Year 8 Rotation 3 Week 7

This week...

This week, the music was successful in recording the music. Since the practice performing date is the 1st of May, we only had this week to complete the music. However, we thought that by the time of the next practice run through (after the 1st of May one), we could try to create another piece since we will not have much to do after it has been recorded. 

Monday, 24th April 2017

In this lesson, we started from the art room, where we had met and discussed both team's progress and the schedule for this week. We had told the art team that all we have to do is to record the music piece that we have right now. We also told them that we wanted to create another piece but we will probably not going to make it on time (by 1st of May) as we have to explore the "Mixcraft" app to recall our memory from last year's experience with it. We were not allowed to go help the arts, so we tried to focus on recording all pieces of music at least. Then, as an extension (if we have time) we will start the creation of another piece. Nevertheless, we were not successful in connecting the piano to the computer to record, and this took about more than half of the lesson. That's why we could not even record both pieces. I guess we have to carry on with it next class. 

Wednesday, 26th April 2017

For this lesson, I was absent. However, Mayukh was carrying on with recording the music piece. He also said that he had explored the drums so that we can use them as our jumpscare. Although we had been talking about the jump scare from quite a long time ago, we still did no get to the point where we can decide the instrument to use and their beats. This is because the jump scare holds the key to our play. For this reason, Mayukh and I wanted to explore more and more types of jump scare so that we can use the best fitting one. 

Next week...

Next week, we will be presenting what we have created so far. Then, from the feedback we get, we would like to improve our piece and also add a jumpscare + another piece so that we have more variety of music to play, and for our audiences to enjoy watching.

Year 8 Rotation 3 Week 6

This week...

This week, music was successful in adding the left-hand part to the Halloween based music which was just the right-hand until the last lesson. Mayukh was practicing this piece, while I had searched up ideas for another piece of music for next lesson. Since art was delaying compared to the music's speed, I had gone downstairs to help them out so that we can complete the work at the same speed.

Monday, 17th April 2017

In this lesson, I was in the music to help Mayukh practice the Halloween theme, while I explored for a piece on drums and other types of instruments, that we can use for our performance. I had discussed the length of the piece by timing the whole piece then cutting off some parts or fastening them so that it fits the certain length. Regarding the creation of a new piece, unfortunately, I was not successful in creating anything for this lesson but I have realized that using drums would be a good idea since it can be used for jumpscare. I also thought we could do combination piece too so that it sounds more professional and is effective in creating an intense feeling.

Wednesday, 19th April 2017

In this lesson, I went to help art do the puppets since they said they are not catching up with the action plan very well. Since I and Mayukh's plan was to create another piece of music, I told him the things I had explored in the previous lesson, so that he does not have to start from scratch. In art, I had helped my art team make the doctor and the woman (human based claymation). I think they may need more time to complete the work, probably after school or break time since Omar has been absent for past few lessons, which made it harder for art to divide up the work.

Next week...

Next week is the final week before showing (or presenting) our music to our class first before the actual performance. We have to record the music we have decided until now, but at the same time, create another piece of music so that there will be enough pieces of music for our presentation. 

Year 8 Rotation 3 Week 5

This Week...

This week, we had came back from Spring break, which means that we will not have a lot of time until our performance. We had aimed to create at least one piece of music this week, which we had achieved to do so. We have everything noted down, so that it will be easy for us to finish the piece. Our goal this week was to create one piece of music and finish off the script

Monday 10th April, 2017

In this lesson, we had a short recap on the piece of music that we had created last term. We had thought of recording our piece, however the room was too noisy and we did not know how long we should play each instrument for, since the script was not yet fully done. Then we had started to finishing off the script so that it will be easy for us to also create and record the piece. At the same time, this way, we could calculate on how many seconds we will need to record for, since the length of the audio depends on the length of the story. We will add the final touch in the next lesson so that we can perfect it by spending more time on it.

Wednesday 12th April, 2017

In today's lesson, I used the link that I had searched up during the spring break. It was the video on YouTube which was the tutorial for creating Halloween based music. At the beginning of this lesson, we took some time to change and add details to the script which I had planned to get it finished by today. Then us, as the music group was successful in creating the piece, practicing it, and also deciding which sound effect on the key board we should use. This piece is meant to be used for the music before the jump scare occurs so that I can frighten the audiences even more. Although we figured these things out, we have to find the audio which is used to SCARE the audiences whether it could be a scream, bang noise, big sound, and many more. I am happy that I was able to stick with the action plan at least for this week.

Next Week...

Next week, we will have to create more piece of music and possibly explore more types of instruments that we could use. I am aiming to create 1 piece of music at least so that we can stick to our action plan. At the same time, I may have to help out the art group since they seem to be having trouble creating. We can take more time on the creation in stead of filming as Raushan (who is member of our group) made stop motion video before and she has the app to put everything together. I am thinking that this will be a very helpful tool when we are creating the movie or the video. We may have to plan out an after school creation since we are not sticking to the plan at the moment especially regarding the script.