.

We ended class by watching and discussing Outfoxed, a documentary on Fox News… while we ate the M&Ms.

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