Draft Video Story

For my draft video story, I made a compilation of videos I’ve taken myself at live concerts and music festivals I’ve been to. I have plenty of videos so choosing which ones I wanted to include were tough. After I selected them, I emailed them to myself so I could import them into Adobe Premiere. I put each clip into the visual section one after the other and added video transitions into each switch to a new video. Once I got enough footage to fulfill the time requirement, I started recording my voice on my phone. I recorded an intro, conclusion and a talk over each new artist/video clip.

Once I got my voice recordings, I put them over each clip and muted the video during the time span I was talking. The razor tool was crucial for this step. I used this tool to split the video clip into two sections. One section where I was talking over it and the other where I wasn’t talking. This allowed me to mute only the part of the video I was talking over. This created no conflict between the audio from my voice and the audio from the video.

For my final draft I hope to re-record some of my voice audio clips because they don’t sound very clear at times. I definitely will improve the quality of my voice in the final draft.

November 30, 2018 4

Raw Video Footage

Storyboard: My idea for my project will be a compilation of videos I’ve taken at concerts and festivals. I will create my own audio over some of the tracks describing who is performing and where I saw them live. My voice will then fade out as the only audio playing will be from the video clip. As each new video transitions into the next, I will talk over them.

November 27, 2018 0

Premiere Tutorials

November 15, 2018 0

Final Audio Story

For this project, I decided to create an interview with one of my best friends Carl. The interview consists of me asking Carl what music festivals he’s been too and which artists he’s most enjoyed seeing live. I didn’t choose Carl just because he is one of my best friends, I chose him because I knew he would be perfect for my topic. Carl loves music festival’s just as much as I do so I knew he would have a lot to talk about when I asked him questions. We also share very similar music tastes which is another reason why I chose to interview him.

Initially I had another interview clip of only me talking. However, I used only Carl’s interview clip because it fit better with what I was trying to do and my goal. I cut up the raw audio footage as well so there was less hesitation and less of “uh” and “um”. I also added new audio clips that were not in my raw footage. These clips included an introduction and a conclusion to make the entire clip flow better and more smoothly. The counting numbers tutorial definitely inspired me when making this because I used the cut tool to cut out lots of unneeded audio. I also moved around lots of audio clips and rearranged them so the audio would make more sense.

The significance of the introduction is the give the audience an idea of what they’re about to be hearing. The conclusion caps off the interview by thanking Carl. I recorded everything with the Voice Memos app on my phone and then emailed them to myself. Once I emailed them I would download them to the computer and import them to Audition from there. I found this way extremely easy, helpful and useful. Once I got an idea of how I wanted my interview to sound, it was super easy moving clips around and cutting up clips to get the sound that I wanted. All audio clips belong to me.

In my rough draft, I had a subtle background music playing. After seeing what my peers had to say and re-listening to my clip, I knew I needed to change and tweak it somehow. I started by playing with the volume and adding fades within the clip to not make the music as overpowering compared to the rest of my footage. However, I couldn’t find a volume I liked, so I decided to get rid of the clip altogether. I’m happy with my decision to do so because now, the audio focuses more on the interview and there are less distractions. I also edited the volume of my voice and Carl’s voice and certain parts of the interview. I used the yellow bar on each clip to adjust the volume so not one voice was too quite or too loud. Whenever Carl talked I raised his voice because his was slightly quieter than mine. There were sections where I felt my voice was too loud compared to Carl’s, thus I turned down my volume to balance it all out. Finally, I edited and chopped up the clips more to make it flow better and get rid of the awkward fill in words between what was actually trying to be said.

Overall, I’m extremely happy and pleased with the edits I made and believe my final audio story is an improvement from my draft.

