Recording products

Phonograph- In the 1870s until the late 1880s the Phonograph was the most common technology used to record sounds. For about one hundred years the phonograph was the most common method for consumers to enjoy recorded music at home. It is a well developed technology that can give you quick and good pleasure of soothing music. To use this equipment a grooved disc is placed on a turntable which will be rotating at a constant rate.

Phonograph: Thomas Edison Edition- The first ever phonograph to be created was in 1877. Before there were CD players, tape records, cassettes, music system etc. there was this first ever phonograph, and Thomas Edison is to be thanked for the music we have today. While he was trying to improve the telegraph transmitter, he realized that the movements through the paper tape produce a noise. When he spoke into it he found out that at a high speed, his spoken words came out.

The gramophone- Emile Berliner the German immigrant was the first to create the gramophone, that could play disc records instead of cylinders. The discs have a larger advantage than cylinders. Disc are tend to be more easier to use and it produces better quality sounds than a cylinder. The first ever gramophone was in fact highly cheap but was always consider as a serious product. It was not a perfectly created product because it had no motor, and having no motor makes it tedious and difficult for the operator to fluently play the turntable at a steady speed.

Shellac record player- This recorder was one of the better ones because it lasted a long while rather than the other recorders. It lasted a longer while because it was made of a stronger metal.

Modern record player- the modern record payers are our everyday mechanical devices that generate sound by playing a grooved disc, instead of a cylinder like what they did with the phonograph. These amazing radio technology first came around in the 20th century/ 1900s. They became so popular that the chucked the phonograph down into the sales where it became Un- popular. People still use record players but they were also knocked down into the sales by CD players which are now the top music technology.

Open reel tape recorder- The recording medium is held on a reel rather than it being placed in a cassette. This open reel tape recorder was used in the most earliest tape recorders like THe pioneering Magnetophons of the 1930s. This was German.

Multi - Track Recorder- With a multi- track recorder more than one sound at the same time or play them at the same time. It is a double act when it comes to recording with it. The analogue tape based equipment will allow you to achieve multi tracking.

Audio Cassette- Invented in 1962 by the phillips company, the audio cassette is a tape that plays music and sounds. The quality was not so great, only until the 1970s came.

Digital Audio Tape- the digital audio tape was created in 1987. It has a long longer playing time than the audio tapes that were created before it. This can hold up to 2 hours of recording audio on each side of it.

CD- CD holds digital sounds on it. It is small and thin but different types of music and data can be held on it, depending on the size the Cd rom holds.. 1.2 mm thick and weights 15-20 grams thats the original size of a CD player.

Mp3- Just like a Cd the mp3 can hold any type of music on it depending on the memory size. It is one of the most modern music technology at the moment. It was created in the 1990s but became very successful in 1997. You are able to bring a mp3 player with you anywhere because of its average pocket size.

NCFE MUSIC TECHNOLOGY

Task 1:

Jobs in the music industry are:

