The day started with music. I promised to show how I made my Assassins Creed song, but because my power wasn't plugged in the program was so darn slow and made weird sounds.
Later on it did work when I plugged in my power. The supervisor now knew how I did it and liked what he saw. He was happy to see that I knew what I was doing. He also wanted to see some instruments separate like the drums.
He called me to the other studio and wanted to change some drums in a song from mike as he heard the drums I used were heavier.
I tried to remake it, but it was too complicated. The drums also didn't sound nice.
He started explaining he used Reason for it and after gave me the program! Yay! I got to learn a new program. It's an old version, but it does have a lot of opportunities: Namely new awesome samples and loops.
I learned the basics of the program: I understand the layout a little and I can add instruments by going to the create menu. The first few options are samples and the options below are effects.
When I press on the folder I can select samples I want to use corresponding with the library I use.
Loops could be imported by pressing add to track and the length will be determined by the sliders.
Other sounds had to be drawn on a piano roll. Thanks to Cubase I'm familair with this.
I know how to switch back and forth between piano roll now.
I'm really impressed with the instruments and it looks like an easy program to use (only don't like the lay-out)
I will be using this program more often especially if I need techno or hip hop music. I can even start making a song in Cubase, export it and add the loops to the song. It's so easy! Just have the right beats per minute and it fits.
Here is a short simple test song I made with this program. It was basically testing some samples.
https://app.box.com/s/nwuzkrohr5wb33dzh8rn
Afterwards I had to show the supervisor the script I wrote over the weekend. It could be about anything so I wrote one about Kingdom hearts 1.5
I had to read it out loud, but yeah my read was terrible as no one ever reads a commercial that way. I was hasty and it sounded like I wanted to get it over with. On top of that my commercial was 33 seconds in that speed so it was too long and it wasn't really understandable.
The supervisor wanted me to record the read and yeah when recording it I understood what he meant.
Attention to details, Christine. I should have known better.
He changed the script as I mentioned the characters names in the short synopsis: Sora, Riku and Kairi.
The supervisor said no one will care about these names as no one knows who they are! So he rewrote my line and made it shorter and just called them three friends. The intro was good, only the mainbody had to be shorter.
My extro was alright too, only I missed the release date. People will have to know if it's out now or not.
Because the commercial was shorter I could take my time with it, but still I rushed through it and made my read too bouncy. I had to slooooow down and take a pause after certain key lines. Why don't I do that xD
The supervisor remade the lay-out and orderered the lines the way we will have to say it.
Instead of my commercial:
One stormy night, a terrible darkness invades the Destiny islands and separates the friends Sora, Riku and Kairi. etc.
The line was rewrtiten like this and this is very important:
"On a stormy night....
3 friends are seperated into different worlds...
where the heartless rule."
You have to break up the lines to make it easier to read.
I read it again and slowed down. I also had to make my read more dramatic, but because I was so tired I couldn't get energy in it. He edited my commercial and also added music to it and said I had to change my way of speech sometimes.
Especially at the end I had to pick up the pace because the music was getting upbeat.
It's very important to know the flow of the script. When writing it you already have to know on what kind of music it will be so everything syncs well together.
A delivery in a commercial is the most important thing. If that fails, the whole commercial gets bland and you don't stand out. People won't listen to the message anymore. You need to know what kind of voice to use and understand the message and have the right delivery to embrace the message.
We listened to multiple commercials for the same company and there was one woman who stood out because of her read. It flowed naturally and sounded real. It kept you listening as well.
Compared to hers my read was weak, but it did help me understand how it all works. I know I have a lot to practice in commercials, but as well with characters. AS LONG AS I SLOW DOOOWN.. which I do in character lines, but not in commercials yet.
I did get feedback on what I did right: I give multiple takes with a different delivery (going up with my tone in one take and down in the other) That;s what I shouldn't loose he said as that is what producers want to see.
