Evaluation of the southbank guide

In order to work out a Southbank guide we decided to visit Southbank as a class, so we could know what attracts young people. We went all around the place asking information about the interests of the young people, taking photographs and collecting leaflets. The Southbank guide is all about events for people aged 16-19 years old, and as I am 16 I chose things that would interest me.

I decided my guide would be about skateboarding, graffiti, 4-D cinema, London Aquarium, art and the London Eye because I think they're the things young people are interested in and when we went to Southbank I saw that these things were more appreciated by young people. The first things I started working on were the images to put in, the text, the writing style and the colours.

After deciding the topics of the leaflet I looked at different layouts and thought about which would be better for my guide. First of all I experimented with "Illustrator", but after having some problems trying to modify the pictures I decided to use "Fireworks"because I was more familiar with it and I knew how to do whatever I needed to do. Fireworks was good, but it had to be printed out separately, which added to my work, but I can still say that it helped me a lot and it made my work easier.

The text is simple and straight forward: it gets to the main point without too many words.

The layout is simple and it has examples of the sponsored events.

According to the poll I did about my Southbank guide and to what people say, the guide is good.

Having a look at my guide I think I can say that all the information required is present and that the text goes straight to the point, but if I was given the opportunity to improve it I would change some things, for example, some colours of the text to make it easier and clearer to read.

southbank guide

16th December 2009 performance diary

Today we tried to do the best for the radio play to seem more real, so after Mr Smith gave us some hints we tried to say our parts without reading.

Tomorrow we'll try to do everything better

26/11/2009

Sound effects happen in two different ways.

1. Live sound

2. Pre recorded sound

Make a list of all the sound effects your plan needs. Include what materials/props are required, plus when and where any recording is to be done.

SCENE + music effects

(Initial music from Patrick's logic pro)

The name of the story is The stranger

PRODUCER: Emmanuela

DIRECTOR: Emmanuela

MUSIC AND SOUND EFFECTS: Patrick

NARRATOR: Susan

LAUREN: Falak

LAUREN'S FRIEND: Emmanuela

This is the story of a teenage girl whose life was going smoothly.

Her name was Lauren and she was always on the computer...... In the daytime, after school, she was in an internet cafe' and in the evening she was at home. If she had homework to do or something to study, she used to do everything at school or late in the night.

One day she was in the internet cafe' ( sound effect of a crowded place and someone typing something at the computer)(the noise of a crowd and of a door that opens and closes frequently goes throughout the story) when she signed up on a website that changed her life. That website was "FACEBOOK". While Lauren was using facebook one of her friends entered the cafe to greet her.(sound effect of a door that opens)(recorded sound effect of someone walking into a cafe)

"hi darling are you Ok?"

"yeah and you?"

"I'm good"

"what are you doing?"

" I'm using Facebook........I just signed in......I think you too have to join it"

"yeah maybe...but not today...you know some people, and I repeat,some people spend some hours for studying and now I have to go home"

"Ok sweetie bye" "go and study!"

"Bye" (sound effect of someone walking out of the cafe and of a door that opens and closes)

Everyday she was having many friends on Facebook.

One day she received a friend request from someone who claimed to be her friend.

She accepted the request.

He wrote her sweet things and she liked it.

" Ooh this guy is so sweet! No one has ever been so nice to me !"

She believed all his words. (there is a pause of 5 seconds: the sound of the crowd and of the door stops)

One day he decided to give her a date........in his house.

Some days later Lauren's friend called her on her mobile: "hey...how are you?"

"fine and you?"

"so so....how I feel depends from what you'll soon tell me!"

"What's the matter?"

"you know the guy you told me about the other day?"

"yes ...and then?"

"someone told me...,correct me if I'm wrong, that he gave you a date at his house and you accepted...is it true?"

"who told you that?"

"it doesn't matter...I just want to know if it's true"

(no sound during these last beats)

"so?"

"yes,....it's true"

"are you mad? you don't even know him!"

"well I don't think it's your business, after all I am the one who has a date!

