Planning for animation- Weather

Animation Planning :

For my planning, I will be using my original images to see whether it fits together or not. Firstly, I will be using Aobe Flash CS4 to create my animation for the ‘Weather’.

In the beginning, I will be exporting all the four images and background image in the library and will be starting doing an animation for my background. I drag the background
image and make into animation version. First, I will be making an entrance like coming from the above and slowly coming down and the whole page will be the background image. Then, I will be dragging all the four different images of weather and make these also in an animation version. The 4 images of the weather will be coming from different sides like cloudy from above and windy from below will be coming from the right-hand side and sunny from above and rainy from below will be coming from the left-hand side as a large size. Then, all the large four photos of weather will be coming together in the middle part of the background image and slowly the large photos will be moving making the photos each time smaller and smaller until the photos will reach in the centre part of the background image. After doing the animation for my background image and four different weather images, I am planning to make my title ‘Weather’ using animation as spinning the ‘weather’ text and make it bigger to its medium size I want. After finishing this task, I will check whether the animation worked properly or not by going up the toolbar and will be clicking on ‘ Control’ and scrolling down to ‘Play’ or ‘Test Scene’ to see my animation for the weather.

Final Draft for Festival

Today, we planned to complete our whole web-page design for the festival. After completing our ‘homepage’, ‘images’ and ‘animation’ we still need to complete our ‘music’ page. We asked our personal tutor to help us out in completing our festival task.

Sixth Draft for Festival

Today, we are still continuing our animation for our web-page design. There were a lot of mistakes in our animation like some part of the images were not properly done and got mixed up with other images. We had a slight problem with the video and radio play because fort eh video we didn't have sufficient time to finish and as for radio play we have not complete the task so we decided to remove both the video and radio play from the web-page. For the 'Music' page we asked our IMedia tutor to put the music which is of 'batman theme' where we created for our music class. He showed us the steps to do like exporting the music and keep it in the web-page but due to some problem in downloading the batman theme from the Logic Pro 8 he told us that he will help us later.
Overall, we completed our ‘animation’ and ‘images’ pages in our web-page design for the festival except for the music part we still need help to complete our web-page design.

Fifth Draft for Festival

Today, we started doing animation for the remaining parts of the web-page design we created for the festival. It was really difficult to stimulate texts and animation together as we just started learning harder animation for our web-page design. We asked some help from our personal tutor who knows a lot about animation. It took 3-4 hours to do our animation for our web-page design. There were some problems in the computer system like music and videos not working in the the web-page design we created.

Fourth Draft for Festival

Today, we both started doing the web-page design for the festival in a computer. The web-page design we are creating it in Adobe Flash CS4. Firstly, we are trying to create our homepage for the festival. In the homepage, we decided to use the black background with a written text called introduction and make it in an animated way later. After finishing our homepage, we created our second page layering out the number of images and later we are planning to do animation on it. After doing the images we created our third page which the title is animation becaise we are keeping the 4 different tasks related to animation. For now we just layer them in texts and numbers in order into four sections and planned to do animation later. In the fourth page, we gave the title ‘Music, Radio Play and Video’ where we wiill be keeping different things relating to music, video and radio play in three different sections. Finally, we used this page as our final page using the text as ‘Thank You’ and later we are planning to do animation for it.

Third Draft for Festival

Today, we are carrying out the planning like making changes in ideas in planning and created four different rough boxes in an A4 sheet paper. In the first box, we made a homepage with a heading ‘Home’ and sub-heading ‘Introduction’. In second page, we decided to use images in different layers. In the third page, we decided to keep the title ‘Animation’ because we planned to keep some tasks related to animation. In the fourth box, we made two different category which are music, radio play and video.

Roles for the Festival

Today we started a new unit 'Festival'. We were given a task to research and record the three main festivals which are Glastonbury festival, Thames festival and Edinburgh festival in the UK. we looked up in an internet and wrote about its introduction and main aspects in these festivals. when we were doing our research in these three festivals we told we told to create our own live festival.

We all were given given a tasks to carry out for the festival. The roles for our class are:-
My role for the festival is to promote a web-page design along with my friend, Falak. We are told to stimulate our own ideas and make sure to complete our task together.

Courtinie will be the director for the festival and take responsibility for the radio play that will be taking place in the festival.

Helen and Tanjiana will be taking responsibility in charge of the whole festival event. their duties is to make sure every students who are doing their individual tasks to be done in a proper way and see nothing goes wrong during the time of the festival.

Reece will be doing an advertisement for the festival so that more people will be attracted. His task is use different ideas like leaflets and posters to attract more people.

Denish and Patrick roles will be a technician. they task is to be responsible for the electronics and other stage props to be working at a good rate in the festival.

Iguano is in charge for the music for the festival. Basically, his job is attract more people to come in the festival because without music the surroundings will be quite boring so its good to have some music so people could enjoy their surrounding.

Emmanuella is the female budget woman for our festival. She will be carrying out the task to make sure all the prices and sale information goes as plan to make the festival successful.

Creating a Web-page Design for the Festival

The materials we will need are :
-A4 sheet papers
-Pencil/Colour pens
-Adobe Flash CS4
-Internet (to see some examples of web-page designs)
-Colour Printer
-Blogger/Pages (written drafts for the web-page design we are going to create for the festival)
-Animations
-Images
-Music
-Memory stick

These are things we needed for creating our own web-page design for the festival. Firstly, we will be using A4 sheet paper and pencil to create and design our planning for the web-page. Then we will be using Adobe flash CS4 to start our designing for the web-page for the festival. We will be using animation, images and music in the web-page. After doing these task, we will be writing drafts for each day we created our web-page design in Pages and will be keeping it in the blogger later. After completing our web-page design for the festival we will be printing out our written drafts in the colour printer. As for our web-page design for the festival, we were reminded that the tutor will be taking our task from transferring to his memory stick.

Second Draft for Festival

Planning for festival:

Today, we are starting to do a planning in creating a web-page deign for the festival. Firstly, we wrote the names of the the tasks we have done for the each units of Media and Creative Diploma Course in an A4 sheet paper.
After this my friend decided to do some rough sketches and discussed it with me to see whether the sketches are good enough for the festival or not.

First draft for Festival

After finishing up the festival research task, we were given a task to make our own festival. This task was a group work and were given a task for each two people to gather informations and ideas in making a festival. Me and my friend were given a task to make a web-page design for the festival.
For today, we decided to look up some examples of web-designs from different links in an internet. The web-page designs were quite done in a unique and crative way. The web-page designs from an internet were quite helpful normally giving us some hints to create our own web-page design for the festival.

Interview with Richard

Details:

1. Paramore---i) Cd cover
ii) video
iii )website

2. Defining what is a RECORD and how its works along with CREDIT.
3. Doing answering the questions.
4. Downloading legally in ITUNES means buying with money online but some of them are free downloads which is quite not acceptable according to laws.
5. YOUTUBE-
6. Talking about Michel Jackson.
7. Gave some information about directors, producers and singers who are gradually getting famous and the money earn will be distributed within them.
8. Talk about how to download songs in MP3.
9. Introduction about himself and his work in college in the past years as a teacher and after.
10. Researching band designs and art works.
11. pay fee-28 per hour
12. Describing the Cd cover design----a)look at the layout how they use it.
how big the log they have use and pay attention how they do that.
should know what you are doing and thinking of getting new ideas

Tips-what make different than others.....

Project Report-Artefact

Principle Learning - Unit 7 - Project Report
Exam period week beginning 10th May 2010

The subject of my project report will be the work from Unit 3 - Artefact.
(Describe what the brief for this was)


Introduction:

Unit 2 - Performance
Unit 3 - Atrefact
Unit 4 - Record

The brief for unit 3 Artefact is that the project report I am doing is the Cd cover survey. Particularly, Doing this task was to find people’s different views and opinions what they think about my Cd cover and how well I have made to make my Cd cover outstanding for the audience.

The most important part for this project report is to improve my research skills. In this project report the basic things I need to collect my research skills are to carry out a survey, communicating with people and doing interviews so that it will be a lot easier for me write the people’s stasitics to level up my confidence and able to write a proper report for my Cd cover survey.