Music Industry Internship Job

• Music Acquisitions Scout Job
• Internship - Sony Music Latin Job
• Internship - Sony Music West Coast Job
• Music Industry, Assistant Professor
• Music Blogger Job Student Advisor Job
• Administrative Assistant II - Music Industry Studies Job Marketing Manager Job QA Tester Job
• Marketing Assistant~Music Company
• Music Manager Job
• Credit Intern- Music New Line Job
• Credit Intern- New Line Music Job
• Music Industry, Assistant Professor Job
• Spring 2010 - Legal Intern Job
• Music Manager Job
• Music Internships Job
• C++ Music Software Developer Job
• Music Manager Job
• Outdoor Display Representative Job
• Music Therapist
• Spring 2010 - Legal Intern Job
• Project Manager Job
• Adminstrative Assistant Job
• Televison Music Programming Assistant Job
• Music Therapist - Home Health and Hospice Job Job
• Music Therapist/Hospice/Davenport, IA. Job Job
• Director, Product Job
• Music Manager Job
• Ghost Blogger for Digital Music Startup Job
• Full-time Faculty, Film Scoring Job in Berklee College of Music [Boston, MA] -
• President and Vice President Job
• Music Manager Job P1 Ambassador Job Business Development Associate Job Director, Loyola Opera Theatre- College of Music and Fine Arts Job Sales Manager or Director Job Executive Director Job Film Music Manager Job
• Credit Intern- Music New Line Job
• Credit Intern- New Line Music Job Music Intern Job
• Project Manager, Artist Websites Job
• Entry Level Assistant~Music Company Job
• Full and Part Time Sales Associates Job
• Assistant Engineer Internship Job
• Music Manager Job
• Manager in Training / Full Time Sales Associate Job
• Full Time Sales Associates Job
• Sales Position - Retail clients Job
• Sr. Business Intelligence Developer/Architect Job
• Community Product Manager (job #09-547) Job Internship JobSales - Hospitality Clients Job
• Audio/Music Apps Software Developer Job
• Part time Lecturers - MUSIC MEDIA & INDUSTRY Job Sales Internship Job
• Online Product Manager - Online Marketing - Campaigns -Music Job
• Online Product Manager - Online Marketing - Campaigns - Music Job
• Senior Industry Marketing Manager - Home Specialty Job
• Senior Director.
• Manager, Internal Audit Job Music Designer Job VP Licensing and Industry Relations Job Music Designer Job
• Director, Human Resources (New York, NY) Job
• Spring Internship- Music, Marketing (MySpace) Job
• Manager of Creative Services (Los Angeles) Job
• Music Manager Job
• Operational SOX Coordinator
• Project Manager (Consultant)
• Project Manager City Promoters Job
• Project Manager, Artist Websites
• Commerce & Analytics Manager
• Manager (Universal City, CA) Job
• Associate Manager
• photography
• publicity
• cover and advertising design
• Live concerts
• Music retail industry
• Solo artist groups
• commercial- promo

Task 2:

The main skills for song writing is to practice. Not all songs rhyme but rhyming is one of the best ways to make a song, You need to make sure you have a good Rhythm to every every beat, a good flow and make sure it is making sense. Poem is kind of the same as song writing. You need to make sure it sounds good and catchy for people to want to listen to it. Know who your target audience are and make sure it as the appropriate type of language in it.

Producer- You need organization skills for becoming a producer. You cannot be un-organized and expect to be a good producer, you have to make sure you have everything on point. Negotiating is another key skill you need for becoming a producer. If you don't have good negotiating skills then there is no point because you would have to make deals for your film crew or music crew, equipments and the sets. Energy, determination and the right mentality could make it all successful for you, if you don't have any energy and your just lazy then you can find yourself dreaming about producing. Determination is the key thing for almost anything there is so making sure you are would get you anywhere.

Task 3- People do not really know how to apply for a job in the music industry, there is not an official answer, its something that happens just like that. One of the main ways people do get into the industry is by doing their own thing, like TV shows, videos etc. Eventually in time you will find yourself in the business depending on your great progress.

Task 4

Song writing:

1. Dedicate some time each day to composing songs. Make sure that you are practicing daily.

2. Listen constantly to popular songs and work out what is it that is making these songs successful. Make sure your studying their techniques and strength.

3. Before you even start on any song, you must always decide on who your target audience will be, and the type of of compositions they will relate to. Whatever music genre you choose make sure the melody and lyrics are able to be understood by them.

4. Make sure your enjoying your songwriting work, don't let it get the better of you. I f your not enjoying then there is no point of continuing.

Task 5- The median pay scale for a producer with a 1-4 year period is £30,000 - £40,000. A 5-9 year old period is from £40,000 - £70,000. A 10- 19 year period is £50,000 - £90,000. The pay scale for song writing is 1-10 year period 30,000 - 70,000

Task 6- One of the training methods needed for getting in the song writing business is to attend universities like, The Royal Academy Of Music, where you will be given lots of opportunities. The orchestra training in the Royal Academy of music prepares the students for a diverse and demanding professional life. The first year undergraduates take part in the string orchestra rehearsals weekly forming quartets for chamber music training. You can also join a music group with good consistant progress taking place, then wait till your time to shine.

You do not need any form of degree to be a producer. A producer is like a conductor of an orchestra; he understands each individual part, and also has an understanding of how that single part relates to the whole composition. You need a good working knowledge of music. Make sure you have a good grasp on the basic principle of rhythm.

Task 7- you can find out where work opportunities exist by watching the TV where certain adverts will tell you many information about the place of work opportunities. These come on rarely so you will have to be lucky to catch it. The SC magazine is a magazine that contains information on where work opportunities also exist. You can use the internet to find out this information but you would have to look carefully because it is highly difficult to find out this information.

