Skills Audit: Livetype and Sound.

Our tutorial with Marisa in the beautiful Mac Suite last week was all about creating title sequences and developing soundtrack.We kicked off the session by watching a Livetype demonstration by Marisa. She explained and showed us how to use the programme; Some of the things i learned in this session were how to change size, font, colour, opacity, angle, effects such as shaddow and outline and text effects and movement. We then had the opertunity to have a go ourselves, playing with transitions and textures was useful as we could see all of the effects working and created a simple word into a credit. I found this session particularly helpful as it taught me how to use the programme that very soon i will be using on my thriller piece. Marisa then did a Sound demonstration teaching us how to make soundtracks which later in the year will be accompanying our thriller sequences. She showed us all the hundereds of different sounds we could put together in order to make a beat. When we used the programme in class, my peers and I were all eager to make instrumentals (none of which could possibly have been used in a thriller!). I decided to make an acoustic beat using the guitar and piano. I actually really liked my instrumental and wish I could have put it to usb to show my friends and family! I look forward to using both these programmes later in the year.