Section A - Resources:

(Research)

First of all, while I was doing my first primary research I decided to make my own survey related to the Unit 3 Artefact where I decided to do a project report about Cd cover. I created 11 simple questionnaires to let people understand the questions while filling their answers and write what they think of my Cd cover. From there I distributed the survey to the classmates first and later decided to do give it to some people from outside college so that I could know what their views and opinions on my Cd cover survey is. Normally from my class out of eight students, five were female and three were male. Many of them were from 16-18 age group and few of them were of 19+.
Basically from outside college, I decided to do at the St. Pauls Cray Library where many people come to read and do their own work so I thought it was the best idea to give them to fill up my questionnaires. At that time many women were present than male so I gave to all the women who were present in there and told them it was my coursework so they all agreed to do. After collecting the surveys from them, I found out many of them were from 19+ age group.

In my second primary research, we given a task to interview Mr. Richard who was a teacher in our college. As part of the creative media project report the class interviewed Mr. Richard who introduced himself and started giving a speech about the Cd cover designs and other things like talking about pop singer Michael Jackson, downloading in ITUNES, listening to songs and watching videos in youtube and even talked more about other things. In the middle of the speech, we did answering the questions with Mr Richard and again he continued with his speech.

For my third primary research, I did a survey to find their different views and opinions regarding the the Unit Artefact where i chose to do the Cd cover. The questionnaire survey which subject tutor gave us a hint to create our own questionnaires. We all agree to do what the tutor told us and created the questionnaires. In first I made nearly 16 questions but made some changes and cut down some questionnaires to make a lot easier for the people to understand and answer the questions easily. The title for the survey was “Unit 7 : Project Report”. Basically, the sub-heading was “Artefact Cd Cover Survey” The questions were referring to the sub-heading containing the questions about the Cd cover from Unit Artefact . After making the survey I handed out the questionnaire to my classmates from my media and creative diploma class and and even some people from outside college to see their own views and opinions.
In this question 1, they were asked to tell their gender. Basically, this question is reliable because its necessary to know which gender is from.
In this question 2, they are asked to mention their age group so that I would know what kind of age group people would like or dislike about the Cd cover I made. Probably this question is simple and in fact reliable because the question itself shows that what kind of age group would prefer the style of Cd cover.
In this question 3, they were asked what kind of gender attracts the style of Cd cover. I think the question is good because I would know which kind of gender prefer the Cd cover.
I think this question 4, is quite necessary for the people who did my survey because they would write their own views and opinions when they first sight the Cd cover.
Likewise in question 5, its referring the people whether they have their likes and dislikes about the Cd cover. The question is also quite necessary because they would write their own views about the Cd cover whether they like some part and dislike other parts of the cover.
From question 6-10, the answers for all the questionnaires are to agree or disagree. In more basic way, the questions are practically good because they could say what they agree and disagree. In question 6, the question asked about whether they like the pictures or not. In question 7, its asked about the background image whether the images of the Cd cover fits with it or not. In question 8, its asked whether they would prefer the Cd cover attractive or bad. In question 9, they are asked to answer whether the back Cd cover and front Cd cover fits with each other or not and finally in question 10, its asked whether they would buy it or not if they pass through the store.
Lastly, the question 11 is just to comment and write their own views and opinions about the Cd cover.
Section B - Evaluation:

(Report)

In my first primary research, Mr Richard introduced himself and gave information about Cd cover designs, Michael Jackson, downloading and more other things.
Firstly, He talked about the rock band ‘Paramore’ Cd cover and music. He showed us the design of the cover and style of music. Later he showed and talked about the music video and the website for different artists and bands. He told us about the definition of record and how it works along with the credit. He talked about downloading legally in ITUNES means buying with money online because nowadays people prefers the free downloads from other sites which is not legal and not acceptable for the laws. He even told about the website ‘Youtube’ where people listen and watch videos. He spoke about the late king of pop ‘Michael Jackson’ from the music industry about his music and style he contributed to the world. He even talk about some directors, producer and singers who are gradually getting famous and the money they earn will be distributed within them. He told us that about how to download songs in MP3. After he gave his speech, he gave his introduction and his work in the past years as a teacher and after. He told us about his salary which is £28 per hour. After he gave his speech and introduction, he told us to research the band designs and art worked done by them and see the layout how they used, how big the log they have used and focus on how they do that. He reminded us that we should know what we are doing and thinking of getting new ideas in making the Cd cover. During the speech, we asked him some questions regarding the Cd cover designs and other things . His answers were quite reliable and didn’t hesitate to give us a good answers.

In my second primary research, the survey I gave to the people from outside college and the classmates from the class did what they were asked to do. it was really hard giving to people from outside because i felt very shy but they all accepted to do my surveys.
More formally, from inside the college the survey i gave them was quite varied due to their own views in some questions.
In question 1, Out of all people from inside and outside college 5 were female from the class and 16 female from outside. As for males 3 were male from inside but none of the male from outside. In regarding the answer, both from inside and outside majority of female than male were there to do the survey.
In question 2, out of 8 people 7 people were from 16-18 age group and 1 person was from 19+ which is from inside the college as for outside 12 people were 19+, 2 were from 16-18 age group and 2 were from 11-15 age group. The answer is quite in contrast because many people were from 19+ and 11-15 age group was quite few.
In question 3, From both inside and outside college majority people said ‘both’ because the Cd cover has the style which attracts both male and female. Some people from inside the college preferred ‘female’ due to girlish style of music and images in the Cd cover. I would say the answer is quite reliable as I also thought it was quite for both male and female aspects for my Cd cover.
In question 4, many people have gave their own views and opinions in this question like some said its unique and some said it has the gothic/rock style of music and some said they like the contrast between light and dark contrast. The answer was quite good and bad because the first impression they saw is quite edible and different. More formally, both from inside and outside referred in different views as the answers were normally same from both the sides of the people.
In question 5, the way the people wrote is quite interesting because the answers are completely different and what they likes and dislikes is quite good. Majority of people from both inside and outside college said they like the contrast between angel and devil, features and style. In dislike, majority of them said they didn’t like the darkish and scary concept which normally many people didn’t prefer in these days. So, I would agree to this answer because the word they describe for my Cd cover is quite true due to heavy style of my Cd cover.
In question 6, out of 8 people from inside the college 6 of them said ‘yes’ and 2 people said ‘no’. As for outside the college, out of 16 people 13 of them said yes and 3 people said ‘no’. In my opinion, the pictures may reflect some poeple as for other it would probably find it bad due to darkish concept used in the cd cover.
In question 7, out of 8 people from inside the college 5 of them said ‘yes’ and 3 people said ‘no’. As for outside the college, out of 16 people 13 of them said yes and 3 people said ‘no’. Regarding the answer, i think the answers are quite varied because majority referred the background fitting with the images in the cd ocver but few disagree due too musch of colours being used.
In question 8, out of 8 people from inside the college 4 of them said ‘good’ and 4 people said ‘average’. As for outside the college, out of 16 people 10 of them said ‘good’ and 6 people said ‘average’. In my own views, I think the answer is varied due to many of them said ‘good’ but in some cases many said ‘average’ because the answer in agreeing and disagreeing which is quite interesting for me as its their own choice in answering what they think about the cd cover.
In question 9, out of 8 people from inside the college 7 of them said ‘yes’ and 1 person said ‘no’. As for outside the college, out of 16 people 7 of them said ‘yes’, 8 people said ‘maybe’ and 1 person said ‘no’. This question is quite necessary because the front and back Cd cover is quite different due to different images and and in my opinion the answers are quite true.
In question 10, Majority of them said ‘no’ from inside and outside college because many of them suggested the style and theme of my Cd cover was not quite their style of music they want due to its look it had the feeling of dark and hard rock style of music than R‘N’B/HIPHOP style of music genre which nowadays many people listen to that kind of music songs.
Lastly, I think the last question is quite different and basically I want people to write what they want to say in their own views and opinions for my Cd cover. Basically, many commented that liked it but in some cases people didn’t like the design and features of the cover due to images and fonts used are like the rock music and completely have mystery and emotional concept. In regarding the answer, i think its true because i would probably say the Cd cover has emotional and sad songs but in heavy and rock genre style of music.

(Evaluation)

Doing this project report, the most difficult part was the research and report because in research the difficult part was to give survey to people from outside the college which I didn’t like the idea at all but it was a coursework so I have to find people a lot as for report we have to write a lot of information regarding the question surveys done by the people from inside the college and outside the college. The other thing I was not able to do a proper report is that I was not present in the interview but got some information from my classmate so that i could write for my primary research in both the section A and section B.
OveralI, I would say my project report is average. If I were to prepare a new one I would like to make my planner for my project report in a specific and understandable way so it would be easier for me to write my report and fully prepare my answers in a good way.

