Week 5 - Creating the sound effects

This week in music we recorded all of the sound effects that we are going to use during our performance as well as started composing the music that is going to play during the whole story. When we were coming up with the sound effects and creating them - choosing the instruments, how loud, soft etc. we are going to play them. Maria and I decided that these are going to be the sound effects we are going to include in the performance:

• Crowd
• creaking door
• rain and thunder
• echoes/whispering
• click of a computer mouse
• keyboard typing

The sound effects couldn't upload because the files were too big and it took too long, I even tried to convert them and Blogger still didn't accept the videos. 

 Also when we were recording these sound effects we used the internet/ YouTube as a starting point so we could see how a certain effect needed to sound like to be realistic. For example to make the whispers we first searched it up on YouTube and then created our own. To make the thunder and rain I used an instrument called the Ocean Drum and used the tiny balls inside it to make the thunder. We later asked Ms. Cross to listen to the Thunder and Rain effect but we didn't tell her what it was supposed to be and she guessed it, so I think we did a pretty good job. We recorded the crowd effect right after class in the hallways because we thought that since everyone is going to be talking, it's going to give the effect of a crowd.

After we had completed all the sound effects, we started brainstorming ideas for the composition of the song. In the previous lesson when I wasn't there, Maria had come up with a really nice tune and so she practiced that. I searched up some other music composition and Maria tried to play some of her song that she made last year in Music. Also we took a part from Christina Perri A Thousand Years and instead of her playing it slow she played it really fast and it sounded really amazing. However I couldn't upload the video of her playing these pieces because the file was too big and even if I tried to make it smaller it still wouldn't upload.

Note: During the performance I wont be playing any instrument because I will be the narrator, so during the music lessons, Maria and I will be coming up with the song but it will be Maria who will play it on the day of the performance. Since there are only two music students and I will be narrating, Yasmeen from Art will  be playing insturemnt on the day. This does not mean that I didn't do Music and she didn't do Art. We will just be switching when we have to perform.