"don't go, you don't really know him.....what if something happens to you??... don't go...". She continued telling her this, Lauren always replied saying " don't worry... nothing will happen to me!", and at the end her friend gave in.

Lauren liked him and trusted him so much that she was determined to go.

(recorded sound effect of an outdoor ambient with cars going on the road and some other noise)The day of the date she left home in time.(the sound of someone walking in a street) (sound of someone knocking at a door and after the noise of the door that squeaks ) (a door opens)She entered in his house and it was in darkness...........( recorded sound effect of someone walking in a room with fear)(the door shuts)and never came out .

(ending music from Patrick's logic pro)

class work- radio performance 19-11-09

Today is the first time all the group components are present.

After dividing each part I started adding some dialogues because Mr Smith told us it would have been better and we changed the venue from a room to an internet cafe.

Next time we are going to see if we need to modify the dialogues then we'll start putting all together.

Script Music Effect 17-11-09

Today, after making some changes to the script we started to think to the music effect individually.

The scene will have a slow and repetitive melody, that will go from the beginning ,and then stop in the middle of the story, just when the tension starts

Character description

PRODUCER: Emmanuela

DIRECTOR: Emmanuela

MUSIC AND SOUND EFFECTS: Patrick

NARRATOR: Susan

LAUREN: Falak

LAUREN'S FRIEND: Emmanuela

New unit: SCENE 10-11-09

Today I had to look in my local newspaper website to find out how for the last week how I would access some activities in my area, but I didn't found anything so I changed the area to Sidcup.

I looked on the News shopper and found that there is a Symphony orchestra concert,

The script

THE STRANGER

This is the story of a teenage girl whose life was going smoothly.

Her name was Lauren and she was always on the computer...... in the daytime, after school, she was in an internet cafe' and in the evening she was at home. If she had homework from school or something to study, she was used to do everything at school or late in the night.

One day she was in the internet cafe' when she signed up on a website that changed her life. That website was "FACEBOOK". While Lauren was using facebook one of her friends entered in the cafe to greet her.

"hi darling are you Ok?"

"yeah"

"what are you doing?"

"ooh I'm using Facebook........I just signed in......I think you too have to join it"

"yeah maybe...but not today...you know some people, and I repeat,some people spend some hours for studying."

"ok sweetie bye" "go and study!"

After a while she started having many friends on it.

That day she received a friend request from someone who claimed to be her friend.

She accepted the request.

He wrote her sweet things and she liked it.

" Ooh this guy is so sweet! No one have ever been so nice with me !"

She believed all his words.

One day he decided to meet her........in his house.

When her friend heard it she continued telling Lauren: "don't go, you don't really know who he is .....don't go...". Every time her friend said like this Lauren always replied saying " don't worry... ", and at the end her friend quitted.

But she liked him and trusted him so much that she decided to go.

That day she left home in time. She entered in his house........... and never came out.

members of the group for the performance work 10/11/09

Emmanuela

Susan

Falak

Patrick

PERFORMANCE

1. Examples

-Music competitions: school and college talent show competitions

-Music competitions: Artemis orchestra contest

-Ballet: New York International Ballet competition

-Concerts: Kanye West performing in December 2008

-Busking: Buskers perform in San Francisco

-Musical theatre: Hairspray the musical

-Musical theatre: The Phantom Of The Opera

-Magic illusions

-Circus arts: Piccardily Circus

-Dance: America’s best Dance Crew

-Ice skating: Torino Figure Ice Skating

-Dance- Olympic Peninsula Dance at American Legion Hall in Port Townsend

2. Organization

Talent show

• Make sure: you have willing performers, you have said what age can participate, and that you can have a venue and a date for the auditions and the main talent show
• Keep a list of the stage
• Audience: publicize the event-make posters and stick them everywhere.
• Be sure of the time you have for the talent show and see how many performers you can have. Never forget that when you are calculating the time you’ll use you have to count some minutes to leave between each performer.
• Create your talent show schedule in which you list all the performances and their time.
• If the talent show is open to the community, then promote it thru the local newspaper.
• Once you’ve finished the talent show schedule print out many copies of it to display it near the stage as a reference for all performers and stage crew
• Keep at least one copy for yourself and make every last minute changes.

