Week 17 - Tuesday: Day 80

The first thing that happened today was the supervisor checking the phone tracks I edited.
He only changed only a few pauses, so I apparentely did good xD
He did still have to work on the songs as I didn't do much with it, so he cut off pieces and pyt fade ins and outs on the songs He mixed and mastered the voice as something was still wrong and duplicated those for a fuller and better sound.

During the listen he did groan a little at some reads. As a producer directing the voice actress I had to do a slightly better job, though he thought I put in some good effort. Apparantely this voice actress was better in the hard read instead of the warm ones. As a producer I have to listen to the voice actor's strength and change the reads, but as it was her first time it's hard to direct someome also when your new yourself.

So excited. Will get violin lessons thursday! I'm so happy this is possible so I at least can see if this is something I really want to learn or not. I'm grateful for this opportunity.

After the music thing I had to open up Coreldraw and it was time to work on another magazine.
This time it's one for Mudbog Outlaw in Taber which I will sadly miss as I will be flying home that day.

I had to take the Motocross magazine and delete all pictures except for the borders as those would be important for the advertisements. I also had to make sure not to delete the page numbers (which I accidentally did anyways) But I now at least understand the paging order.

I received the poster for the event and had to take out the Car logo.
He asked if I could make the background transparent and so I did, but would have to switch to photoshop.
He was very impressed with how fast it went and also said he needed to learn this program xD
I took out some parts, but would have to go around the tires carefully as the lining didn't go till there, but the supervisor said it was fine this way.

With the logo we build a cover for the magazine! We had the logo and the picture and now we needed to add more which was my job.
He gave me a hint that the cover should contain the words: Magazine and the year.

I added the year, magazine and also included the date of the event and where.
I picked a font and that was that. When the supervisor checked it he said the words had to pop a little more.
It was already yellow on black, but he was right. It didn't even pop that much.

I had to duplicate the word, make the word thicker with the outlines and put it underneath the word that has to pop. Voila. I had to do that with all words, but that was not all.  On the bottom we added a slogan or some sort, but as that font had to match the title font some more we had three different fonts so all words had to be changed into that font.
The cover was almost done, only the graphic I had moved from the bottom underneath the logo slightly had to be changed.

At home I started working on composing! I recorded vocals for Nayru's song and also finally started the Van Halen song.  I'm planning on composing at least an hour every day otherwise I don't start. Once I start I enjoy it so much that I work hours on a song and dont stop till its finished or when it's too late.

Which happened again. I quit composing at 2:30 and made it quite far in the Van Halen song. Something I wouldn't expect. I was struggling with the drums and the guitar solo's, but briefly o.O
Because the song is already meant to be different I didn't have to match up all the sounds precisely.

The drums sound pretty cool actually. Glad I learned dealing with drums now!