MANAGE

Section One: Title, objective, responsibilities

Title or working title of project (in the form of a question) I have been commissioned to compose a two minute song for the end credits of a new film being released next March. The film genre is crime so the song i compose cannot be "soppy" or slow but a fast up beat song which will fit well with the genre and be a good ending to the film. Project objectives (eg, what is the question you want to answer? What do you want to learn how to do?  What do you want to find out?):  My project objectives are to be able to compose the song and it be successful and go well with the genre of the film. I want to be able to develop my skills in research and find a lot of information so I have enough research to be able to make the song suit the film perfectly. To improve my skills as a song writer and make my name well known. If it is a group project, what will your responsibilities be? N/A
Section Two: Reasons for choosing this project
Reasons for choosing the project (eg, links to other subjects you are studying, personal interest, future plans, knowledge/skills you want to improve, why the topic is important): The reason for choosing my project is I have an interest in composing my own music and the project is interesting and fun. It will involve a lot of research but I enjoy that as it means I can make the best possible music compared to others music used for the end credits of a film.
Section Three: Activities and timescales
Activities to be carried out during the project (eg, research, analysis, writing, preparing for the presentation, etc):  Activities to carry out is research on other films in the same genre as the film mine is in too, so I can see what kind of music is normally used. I’ll have to actually compose a piece of music. Prepare and present my research, my finished item and be able to talk about what I did and why.	How long this will take: Till Easter Half Term
Section Four: Resources
What resources will you need for your research, write up and presentation (eg, libraries, books, journals, equipment): Resources I will need are a computer to actually write up my progress and research on. I will need to talk to people to see what kind of music they like hearing at the end of them film. I will need equipment or a device to create or record a piece of music. What your areas of research will cover? I Will have to research in detail famous artists who created music for films and research what they take in to consideration. My research will also cover looking at different types of music and working out well what pitch and tones, tempo and so on go well with the genre crime.

Time Scale
It will take me atleast 8 weeks to conduct research, the research including what genre i should choose, what kind of music is in the genre. 8 weeks may seem quite alot for research but to break it down, the first two weeks will be watching  films within the genre i choose, then 3 weeks on analysing music used in the genre then the last week 3 weeks would be on deciding what kind of sound i want the final product too sound like.

i will now for the next 10 weeks compose the music. This broke down again, the first 3 weeks would be experimenting with different softwares to see what i can use and what i can very well. Once decided the remaining weeks would be stringing together different sounds to see what sounds good together and created a folder where all the sounds i want to use will be saved.

3 weeks i would take on making the song, trial and erroring different 2 minutes songs i make to see what i prefer, also i would go back and make sure the songs i make go with the genre.

4 weeks finishing off the song making sure it sounds good, also i would show it to people and ask them what they think of the product and if they can think of any way it could be improved.

1 week to improve the product if there are any comments.

1 week to create a a presentation and make sure all the work it together to show how i made the product and present it to the class.

Activity Log

November
During the first month of production i have focused on research of my product developing the idea. My idea being making song for the end credits of a crime film.

Research i have done so far done is looking in to different crime films on idmb and watching them to see what music they use and what effect it gives.

December
This month i carried on research i analysed the films and what kind of music is in the films and what effect they give and started to look on itunes on soundtracks for the films and analysed in depth the different sounds created and why they are effective and what the contribrute to the song.

January
I actually have started to make my song now, i tried using cubase but it was too time consuming so i decided to use a different software instead. Im experimenting with different sounds that could be in my song and if it it fits the genre of crime.

Ferbruary
I have nearly finished the end of my song, and are just editing a few things within the song, the song was origianlly 4 minutes but i decided to cut it down to just 2 minutes as it may get a bit boring to people that are listening as the song is a bit repetitive.

March
Everything came together the song it completed and ready to show i just need to finish off my blog and create a powerpoint this will be down by the end of the week.