Task 8 Development graph

1. Practice your songwriting and producing skills each and every day.

2. Gain knowledge of both types of the careers.

3. Earn your qualifications through out school/college/university.

4. Degrees can be earned but only through hard work.

Task 9- Ways to keep up to date with development in the industry is to

1. Check your career development graph

2. Keep control of your music

3. As the music industry changes you do so too.

THE BEGINING OF PERFORMANCE 13/1/10 2.1.1

Blues music: Blues music is usually sad and was originated from the new orleans and was played by men

Melodrama: Charles easdon began melodrama in the 18th century

Classical ballet: Classic ballet was created in the 17th and 16th century

Ragtime music: This type of music was created in 1897- 1918

Sattriya dance: This is an Indian type of dance created in the 15th century and it was Sankardeva who created the style of dance.

Lindy hop: Lindy hop originated in the late 1920's. It is evolved from Africa, and also involved in New York.

Restoration comedy: This was created in the 1660s to 1710

Punk rock: Punk rock originated between 1974 and 1976 in the United States of America

Brit pop: It originated in the United Kingdom in the 1990's.

Unit 2 performance EVALUATION ON THE RADIO PLAY 16/12/09

Through out our radio play there were certain sound effects and music played at certain moments in the play. Every moment that the pilot is about to speak a 'ding dong' noise is played using a xylophone. This makes it more realistic, showing he is speaking through a Tanoy. We used a soft and sad sound clip also near the end of the radio play, this was to make you feel the emotion and fear of the people on the plane, it was basically to make you feel sorry for them. All these were live sound effects including the continuos noises of footsteps to show there are a lot of people around. The main success was the fact that we managed to go through the whole script without having to laugh, because usually we kept being immature and laughing at the voices we were making in this radio play. The other success was that we managed to to each take the role of more than one character. I am actually very proud that i have accomplish something fair enough with my group. One of the only problems i think there was, was the fact that we needed to rehearse more to allow us to flow better through the radio play better.

My main character in the radio play is a detective called detective smith. He was born in the Kansas, America. This is a male detective that is quite tall, dark brown, brown eyes, a bit toned, very healthy and highly intelligent. He was educated at the university of Kansas where he studied law. Further in his life he went to train to become a private detective, where he trained at the detective industry. After being succesful through this he was given the official status as a crime detective, being able to have good communication, good computer skills and self confidence when placed forward in court. He is more like a mysterious man who does what is needed to be done. He is awfully quiet and deep down holds a dark secret inside.

Final preparations on my performance 2.3.1a

• My role in the performance was to act as a detective and a few unknown people.

• My main responsibility was to make sure that i am able to change my voice as quick as possible when switching from characters to characters. I also needed to make sure i have a good flow with my characters so the whole performance don't seem too fake and un- organize. The other responsibility i had to make sure i keep together was the sound effects, i have to have the right timing and play the right tone.
• The tasks for the final preparation will be to get the xylophone to use for the tanoy the pilot speaks through.

• We will be using the xylophone, Our scripts, the mic, the stands and that is the main things we will be using.

to make sure we work safely, we will keep rechecking that everything is in place and that we are fully organized, able to

radio play effects

sound effects happen in two different ways.

1. live sounds

2. pre recorded sound

make a list of all the sound effects your play needs. Include what materials/ props are required, plus when and where any recording is to be done.

The real and final script performance

Air hostess: welcome, how are you? if you would like to take your seats thankyou.

pilot: welcome to virgin airlines, we will be arriving in USA at JFK airport at 6am. Enjoy your

flight. If you have any problems let us know.

Unknown: excuse me? can you show me where my seat is please.

Air hostess: yeah, come follow me. There you go. Put your bags up here.

Unknown: okay thankyou.

Kid: Mum whens the plane going to start?

Pilot: We have now reached a maximum of 40,000 feet in the air.

Kid: Mum are we nearly there?

Unknown: excuse me can we go to the toilets now?

Air hostess: yes its fine. You can come out of your seats now. Please come right this way.

Pilot: Your drinks will be coming round shortly.

Air hostess: Hi, what would you like to drink Sam?

Kid: coke.

Unknown: Ok can i have one coke and a small glass of wine please.

Air hostess: There you go. Hi, what would u like to drink?

