Final Project Production Plan
The final project will take us the last several weeks of the semester to complete. Each week project groups will make progress towards the final. Please fill out a google form with the key information about your project plan. Use the form linked here.
Project: Fibonacci refined
Building on your experience with the Fibonacci Music Lab craft a finished piece using the fibonacci series to inform your musical choices. Draw out an outline or rough score based on Fibonacci numbers and the Golden Ratio. Use fibonacci values to make bold musical decisions. Also any detail that you might take too much time […]
Fibonacci Music
Create a piece of music where every element relates back to the fibonacci series or the golden ratio. The piece can be 55 seconds or 89 seconds long, 55 bars or 89 bars long, 3 minutes or 5 minutes long. Scales can be derived from fibonacci ratios. Changes will fall on fibonacci bars. One catch: […]
Project: 3 style Journey (Sonic Triptych)
Create an epic narrative with music/sound. The journey will start in one style/genre/etc move to a second and seamlessly evolve to a third. Create the magic. Post online Submit the finished work via this link.
Music Edit for Commercial
For this assignment you will be selecting and/or editing music to match a 30-second TV commercial. Your goal is to use music to best sell the product and emotionally reinforce the imagery. Steps: 1. Find and download a commercial online (keep the sound muted to not bias yourself). 2. Import the commercial into your DAW, […]
Matching Emotion
For this assignment you will be selecting and/or editing music to match a 30-second TV commercial. Your goal is to use music to best sell the product and emotionally reinforce the imagery. Steps: 1. Find and download a commercial online (keep the sound muted to not bias yourself). 2. Import the commercial into your DAW, […]
Sound Design changing
Here is an article discussion how sound designer creating sound effects libraries are influencing how the post production business is operating. http://www.forbes.com/sites/nickmessitte/2015/09/30/the-changing-times-of-hollywood-sound-design-part-1/?ss=lists
Breaking the Mold (project 2).
Building on the ideas of getting out of your musical rut, produce a musical piece (2-4 minutes) where you push your own musical boundaries. Note what you work with most often, or most regularly, avoid repeating the use of those tools or the musical patterns/practices. For most of you, beats and loops must be avoided. […]
Music and Media 1
For this assignment you will be selecting a clip and writing a brief report. Find a scene from a movie where music profoundly changes your emotional experience. Prove this to yourself by playing some other music while watching the same scene. Re-review this scene without looking at the screen, just listen. Write about the music you […]
Slow-motion effects
For this Lab we will experiment with slow motion effects. The artistic goal is to be able to create a moment where time slows down. The technical goal is to build your sound design vocabulary and tool kit. Quickly find or film a moment of slow motion in an action sequence. Explore these effect processes […]
Breaking the mold
For this Lab project you will be constrained in the sense that you MUST break old habits. No using presets, Loops, pre-existing samples. In fact, we will extend this a little further. No using beats. Create a work of sound/music art using textures and tones but not loops or beats. You may use any song […]
