Protesting

L3 Protest songs

L3 Songwriting Brief

Protest Song Assignment Brief

Room Tone, Ambience and Atmosphere

Lyrics

Brief 1

Lyric writing can as is seen as the hardest part of songwriting.

Thee job can be made easier by breaking it down into several parts.

First come up with an intention.

1. What kind of song is it?

2. Person narrative ...First (I) , Second(You), Third (They)

3. Where is the narrative based?

4. What happens in this narrative.


Rhyme.

This is usually where people start, they think of a line and try to end the last word of corresponding lines.

Starting with the lyric is a great way of writing you will need to find the meter and rhythm of the lyric and build the song up from there

Try using a rhythm first,  and use this to fit the internal rhythm of the lyric on and around, you will probably need to change the phrasing of the words, or the words themselves.


Some lyrical devices

http://www.world-of-songwriting.com/poetic-devices.html

"It's in the trees!
It's coming!"

When I was a child:
Running in the night,
Afraid of what might be

Hiding in the dark,
Hiding in the street,
And of what was following me...

Now hounds of love are hunting.
I've always been a coward,
And I don't know what's good for me.

Here I go!
It's coming for me through the trees.
Help me, someone!
Help me, please!

Take my shoes off,
And throw them in the lake,
And I'll be
Two steps on the water.

I found a fox
Caught by dogs.
He let me take him in my hands.

His little heart,
It beats so fast,
And I'm ashamed of running away

From nothing real--
I just can't deal with this,
But I'm still afraid to be there,

Among your hounds of love,
And feel your arms surround me.
I've always been a coward,
And never know what's good for me.

Oh, here I go!
Don't let me go!
Hold me down!
It's coming for me through the trees.
Help me, darling,
Help me, please!

Take my shoes off
And throw them in the lake,
And I'll be
Two steps on the water.

I don't know what's good for me.
I don't know what's good for me.
I need your love love love love love, yeah!
Your love!

Take your shoes off
And throw them in the lake!

Do you know what I really need?
Do you know what I really need?
I need love love love love love, yeah!

L2 Groups songs of oppression

Tianna
Daniel
Natalie
Kadie
Elijah
Gradi
Eduard
Aaliyah
Loreena
Elijah


Johanna
Russa
Aaron
Kyrah
Sydney

L 3 Protest song groups.

Alex N

Issac

James

Grace

Felicia 

Raph 

David 

Elli

Tega

Juan

Oscar

Meryem

Leonie

Ria

Elizabeth

Khadesha

Jody

Alex D

Erika

Porsha

Monique

Tamica

Sound for Film

Academy Award® winning writer-director George Lucas (Star Wars, American Graffiti) once told a reporter at Variety, “Sound is 50 percent of the moviegoing experience.” But in a recent video interview, Trance director Danny Boyle says that sound makes an even greater impact.

“The truth is, for me, it’s obvious that 70, 80 percent of a movie is sound,” he says. “You don’t realise it because you can’t see it.”

When making a film, sound is very important. 

This sound can be record whilst filming or recorded separately and added to the film later. 

Whether the character in the film can hear the sound or not is unrelated to the process of recording it. 

Diegetic sound is that which the character can hear.

Non Diegetic sound is that which the character cannot hear.

The sound of film can be broken down into different elements that create the atmosphere and describe to the audience what is happening.

Voice over (This is used when eh dialogue captured during the recording is not good enough quality.) (Diegetic)

Foley  (This is the sounds added after the film was made and often exaggerates the action and tells you what is happening during the film.e.g. door opening, gun shot,  punching.) (Diegetic)

Sound Track (This is the musical score and any atmospheric sounds used to enhance the mood of the film, often orchestral, or popular music songs or sounds to add tension. (Non- Diegetic)

Your task is to find examples of these and embed them on your blog!

Protest Songs and Groups!

 Monday, 16.11.15 Protest Songs and Groups 

A protest song must address an area of injustice. 

140 A	140 C
David Elli Tega Juan Oscar Meryem	Leonie Elizabeth Khadesha Jody Grace
139	140 B
Alex N Isaac James Grace Felicia Raph	Alex D Erika Porsha Monique Tamica

9/11/15

One chord groove.

Create a section of your song that has a one chord groove.
when using one chord you should make sure groove is interesting

Distortion of a sound changes the harmonic content.

Use a distorted sound to create a riff for your compositions! 

Superstition and the minor pentatonic

A five not scale in the key.


Minor 3rd
Tone
Tone
Minor 3rd
Tone

Use this scale form Eb for superstition and rearrange some of the riffs within the track.

Mavin Assignment

Use the link below to recreate the original as a mixing assignment.

This is a competition and the due date is the last day of term!  Wha't going on!

This is NOT a remix and it is designed to get you to grips with creating what is needed. this will in tern help you to create the sound you want within a mix.

Arranging-remix

A remix of an arrangement can transform a song or production into a new and possibly better composition.

Before we can start we need to find all the different elements of an arrangement and know what they are.

List all the elements of an arrangement and decide what you wish to change!Assignment Brief

Arrangement for Production!

Rhythm and tempo in arrangement!

 How fast a track is also influences how long a section is.

When producing a track it is good to look at the arrangement.

how many bars of what for how long

16 bars of 4/4 at 120 bpm = 32seconds
8 bars of 4/4 at 60 bpm = 32 seconds
4 bars of 44/ at 120 bpm=  8 seconds

How many bars will you cover in Minute at 120 bpm

Let's make 3 sections for our track?

                                        Tempo/ Bars

How long is section A?

How long is section B?

How long is section C?

How many of each section!

your task is to decide how long and how many of each section and make a template for this in logic! 

then add different rhythms to illustrate these sections.

Nothing is set in stone you can change the tempo lengths of sections and rhythms later.

Assignment Brief

Chords and Arrangement tools

When writing a song it is good to look at the arrangement.

how many bars of what for how long

16 bars of 4/4 at 120 bpm = 32seconds
8 bars of 4/4 at 60 bpm = 32 seconds
4 bars of 44/ at 120 bpm=  8 seconds

How many bars will you cover in Minute at 120 bpm

Let's make a song with a verse and chorus!

How long do we and the verse to be?

How long do we want the chorus to be?


Once you have decided these two sections, now choose your chords.

Assignment Brief