Research Plan

Research Plan

What is your project?

My project is an E.P of three tracks which will individually based off of; Miles Davis for the first track, Nina Simone for the second and Herbie Hancock for the last. I will research these individual artist, the origins of jazz and how jazz has evolved.

What do you need to research and why? 

I will research Miles Davis, Nina Simone and Herbie Hancock, I will look into their chord progressions, bass lines and melodies and take influence from their songs and use it in my E.P. I will research the origins of Jazz so I know why it was so big with the previous generation, which artists made it the genre so big and how Jazz has evolved and changed to fit into the current generation. I will also look at how the artists had their songs mixed and how they structured their songs.

Where and How can you find this information?

I can find these resources, through articles both online and offline, books, interviews, album sheets, previous reviews on albums, biographies and research that has already been done.

Performers Essay

                        Performers Essay

Calvin Harris

Calvin Harris mainly plays and creates pop and disco types of music, he interacts with the crowd through using his microphone, waving gestures to them and even dancing. He plays live as well as creating music for the charts.  When he is performing live a lot of the time there is confetti falling from the sky and even light shows, and as a response has the audience jumping with excitement.

Harris uses; a MOTU 896 Digital Audio interface, an API 1608 console, a Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor, a pioneer CDJ-1000MK3, a pioneer CDJ-2000 and a Pioneer DJM-900 Nexus Mixer for producing music and for his DJ sets.

A lot of the time Calvin Harris just lets hit music play without mixing it that much as he produced the songs however he is known to use the faders on high pitch low pitch and middle pitch.
Ed Sheeran
Being an artist Ed just by performing he is interacting with the audience, through singing, clapping his hands etc, although he does perform quite a bit a lot of his songs are released online in places like Itunes, soundcloud, music stores where it is available as copies as Cd's or possibly records. 

Ed mainly plays pop music but has featured in others artists songs who specialise in different genres. He performs fairly basic, using simply a microphone and an acoustic guitar, yet he still  captivates the audience.

In my DJ sets i plan to be a lot more interactive in my performance, for example i would like to clap my hands to the beat and get the audience to join in, possibly have a microphone so i can speak to the audience and dance with the audience.

Sequencing Demo

Sequencing Demo

• One of my ideas is to carry on working with the audio tracks from last term in the remixing classes to make a new and improved version.
• Another one of my ideas is to create a new RnB track from scratch
• Furthermore I plan to create a hip hop track from scratch
• Lastly if i have enough time i plan to create two more tracks either from taking one of last terms tracks and improving that or creating it from scratch. 

Music&Film term 2 key words

Keywords

Digetic Sounds - Sound where the sounds exists from in the film, it doesn't have to be recorded at that time.

Non Digetic Sound - Sound that doesn't exist in the film

Wild track - recording of background ambience in a particular scene.

Composite tracks - Digetic, Non Digetic, Wild track and Foley sounds bounced into one track.

Foley Sounds - Enhancing the sound in a film

Dj Set Review and Plan

Dj Set Review and Plan

Review

In my Dj set, if I didn’t over do some of the techniques I was using I think I would have done a a lot better, in addition if I didn’t play a lot of the songs out as long as I did I think I would have had more songs to manoeuvre with. Furthermore when I tried to switch to my second track I was using the wrong faders, so nothing was coming through. Moreover if I had chosen my songs prior to that set I think I would be more familiar with my songs and ultimately, had a better set.

Plan

To practice my DJ set I will research more techniques I can use whilst Dj’ing, ensure I have my songs and que points set before my set. I will incorporate different techniques into my set as throughout my set I repeated a lot of the techniques.