Learning Outcome 2

Here is a video of us practicing the peace song at my house:

 

Although you can't tell from these 2 practices of the peace song (Because Sophia didn't turn up to practices), It was my idea to do a call and response between vocals and Sophia's cornet. What I mean by this is that there is an 8 bar introduction where Sophia plays a melody line over the top of the reggae chord sequence which Teddy came up with, before we then enter the verse. The verse goes 4 bars of singing, followed by 4 bars of cornet solo, followed by another 4 bars singing, by another 4 bars of cornet solo. This is the call and response idea that I thought would work well in the song, and give Sophia a good part. This structure was my idea. I then thought we could go into a bridge of some sort. Ben came up with a chord pattern for this, which we decided worked better as a chorus, making the song go intro > verse > chorus. I also suggested that in the parts where Emma is singing in the verses, we should all play slightly less to give room to the vocals. To do this I only play hi-hat in the parts where Emma is singing in the verses.

Here is a video of us practicing the peace song in college:

In this video we have got our change into a different pattern after the second chorus sorted. This chord sequence was again Teddy's idea. I decided to give it a fast upbeat feel on the drums too to add excitement to the music. I then suggested that since it seemed really fun to play on drums that it could go a bit 'crazy' in a good way and have a guitar/drum solo climax towards the end. In this video we attempt this. Emma came up with the idea of dropping back out to just her at the end on the piano.

Here is a video of us practicing the conflict song in college:

 

In this video we were testing out playing the piece to a click. In other words, me and Emma would have a click in our headphones in order to sync perfectly with the video I was making at the time. This was my idea, as I thought it would be very effective to have camera changes and lyrics synced to what was happening on screen. We made a Cubase file and set a tempo we were happy with. I then recorded Emma playing the song to the click and used it as a guide while editing. This was our first try with the click to see if it would be successful.

Here are the finished videos I put together:

Conflict

 

Peace

We all helped to gather the videos used, Emma and I did most of the ideas as to the 'storyline' of the video as a whole, while Spencer helped direct the order of videos for the first half of the conflict video and suggested things such as putting an explosion video at the moment emma plays a loud chord on the piano.

The idea of the conflict video is to show how conflict is constant all the way from world war 1, ww2, vietman war and now modern day. It is meant to highlight the fact that we as humans never learn from our mistakes and that it is unnecessary. I also made sure to include a reference to Call Of Duty - a popular game based on war to highlight the fact that although it is fun to play a game, it really does happen, and thousands of people die. It goes in chronological order, ending with modern day. Due to the song we wrote ending with a version of The Last Post, I thought that it would be good to switch to a video Sophia posted of The Last Post. This also serves as a memory part of the 'storyline' - looking back and remembering all that just happened in the video.

The peace video is more of a general montage of 'Peaceful' and peace making things such as people on a huge water slide, people playing on a beach, a tribe meeting a white person for the first time, an elephant drawing itself and so on. It is a reflection of the good side of the world, showing the beauty of nature and human interaction at it's best.