Run a dress rehearsal with all the performers and the stage, making sure that everyone knows what to do , when to do it and how.

Concert

• Get the dates and time and start thinking to the set up
• Get the instruments and the staff to set up
• Think to the needs of the artist
• Estimate the audience
• Parking arrangements at the venue
• Get a/some sponsor/s
• Design and print out posters and do some publicity thru television and internet
• Make a brochure
• Get a MC for the concert
• Stage decorations
• Make the food arrangements
• Book keeping for the concert
• Get or think to some gifts for the artist

3. The radio play

The early radio couldn’t transmit sound or speech and it was called wireless telegraph.

An official demonstration of wireless telegraph was made on August 18 1894. From 1893 up-ways many engineers, inventors developers and businessmen worked on different projects about radio.

The first radio program broadcast was on 1906.

A radio play is a type of audio storytelling broadcast in which there are dialogues, music and sound effect.

On Radio 4 there are always many types of play, everyday.

final aspect of my CD cover

cd cover spin

This is my cd spin.
It's got the same colors that are in the other parts of the cd cover.
The text on it is about the title of the cd cover.

The Evaluation- prior to half term 02-11-09

1. Describe the atmosphere /character of Batman. The record is a music underscore for the opening credits of Batman the Movie.
Batman is a dark and mysterious character. He shows himself in the daytime as a rich man called Bruce Wayne, but in the nighttime his identity changes from the normal and boring Bruce Wayne to active and mysterious Batman.

People who know Bruce are sure of his personality, but even Bruce's best friend is at the dark of who Batman really is. Batman is seen by some people as the hero of Gotham City and from others as a threat.

2. What sounds/musical ideas have you chosen to begin this work ?

What did you reject ?

I chose to begin with a low discontinuos sound . This sound gives to all the melody a mysterious characteristic. When I was thinking to the instruments and the notes to use I rejected sounds that would have make everything allegro and instruments like drums that would have given it too much beat.

3. Describe the choices you made to develop your music as the credits unfold. (Sounds, Number of tracks and so on) Include rejections.

After the little entrance I added a melody, which I repeated and changed. Suddenly, I stopped the low base and the melody and I added the motife, that had two trumpet tonalities. The motife is different from the first melody, so I think it gives everything a "different life".

4.How did you create yor batman theme? Whate notes, structure.

The background music is build on one note. With a distance of four seconds from the beginning of the track anew instrument is added and after 4 seconds again an other sound is added. The sounds and instruments are therefore added one on top of the other and so at the end I have seven different tracks. Sometimes if I want to add tracks I just ad a new instrument, but other times I higher or lower the notes.

5. What happened et the end as the Gotham City scene begins. (how does this music finish)

At the end, when the music is about to finish the music background that began the music comes again for concluding it.

6. In the light of what you have learnt using Logic 8 and lessons in this term - What would you done / developed differently to make your work more representative.

I think I would have added an other low sound to the track, like the sound of the "Liverpool Bass"

MY CD COVER + EVALUATION

The first thing we learned was the meaning of artefact.

An artefact is therefore an object or item created either by hand or by using machinery. From there we started searching for examples of artefacts and to analyse them. The next thing we did was to get examples of CD covers and to analyse them. After analyzing them we started projecting our CD covers and developing the one we thought was the best. I decided to develop two of my CD covers, but when we started drawing it for the third time I decided to continue only with one.

ANALYSING MY CD COVER

This is my front cover. The colors are:

• pink
• black
• white
• gold

When pink and black are put together in something about music it usually signifies the pop-punk style. I chose to put a golden background to say that it's the "best" ever and this is the first idea I had when I was planning the structure of the cd cover.
This cd is meant to be sold in the Christmas season.

The question I first asked myself was:

• What if Avril Lavign decides to produce a cd for Christmas?
• How is it going to look?

I think these were the most important questions I asked myself for having this result.

When the cd cover was ended I saw myself as the target audience because every designer has to think that he's designing for others, so he has to think of something others will like. I think others may like to buy it.

