Batman

Today I listened to music and made some changed.

21/10/2009 BATMAN

Today I continued with my work and compared to the batman video clip then I tried to made it better and Mr. Smith listened to my Batman theme music and he said it is good but i have to create one more tune.

Batman movie

Batman is a superhero film which was made in 1989 and based on the DC Comic characters of the same name, It was directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Michael Keaton, as well as Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl and Jack Palance. The Batman film was produced by peter Guber, John Peters, Michael Uslan and Benjamin Mel. The screenplay for batman film was written by Sam Hamm and Warren Skaaren. It was based on the story by Sam Hamm and the comic book written by Bill Finger. The Batman score was by Danny Elfman and the songs sung by Prince. The Batman film Cinematography was by Roger Pnatt and the Eiditing by Ray Lovejoy. The Batman film was distributed by Warner Bros and was released on 23 june 1989. The runing time was 126 min. The Batman film was English language and the budget was $48 million. Gross revenue was $411.35 million.

Evaluation of Unit 4- Creating a record 3 Nov 2009

The atmosphere of the Batman film is dark and mysterious. The character of Batman is also serious, dark and threatening. The record I have created is a music underscore for the opening credits of Batman the Movie. 


Firstly, I listen to different musical instruments to see how they sound and then I chose the ones I liked. I started with one sound of a string violin because it was slow and with a piano at first but I rejected this because I didn't like the sound. Then I introduced another 6 sounds: Electric Grind bass, Bluesy acoustic guitar, Warped bass Low rent, 2 String ensembles, Warped drum Trance kit and String Violin. As the Batman credit came on I repeated the Grind bass and Bluesy acoustic. I dropped all those sounds and continued with two sounds of Low rent and String ensemble. 


In my opening credit I have used String Violin to make it a slow and calm sound and I used notes 1 to 21, 25 to 44 and 48 to 67. For my second instrument I used notes 6 to 18, for the third I used notes 7 to 19, for the fourth I used notes 8 to 20,  for fifth and six I used notes 10 to 73 and 74 and for the last instrument I used notes 13 to 21.


For my Batman theme the music is soft, dark and scary. At the end as the 'Gotham City' scene begins the opening gets louder and louder with lots of middle beats from notes 25 to nearly 73. The ending has harder beats to make it  dark and scary so it can resemble the Batman theme. The melody is repeated so that it has background theme to make it good . Finally the finishing note is 74 is made softer and softer. 


I found using Logic 8 very hard at first and didn't understand what I had to do because I had never learned music before. Then I was taught how to create music by using Logic 8 and later on I found it easier and interesting to put my own ideas to music. After the  opening theme music I made it too loud because I had used too many instruments. If I had to improve on my Batman theme I would change the louder beats to make it sound better and slower. The starting melody was scary and dark but it has different tracks which make it complicated to compare it with original Batman theme music.

Front and back cd cover

Front CD cover

The title of the CD cover is 'Let's go Party' and the images I have chosen to go on it are associated with young teenage girls and parties. I took these picture from internet then I used magic wand and rubber to make background disappear from the chosen things. I have chosen things like glasses, shoes, make-up, jewellery and a hand bag because young girls like to dress up like that when they are going to a party. There is also a glass of drink and a radio because these are things teenagers do when they go to the party. The main colours I used are black, pink and white. This is because pink is associated with girls, black to represent night time and white to show contrast. The words 'Let's go Party' are written on a front cover in red to make it stand out. I took the background from internet then I made a big and small circle with a rubber in there then I coloured the background.

Back CD cover

For my back cover I drew pink purple bubbles to make flashy and funky background. I used music notes to look more of disco concept. The roses and bracelet are normally what girls wants and to show that girls loves cute stuffs. I filled song tracks with numbers with colors. The font I used in my tracks are stylish and bold to make it attractive and party concept. Normally the songs are disco style, it has rock, Hip-Hop and R'N'B genres to make it more funky and catchy songs.


I would say the teenagers and young girls to be the target audience. I used the name 'Falak Maqbool' for my own CD cover.


Promoting my first CD cover I would expect more people to recognize me and buy my CD so that I would be able to gain more fans and always entertain them in a good way.


For making my CD cover first I used A3 paper and drew in a roughly way so that I could see whether what kind of ideas I could get more. Later I used 'Fireworks' from computer to make it more attractive. I used various tools like pencil, colours, fonts magic wand and rubber to make exact CD cover I made in A3 paper. But some of the sketches didn't work out. So, I used pencil and colour to make it more of a disco comcept. Finally I finished my CD cover and filled it with funky colours. Now I just need to notice my target audience whether they find it attractive and funky or not.