Reliability of My Research

Secondary Sources:

For my secondary sources, I researched the information by using an internet. Firstly, I research on range of music jobs in an internet normally on www.wikipedia.co.uk site to find some information because many people rely on this site due to having definitions on a hyperlink therefore some of the meanings for the words was quite hard to understand so I just wrote the name of the career and click on it and there the different sites were shown in the screen. I randomly chose some of the sites and used some details about the careers.

Questionnaires on careers in the music industry

What are the skills, qualifications and experience necessary to create a successful career in music teaching and/or performing in a group?

1. Do you work in the music industry?
__________________________________

2. If you were going work in the music industry which one would you choose?
A record producer
Songwriter
Singer
other (say which?_____________)

3. Which skills do you think would be necessary to be a singer or songwriter?
an ear for music
singing talent
writing skills

4. What qualifications do you think would be most helpful to pursue a career in record producer or music promoters ? (give your chosen careers)
(give three or so choices with tick boxes)
a. GCSEs
b. Diploma or GNVQ
c. Degree in music
d. No qualifications necessary

How important is experience for a career as a record producer or music promoters ?
a. very important
b. somewhat important
c. not important

Please explain why??
_____________________________________________

Discussing on PROJECT

During the Music class, Frank came to our class for small discussion on project. we were given a sheet of paper related to project work. we discuss in how to get information and details to two jobs we have done before and told us to do some quetionnaries survey.

Radio Play Intro

Planning for Radio Play Intro:

I will be creating a radio play intro trailer for 30 seconds.

1. Voiceover:
The introduction for radio play opening will be of 10 seconds.

‘‘Hello Everyone to Radio Drama Programe. The radio play title is The Stranger.The director and producer is Emmanuela.The music and sound effects is done by Patrick. The narrator is Susan.Falak is Lauren and Emmanuela is Lauren’s friend.’’
Overall it will be of 10 seconds for the radio play opening.

2. Background:

I will be creating a background music for my radio play which will be of full 30 secomds. It will be of soft melody with a dark concept to make it mystery and little scary according tot he scene of the chosen clip.

3. Sound effects:

I will be researching a sound effects in an internet with each 2-3 seconds playing together with the chosen clip given in below. The sound effects I am going to create will be 'girl walking in the road',‘sound of someone knocking at a door' and 'after the noise of the door that squeaks’, ‘a door opens’ and ‘a door closes’.

4. Clip:
‘‘The day of the date she left home in time(girl walking in the road). (sound of someone knocking at a door and after the noise of the door that squeaks) She entered in his house and it was in darkness.....( a door opens) Bang!!(door closes).........and never came out.
Is she alive?

“See you on next monday at the same time with unbelievable episode on BBC1 at 12p.m.’’
This clip will be of 10 seconds.

Planning for my survey

For my first task for the project report, i have finished my question survey of my class. Now, I will be distributing to different age groups of people from my college or to my family members and friends. For this second task I needed to find 20 people to answer my question survey of my Cd cover. I am planning to ask more on girls than boys to fill up the answers for my project report.

FOUR Initial designs on campaign

Out of all the campaigns, I decided to do the Anti-smoking campaign.
I did this because I think many people of the age group from 16 years and above starts smoking and terrorizing their health a lot. I would describe smoking cigarettes have dfifferent reasons like stress, fashion, forced, intersts and more. From the above sentences the most distracting thing would be fashion becasue nowadays when young people see their parents or friends smoking they take interest just like that to showoff in front of many people that they are growing older and can understand thier position in smoking cigarettes. In some cases like in music or fashion industry the models and sinmgers also do photoshoots and mainly music videos where the the main person smoke due to tragic and some caes like happiness just to show their concepts for their music style which also gets the centre attention the young people who thinks smoking cigarettes are like getting in a fashion sense and showoff to other people which i find it definately wrong because they should undestand the present health which could cause serious problems in the future.

Planning for my campaign Poster:-

(No. 1)

The title of my campaign poster is 'Smoking is Killing Me'. I chose this name to fit the concept of my poster for an anti-smoking campaign. In my poster, the ‘Heart’ with black colour spreading out in it describes the human’s important part of the body which is also the target for the people who smokes a lot and eventually may affect their health by getting diseases like heart diseases. As for the ‘Cigarette’ piercing a human heart to show that people will be effectively affect their heart if they smoke a lot. Likewise for the ‘Smoke’ shows that smoking could lead like a flowing river which our inner parts of the body could be destroyed and make our health look bad.
As for the ‘Red bubbles’ which is actually blood tells us that if too much of blood is wasted from our body, it may lead to loss of our body. I even used ‘Text’ to write my title and a website with red colours to stand out to my target audience. The main thing why I mention the website in my poster is to let people visit my website and find how it is and know more about anti-smoking campaigns as many young people are starting to smoke in their young age which includes adults too. The fonts and colours are used for the title and the website is done in a simple and focused in an attractive way. Overall, this campaign’s target audience would be every age groups but I wanted to mention it from 16 years and above because many young people are smoking a lot and destroying their body health.

(No.2)

The title of this campaign is "Say 'NO' or Life Will Be Breathless". I chose this camapign name because the image shows us that smoking can lead to lot of pollution in air like smoky factories, vehicles and lots more which causes air pollution. The target audience could be for everyone as the image is not quite proper in understanding what it means but has a litlle meaning saying 'NO' to soking which is the only easiest part where many peope, would understand it. The cigarette with black cross definately shows not to involve in smoking and immediately day 'no' to anyone who insists you to smoke. As, for the title means people should be aware of other people who smokes and insists you to join you in smoking which the answer should be 'no' tot that person or could to dangerous diseases like heart problems and mouth infection.

(No.3)

The title for this campaign is "Just say 'NO'". The title I chose for this was due to the images which is was quite simple made showing a smoke coming out from the cigarette laying side in the ashtray which definately fits with the title due to its simple images. this campaign would be probably for the young people from 16 to 21 year age group because I just to want to let many young teenagers from these age groups to understand the value of health and their life for the future. The image of a smoke of the cigarette floating around shows that the if the person smokes it will be hard to reduce the smoke inside their body and it will spread around their blood veins, heart and every part of the body which could cause a fatal pain in your health and loss of your weight due to too much of smoking everyday and even spread out to other people around you. The ashtray was just given a small hint to make the cigarette laid in the side of the ashtray to make a final touch.
Overall, if I would be seeing this campaign somewhere in posters or an internet, I would not look at it as much in interest due to lack of colours and simple fonts used on it. In this campaign if I was given to change and use digital images I would try to use more colours and good fonts to fit the image of the campaign.If I would say it in my opinions about this anti-smoking campaign I made I definately didn't like it as musch as other three campaigns due to lack of background, simple images which didn't directly attracts the target audience what this campaign really means.

(No.4)

The title of this campaign is 'Smoke Will Kill Me'. The target audience for this campaign would be from age group 16 years and above. I chose the name of this title becasue according to the images I decided to use this aimple title which sounds good for this campaign and really fits with the images. The images shown in this campaign tells us that smoking is llke a gun. The cigarette is shown like a gun with 'bang!' sound to let young people know that if you shoot with a gun you will get pain in your body just like that if you smoke cigarettes you will Sstart to destroy your health from young age and will get a lot of pain in your body in your upcoming future. Out of all the three campaigns this is the one I like the most because the image with a gun style cigarette with bang bang sounds looks different and good and even the the writing font is simple with yello and green colours just to look attractive for the people to see.

NCFE-Music Technology

Unit-1 Assessment

1. How do you save your data appropriately?
To save the data in Logic Pro,
-Go to the top screen
-Click on file
-Scroll down to the list of files
-Click either on ‘Save’ or ‘Save As’ to save the file
-The save folder will be shown
-Type your file name and date on your respective folder
-Finally, click on save and it is saved in your respective folder.

2. Set up a track?
To set up a track,
-Go to top screen
-Click on file and scroll down to the list of files
-Click on ‘New’
-The ‘New...’ folder is shown
-From the list of templates choose an empty project.
-Type 1 or more than 2 numbers of tracks and choose ‘software instrument’ in types of tracks
-Then, click on create
-Finally the number of tracks will be shown below the global tracks.
-If you want to add more you could do double click and the track could be shown.