I think I am happy of the cd cover I made to work out everything wasn’t simple, but it was OK.

my cd cover/back

This is the back of my cd cover.

The background is different from the one I set as the front cover, but the main colours are the same.

There are seven pictures on it plus the titles of the songs in the cd. I took the names of the songs from the album "Best damn thing" from the same singer.

As the back cover is different from the front cover I think it makes the cd cover more interesting.

PLANNING FOR PHOTOGRAPHY

OCR LEVEL 2 FOR iMEDIA USERS
UNIT 1 DIGITAL GRAPHICS
PLANNING AND REVIEW FORM
Candidate Name:	Emejuru Emmanuela Adaku
Date:	2-10-09
Deadline for the work to be completed

PLANNING Title of Project

Outline of initial ideas

(I need a storyboard, log or diary plan with an explanation)

What photographs will be produced and how will they be edited?

(Identify appropriate hardware and software as well as including images to show your ideas)

Picture/image	Reason for taking it	How will I get it	How will I edit it
4 sculptures	because sculptures are examples of art	I'll borough one of the school cameras and I'll take some pictures at the statues at Trafalgar Square and other places around it.	I may put the picture of a square without statues as the background and then add pictures of the Nelsons coiumn, of the lion at Trafalgar Square then, Victoria Memorial and of Wiston Churchill on it. The photos will be put in first line, in second line or in third line.
4 simple drawings	'cause drawings are other forms of art	I'm going to scan some drawings and take pictures of other drawings, maybe from the art class of the college	I'll attach the pictures on a blank background.
4 photographs of different flowers	'cause photography is an other type of art	I'm going to take pictures of different flowers	I'm going to take pictures of four different flowers one after the other,then I'll take a picture of a lawn and I'll put it as a background.

TYPES OF RECORD 15-10-09

1. a book: it may be used to record someone's life (biography);
2. a cd: it may be used to record a sound, a music;
3. a photography:it may be used to record an image of a person, an ambient, a thing, an animal...;
4. a video: it' s used to capture a moment, an event, something rare or important;
5. a web-cam: it may be used to record many things;
6. an audiobook: it's used to reproduce stories, sounds... for blinds, dyslexics or small children;
7. a magazine: used to record an information, a scoop, images;
8. a newspaper: it's used to record different types of information, from politics to sports and the number of informations or the type of information changes vary with the name of the newspaper.

RECORD-DEFINITION 8-10-09

To record is to capture a sound/video and to reproduce it in a different way. It's used to memorize a song, a film, a TV program... In conclusion we can say that to record is to make devices.

HELP FROM ANDREW KELSALL

I visited Mr Andrew Kelsall's browse to see what advice he gave for the designing and creating of a cd cover.
He divided the work in to three different stages: setup, design and print.

• The setup helps us make sure everything is how it has to be (dimension, programation of the materials that are needed...).
• The design is the phase in which the producer starts thinking about what the client wants, and how to do it before he starts the project. He might want to make some changes to his first idea.
• The last stage is all about how to ultimize the work and how to print the finished work. One of the things he said is that when the cd has some text around the document boundary, before printing it out the best thing that he should do is to zoom in on it in order to see all the information and then modify it if necessary.

I think this information will be useful to me.

PHOTOGR

CD COVERS PROJECT

When I had to think about the initial ideas for the c.d. covers my first idea was to design a cd cover for a rock group, so from this idea I started developing the cd cover. The first result was a cd cover entirely drawn. In the next lesson Mandy told us that we all had to do modifications on our initial ideas. I thought of putting some photos that I later got from the net. After changing some of the colouring the cd cover looked better. Before doing the final acts I tried to change the typography but at the end I recognized that the first was better than others.

The second cd cover was simple and at the same time complicated because I found it difficult to draw the singer. So when I was thinking of the changes to do to the cd cover to make it better my first idea was to get the picture of the singer from google. Then I was undecided whether to draw the stars or to stamp them out of the computer, but at the end I decided to stamp out a good pink background and draw the stars and hearts on it. At the end, after trying to change the style and colour I decided to change only the colour of the pen I used for writing the title.