Today I continued with my batman theme music and I tried to finish batman music. I watched batman video clip and tried to matched with batman theme music and make

NCFE-Sequencing 5/10/2009

Today I am continued with my work a creating a tune to the Sequence on the batman music. I have done the tune of batman theme music. I need to create a moledy tune  then I add 5 to 8 notes to make it finishing music.

Batman theme 12/10/2009

Today I again looked at the batman vedio clip then I listened to the batman theme music. I compared them together then I tried to add some tunes on bat man theme music to make it better.

Diploma & Media Theory

How music played?

Dynamics and Accents 

Dynamics

All sounds including musical sounds can be barely audible or so aloud that it can damage your ears. Musicians often refer to dynamics. Dynamics does not just refer to how loud the sound is but how is an orchestra sound is relative. For example an orchestra will sound much louder than a single violin.
Traditionally dynamic markings are based on Italian words for example: 'Forte' means loud 'Piano' means soft.

Dynamic signs

Sign	In Italian	Definition
pp	pianissimo	very soft
p	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

A composes uses accents to show when he wants a particular note to be louder. There are different ways of writing accents and depending on the instrument being played the sound will change. Some accents may be played by making the note larger or shorter.

Common Accents

Music theory 2

Music Theory

Music theory analyzes the parameters or elements of music rhythm, harmony (harmonic function), melody, structure, form and texture.

Rhythm

Rhythms in music are base on fractions and all rhythmic terminology is based on a bar containing 4 beats.

The Beat

Music based in time and it has a steady, recurring pulse called the beat. the elements of time in a piece of music revolves around the beat.

Bars

beats are grouped into BARS or MEASURES as they are called. in many songs four beats to make up one bar. the steady pulse would be counted 1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,1,2,.... and so on and beat one always marks the beginning of the bar. in other songs 3 beats will make up one bar.

Rhythmically, notes tells two things: when to play it and how long to hold it. How long a notes lasts is called its NOTE VALUE. we also need to notate how long to be silent or not play any thing and for this we use rests. A rest tells when and for how long not to play anything and every note value has a corresponding REST VALUE.

Music theory

Treble and Bass Clefs

Each of these clefs has a different name based on the tessitura for which it is best suited.

Octave clefs

Scale Tone Triads

Batman Movie 8/10/2009

Today I worked on my batman theme music. I watched the batman movie clip then I tried to match my theme music with the video clip by changing the notes. Then I tried to introduce new sounds when the word batman was on the screen.

How to make a cd cover by listening to music

The university student describes how they made a cd cover as part of their project. They had to listen to music and draw abstract responses to the music. From this they had to create three cd covers. The project was divided into two parts.


Stage 1 


In the first part they listen to music and and they had to take an A4 page and draw a simple visual language of what they heard. They could only do this by using simple elements of line, shape and colour. It had to be a non representational, abstract design and they could only use the 6 spectrum colours ( red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple ).

Below you can see the 4 visual responses after listening to the music.

• The first was a slow, smooth, soft and calm watery type song.
• The second song was a upbeat funky song.
• The third was a hard rough death metal rock song. 
• Fourth was an electronic digital sounding song.

Stage 2


Then they had to discuss their results with their peers and brainstormed different ideals about what design they are going to choose and finally they chose to do a 3D design.

They decided to use one word to describe the type of music that the band played. They then used that word as the main piece on the front cover. They chose the word smooth for the calm music and the word rough for the heavy metal music and the word Digital for the electric music. They used the 3D programme Xara3D, photoshop and illustrator to create the CD cover.

In the final design below they decided to use the colours blue and green for the Smooth design, in the Rough design they have used the colour red and in the Digital they have used a bright coloured design.

Front Cover

CD

Back Cover

Inside Cover

Front Cover

Front Cover

I think it is interesting to compare the visual design to the final designs.

Website: http://justcreativedesign.com/2008/05/10/how-to-design-a-cd-cover-by-listening-to-music/

Process of how cd covers are made

I found out from this website one process of cd cover design. the first thing to do is to scan the original pictures or images and prepare them to printing. If they are supplied with hard copies or digital copies they will check them.


Design


The designer will go through all the work and then get started on the design. The designer will create a whole package of design to make it better so it looks professionally designed.
They send hard copy proofs to customers to check it and make changes to make it a high standard of work.


Job goes to press


They take time to look over your work carefully and if you are satisfied with your work then they are start printing your work.

They finish the CD, DVD or CD - Rom package so everyone think it's look good and then you can be noticed by your target market and fans.

website: http://www.discmakers.com/design/