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music technology

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Summertime [Scratch]

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Framing [Found Footage]

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Carrier Vid

Final Video

I filmed this video after sunset so it would be dark out and I could move my light source to cast shadows around. I think my final video came out a lot darker than I had anticipated which was largely due to the fact that I wanted to play with light throughout the video and have a lot of contrast - This led to me film at night but without a powerful enough light source I struggled to cast sharp and contrasting shadows like I had intended. I feel this made the video seem a lot muddier and softer making it hard to pick out much detail with any of the more distant shots. I also wanted to incorporate out of focus video into my final piece but with the lack of sharp detail from the poor lighting I believe these shots just exasperated the issue. I think if I were to do this again I may use a tripod for capturing some of the close-up shots where the light source is being moved as I found that when recording them hand-held it made the movement of the shadows less impactful and also made it harder for me to incorporate them into my final edit how I had hoped which was to create ‘tracers’ as well as using chromatic aberration. The fact that I didn’t have a powerful enough light source also stopped me from capturing any footage of light reflecting off the water as I had planned leaving me with not much footage to edit the final video. I think longer, more sustained shots rather than quick clips would’ve benefitted me more and suited the style of video.

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[MD4214] Reading List

Author: 

Sudhir Khatwani

Article title:

Is Blockchain The Solution The Music Industry Is Looking For?

Website title:

CoinSutra - Bitcoin Community

URL:

https://coinsutra.com/blockchain-music-industry/

This article focuses on what blockchain fundamentally is and how its implementation into the music industry could affect the payment structure.

I intend to reference this when talking about how changing the way revenue (from song sales) is distributed between the involved parties could change the structure of the currently established framework in the music industry, possibly rendering intermediaries unnecessary allowing artists to earn more for their work.

Author:

Daniel Sanchez

Article title:

Goodbye, Net Neutrality? What This Could Mean For the Music Industry

Website title:

Digital Music News

URL:

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/11/20/fcc-net-neutrality-music-industry/

This article delves into how the repeal of net neutrality could affect indie artists, publishers and record labels.

I want to reference this article when talking about how artists make very little money from digital music streaming and often rely on merchandise sales and gigging/touring to generate revenue and how this change could affect the access that fans would have to the artists merchandise/content.

Author:

Eamonn Forde

Article title:

Is YouTube wrecking the music industry – or putting new artists in the spotlight?

Website title:

The Guardian

URL:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/18/youtube-music-industry-artists-spotlight

This article talks about how youtube interacts with the music industry, laying out some of the upsides and downsides of the platform.

I want to use this article to back up how youtube provides analytics and instant feedback to artists in a way that few platforms can match as well as providing almost unparalleled exposure for many up-and-coming artists.

Author :

Imogen Heap & Don Tapscott

Article title:

Blockchain Could Be Music’s Next Disruptor

Website title:

Fortune

URL:

http://fortune.com/2016/09/22/blockchain-music-disruption/

This article focuses on how the introduction of blockchain could change the roles that certain intermediary bodies play and how it can make the music industry a more personal, peer to peer industry sans the large companies who currently reap the benefits of artists.

I want to talk about how this could change the way that artists collaborate, how it can change the products that artists release and even change how fans interact with these products as artists could now create smart contracts.

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[11/10/18] Authenticity In Music

Authentic Artist: NF - He is an (singer) artist who focuses a lot on very personal matters and emotions, his authenticity is a core part of what allows him to connect with his audience on such a deep level which I think a large part of his appeal is owed to.

Non-Authentic Artist: Lil Skies

- He is a rapper, part of the new wave era of rap. While his music is quite personal in some tracks I feel his image is more constructed to fit in with the norm in the “mumble rap” scene. He has a lot of face tattoos, in an interview he describes them as almost essential to the genre of music that he performs, he said that although he does like his face tattoos he sees some of them as more of a sacrifice he had to make for his career, even having a black rose tattooed on the side of his face for it to feature as the cover art for his album “Life Of A Dark Rose.”

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[20/09/18] Mapping The Music Industry

- Look into digital marketing and advertising. Analysing traffic, what sort of posts / pathways are most used (social media, adverts, external posts from other users) how does the traffic from each of these sources interact differently with your product. See how you can tailor the experience and cater to your audience in order to maximise interaction and make it more accessible to your target market and major audiences.

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This is a score I composed over the ‘Re-Entry’ scene from the 2013 movie, Gravity. I stripped the track of of all its audio before I began. All of the instruments are written and performed by me on Logic Pro X.

It’s an orchestral piece that I composed for my Music Technology course at college.