After all the changes I did to both cd covers I think they're better, but I still don't know what name to give to the first group. However, I think it has to be a name that makes people think that they're a rock group.

BATMAN CORE DIARY 8-10-09

Today my aim was to modify the batman thing making it better. The first thing I did was thinking if there were instruments I would have used for changing the track. At the end I added timpani tremolo crescendo at the base and it sounded better but I still have to add some other things.

2nd example of cd cover with process-part th

HURSDAY, 1 OCTOBER 2009

DYNAMIC SIGNS IN MUSIC

The word Crescendo means you have to get gradually louder while the opposite word Decrescendo or Diminuendo means you have to get gradually softer.

The Crescendo and Diminuendo dynamics music signs are stated by two lines coming towards each other or against each other. The place where they meet is where the softest sound should be produced.

DYNAMICS AND ACCENTS IN MUSIC

In music, dynamics normally refers to the volume of a sound or note, but can also refer to every aspect of the execution of a given piece, either stylistic (staccato, legato etc.) or functional (velocity). The term is also applied to the written or printed musical notation used to indicate dynamics.

The two basic dynamic indications in music are:

• p or piano, meaning "soft."
• f or forte, meaning "loud" or "strong" also it can mean "deep".

More subtle degrees of loudness or softness are indicated by:

• mp, standing for mezzo-piano, meaning "moderately soft" and
• mf, standing for mezzo-forte, meaning "moderately loud".

Beyond f and p, there are also

• ff, standing for "fortissimo", and meaning "very loud",
• pp, standing for "pianissimo", and meaning "very soft",

In music, an accent is an emphasis placed on a particular note, either as a result of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark. Accents contribute to the articulation and prosody of a performance of a musical phrase. Compared to surrounding notes:

• A dynamic accent or stress accent is an emphasis using louder sound, typically most pronounced on the attack of the sound.
• A tonic accent is an emphasis on a note by virtue of being higher in pitch.
• An agogic accent is an emphasis by virtue of being longer induration.

Accents which do not correspond to the stressed beats of the prevailingmeter are said to be syncopated.

ACCENT MARKS

In music notation, an accent mark indicates a louder dynamic to apply to a single note, or an articulation mark. The most common is the horizontal accent, the fourth symbol in the diagram above; this is the symbol that most musicians mean when they say accent mark. The vertical accent, third in the diagram, may be stronger or weaker than the horizontal accent; composers have never been consistent in using these markings. The vertical accent has many informal names such as a "housetop". In most musical works this type of accent is meant to be played more forcefully and usually shorter.

The remaining marks typically shorten a note. Staccato, the first symbol shown above, indicates that the last part of a note should be silenced to create separation between it and the following note. The duration of a staccato note may be about half as long as the note value would indicate, although the tempo and performers' taste varies this quite a bit. Thestaccatissimo, shown second, is usually interpreted as shorter than the staccato, but composers up to the time of Mozart used these symbols interchangeably. The third one shown, the Teepee Accent, is played with the same dynamics as a regular accent mark but condensed into about half the original length of the note (depending on style, song, preference, etc.), essentially a combination of accent and staccato. The fourth mark shown, the Accent mark, indicates that the marked note should have an emphasized beginning and then taper off rather quickly. The tenuto mark, shown fifth above, indicates that a note is to be separated with a little space from surrounding notes. This separation may be enough to emphasize the note, or it may have to be played a little louder, at the discretion of the player. The tenuto mark also indicates that the note should be played for its full value - not cut off earlier. Sometimes these symbols are used in combination.

Even when these symbols are absent, experienced musicians will introduce the appropriate gesture according to the style of the music.

ARTICULATION IN MUSIC

In music, articulation refers to the direction or performance technique which affects the transition or continuity on single note or between multiple notes or sounds.

There are many different kinds of articulation, each having a different effect on how the note is played. Some articulation marks include the slur,phrase mark, staccato, staccatissimo, accent, sforzando, rinforzando, and legato. Each articulation is represented by a different symbol placed above or below the note (depending on its position on the staff).