3. Assign a sound to the track?
To assign a sound to the track,
-go to library in Logic Pro
-click on any software instruments
For example; I chose 'Bass' and then I look up different genres of bass. Then, I click on 'Acoustic bass' and again I look at the different sounds of bass and finally click on my chosen sound of bass which is 'Unplugged bass'.
-Finally the chosen software instrument will be shown below in the global tracks.

4. Record a MIDI sequence?
To record a midi sequence,
-Firstly before you switch on the computer(IMAC) the keyboard should be plugged on which is in the back for the Logic Pro 8.
- Then, switch on the keyboard which is also in the back.
-Go to the bottom of the 'Logic Pro' and click on the record button.
- Now, play or press the keyboard buttons and will start recording.

5.Evaluate the quality of the recorded sequence and amend where appropriate. are the at the right pitch on the keyboard, the correct length (Piano Roll) are the tracks correct at the right place in each beat and bar?

6. How do you quantise a track? The note should snap to the line making the sound last as it should.

7. How do you set up and record extra tracks?

8. How do you evaluate final recordings?

9.How do you move, copy and pate, erase and use other tools in the tool box?

Unit-PROJECT

INTRODUCTION

Particularly, I find music industry quite competitive and challenging place for the young generation for doing different careers in it. There are many opportunities to take part as a music career in music industry like in TV commercial, singer, DJ, dancer and lots more. It depends on which kind of talent you have and what you will be available to do in front many viewers. Basically in this generation young people are more eager to work in music industry like in theaters, TV, recording studios etc which is more interesting to see young people showing their talent and their inner confidence to the people over the world.
I am doing a project on my two different careers relating to music industry. This project is about their skills, qualifications and experience needed for the person who is doing a career as a music promoter and a record producer. For the project, I am going to find the answer to my question in choosing this two music careers. “Why did you choose music promoter and a record producer as your upcoming options for working in the music industry ?” In the beginning part of the course I did these careers just to complete my work but later I thought there are always reasons to do the things. While I was doing further researching information on these two jobs related to music industry, I got really interested. In my view, these two jobs are quite competitive in the music industry as they are one of the basic things for a person to promote music to other people and expand the music genres and style to different countries or within the country.
The most reflective part for this project is to improve my research skills. Knowing how to communicate with people, carry out a survey, going to a library and researching on it could be a great experience for me to be interested and able to find skills and confidence which could lead me to find work or whether I end up working in these two particular jobs in the music industry in the future.
The main purpose in experiencing different jobs in the music industry could be like understanding the values and improving it. Researching these two jobs normally I need to do a lot of finding the information on both of the careers normally about its qualifications, experience and skills needed which could have more details in pursuing to get a job in the music industry.

RESEARCH

In my secondary sources, I prepared my research from an internet. When I was researching the background details I needed it was quite important for me to choose good sources and links to gather reliable information so that others who are reading want find it fake and wrong.
I used www.wikipedia.co.uk site which I found that many people count on this website because there are lot of definitions and links but in some cases the meanings and words are difficult to understand and some of the details are fake so I prefer to check some of the sources whether it is correct or not. I even used the dictionary.reference.com site to find the meanings of the difficult words so that I could understand what it means. While finding different careers of the music industry I found another site www.wisegeek.com site which I find it quite intersting because I have never seen this site and it was quite useful for working out of my difficulties. I think ‘wisegeek’ site is quite understable than ‘wikipedia’ because this website helped me to gather more information on different careers of the music industry with its roles and skills and the words and meanings were quite easy to understand than wikipedia where there are lot of information but difficult meanings. I even used www.answers.com to find simple question like the qualification and salary amount for these particular jobs in the music industry. When I didn’t find the reliable answer for the salary information in the www.answers.com I found this www.collegecrunch.com website where I could find the good source of the two chosen music jobs and normally I am using is the college resource online site where you find many colleges details and jobs which is quite helpful for the people who want to find the resouces about the colleges and jobs they want.

For my primary research, I did a survey to find their different views and opinions regarding the careers from the music industry. The questionnaire survey done by the subject tutor gave us a hint to create our own questionnaires. We all chose to same like the tutor’s but made some changes in questionnaires to make alot easier for the people to understand and answer the questions. The title for the survey was “Questionnaries on careers in the music industry”. Basically, the sub-heading was “What are the skills, qualifications and experience neccessary to create a successful career in music teaching and/or performing in a group?” The questions were related to the sub-heading containing the questions about skills, qualification and experience whether/if they were interested to work in the music industry or not. After making the survey I handed out the questionnaire to my classmates from my media and creative diploma class and a helping resources tutor.

Here are the survey questions with people’s views and opinions:

In this question 1, everyone I gave my survey to told me that they don’t work in the music industry. As I gave my questionnaire to just students this is not a reliable question for them.
In this question 2, I gave 5 options which are: songwriter, singer, record producer, other and none. This is a good question because there are different options to choose and give their own views.
In this question 3, they were asked to say which skills were necessary ‘an ear for music’, singing talent or writing skills. This means whether they need to have talent for singing or just hearing the music or have writing skills needed for both the careers. I think this question is useful because most of the people asked are interested in music and listen to different types of artists.
In this question 4, I gave 4 options which are: GCSEs, Diploma or GNVQ, Degree in music and No qualifications necessary. I would say this is a practical question as its not quite good because the answer for this question is not known by many people and probably guessed it in their own views.
Regarding the question 5, everyone suggested that its very important for a music promoter or record producer to have an experience in the music industry. I would say this question is practically good because they know that without having an experience none would would be able to get in the industry. They suggested that more experience the more the person will get a job which could lead to have better reputation even they have a life with difficulties in their path in the big music industry.


REPORT

“Why did you choose music promoter and a record producer as your upcoming options for working in the music industry ?”

In my primary research, I did a question survey where I asked people if they are interested in doing a job in the music industry or not.
Basically, out of the five people asked, two of them chose songwriter, two of them chose singer and other(A&R) respectively and none were done by one person. As for record producer none chose this career. Basically, the majority of them chose songwriters than other job careers of the music industry.
In regards of the other people’s opinions the skills used by the singers or songwriters’ views were varied. The majority of them said singing talent and writing skills were neccessary to be a singer or songwriter.
When I looked at some of the question surveys of other people I found it really interesting because many of them suggested that in the music industry there are no qualifications required, as work experience or training in the industry is really important. The survey also suggested that getting more experience could lead to higher ranks in the music industry and I particularly agree with their answers.
In my opinion, I would say agree in their answers because the way each of them told about how its important and wrote their own views about the people how they work in the music industry.
In my secondary sources basically, I did a lot of researching in an internet to find the details about different careers in the music industry from different sites. It was difficult to find its basic things ] like skills, qualifications, salary and its role for each of the particular jobs of the industry.
I looked up in an internet where different kinds of jobs were involved. Out of range of jobs in the Music Technology Industry I chose Record Producer and Music Promoters.
Record Producer
Normlly for my internet research, I found that Record producer is one of the most important person in the music industry. It describes a record producer as one of the music industry professional who works with artists to produce records much like film producers, record producers plays a role in shaping the artistic direction of the projects they work on, and even also controls the quality and generating a project which may be successful. Producers are a very important part of the team which gets an album from the minds of the musicians to the shelves of retail stores.

Record producer's roles are:-
-plays a key role in recording sessions, controlling the schedule and working with the sound engineer to get the desired sound,
-Gathering and directing the ideas of the project,
-Getting into the songwriting process and learning about songwriting and sequencing,
-Being able to work with musicians and artist and get the best out of them,
-Working with a recording engineer and other studio owners,
-Using sound effects, samples and other techniques to make song sound different and unique,
-Mixing and editing the song, and finally
-Mastering the song.

Being a record producer can vary, depending on the type of music being recorded and the preference of the musicians' style of music. Record producers from a hip hop labels are often quite famous than the musicians they work with, and can make or break the success. In contrast the record producers working with classical musicians often have less involved artistically which only may focused on getting a good, clean recording. Basically, in this present generation many record producers are involved in being as a songwriter, a musician and recording engineering.

Salary Information:
While researching about the salary information I found out that the normal salary of a record producer range from over $30,000 up to more than $50,000 on a yearly basis which I find it quite alot but basically it depends on the sales of the music.

