Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Learning new skills, Livetype and Soundtrack.

I forgot to put this blog up, after accidently saving it as a draft instead of publishing it straight away!


Last week, our college technician Marisa, took us into the Mac suite to show how how to create a title sequence for our piece (which is one of the most important things) and also how to edit audio for our soundtrack/livetrack if we wished to use one. She showed us first how to use each of the programmes and then took us through step by step as we learnt to do it. Suprisingly it wasn't as hard as we thought!


After the tutorial, we had a chance to play around with the programme and then start to put pieces together that we could possibly use in our work. I found it useful to know how to create the titles as this would play a bit part in our works finished piece.


Marisa then taught us how to make soundtracks for the work which we would be using later on to accompy our thriller opening sequence. We learnt how to mix together and then, using ready made samples from the Mac's harddrive, put together a short composition in a few mins to play to the class! We all found this rather enjoyable as we were each able to learn new skills, develop others and have fun! You can see below the user friendly interface for Livetype, part of the 'Apple' Final Cut software programme.


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