Year 8 Rotation 3 Week 8

This week...

This week we were meant to perform our music (draft version) however, none of the group were finished with recording. This is the reason why we also had this week in order to finis recording and were told to perform in next week's lesson so that we can know where to improve. In this week's lesson, we managed to add one piece to the music, and record all four pieces in total

Monday, 1st May 2017

In this lesson, we first got together in art and music. We discussed how the process was. The arts said they had started filming the first part. We told the that we are almost done because all we have to do is to record. After we separated from them, we wanted to start recording right away. However, most of the working computers were taken by other groups, that we only had the last ten minutes for ourselves. While we waited for other groups to finish with theirs, we created a piece called "vampire's theme". We found this piece online, and we practiced from tutorials until we an get it sound all right. We also practiced other pieces too so that we can get with recording straightaway in the coming lesson.

Wednesday, 3rd May 2017

In this lesson, as soon as the lesson started, we ran to the backroom in order to get the working computer. We found two that are working. That's why we got started with the pieces on the keyboard. We recorded a little longer than we had expected, since art is not finished with their movie, so we don't know how long it will be. Mayukh recorded the halloween theme, vampire theme and the guitar part while I recorded the created piece and the beat on drums. Thanks to this, we finished recording all pieces.

Next Week...

Next week, we are planning to show it to the class in order to find the improvements. As soon as we get the responses, we will work on them. Then when we finish, we will do the official recording. If the art is not finished at this stage, we will go help them.

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. 

Year 8 Rotation 3 Week 4

This week...

This week, we focused on the creation of the introduction music. We have finalized what instruments we are going to use, and what sort of beat it will have. The arts have started the sketch and the script. However, the arts are not making much progress on either of them, meaning we will have to help the arts complete it. Otherwise, even us, music team cannot finalize the length we will be playing the instruments. Depending on this, we have to change the beats/ rotate the type of music we will use.

Monday 20th March 2017

In this lesson, music team was successful in creating a piece of music which we are planning to include in the introduction part of the performance. In this music, we decided to use 3 instruments; guitar, piano, and the drums to create the scary beat. The beat will be 1.2.3.4. The guitar code will be 6-4-5-6, strumming pattern as 3: 4th and 5th string, 4: 6th string. On the keyboard, it will be like Ab (A flat) - A - Ab - f. The percussion instrument will be like 1.2.3.4 but the last beat will be double. Since we only have two people who are in charged of music, we will ask the art students to help us record the music so that it can go with the video. In terms of recording, we will edit the music using mixcraft or possibly any other types of music editing app, transfer it so that it can be added to the stop-motion video.

Wednesday 22nd March 2017

This lesson will be missed due to the Shakespeare day, where Gr.7, 8 and 9 will be involved to perform what we have created in relation to Shakespeare's life and/or the plays he had made. Since we will be missing this lesson, we could be practicing the piece of music we had created; Mayukh-guitar and Me- Piano (keyboard) beats. This piece has to be done at the same time so we will have to keep on practicing the piece until we can master it.

Next week...

We will have to have the script finished by then, start planning for the actual music we are going to us during the actual story part goes on. We have to speed up in creating the piece so that we can finish by the deadline. The fact I am missing many lessons times, due to school events taking place. I am taking part in many things leading me to miss a quite a lot of lessons. To catch up with the action plan. We have to make sure that the art has made some progress too, so that we can decide on when to start filming for the stop-motion video. 

Year 8 Rotation 3 Music Week 3

This week...

This week, we finished off the planning, shared it with my groupmates and made sure that we know exactly what each of the groups has to do. We have also started on the creation of each area. Art is mainly in charged of creating the stop-motion video and the script, although music team will also be helping it whilst we create the piece of music to go with the video.

Monday 13th March 2017

In this lesson, we have started the lesson altogether (with the art students) to make sure that we all know what the plan is. We have also discussed the storyline and deciding what each of the team will be doing. We have reached the point where we have decided that music will be focusing on the background music and help the art team do scripts and the video since we only have two people. Art is mainly going to focus on creating the claymation characters, but at the same time, work on stop-motion video, and the script. After the art group had gone to the art room to start planning their work,  Mayukh and I started on exploring the music. Since we don't have the scripts yet, we decided on what instruments we will use. We thought of few pieces of music which we consider in actually using it. While we were exploring, Ms.Cross came in, and she told us that there are many ways of using an instrument, which I was quite amazed by. I also realized the importance of thinking out of the box and the fact it is always a formula that idea + creativity = special performance. 

Wednesday 15th March 2017

I was not here in this lesson. Although I was present in school, I was taking a part in tech fair. From my group, me, Mayukh, and Raushan were involved. However, Kaisan and Omar had started on the script since they sent me an invite on email to edit the document (script) which also helped me in knowing what they did during the lesson. Me and Mayukh while then, discussed that how we can stick to the action plan. We decided that Mayukh will start creating the music on the guitar, and I will be starting to create the tunes on the keyboard. We will both surf on the internet too, to find any music that may give us ideas on creating the best-fitting piece. 

Next week...

Next week, we will ask the art team to finish creating the script and/or help in creating it. Music team will then record reading it (if possible) we will decide on which music to play live, and which to record since we only have 4 hands. We should not forget to finalize what our core instruments will be, and how we will be using them. 

Year 8 Rotation 3 Music Action Plan

We have completed the action plan for both art and music. In terms of music performance, we will have a lot of the work as a homework since it's just 2 people instead of having more people like last term. We will have everything that we cannot complete as homework so that we could stick with the action plan until our performance.

The screenshots below are the action plan for our group.