English oral task for functional skills

I have prepared this presentation on my work on 'artifact'. my task was to design the Cd covers for a new band. To do these I had to research on how to to design the Cd covers. I looked up on two different examples on process of designing Cd covers.

The first Cd cover on how to make a Cd covers:-
* need to scan or image preparation.
*can do cropping, resizing and converting RGB color.
*to make more creative could do like custom illustrating, retouching or a silhouette and later do typesetting.
*make plans and settings for Cd covers and finally make hard copy proofs to the digital proofers while mailing.
*the final touch is the finishing package of Cd covers and need to to be send to the target audience.

The second Cd cover is to:-
*using different visualisations on creating Cd cover.(listening to different sounds and creating layers out of it.)
*contrasting different layers and used the drawings to develop into Cd over and strongly reflecting the initial graphic designs.
*using 3D style to make more attractive and strong for the target audience.
*the worksheet of Cd cover is made a separate copy and start doing 3D letters into photo shop and continue doing illustrating the Cd cover.
*the final touch is the Cd cover which has different colours according to the feel of the cd covers.

Making an exact Cd cover for the blog, I drew the pictures and background on a A3 paper roughly to see whether there could be more ideas and designs for my final Cd cover. I used the simple concept of white and black roses to make it like one is evil and other good. Later, I thought it could be better if I changed the concept of roses into opposites meaning the white rose to be devil and black rose to be angel. I used these methods to make my target audience notice that some people have the personalities like these roses.

FRONT CD COVER

BACK CD COVER

Unit 2 : Performance

A performance, in performing arts, generally refers to an event in which one group of people behave in a particular way for another group of people like the audience.

The twelve performances from any genres are:-
1.concert-Jay-Z performing at the staples center in Los Angeles,California.
2.opera-Jessye Norman as Elizabeth in Tannhauser from ENO Concert.
3.play-'Romeo and Juliet' ballet performance given by the Ballet Group of the National Academic Bolshoi Opera of Belarus at the Opera House in Damascus, Syria
4.ballet-Swan lake performing at London's royal opera house
5.musical theatre-The lion king( lyceum theatre) at wellington street,convent garden,London
6.TV advert-confused.com
7.circus acts-Natasha Patterson, Julie Bergez and Dasha Sovik, the tree teenage contortion artist of Cirque du Soleil's latest touring show "Kooza" set in September, 2007 a new Guinness World Record for the Highest Circus Act ever performed.
8.radio drama-The archers on BBC Radio 4.
9.stand-up comedy-Russel brand performs stand-up at the London roundhouse.
10.music gig- Jay-Z singing at the staples center in Los Angeles,California.
11.magic(illusion)-David Copperfield performing his origami illusion.
12.music competition-American idol

From 12 performances I chose music gig and concert from the list and describe about the resources for the requirements to carry out the performance.
Firstly, explaining about the music gig and concert has the same genre due to music.
(Jay-Z will be performing at the staples center in Los Angeles,California)-

As a producer, I will be needing to settle all the facts and planning for the stage performance. I need to know how much tickets will sale so that we could prepare for people to see the performance. Likewise, seats for the people who are coming to watch the performance need to be known. The lightning and stage effects should be done properly according to the performance of the performer. The car parking should be hired for the people coming to see the performance and even food supplies so that the people could enjoy eating and even watching the stage performance.

'Evaluation of Unit 4'-Creating A Record

In creating the Batman theme music, the task was to make a serious, dark and scary tune. The character of Batman I created is soft but scary at the same time using different beats and melody. I used six instruments with different melodies on it. 'The record is a music underscore for the opening credits of Batman the Movie.'
Creating my batman theme I used various tracks(instruments) to see whether there may be some ideas out of it. The tunes and notes for the Batman theme needs to be darkish and with a scary concept to make it like the Batman movie.

Firstly, I decided to use different musical ideas by experimenting on different instruments like drums, pianos, trumpets and more. From the instrument sections, I used different tunes for my Batman theme opening and later made changes turn by turn. The instruments I used are moody jazz, electric attack piano, pop strings, silky strings, brass ensemble and Asian kit.

For my opening I used moody jazz(instrument)to make hard beats to create the opening of the scene. I used notes 1 to 6 with different beats and continued from notes 7 to 11,..,.. and notes 23 to 28 to make it seem like something dark or scary is happening. In second, third and fifth instruments, I started using from the same notes to continue the same melody on it. For my second instrument, I used repetitive beats in different notes to make a softer sound. For third instrument, I created the tunes with the keyboard using my own ideas from notes 3 to 36 to make hard beats so that it sounded rough. For the same instrument I used the repetitive tunes from notes 43 to 78 to make a melody in Batman theme. As for the fourth instrument, I used notes 19 to 29 with the keyboard making different beats with silky strings instrument. For the fifth instrument, I used the keyboard to make it more of a melody to make it sound more scary and dark and used repetitive notes from 3 to 77. Lastly, for the sixth instrument I used from notes 19 to 28 with the same notes going on and on to make it sound like a heart beating. Overall, there were many changes like cancelling the drum kits and bass instruments and adding new ones.