Qualifications:
More often the people who are interested in becoming a record producer in a music industry don’t have an entry qualification as its not quite needed but instead look for skills. As, i looked up in an internet most record producers have certificates in any of the following like in songwriting, composition, music production, sound engineering, musical history and theory, etc. People who often plan to be record producers may have to spend most of their time focusing on their piano skills as they say ‘instrument is usually the main composition tool of songwriters and producers’. Nowadays, record producers need to have skills on digital technology in producing music as you all know today’s generation has become quite dependent on computer software.
Having this job could be easier for the people who have dreams to be a record producer but there are times in struggling with singers and bands who insists to give ideas for their Cd album. Record producers should understand what they need in their songs and styles for the concept for the music.

Do you want to get involve in working in the music industry?
If you agree.....it will be your great opportunity to enter and will be able get training, audition and get many options for you to part of it.

Music Promoter
For my internet research, music promoter is also one of the most important job in the music industry because the person or a group of peole who works as a music promoters focus in marketing and promoting concerts, live events and manages publicity and advertising the music in the country and outside the different countries in the world. They are normally invloved as a business person in the music industry to work out the financial problems occuring in the industry and settling matters for the musicians' concerts and events.

Promoters have a good feedback about them because they are the one to create the advertising and making a publicity for the new musicians to attract many people of the world. Nowadays, most of the promoters are helding as plastering posters on outdoor walls,flyposting, and distributing handbills on windows of cars parked in entertainment district. At present, many promoters have started doing online technology such as online social networks and event listing sites to handle publicity, invitations, mailing lists, and so on. Recently, many promoters are one of the leaders in SMS text message advertising to their own lists. Music promoters often build their own personalities and the parties they host, marketing the events under a consistent name, style, type of program, and social experience to brand out an artist successfully.

Working as a music promoter for a record company or solo artist, the main objectives are:
-writing press releases to publicise your client's music or tour.
-organising publicity events such as media interviews and personal appearances.
-going to publicity events with clients.
-getting airtime on radio and TV shows.
-networking with contacts in the music industry.
-organising tours.
-dealing with designers, printers and marketing staff.
-negotiating contracts.
-listening to new acts and deciding whether to offer them a contract.
-work as a promoter for a live music venue.

Salary Information:
According to my research, the salary of a music promoter range from over £35000 - £45000/annum plus bonus which depends on its sales and expanding of the music of a singer or a band. The salary is really good for being a music promoter in the music industry.

Qualification:
Basically, the qualifications are not importantl in the music industry but some people do have relevant foundation degrees, BTEC HNDs and degrees to get this job to enter the music industry. There is no set career path into working as a music promoter as the main key to get this job is have experience and develop a connection in the industry. Having this job is to establish your own experience like taking interest and taking responsibility in sales and marketing, public relations, event organisation or advertising. So, it is really important and need to have experience for working as a music promter. Getting more experience as a music promoter,he/she could take a course in music industry management to be more confidence but there is no guarantee to get a job as it is usually according to how much they can handle the job and take responsible for all the things.


CONCLUSION/EVALUATION

Doing this project work, it was really difficult to research and jot down its basic things about the two careers of the music industry. The ideas were normally from an internet which had so many things about these particular jobs of the music industry. At first, I didn’t had any idea what to write about these music careers but due to the help of an internet I found many informations about it. While doing researching of different careers in the music industry I found five to six careers and gave short information for each of thees music careers I found. Then, out of all I chose my best two careers which are record producer and music promoter. The decision I made to give full informations about these two jobs was that I felt it was quite interesting and furtherall, both were one of the busiest and important careers in the music industry.

Basically, when I was doing secondary research on both of these two careers the most confusing part was the qualifications because many of the other jobs from different industry request for the qualifications and only were given to do the job but in the music industry it is not essential but instead skills and experience were more important if not they are given training and job experience. But some people who want to work as a record producer or music promoter study getting degrees to enter the music industry as basically its easier for them to know about the job they want because they have experienced a lot and have more practical skills.

The thing I didn’t like about my project is doing a research which was quite hard because I could not remember few websites and links I found for these two music careers and I didn’t do researching in books which is quite helpful if you do so. If I have to change or fully prepared a new one I would like to normally write some of the important websites and hyperlinks for research beforehand and prepared a final draft for it and even read some books related to music where I could find different jobs and important details about it for my project.
Overall, I would say my project is fine and would grade satisfactory just to say its not quite understable in some cases but I feel its average for the readers.

Final Campaign Poster - JUST SAY 'NO'

This is my final poster for my anti-smoking campaign poster. Before, the title for my campaign poster was 'Smoking Is Killing Me' because I thought it would suit according to my concept for my poster but due to changes I change it completely and made it into this campaign which includes images and background. Finally, the title is JUST SAY 'NO' to sound simple and short and the images are combined together like my first campaign poster but in different directions.

The images I took from an internet are the chosen images for my final campaign poster which are:




To start this campaign I used the ‘fireworks’. Firstly, I opened the ‘Fireworks’ and gave the same measurements for the size of my campaign poster like the planning of an initial design which I did in fireworks. The size fort eh width is 20 cm and the length is 22 cm. Then, I imported the chosen images from my folder in ‘Fireworks’ and saved separately in the layers.

I created my background which is a pitch black background which I used the paint tool and selected black colour and filled in the empty box-screen in ‘Fireworks’. Then, I edited the each images removing the background and parts like a guy smoking a cigarette is removed and a smoke from the other image is removed as well by using different tools like magic tool and rubber to erase it completely. Later the remaining images are combined together to make it into one to show the concept of this campaign poster. Then, I edited the images of an ashtray with a cigarette using tools like blur to make it little blurry and brightness/contrast tool to make it sharp and clear in looking at the image. As for a smoke which has the image of a floating skull I used tools like brush tool to make the change the green colour into grey and white and smoky colour, blur to make it little invisible and lastly brightness/contrast tool to make it sharp and faded image for the floating skull.

In my poster, the ‘floating and fading skull’ with grey colour describes the people who smokes heavily and terrorize their health badly will be lose their life eternally. As for the cigarette laid side in an ashtray shows that that the people are smoking a lot and not being aware of their life leads to deadly death. Overall, the poster images are joined in a way making a floating and fading skull which is shown as a smoke coming out from the cigarette which is laid side in the ashtray.
Finally, I used ‘Text’ to write my title using a font ‘CRACKED’ to make it rough and dangerous and a white and red colour for the title because of its black background it will be easier to see the written words and even it’s an anti-smoking campaign which the colours and font really stands out. As, for the website I used same font and the red colour also to stand out to my target audience. The main thing why I mention the website in my poster is to let people visit my website and find how it is and know more about anti-smoking campaigns I made as many young people are starting to smoke in their young age which includes adults too.

Yes, I meet my deadlines to begin my campaign. In creating this campaign it took 4 days to complete the final campaign poster. the camign poater evaluation took 3 days to finish which the campaign poster took nearly a week to finish to update. Normally none has stated anything for my campaign poster but considering many people to check out my camapign poster for an anti-smoking camapign in the blogger. I think my campaign poster is effective like it's trying to send out the meaning to the young people from age group 16 years and above indluding the adults to undertand that smoking is not about a buying apacket of cigarettes and smoking heavily everday or using it as a fashion sense that noadays young people do a lot to showoff. In my opinion, its bad to smoke but ther are times when you smoke a cigarettes you will feel at ease and relaxed like when you are feeling stress and lonely but many people are goping against thier limits using a lot cigarettes in aday to smoke which will cause a heart diseases and mouth infections.

If I would get to refine my camapign poster again I would not change a lot due to straightforward title and combination of different images which fits the camapign poster that I really thought of.

Learning to use the 'Fireworks', finding images from an interent and researching information about an anti-smoking campaign was a lot harder task to complete. It was a fun task to do by making your own campaign poster. There were a lot of planning for the Mandy's class doing different initial designs for the chosen campaign which I did an anti-smoking campaign and used the same poster for the Frank's course in the blogger too to make it easier for me to think and prepare a final stage for the final campaign poster I want.

Campaign Poster planning

Out of all the campaigns, I decided to do the Anti-smoking campaign. I did this because I think the age group from 16 years and above starts smoking and terrorizing their health.

The aim for my campaign poster is to bring awareness for the age group from 16-24 years old and prevent from smoking.

The Objective for my campaign are:
1. Just say 'NO' to smoking.
2. inform people that smoking will bring out health issues.
3. highlighting the adverse effects of smoking on people from age group 16-24 years.
4. remind the people that smoking is not about age but health problems.

Equipments/materials I will use:
1. Imac (SOFTWARE)
2. Colour printer
3. Photocopy shop/Fireworks
4. Internet-images

Health and Safety:
1. Monitors:
-Ensure they are steady.
-Don't sit too near the computer.

