Despite a ridiculous number of audio codec problems (Microsoft office YOU SUCK, open office RULES). We managed to get the presentation done and dusted but not without flaws. My part I rushed and butchered. Daniel was fairly composed and Nathan’s part was fairly vacuous.

In criticism of the video, some of the hit-points were well-hit but not appropriate (Flattery, J 2011). The presentation could have done with being longer (1 minute to spare despite issues with presentation viewer.

Overall a good result (somehow) but I get the feeling that next time I will not be so lucky.

This is the final product with the situation as follows.
Daniel - first 21 seconds
Nathan next 18 (21-39)
Me (Colin) taking the rest of the video.

-Colin Bunyan, Home address, Leeds, 18th Janurary-

Following on form a conversation with Bob Brazil over a lack of bottom end, it now appears (according to Carl Flattery) that I have gone too far. I now need more high-end pitched sounds and a bit more progression. This is more noticeable however as my section of the video has in effect ‘doubled’ thanks to the AWOL of a certain Mr. Ridsdale.

This shows the mixer for the track (the parts that i myself have executed) no clipping thus creating the desired effect despite some haphazard EQ’ing and automation. The key point is that the track feels solidly mixed. No clipping, no distortion, no omissions. Yes it took some time to cover the loss of Thomas but I believe it has been executed

-Colin bunyan 12th Jan 2012, LMU Headingley-

Looking increasingly ominous therefore strict action is taken.

Cometh the hour cometh the man. Increasingly sick of failures and delays to the project which has tested my patience. I decide to get tough and deal with the part of Thomas personally. Using samples that did not make my section, I utilised them for his section of the video.

Inevitably some of those samples now found there way into my section (as they should have done in the first place) allowing for almost half the video to be made by myself and my own samples. more work done by me than anyone else in the group? *sigh* What else is new? “If you want something done right, kill baldrick before you start.”(Blackadder,E. 1988)

-Colin Bunyan, Jan 11th 2012, LMU Headingley-

We have confirmation that one of our group has gone AWOL and thus we have had to cover his sector of the video. This will be done using samples not included in the main part of myself and Daniel.

Not the start to the year we required and this can be a severe issue as it has put us on the back foot.

-Colin Bunyan, 10th jan 2012, LMU Headingley-

This video will explain how I managed to utilise variaudio (tutorial 7), test tones and cool edit in conjunction with cubase software to generate sounds.

-Colin Bunyan, Dec 14th 2011, Home address Leeds-

This shows the automation of amplitude (and in one case panning) that I used in the mix. The automation was to make sure I got desired sounds to punch through the mix at certain points, allowing and creating tension. (Use of minor/major chords also helped in this effect). (Amplitude is in reference to tutorial 6)

-Colin Bunyan, Dec 15th 2011, LMU Headingley-

This shows my attempt to use variaudio for a different loop as shown on the video (to be uploaded soon). This was dude to me not finding the files recorded on camera! (tutorial 7)

As you can see, I have changed the pitch of some of the notes and found out how to level the dynamic range in each segment (not used much in this loop but handy to know for vocoding).

This meant that I can use the loop and instead of having a straight ‘4 to the floor’ loop with crotchet beats, I ended up with a ‘slippery’ feel to the loop at the start hence making the video scene feel ‘on edge’.

N.B (jan 12th) Sample on video has been found therefore two examples of variaudio exist in my piece.

-Colin Bunyan, Dec 15th 2011, LMU Headingley-

Having succeeded in doing a draft of my part on Tuesday, I received criticisim from Mr. Bob Brazil.

Most of it was good natured (even if he did disagree with me on star wars) and concerned the lack of ‘hit points’ in the mix. There was as he elegantly put it ‘a lack of bottom end’. This refers to the lack of a prevalent bass line. Other than that he did say the synths were good and what was done shown good work in practice, which was what I aimed to do. I am not, never have been and never will be an expert in video, even from a sound to video perspective.

-Colin Bunyan, Dec 15th 2011, LMU Headingley-