Woodwind and brass instruments generally articulate by tonguing, the use of the tongue to break the airflow into the instrument. Stringed instruments use different bowing techniques to achieve different articulations.

When staccato marks are combined with a slur, the result is portato, also known as articulated legato. Tenuto markings under a slur are called (for bowed strings) hook bows. This name is also less commonly applied to staccato or martellato (martelé) markings.

METRONOME PAUSE/TEMPO

A metronome is any device that produces regular ticks (beats). More precisely it produces a regulated aural, visual or tactile pulse. It dates back to the early 19th century. A metronome is used by some performing musicians for practice in maintaining a consistent tempo; it givescomposers an approximate way of specifying the tempo[1]. From its inception, however, the metronome has been a highly controversial tool (see Criticism of metronome use), and there are musicians who reject its use altogether.

TUESDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER 2009

2nd example of cd cover with process-part th

After a bit more brainstorming I came to the concept of using one word to describe the type of music that the band played. I would then use that word as the main piece on the front cover. I chose the word Smooth for the calm music and the word Roughfor the heavy metal music and the word Digital for the electronic music.

I then went out and got myself a copy of Xara3D (USD$45) which I tell you is VERY easy to use for a 3D program. It took a total of 10 minutes to figure out without any tutorials, just playing with the buttons.

I then pumped out the 3D letters into Photoshop an

d then did about 80% of the designing in P

hotoshop and 20% in illustrator for the vectorised pieces. Below you can see the design process I used to create the first CD cover.

You will notice the visual consistency between the three CD covers as we were required to have this between both designs, there were meant to be all from the same publisher. We also had to have all legal requirements on the CD jackets.

The album title was given to us and for the smooth song it was called Mad World, the rock one was called Attitude and the electronic one was called Equinoxe. The first Smooth cover took a day to complete and the attitude one took about half as long as I was more familiar

with what to do and the digital one took about 3 hours.

Below are the final designs, try to compare them to my visual responses up above.

You will notice in the Smooth design, I have used the colours blue and green with an ocean type feel (check out the Jellyfish).

In the Rough design you will notice I have used angry red colours in a grungy chaotic mess that reflects my original musical response. The text was purposely made hard to read to reflect the chaotic nature of the music.

In the Digital one I have used an in-your-face, high energy, bright coloured design which reflects my original music response. You will notice the circles on the back cover, kind of popping as like in my original drawing.

Front Cover

2nd example of cd cover with process-part two

We then had to discuss our result with our peer... All 120 responses from 30 students were pinned to a board and compared. We then had to choose which of our drawings provided the most contrast and you can see number 1 and number 3 had the most contrast so I used these two (I later chose to do number 4 as well). We then had to use these drawings above to develop them into cd covers and the final designs had to strongly reflect the initials graphic responses.

After brainstorming many different ideas, I decided that whatever I was going to do, it was going to be in 3D probably due to the fact that I enjoy my Vodka Bottle project in Cinema 4D so much - that is the beauty of University, you get so much creative freedom!

I then came across this post called 50 Essential Photoshop Text Tutorials and I saw in there a tutorial link to design in 3D (Nik Ainley style). I knew that I wanted to do something like that and I got inspiration from his two pieces that are shown below.

2nd example of cd cover with process-part one

PART ONE

Below you can my four visual responses after listening to the music.

1. The first was a slow, smooth, soft, calm watery type song.

2. The second was a upbeat funky song.

3. The third was a hard rough death metal rock song.

4. The fourth was an electronic digital sounding song.

FRIDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2009

cd cover reserch

Kerry Plitzer was open to our ideas, giving us free reign to manipulate her photos as we saw fit. She wanted a design tat worked with her jazz-acoustic music style, and referenced a scrapbooking style she'd like to see incorporated.The designer went with bolder colours and shapes, playing off the title "you took me in" by nestling Lerry's photo inside the shapes.

TUESDAY, 22 SEPTEMBER 2009

2nd example of cd cover

1st example of cd cover