The music for my batman theme is not so dark and scary but has little soft tunes with loud trumpets which sounds like marching beats. As the 'Gotham City' scene begins the ending tune for my opening theme is soft to loud beats to make it startling and scary. As for the ending tune for my Batman theme the tune has a continuous melody but at the same time gets softer and softer until the music is stopped and finished.

It was fun learning Logic 8 and at the same time difficult because it was my first time and I had never learnt to use the instruments. I even had fun using it as there were so many instruments in the computer with different beats and notes. Using logic 8 I learnt how to make tunes and melody and different kinds of notes and music theory. Creating the batman movie introduction there were difficulties in making the darker concept. Overall the theme was fine but if I had made it a little more scary and dark it would have been a better theme.

Music Theory

Dynamics:

Dynamics means the volume of a sound or note of a music. It is the range of volume of musical sound. It is written or printed musical notation used to indicate dynamics.

Dynamic signs:

Sign	In Italian	Definition
pp	pianissimo	very soft
pp	piano	soft
mp	mezzo piano	moderately soft
mf	mezzo forte	moderately loud
f	forte	loud
ff	fortissimo	very loud
>	decrescendo	gradually softer
<	crescendo	gradually louder

Accents:

An accent is the music of an emphasis placed on a particular note or sound as by an increase in volume or extended duration either as a result of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark. There are three types of accents that are dynamic accent, tonic accent and agogic accent.

They are define in below:-

Dynamic accent are created louder sound than another. Tonic accent is an emphasis on a note by virtue of being higher in pitch than surrounding notes. Lastly, Agogic accent is an emphasis by virtue of being longer in duration than other notes.

Scales:

It is a group of musical note collected in ascending and descending order, that provides material for or is used to conveniently represent part or all of a musical work including melody and harmony.

B major scale(no key signature)B major (key signature)

major scale

Pitch:

(Notes on the keyboard):

treble

clef

bass clef

tenor clef

sharps and flats

Key signatures

Key signature	Added	Major key	Minor key
1 Sharp	F♯	G major	E minor
2 Sharp	C♯	D major	B minor

1 Flat

-B♭ -F major -D minor

2 Flat

-E♭ -Bb major -G minor

EVALUATING MY FINAL CD COVER DESIGN

FRONT CD COVER

The title for my Cd cover is ' Angel & Devil'. I used ' MAGNETIC' for the band name. I used the word 'magnetic' for the band name because it means a strong, attractive power or charm. For making my Cd cover, I used fireworks to design it and the concept for my cover is rock genre. On my front cover, it shows the white and black roses with a blood-red background. The white rose represents the 'Devil'. White usually signifies fairness and purity but it can also have a darker and evil side. The black rose represents an 'Angel' to show black is not always bad and lonely but can have a gentle and softer inner side. I used the blood-red in the background to make it scary and dangerous. The reason behind this picture is some people are like these roses and are not always what they are expected to be. The font I used is simple to make it ordinary and the pictures have been sketched to make it realistic.

BACK CD COVER

As for my back cover, I used the same background but different visualisations. I used the concept of a devil's tail and an angel's wing on the side of the scroll where I filled the song tracks to make it a classic and ordinary style. In one of my tracks, I used the 'orchestra version' to make it unique and like a ballad as it is changes the rock version to softer music. The fonts I used in the songs are bold and stylish to make it ordinary but attractive.

I would probably say the target audience would be teenagers and who loves rock music. 'Magnetic' could be odd for a band's name but I used it because it means the personality of charm and power to people. As for the Cd cover I drew images in 'fireworks' using tools like pencil, rubber, magic wand, font and colors to make artistic and rough. I searched and used the background image from google to make it clean as well as adding darker colour.

Before making an exact Cd cover for the blog, I drew the pictures and background on a A3 paper roughly to see whether there could be more ideas and designs for my final Cd cover. I used the simple concept of white and black roses to make it like one is evil and other good. Later, I thought it could be better if I changed the concept of roses into opposites meaning the white rose to be devil and black rose to be angel. I used these methods to make my target audience notice that some people have the personalities like these roses.

BATMAN MOVIE INTROS

Today, I continuing doing the batman introduction. Due to my lack of melody its very hard to make a proper tune. I still need to make a tune and its getting harder and harder to continue the tune.

Batman-intro and melody

Today, I continue doing my tune of batman theme. It was really hard to make decision due to many ideas in one document.