GarageBand visit

Earlier in the week our whole media group visited the city learning centre for a lesson on how to use garageband. Ms Foster had previously introduced us to a video on how to use it but I found it very unhelpful and me and my group tried working it out independently but we failed miserable. So I was quite looking forward to this session to learn how to use it properly and so that we could finally start making the real music for our film opening.

We were taught how to find different sounds ranging from dark and intense to electro and rock. As our film genre is thriller/horror I found that the sounds under the dark and intense categories were suitable for our film opening.

Me and my group all began to start our own soundtracks as we all wanted to experiment a little and we were talking about which ones to use. But we were then told that we could produce a soundtrack on the macs at the clc so we all gathered on one mac and worked together.

We were also told that as well as using the sounds already on the software we could plug in real instruments and add to them so we decided to plug in a keyboard and start recording. We used the massive attack music as a guideline and tried to create something similar by carefully listening to each instrument played and repeating it on GarageBand.

Towards the end of the session we had really become familiar with the use of GarageBand and managed to record around 10 seconds of the soundtrack but we did not save it as we did not feel it was worth saving. I am really looking forward to friday's lesson where we will be able to start recording our own soundtrack especially as I now know how to use GarageBand.