2. Printers:
-Take care of changing ink cartridge.
-Don't waste inks.

3. Copywriting: Beware of legal issues.

Planning for my campaign Poster:-

After researching many campaigns in an internet like anti-smoking, anti-global, anti-bullying, domestic violence and more I chose anti-smoking campaign for my campaign poster.
I am planning to make my own campaign posters. i will be showing my initial designs of my campaign posters with each evaluation.


1. The title of my campaign poster is 'Smoking is Killing Me'. I chose this name to fit the concept of my poster for an anti-smoking campaign.


Firstly, I researched the images for the anti-smoking campaigns in an Internet and kept some of the images in my computer folder. The images I used for my first campaign poster are:





I opened the ‘Fireworks’ and gave measurements for the size of my campaign poster. the size for the width is 20 cm and the length is 22 cm. I imported the chosen images in ‘Fireworks’ and saved separately in the layers.

Before editing the images, I created my own background with a simple black coloured background using the paint tool from ‘Fireworks’ to fit the concept for my campaign poster. Then, I edited the images of a heart and a cigarettes by using different tools like magic tool, rubber, brush tool, blur and brightness/contrast. I removed the background for both images and combined together which is shown in the poster. In my poster, the ‘Heart’ with black colour spreading out in it describes the human’s important part of the body which is also the target for the people who smokes a lot and eventually may affect their health by getting diseases like heart diseases. As for the ‘Cigarette’ I edited by making a cigarette piercing a human heart to show that people will be effectively affect their heart if they smoke a lot. I used the brightness/contrast to see whether the image fits with black background as for the single cigarette which is pierced in the heart is made bigger and longer by using subselection tool to fit with the image of the heart.

Likewise for the ‘Smoke’ shows that smoking could lead like a flowing river which our inner parts of the body could be destroyed and make our health look bad. As for the ‘Red bubbles’ which is actually blood tells us that if too much of blood is wasted from our body, it may lead to loss of our body. In this poster, I created a flowing smoke over the background by using brush tool and I used ‘splatter’ from brush tool to make red blood bubbles floating around the heart. I even used ‘Text’ to write my title and a website with red colours to stand out to my target audience. The main thing why I mention the website in my poster is to let people visit my website and find how it is and know more about anti-smoking campaigns as many young people are starting to smoke in their young age which includes adults too.

Universities/college for music

I have been researching on colleges/universities relating to music courses.

Some of the college/universities are as follows:-

1. Royal Northern College of Music:
Master of Music (MMus)
Solo Performance (including Conducting and Repetiteur Studies)
Chamber Music
Orchestral Studies
Composition.

Two years full-time, or one-year intensive full-time.

180 Credits: 60 Credits Core Principal Study, selected from the four specialisms above; plus 120 credits worth of options (a minimum of 60 credits selected from List B).
Applicants for the two year MMus in Chamber Music or Orchestral Studies must apply in the first instance for the two year MMus in Solo Performance. For one year courses all pathways are available.


2. School of music, University of Leeds:

Qualification: BA

Entry requirements:
Required to achieve one of the following (or equivalent):

-A level grades ABB, including A in Music (other A levels can include General Studies, but not Practical Music)
-Scottish Highers: AAABB (A in Music)
-BTECs: a minimum of Distinction, Distinction, Merit in a music (not music technology) specialism. Evidence of musical participation is also normally required in the form of ABRSM grade 8 music theory and advanced practical examinations (grade 7 or above)
-International Baccalaureate: 33 points overall, with 6 in Music.

Entry / admissions tests:
Offers are normally made on the basis of UCAS applications. If he/she receive an offer they will be invited to an Open Day. they interview part-time and candidates entering with non-traditional qualifications. Such applications are warmly welcomed in view of past successes.

Fees:
The tuition fees for 2010/11 will be announced in March 2010 for the students. As a guide, the 2009/10 fees for full-time UK/EU students is £3,225 per year.

Modes of study and duration of the course:
3 Years Full Time


3. Royal academy of music:
The Academy offers a wide range of University of London degrees, from Undergraduate BMus to PhD level. Several special one-year programmes are also available.

The four-year BMus undergraduate programme is constantly developed and refined to ensure that students are fully prepared for the rapidly-changing demands of the professions.

The Academy's postgraduate programmes offer a flexible and co-ordinated scheme of awards which are given below:
1. Postgraduate Diploma in Performance (Musical Theatre)
2. Master of Arts in Performance
3. Master of Music in Performance
4. Master of Music in Composition
5. Research degrees to Doctorate level

If he/she have musical and academic skills are good enough for BMus entry but their English language skills are below IELTS 5.5, they could afford to apply for the Academy's one-year Foundation Programme, offering them an intensive English language course as well as providing music tuition.

If he/she wish to benefit from undergraduate training at the Academy but do not require a full programme of study which leads to a qualification, the Academy offers a range of Year-In opportunities.

Entry Requirements:
The academic and language requirements for study programmes are on the Entry Requirements page.

Range of Jobs

I researched some of the music jobs. I will be writing about the different kinds of jobs giving little details about it which is related with the music technology.
The range of jobs are:-

1. Music promoters:
Music promoters' main job is to promoting concerts, festivals, nightclubs and other live events. They have the responsibility in marketing the under a consistent name, style, type of program, and social experience that downplays the branding of the venue or artist for the company.

2. Singer:
A singer is a person who sings. Singing is often done in a group of other musicians, such as in a choir of singers with different voice ranges, or in an ensemble with instrumentalists, such as a rock group or hip hop genre.
Professional singers usually build their careers around one specific musical genre, such as Classical or rock, they typically take voice training provided by a voice teacher or vocal coach throughout their career.

3. Songwriter:
A songwriter is one who writes the lyrics or music for songs. In this particular meaning for songwriter is basically the one who writes only lyrics are normally called a lyricist, while one who writes only music are called a composer.

4. Record producer:
A record producer is a person who works within the music industry, whose job is to create and manage the production of an artist's music. Record Producer plays a big role in shaping the artistic direction of the projects they work on, and even also controls the quality and generating a project which may be successful.

5. Music director:
A music director is a profession in different fields and a person who leads a musical group. They are responsible for interacting with record company representatives, auditioning new music, making decisions as to which songs get airplay, how much and when.

6. Music Engineers:
A Music Engineer is someone with experience and training in the production and manipulation of sound through mechanical (analog) or digital means. It refers to a person working in sound and music production, as well as to an engineer with a degree who designs professional equipment for these tasks.
Music Engineers are generally familiar with the design, installation, and/or operation of sound recording, sound reinforcement, or sound broadcasting equipment, including large and small format consoles.

Interview with Mr. Paul

As part of the creative media scene project the class interviewed Mr. Paul who had been working as a sub-editor for the Guardian newspaper. He studied journalism at London Printing college 20 years ago. His work involves
working on magazine articles which include:
1. Writing features about celebrities which means finding personal information about a person's life.
2. Writing about the music industry.
3. Monthly articles on music, sports and food etc.

He explained that sub-editor is someone who gets information and writes copy features. He showed us an example of how an article is laid out to attract the audience with headings and sub-headings. He also showed us how to present images and texts together to make the article more creative and eye-catching .

Mr. Paul told us that deadlines are important and if someone kept missing deadlines he/she will lose their job.
After he gave his speech, we were given the opportunity to ask him some questions about his job.

Record

Record is to make a record of additions to a collection like recording a song, record a sale on a card register, records of world champions etc.

Phonograph:
Thomas Edison who is an American scientist was more known for his electric light bulb which he introduced to the world in 1879. He invented phonograph in 1877 which was the most common device for playing recorded sound during the late 1870s until the late 1980s. He form
the principle of recording and reproducing sound between May and July in 1877 as a byproduct of his efforts to 'play back' recorded telegraph messages. He even automated speech sounds from transmitting by telephone.

On November 21, 1877 he announced his invention of the first phonograph which was a device for recording and replaying sound and demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29.

Home phonograph:
It was invented by Thomas Edison. It was one of the first phonographs for home use, being introduced for sale originally in December of 1896 and were manufactured until 1901.


Shellac Record Player:
Shellac record Player began in 1898 in Hanover, Germany.


Modern Record Player:
Modern record players can be either portable or built into other systems. They usually features digital readouts and controls for volume or speed. It became popular after World War II.


