Honors Project Description
My honors project that I will be doing for myself will be a music project where I will create several beats or songs. For this project I will use my skills in garage band to create and edit a song or beat. The program garage band will allow me to create, use, and combine different beats to create a song. I am creating a song for myself because this is the most interesting unit in digital media 1 and I wish to create a hobby out of it.
honors_project_-_1_16_20_8.31_am.mp3 | |
File Size: | 859 kb |
File Type: | mp3 |
honors_project_2_-_1_16_20_8.31_am.mp3 | |
File Size: | 932 kb |
File Type: | mp3 |
honors_project_3_-_1_17_20_1.25_am.mp3 | |
File Size: | 878 kb |
File Type: | mp3 |
Reflection
The project that I chose to do was creating a couple of mashup beats/songs because I always like the idea of producing music. During the project the only problems that I ran into was trying to find the right beat that could match up with the previous beat and being creative enough to figure out what would work and what would not. In the songs that I did often times I could not find a good way to transition in every part of the song, I could not find a way to start the song, end the song, and or transition to another beat or pattern in the song. There is not any real solution that I could have done to avoid having trouble with transitions besides make my own music and transition that way but I do not know how to do that so I just kept searching through the loops until I eventually found a good transition/start/end to fit the song. This project helped me develop more as a student in Digital Media because it demonstrated the kind of creativity, dedication, and time that goes into each project and it also taught me how to utilize each of those characteristics to future projects.
If I were to start this project again I would switch to doing one song with multiple beats and patterns that fit well together rather than three different songs because if they were all part of the same song then it is easier to keep them all in the same theme. Keeping all of the songs in the same theme would be a benefit for me because I would not need to filter through the different genres each time to find the right beat, they would all be categorized into the same area which would make the process of finding the beats quicker and more efficient. From this project I learned more about trimming, combining, and timing clips properly and efficiently for the future if I want to produce music again.
If I were to start this project again I would switch to doing one song with multiple beats and patterns that fit well together rather than three different songs because if they were all part of the same song then it is easier to keep them all in the same theme. Keeping all of the songs in the same theme would be a benefit for me because I would not need to filter through the different genres each time to find the right beat, they would all be categorized into the same area which would make the process of finding the beats quicker and more efficient. From this project I learned more about trimming, combining, and timing clips properly and efficiently for the future if I want to produce music again.