Pilot: ok, can everyone take there se..a.a.. t.s.

Air hostess: everyone sit down, put your belts on. (airhostess goes to check on the pilot.)

Air hostess: oh my God, James are you okay? James? Can Tom come to check and he was just on the floor.

Tom: well what are we going to do we cant leave him ? how did this happen?

Air hostess: I dont know, I come to check and he was just on the floor.

Tom: well what are we going to do we cant just leave him here.

Detective Smith: Can I help? I saw that something was wrong. Im a detective.

Tom: Yeah, hes had a heart attack but we need to move him because this auto pilot might not last. We need to be safe and keep calm.

Detective: well i know alot about planes and i used to fly them all the time so ill stay here and watch it to make sure nothing goes wrong.

Air hostess: okay well im going to check on everyone, make sure there fine and not surspicious of anything.

Narrator: The aircraft is still holding on, the auto pilot is still working and people are getting told to keep calm, but imagen what is going through their heads "is the plane going to land or are we going to die".

Unknown: can you tell me what's going on, its not fair that your not telling us. We could die.

Air hostess: can you calm down please, your not going to die your perfectly safe you just need to keep calm.

Detective smith: can Rosie and Tom please come to the front of the plane please. Right we need to land this plane soon, we cant go any further its to dangerous.

Air hostess + Tom: okay

Air hostess: can everyone please take their seats and belt up.

Detective Smith: we are now going to land for everyones safety.

Narrator: the plane has now landed and everyone is glad to be safe and stopped panacking. The paramedics came running over and carried the pilot out of the plane. You can see the smiles on peoples faces because they have finally landed.

Detective Smith: That was lucky.

Air hostess + Tom: well done we couldnt have done it without you.

Narrator: Now everyone is off the plane, ringing there family happy to be off. Everyone has left, all you can see is the ambulances and hear sirens.

DIARY 16/12/09

Today in our music lesson, we went to the studio and started practicing our radio play. It was a hard and long day but i think we were able to pull through and produce a good enough piece of work

THE FINAL EVALUATION

• My role in the performance was to act as a detective and a few unknown people.

• My main responsibility was to make sure that i am able to change my voice as quick as possible when switching from characters to characters. I also needed to make sure i have a good flow with my characters so the whole performance don't seem too fake and un- organize. The other responsibility i had to make sure i keep together was the sound effects, i have to have the right timing and play the right tone.
• The tasks for the final preparation will be to get the xylophone to use for the tanoy the pilot speaks through.

• We will be using the xylophone, Our scripts, the mic, the stands and that is the main things we will be using.

• to make sure we work safely, we will keep rechecking that everything is in place and that we are fully organized, able to decide on tough decisions and able to support each other even with the huge mistakes

Unit 2 performance our script

Air hostess: welcome, how are you? if you would like to take your seats thank you.

Pilot: Welcome to Virgin airlines we will be arriving in the USA at the JFK airport, at around 6am, enjoy your flight, any problems you can report to the assistant.

Unknown: excuse me can you show me where my seat is please?

Air hostess: Yes right here, you can put your bags up there.

Unknown: okay thank you.

James-Kids: Mum! whens the plane going to start, or did it start?

Pilot: May i have your attention!? we have now reach or maximum of 40,000 feet, you can now relax and enjoy your flight.

Kids: mum are we nearly there?

Unknown: can we go to the toilets now?

Air hostess: yes! its fine you can come out your seats now, please right this way.

Unit 2 performance-Radio play idea

It starts off when everyone is on the plane going to America but then half way through, the lights start to off and everything strange happens. Everyone starts to get worried and wonders what is going on but no one knows what to do. People start to realise the plane is getting lower but when the air hostess goes to see the captain to see what is happening she See's that the pilot is dead so someone must of done it on the plane but would still be on the plane, so they try to find out who it is. In the end someone on the plane tries to fly the plane and they survive. In the background there are noises of people talking fast and sounding worried. At the start before all of that happens the air hostess are going to be talking and then when the end happens you can see the change in them. Even though everyone survived they didn't find the person who killed the pilot and at the end. There will be kids screaming but its a film that they will be watching and there will be noises of people talking about america.

The characters will be the air hostess, kids, one main person and background noises.