Open Reel Tape Recorder:
Open Reel Tape Recorder is also known as a Reel-to-reel. It is the form of magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording medium is held on a reel, rather than being securely contained within a cassette. Open Reel Tape Recorder was developed in the late 1940s by American audio engineer Jack Mullin with assistance from Bing Crosby where they met during the time of demonstrating his recorders at MGM Records in Hollywood.

Open Reel Tape Recorder was also used in early tape drives for data storage on mainframe computers, video tape machines, and later for high quality analog and digital audio recorders as early as the late 1940s, up until modern day studios where it is still in use.


Multitrack Recorder:
Multitracking is also known as multitracking or tracking for short term. This started with a guitarist, Les Paul in the late 1940s who experimented with over dubbing. During that time Capital Records released a record with Paul playing 8 different parts of an electric guitar. After that during late 1950s it was brainstormed by Ross Snyder, Ampex's manager. Originally, it is a method of sound recording that allows for the separate recording of multiple sound sources to create a cohesive whole.

It is one of the most common method of recording popular music during that time. In the 2000s, multitracking software for computers became widely used and quite popular.


Audio Cassette:
Audio Cassette are frequently referred as compact cassette, cassette tape, cassette or tap. Cassette is a french word meaning 'little box'. it is a cassette to store music and audio sounds.

The audio cassette was invented in 1962 by the Philips company. The early made cassettes were not quite popular and not good but was recognisable during 1970s as it became very popular to listen music.


Digital Audio Tape (DAT):
Digital Audio Tape (DAT) is a signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony and introduced in 1987. In appearance it is quite similar to a compact audio cassette with a smaller size.The technology for the medium itself is derived from video recorders and the 4 mm tape, cassette and the rotary head configuration is quite similar to the 8 mm video cassette from Sony.


CD:
CD is called as Compact Disc. It is an optical disk/disc with a small, portable, round medium made of molded polymer for electronically recording, storing, and playing back audio, video, text, and other information in digital form.

It was invented by James Russell in 1965. The compact disk did not become recognisable until it was mass manufactured by Philips in 1980.


MP3:
Mp3 is commonly referred as MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3. It is very popular for music on the web. MP3 is a digital music format which allows CD tracks to be reduced to around a tenth of their normal size without a significant loss of quality. It involves only audio compression.

Dieter Seitzer and Karlheinz Brandenburg are the two person frequently mentioned for the development of MP3.
They started working on it in 1979 but were invented in 1995. Later in 1997, the first successful mp3 player were brought in media called the 'AMP MP3 Playback Engine'.

Planning

Creative and media:-

Advertisement-Promoters,distributors
Design-game design,graphic design
Directing-film-actors(acting)
Music Industries-e.g.songwriter, producer, director,recording ,planning,singers
Artists-local/media
Photography-cameramen
Dancing-choreography
Production works-DJ
make-up artist
Set Designers
Costume Designer
Lightning
Music Engineers
Animation

Above written are the first examples of the creative and media jobs. This was done in the class with the media tutor before researching in an internet for the jobs. We were given to investigate on job opportunities in London in creative media with the qualifications/skills and expected income required for about 30-40 jobs which i have done in the other post.

Researching 30-40 jobs in creative and media

1. Administrator
Salary: £8.00 - £9.00 per hour
Qualification: must be from a theatre background, also have experience in an office and Business environment, demonstrate excellent communications and proficiency with PC applications including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

2. Senior 3D Animator
Salary: £2,000 - £3,000 per month
Qualification: Strong skills in character animation using 3DS Max and demonstrable experience in 3D character animation.

3.User experience designer
Qualification: Undergraduate degree
Salary: £35,000-£40,000 per year

4.Junior web editor
Qualification: Undergraduate deree
Salary: £18,000-£22,000 per year

5.Fundraising manager
Qualification: Undergraduate degree
Salary: circa £35,000 per year


6.Fundraiser/Bid writer
Qualification: A Levels/advanced GNVZ
Salary: £22,000-£25,000 per year

7.Marketing executive-theatre
Qualification: A Level/Advanced GNVQ
Salary: Up to £25,000 per year


8.Games Facilitator
Qualification: Undergraduate degree
Salary: £100 per 2hr session


9.On-line media palnner
Qualification: undegraduate degree
Salary: £28,000 per year


10.Chief Sub Editor-London online fashion and style brand
Qualification: Undergraduate degree
Salary: £35,000 plus usual big caompany benefits


11.Senior Reporter, London
Qualification: Undergraduate degree
Salary: £24,500 per year


12.Media sales
Qualification: Undergraduate degree
Salary: maximum £59,000 per year+bonus per year


13.Investment Management Executive
Qualification: Undergraduate degree
Salary: £25,000 approximately per year



14.PA to CEO, Advertising Agency
Qualification: A Levels/dvanced GNVQ
Salary: £14 per hour


15.Technical lead
Qualification: Should have a strong development experience with ooPHP coupled with excellent CMS knowledge.
Salary: £38,000-£42,000 per year

16. Designer
Qualification: A graphic designer to work on advertising, DM, POS and general marketing material for the healthcare industry.
Salary: £19,000-£40,000 per year


17.Exhibition Designer
Salary: £18,000 up to £60,000 a year.
Qualification:
taking a relevant degree in exhibition design or a related subject such as interior design or three-dimensional design. It is also possible to take a relevant Foundation degree, HND or British Display Society qualification, or join an exhibition design practice at a junior level and progress at work.


18.Fashion designer
Salary: £13,000 to around £60,000 a year.
Qualification: taking an HNC/HND or a degree in fashion.


19.illustrator
Salary: around £14,000 to £40,000 a year.
Qualification:
Most illustrators have an HND, Foundation degree or degree in an art and design subject such as illustration, graphic design or fine art.There are no set entry requirements to become an illustrator.


20.Art Editor
Salary: Salaries may start at around £22,000 for a trainee art editor, and rise as high as £70,000 for a top art director.
Qualification:
There are no set qualifications, but most entrants have a degree or an HNC/HND in graphic design, illustration or a similar subject.


21.Photographer
Salary: around £12,000 to £50,000
Qualification:
There are a large number of courses available ranging from City & Guilds courses, needing no qualifications for entry, to HND and degree courses, which require A levels/H grades or equivalent.


22.Footwear Designer
Salary: around £12,000 to £60,000 a year.
Qualification: gaining a degree or an HND in fashion, art and design or a related subject.


23.Journalist:
Salary: Salaries start from around £12,000 for new local journalists, rising to £80,000 or more for top journalists in national news.
Most journalists have a degree, as well as a vocational or postgraduate journalism qualification. Their degree may not need to be in journalism, although many universities offer courses in media studies or similar subjects.


24.Interior Designer
Salary: £18,000 to £60,000 a year or more.
Qualification: a degree or HND.


25.Architect
Salary: Salaries may range from around £25,000 a year up to £100,000 or more for partners and directors.
Qualification: To become a qualified architect it is necessary to complete a degree at a school of architecture, followed by experience in an architect's office.


26.Architectural Technician
Salary: £15,000 to £40,000 or more.
Qualification: Young people can either start through a technician Apprenticeship, or study for an HNC/HND or a degree before starting work


27.Broadcast Journalist
Salary: Starting salaries may be around £13,000-£22,000 a year.
Qualification: Many providers now offer degrees in journalism, media studies or similar subjects.


28.Textile Designer
Salary: around £13,000 to £40,000 a year.
Qualification: entry is after completing a relevant HNC/HND or degree in design. Postgraduate qualifications are also available.


29.Technical Author
around £18,000 to £50,000 or more a year.
Qualification: have a degree or diploma.


30.Media Planner/Buyer
Salary: Salaries may range from £15,000 to £50,000 or more a year.
Qualification:
There are no set qualifications to become a media planner/buyer, but most entrants have a degree or HNC/HND in a relevant topic, such as advertising, marketing, business management or media studies.


31.Landscape Architect
Salary:
Salaries range from around £18,500 to £33,000 a year in public sector work, and may be higher in private practice.
Qualification: Most landscape architects have a degree or postgraduate qualification accredited by the Landscape Institute (LI).


32.Publishing Editor
Salary: A local newspaper editor may earn around £16,000 to £25,000 a year. Experienced editors and commissioning editors can earn up to £40,000. Editors working on national titles may earn over £100,000 a year.
Qualification: have a degree and often have a background in journalism or editing.