November 2, 2018 0

Audio Story Draft

Initially I had another interview clip of only me talking. However, I used only Carl’s interview clip because it fit better with what I was trying to do and my goal. I cut up the raw audio footage as well so there was less hesitation and less of “uh” and “um”. I also added new audio clips that were not in my raw footage. These clips included an introduction and a conclusion to make the entire clip flow better and more smoothly. I also included subtle music in the background that I downloaded off the tutorials page we did last week. The counting numbers tutorial definitely inspired me when making this because I used the cut tool to cut out lots of unneeded audio. I also moved around lots of audio clips and rearranged them so the audio would make more sense.

October 24, 2018 4

Audio Story Raw Footage

Below are two audio clips of interviews. One is me interviewing my friend about this music festival experiences and the other is me talking about the time I went to Coachella.

October 23, 2018 0

Audition Tutorials

Soundcloud Profile: https://soundcloud.com/sky-weschler-165579544

October 18, 2018 0

Final Logo Design

For my logo, I decided I wanted to incorporate elements of music to fit with the theme of my blog. My design shows a fist clenching onto a microphone with musical notes floating and flowing above it. The word “LMC” is placed in the fist and the whole design has a gradient blue color scheme as well. I was initially inspired to do this design from one of our tutorials where we had to make a fist. That tutorial really helped me in creating this design. The overall design is meant to display an artist performing on stage and the music that they’re producing flowing out of them. Once I sketched out my design on paper, I copied it almost exactly onto Illustrator, but changed a few things. In my sketch I had “Live Music Central” fully displayed. On my final draft I decided to condense it to just “LMC”. I debated changing the location of “LMC” from my rough draft to my final, however, I ended up sticking to the same location. I made the mic look better as well compared to my initial sketch.

I used the line tool a lot to create the outline of my hand/fist. I also mixed in the arc tool. For the fingers I created rectangles and then went to effects to round the edges to make them look more like fingers. I used rectangles for the microphone handle as well and a circle for the actual mic part. I put a gradient fill in the mic to give it a silver/black look to let it stand out. In my rough draft, the mic had only the gradient effect on it. For my final, I decided I wanted to put smaller circles scattered around the mic to make it look more realistic like an actual mic. I think that helped it stand out more. I made sure to hold down alt when changing the lengths of my fingers to keep the change consistent on both ends. To get the wavy lines for the musical notes, I created a line and then transformed them slightly to have them squiggle. For the actual notes I used the circle tool then filled them in with black and put a line on them. I used the rotate tool heavily in my logo to align different aspects of my design. Finally, I made the background a gradient light blue color. Since my fist had no color fill in it, they turned light blue as well. I was considering changing the color from the background, but I liked how it looked so I kept it the same. The most challenging part of this process has to be the making of the hand not including the fingers. It was tough lining up all the edges and turns correctly and make it look smooth.

Looking at my peers comments and critiques on my rough draft really helped me in making this final design. My rough draft had a white background and the only colors it consisted of were black and white. My classmates had stated that music festivals are always filled with bright colors and I could represent that more with a bright, colorful background/color scheme. I played around with multiple colors and I ended up liking the light blue gradient. I believe this helps the whole design stand out more. Somebody also commented on the mic and how I could make it look better. I added small black filled circles to the mic to represent more of a realistic mic. Once I created one circle, I used the copy paste tool to create several more. I’m happy with how it turned out. Overall, I’m glad we had the peer comments because it helped my logo look better and more exciting.

October 12, 2018 0

Logo Draft

For my logo, I decided I wanted to incorporate elements of music to fit with the theme of my blog. My design shows a fist clenching onto a microphone with musical notes floating and flowing above it. I was initially inspired to do this design from one of our tutorials where we had to make a fist. That tutorial really helped me in creating this design. The overall design is meant to display an artist performing on stage and the music that they’re producing flowing out of them. Once I sketched out my design on paper, I copied it almost exactly onto Illustrator, but changed a few things. In my sketch I had “Live Music Central” fully displayed. On my Illustrator rough draft I decided to condense it to just “LMC”.

October 4, 2018 3