My character will be a young detective who was trying to go on holiday but it had to be postpone because of the whole incidence on the plane. I will be one of the first people the staff members of the plane reportS to about the whole problem, considering he is the law. My reaction to the whole incidence will be very shocking, to think there is a killer on the plane and im a detective, so their all going to depend on me to find out who it is and how were going to land the plane.

Unit 2 Performance- adverts etc.

1.

1. Call 118 performance - 118.com

2. Cadbury gorilla advert - advertising cadbury milk

3.TV Advert - compare the meerkat/ market.com

4. Music Gig - Radio-head at the O2

5. Cadbury Eyebrows- advertising cadbury milk

6. O2 Two by Two advert- advertising the o2 network/ o2.co.uk

7. The T-mobile dance- advertising the T-mobile network/ www.t-mobile.co.uk

8. M&S Money Car Insurance Advert- advertising Marks&Spencer car insurance/www.marks&spencer.co.uk

9. Visine Eye Drops Commercial

10. Def Comedy Jam- Martin Lawrence comedy performance

11. Beyonce - Halo performance at the Las vegas encore theatre

12. John & Edward x-factor performance

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The T-Mobile dance- As a producer the first thing i would make sure of to carry out the t-mobile dance advert is to, find lots of good dancers who would be willing to take part in the advert. After finding my dancers i will then set a date, time and place for the whole advert to happen. I will order my camera crew to make sure they have every equipment and technology prepared for the event

Evaluation of Unit 4-Creating a Record.

1. The actual atmosphere of Batman is dark, shadowy, mysterious, scary and highly tense.

Batman is a night time superhero who is unlikely to make an appearance in broad daylight. Batman is the type of hero that dislikes talking a lot or showing off. He is highly smart and always prefers to work alone on almost every occasion. Even though Batman does not have any super powers like super strength or super speed, his intelligents and close combat is a powerful force for the villains in the city of Gotham.

2. The musical ideas i have chosen to begin this work with was;

The shimmering- effect to give the the opening musical idea a dark and fierce feeling.

Underwater bass- to bring more drama to the musical idea.

Pop piano- this brings in the melody to the whole musical and also makes my musical atmosphere more sinister.

Dark pluming- this idea brought a the dark bit of the atmosphere and made the musical build up with suspense.

Pop strings smooth- this was the leading sound in the musical, it is the sound you will hear in the background all the way through.

I did actually rejected some things like the Blasting lasers. this was because i thought it would be a good idea at first but after watching the Batman opening over and over again i decided it was Un- necessary, i was not able to see anything to do with lasers throughout the opening.

3. I had to make some tough choices when doing this, because i kept changing the different number of tracks to the batman piece mainly to the fact i could not make my mind up on all the different types of sounds i wanted in it. I used 9 tracks separate with 4 consisting of the drop in the music piece, 3 for the starting and two for the ending of it.

I did end up taking out the bass piano track which was when my track numbers went to 9. My teacher MSM came straight away to my help the moment i asked for it. He helped me put the beats in the separate tracks more together, so the whole music piece can sound like a official recording.

4. The way i created my batman theme is by doing one note after the other at certain points, it used mainly 5 notes to get the riddim to it. It started going up first then in the middle it started going down then right back up.

5. At the end of the gotham city scene, there was a random sound playing and just 2 second after it finish that sound slowly faded out. The sound at the end was kin of the same has the sound in the beginning but more calmer.

6. To make my work more representative i would need to change up my ending, to a way that would get the examiner thinking, i would make it sound more like there is a mystery. I would also develop the way the whole flow of the music is, there is some out of tune parts in it.

Unit 4 record- The Batman 21/10/2009 Information

The Batman 1989 is a film created in 1989 in the United States and was released on June 23rd during 1989.
The director of this film was Tim Burton and Peter Guber, Jon Peters, Michael Uslan and Benjamin Melniker were the producers of this film, they did a successful job earning a film budjet of up to $48 million .

The film stars Michael Keaton as Batman and Jack Nicholson as the Joker who is the greatest enemy of the batman. The film started filming firstly in October 1988 at a place called Pinewood Studios.

Bruce Wayne (Batman/Keaton) at a young age saw his parents murdered right in front of him. While growing up he vowed to avenge his parents death by taking the role as the night time vigilante Batman, who is always watching out for the people in the city of Gotham. His main enemy The Joker, is the so called joker in Gotham but he ain't the type of clown that just laughs and pull practical jokes. The Joker is making people laugh to death in the city of Gotham and it is up to The Batman to stop him before Joker accomplish his mission.