33.Copy Editor
Salary: around £16,000 to £60,000 a year.
Qualification: have a degree, often in a related subject, such as English, publishing, media or journalism. A science-based degree may allow graduates to work in specialist technical publishing.


34.Games Designer
Salary: around £19,000 to £55,000 a year.
Qualification: There are no set requirements, but most games designers are graduates. Most degree subjects are acceptable.


35.Product Designer
Salary: around £17,000, to over £45,000 a year.
Qualification: a degree or an HNC/HND in product design


36.Brand Manager
Salary: Salaries range from £19,500 to £29,500 for a junior or assistant brand manager, up to £50,000 or more for a senior brand manager.
Qualification:
There are no set entry routes for brand managers, but the majority have a degree or HNC/HND in business studies or marketing, as well as business experience.


37.Interactive Designer
Salary: Salaries may range from around £15,500 to over £50,000 a year.
Qualification:
Although there are no set academic entry requirements, most entrants are graduates. A degree or postgraduate qualification in an art and design-related subject such as graphic or multimedia design is particularly useful.


38.Web Designer and Web Developer
Salary: about £18,000 to £40,000 or more.
Qualification:
Most employers expect applicants to have a degree-level education, often with relevant work experience and vocational skills.

Different kinds of campaigns

This is the second time researching on three different campaigns. now I will be analysing the three different campaigns which is in below.



It is an Eco-campaign. the main message of the poster is to keep clean and maintain a healthy lifestyle in every surrounding.
The poster is aimed at general public. Yes, the poster is effective in getting its message across because the image of a knife shows there are times people are bullied due to unhealthy lifestyle where there is too much of discharging the dirtiness in the world and main thing is recycling the unwanted things like plastics, glass etc.



It is an anti-smoking campaign. The main message of the poster of this campaign is to stop smoking and if people insist you to smoke just say 'no' to smoking. The poster is aimed at general public (young people, teenagers and deep smokers). Yes, the poster is quite effective in getting its message across because the image shows three different types of cigarettes being 'kicking out of the door'. The picture really sends a huge message as it describes us not get involve in smoking matters and just avoid it.



The poster is about the Anti-global campaign. The main message of the poster is that the marine animals are being misused and due to global warming world wide, the sea water are fatally dumped and dirty. So, to be aware of less fishing and less hydrating, the sea should be out of pollution and destruction. This poster is aimed at general public. Yes, the poster is effective in getting its message across because the image of the goldfish wearing a gas masks shows that their loss in habitat and inability to deal with the warming climate the campaign poster reflects a powerful imagery. The main focus on this poster is the marine animals are not getting oxygen in the sea due to too much of global warming in the world.

NCFE-Music Technology

After completing the work of evaluation on radio play script we were given a new task to finish. The new task is about the music technology where we have to find two different range of jobs are done in the Music Technology Industry. I looked up in an internet where different kinds of jobs were involved.The range of jobs in the Music Technology Industry I chose are Record Producer and Music Promoters.

RECORD PRODUCER:-
Record producer is one of the most important person in the music industry.
A record producer is a music industry professional who works with artists to produce records much like film producers, record producers plays a role in shapi1ng the artistic direction of the projects they work on, and even also controls the quality and generating a project which may be successful. Producers are a very important part of the team which gets an album from the minds of the musicians to the shelves of retail stores.

Record producer's roles are:-
-plays a key role in recording sessions, controlling the schedule and working with the sound engineer to get the desired sound,
-Gathering and directing the ideas of the project,
-Getting into the songwriting process and learning about songwriting and sequencing,
-Being able to work with musicians and artist and get the best out of them,
-Working with a recording engineer and other studio owners,
-Using sound effects, samples and other techniques to make song sound different and unique,
-Mixing and editing the song, and finally
-Mastering the song.

Being a record producer can vary, depending on the type of music being recorded and the preference of the musicians' style of music. Record producers from a hip hop labels are often quite famous than the musicians they work with, and can make or break the success. In contrast the record producers working with classical musicians often have less involved artistically which only may focused on getting a good, clean recording. Basically, in this present generation many record producers are involved in being as a songwriter, a musician and recording engineering.

Salary Information:
The normal salary of a record producer may range from over $30,000 up to more than $50,000 on a yearly basis.

Qualifications:
Most record producers have certificates in any of the following: songwriting, composition, music production, sound engineering, musical history and theory, etc. People who plan to be record producers may have to spend most of their time focusing on their piano skills as the said instrument is usually the main composition tool of songwriters and producers. Nowadays, record producers should have skills on digital technology as producing music today has become quite dependent on computer software.

Having this job could be easier for the people who have dreams to be a record producer but there are times in struggling with singers and bands who insists to give ideas for their Cd album. Record producers should understand what they need in their songs and styles for the concept for the music.


MUSIC PROMOTERS:-
It is also one of the most mportant job in the music industry because the person or a group of peole who works as a music promoters focus in marketing and promoting concerts, live events and manages publicity and advertising the music in the country and outside the different countries in the world. They are normally invloved as a business person in the music industry to work out the financial problems occuring in the industry and settling matters for the musicians' concerts and events.

Promoters have a good feedback about them because they are the one to create the advertising and making a publicity for the new musicians to attract many people of the world. Nowadays, most of the promoters are helding as plastering posters on outdoor walls,flyposting, and distributing handbills on windows of cars parked in entertainment district. At present, many promoters have started doing online technology such as online social networks and event listing sites to handle publicity, invitations, mailing lists, and so on. Recently, many promoters are one of the leaders in SMS text message advertising to their own lists. Music promoters often build their own personalities and the parties they host, marketing the events under a consistent name, style, type of program, and social experience to brand out an artist successfully.

Working as a music promoter for a record company or solo artist, the main objectives are:
-writing press releases to publicise your client's music or tour.
-organising publicity events such as media interviews and personal appearances.
-going to publicity events with clients.
-getting airtime on radio and TV shows.
-networking with contacts in the music industry.
-organising tours.
-dealing with designers, printers and marketing staff.
-negotiating contracts.
-listening to new acts and deciding whether to offer them a contract.
-work as a promoter for a live music venue.

Salary Information:
The salary of a music promoter may range from over £35000 - £45000/annum plus bonus.

Qualification:
The qualifications are not essential in the music industry but some people may have relevant foundation degrees, BTEC HNDs and degrees to get this job. There is no set career path into working as a music promoter as the main key to get this job is have experience and develop a connection in the industry. Having this job is to establish your own experience like taking interest and taking responsibility in sales and marketing, public relations, event organisation or advertising.

To get more experience as a music promoter,he/she cold take a course in music industry management to be more confidence but there is no guarantee to get a job as it is usually according to how much they can handle the job and take responsible for all the things.

CAMPAIGN RESEARCH

Firstly, I researched different kinds of campaigns from Internet like Anti-Smoking, Women Violence, Anti-Terrorist and many more. I cam across Anti-Terrorist poster while searching for campaigns advert and posters in newspaper. From the various campaigns I chose three different campaigns for my research planning.
The campaigns are Anti-Terrorist, Anti-Bullying and Domestic Violence and will be analysing order by order according to their respective campaigns or posters.



The name of the campaign is anti-bullying. The main message of this poster is that people should not bully or treat badly to other or else it may turn into dangerous affect in doing suicides to that person. The campaign is normally aimed at young children and teenagers. I would say that the poster is quite effective in getting its message across as the dark image of a boy being hanged up shows a intention of suicide where many people who are bullied are done in that way to escape from being bullied by others. In this poster, there are information of getting help and support from people who knows how to get rid of bullies or trying to be strong by yourself.



The name of the campaign is domestic violence. The poster of this campaign is aimed at young people and probably adults. The main message of the poster is that young children should not treated in a bad treatment or could be like these images of a boy crying who is broken in part of the body and fatally hurt. Yes, the campaign is very good in getting its message across because the image shows living in a house being isolated and looking fatally hurt could be worst part of the young people lives. The image of porcelain structure baby boy gives us the main message is to treat them in a good treatment and love them no matter it happens to them.



The name of the campaign is anti-terrorist. The main message of the campaign is to be aware that terrorism can anywhere and that everyday should be alert and not rely on others to report suspicious things.
The target audience fro the campaign is general public. This poster of a campaign is very effective in getting its message across as the image of an ordinary street scene with people getting on with their daily lives shows that the people may not notice what could happen if dangerous things occur where CCTV cameras could not help at all. So, the poster refers that if any suspicious or suspecting dangerous things occurs report it at once and mainly not to rely on strangers.