Because it was already 4:30 and I was exhausted I got brought home where I added some more instruments to the short sample song which is the one in this post.
Later on it did work when I plugged in my power. The supervisor now knew how I did it and liked what he saw. He was happy to see that I knew what I was doing. He also wanted to see some instruments separate like the drums.
He called me to the other studio and wanted to change some drums in a song from mike as he heard the drums I used were heavier.
I tried to remake it, but it was too complicated. The drums also didn't sound nice.
He started explaining he used Reason for it and after gave me the program! Yay! I got to learn a new program. It's an old version, but it does have a lot of opportunities: Namely new awesome samples and loops.
I learned the basics of the program: I understand the layout a little and I can add instruments by going to the create menu. The first few options are samples and the options below are effects.
When I press on the folder I can select samples I want to use corresponding with the library I use.
Loops could be imported by pressing add to track and the length will be determined by the sliders.
Other sounds had to be drawn on a piano roll. Thanks to Cubase I'm familair with this.
I know how to switch back and forth between piano roll now.
I'm really impressed with the instruments and it looks like an easy program to use (only don't like the lay-out)
I will be using this program more often especially if I need techno or hip hop music. I can even start making a song in Cubase, export it and add the loops to the song. It's so easy! Just have the right beats per minute and it fits.
Here is a short simple test song I made with this program. It was basically testing some samples.
https://app.box.com/s/nwuzkrohr5wb33dzh8rn
Afterwards I had to show the supervisor the script I wrote over the weekend. It could be about anything so I wrote one about Kingdom hearts 1.5
I had to read it out loud, but yeah my read was terrible as no one ever reads a commercial that way. I was hasty and it sounded like I wanted to get it over with. On top of that my commercial was 33 seconds in that speed so it was too long and it wasn't really understandable.
The supervisor wanted me to record the read and yeah when recording it I understood what he meant.
Attention to details, Christine. I should have known better.
He changed the script as I mentioned the characters names in the short synopsis: Sora, Riku and Kairi.
The supervisor said no one will care about these names as no one knows who they are! So he rewrote my line and made it shorter and just called them three friends. The intro was good, only the mainbody had to be shorter.
My extro was alright too, only I missed the release date. People will have to know if it's out now or not.
Because the commercial was shorter I could take my time with it, but still I rushed through it and made my read too bouncy. I had to slooooow down and take a pause after certain key lines. Why don't I do that xD
The supervisor remade the lay-out and orderered the lines the way we will have to say it.
Instead of my commercial:
One stormy night, a terrible darkness invades the Destiny islands and separates the friends Sora, Riku and Kairi. etc.
The line was rewrtiten like this and this is very important:
"On a stormy night....
3 friends are seperated into different worlds...
where the heartless rule."
You have to break up the lines to make it easier to read.
I read it again and slowed down. I also had to make my read more dramatic, but because I was so tired I couldn't get energy in it. He edited my commercial and also added music to it and said I had to change my way of speech sometimes.
Especially at the end I had to pick up the pace because the music was getting upbeat.
It's very important to know the flow of the script. When writing it you already have to know on what kind of music it will be so everything syncs well together.
A delivery in a commercial is the most important thing. If that fails, the whole commercial gets bland and you don't stand out. People won't listen to the message anymore. You need to know what kind of voice to use and understand the message and have the right delivery to embrace the message.
We listened to multiple commercials for the same company and there was one woman who stood out because of her read. It flowed naturally and sounded real. It kept you listening as well.
Compared to hers my read was weak, but it did help me understand how it all works. I know I have a lot to practice in commercials, but as well with characters. AS LONG AS I SLOW DOOOWN.. which I do in character lines, but not in commercials yet.
I did get feedback on what I did right: I give multiple takes with a different delivery (going up with my tone in one take and down in the other) That;s what I shouldn't loose he said as that is what producers want to see.
Because it was already 4:30 and I was exhausted I got brought home where I added some more instruments to the short sample song which is the one in this post.
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