The Movies Editor allows the common mortal to make their own costume/sets/props by editing the existing ones found in the game. The editor takes number of shots wether it is photo or video and at the end tries and edit it to produce a well accomplished piece.

There are two types of best boys. Best boy grip and best boy electric they are responsible for running the lighting and grip department.

A gaffer is the head of the lighting department, responsible for the designs and the executions taking place, or to be taking place.

Unit 4 record- music work today on the 19/10/09

In the music lesson today with Mr. Smith i continued and was able to almost fully complete my melodic piece for my Batman work. It was difficult at first because i started getting confused on how a melody should sound but at the end i managed to pull something off.

Unit 4 record- Music work today

This morning in the music lesson i finished recording my batman beginning and moved on to my NCFE Sequence. i firstly made a copy of my batman audio clip and started creating a new melody, using the actual keyboards to play is a lot more easier than using the computer keyboard itself. i managed to produce a good piece of melody so far that is going to contribute to my work

Unit 4 Record- Definition

TO CREATE INFORMATION IN MEDIA TO COMMUNICATE WITH OTHERS.

Document- this can be used to provide evidence or information of an event that took place in the past.

Painting- produce a painting of anything and place it at a certain place for people to view it. museum etc.

Criminal Record- This provides information on crimes a some-one did in the past.

Photographer- Taking high resolution pictures that can be used for comics, magazines etc.

Myspace Home Page- you use myspace to show off your images or music for people added to your friends list. There could be videos of performances you did on stage where family and friend can view.

Graphic Design- play computer games, cartoons are made then watched by young children.

The news- to give information to everyone of what is going on in the world.

Birth Certificate- To show information on a person for when they were born, the time and place.

Maladministration- describes the action of the government body.

Unit 4 record- music today

today in my music lesson i worked on my melody piece. i managed to create only 10 seconds of it because of the lack of me knowing what a light motif is. All i need to do now and i will be completely finish is to work more on my melody and make it be up to a certain standard

Unit 4 record- my music work on the 29/09/09

down below is the work i did in music. in this work i had to find out about how music is made and find a few of the few points in music

A scale is a unified collection of notes-which any addition is heard to be extraneous and a selection which is in some sense complete.

the scale must also fulfil the functions demanded of it. There are three principal functions that a scale may be asked to fufil:

1. to serve as a harmonic resource
2. to be tonally effective
3. to serve as a melodic resource

Major scale- The major scale has triads which can be represented numerically as: one, ii, iii IV, vi and Vii which are chords or as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 which are notes.

Between the 7th and 8th degrees and also the 3rd and 4th degrees there are semitones, between all the other adjacent notes there are whole tones. The major scale is strongly effective at producing a tonic function on the major chord that is built on its home note.

Minor scale- the minor scale is well used for classical music, this where it is well know. for minor mode music it is known to be the harmonic foundation. with a minor scale the sixth degree is raised to the seventh by a chromatic semitone. these devices are he ones that transforms the augmented second into a major second.

Aeolian mode- in a aeolian mode there are semitones between the 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th degrees, and leaving whole Tones between all the other degrees. Its cadences are less decisive than the harmonic minor scales so it is generally avoided in the classical music.

Clefs- Clefs are placed on a Grand Staff. The top part of a Grand Staff is called the Treble Clef and The lower half of the Grand staff is called the Bass Clef. Notes appear on a Bass Clef and a Treble Clef. Treble clefs are placed above middle Cs on the piano and Bass clefs are placed below middle C on the piano.

The sharp sign means to play the next key to the right.

The flat sign means to play the next key to the left.

Dynamic signs tells you how loudly or softly to play a piano.

Natural signs cancel a sharp or flat.

FLAT signs

SHARP signs

NATURAL signs

DYNAMIC signs

This is a grand staff.

Unit 4 record- my work in music today 08/10/09

In this lesson today i created another section of beats to add to my 'Batman Opening film' i used the piano bass instrument to get a more effective sound to my batman musical piece. i made sure that the piece goes in time with the other audio tracks that i previously created. i also tried today to start and finish my melody piece that i was told by the teacher to do. i did not completely finish it but it was a good start. Near the beginning of the lesson there were some faults when the computer started automatically freezing, so i never had much time to finish my melody 08/10/09