DAILY EVALUATION
Monday – On Monday I began the mix. I placed the instruments in the right category and colour coded them and in the afternoon I started with EQing the instruments and reverb to those who need them and then when I finished mixing Lewis mastered the track.
Wednesday – After finishing the track I wanted to have a session with Paul but he wasn’t available so I caught up with some digital space work by explaining screenshots.
Thursday – In the afternoon Paul was free from 1:30 – 3:00 then we have him in the lesson till 4:30. In that four hour slot with Paul, we finished the photoshop image and went to after effects to create the animation to go with the music after the lesson I left with a finished animation ready for the mock and the showcase next week.
EVALUATION
Strengths:
. I managed to not waste time in the mixing and mastering proses it was all done in a day this was a massive weight off my shoulders.
. I had caught up to my digital space work it isn’t finished but I brought it up to a level I am happy with.
Weaknesses:
.I had hoped to start the artwork stage not so close to the deadline.
My first song was quickly mixed I added some reverb with some other textures and in the master, Lewis just added a limiter and raised the whole volume of the track. After shadowing Lewis I think I grasp on how to master.
I left some digital space work this week and focused on just artwork with Paul which we managed to pull of in under 4 hours ready for the showcase in the next week
JOURNAL
Mondays session was new I had brought my plan up from two to one and I am final at the last stretch of my song if I didn’t change I think I still would be working on one of my songs if not both so I am grateful of my professional judgement.
Mixing was quite easier from last year maybe it was because I have done this before or maybe it was because I didn’t record any vocals. Its satisfying when I set all the levels and made sure they didn’t clip and adding reverb while also EQing the track was good I am proud of what I made.
After the mixing process, it was time to go and add the finishing touches in the mastering process. This was relatively easy Lewis did all the work and all he did was add a limiter to the whole track and raise the volume and it was ready.
Now on Wednesday, I had finished my track that Monday so Wednesday was just adding some pages on digital space ready for when I finish the artwork and had the track matched with that. I had tried to have a session with Paul early but he was busy with a photographer.
Thursdays session rolled around and in that afternoon I was trying to find Paul as he was trying to find him as the day before he mentioned he was free so we got together in C13 and started the animation. We had recently worked on a few little things beforehand but either he was to busy or I was somewhere else so we had to start the animation then. But by 16:00 we had already finished and was just adding the music to the animation ready for the showcase next week.