So I’m actually ahead of schedule for once!

Despite not having an animator for my piece anymore, I have written the Rhythm parts for the first four minutes of my project! Although it’s a lot more simple than I originally intended, it’s leaving a massive opportunity open to layer the piece with lots of different parts!

Will be putting up a rough demo of the rhythm parts for you tonight!

It’s all coming together!

So this post was supposed to be a planned time line for my project, explaining which week certain parts of the project will be done by, and in a way it still will be, but first I’d like to explain about the snag I have hit really early on.

Unfortunately due to the lack of time in the animators busy schedule, they have had to back out of the project, which leaves me with either finding another animator or coming up with a different place for my piece of audio to go, perhaps it’s strong enough to stand alone? Who knows? Time shall tell.

But here’s how I aim to have things play out regarding the audio side to this project. For simplicity lets say that this is nearing the end of ‘Week 1’ and go from there.

Week 1 – Overall project idea finalized and ready to start writing the piece.

Week 2 – Have the first season of music (The first two minutes) structured and ready to track.

Week 3 – Have Spring and Summer (first four minutes) fully written and ready to demo.

Week 4 – All four seasons fully written (full eight minutes) and ready to demo.

Week 5 – Begin final recording sessions and get finished versions of all physical instruments recorded.

Week 6 – Add any electronic/virtual instrument parts that are being experimented with.

Week 7 – Mixing and final stages of mastering, final product ready to go.

This is only regarding the audio and once I come up with a solid, 100%, definite idea for where the piece of audio is going to go I will work that side of the project in to the time line.  I’m going to have to stick to this pretty religiously as ‘Week 7’ takes us right up to the final hand in date for this project!

I understand I’m rambling a lot and will try and make this blog a lot more interesting in the future!

If anyone works with animation or knows anyone who does animation and doesn’t have a completely full schedule and might be up for the task of doing a relatively simple eight minute animation please hit me up on joeyfys@gmail.com and we’ll try and sort out a meeting!

Until then guys!

So as you can see, I have quite a nifty little set up.

A laptop with a crack so large and obvious it takes up half the screen, connected to a TV via a HD cable and then of course my trusty Ashland acoustic guitar.

So today I started putting the first few bits and pieces together for my project will I shall explain to you very shortly, but first let me explain to you why this set up I have going is really quite inconvenient and unideal as far as a recording project goes.

Due to my love for guitars and amps and various other musical instruments that I have now filled my room with, (seriously, it’s just a bed, a TV and music gear) I never got round to purchasing a Macbook or any decent production software, so unfortunately all the demo’s and pre production work I’m doing, sound terrible. But alas, all this shall change in a few weeks when I finally move in to the 21st century and purchase a Macbook and the wonderfully well known Pro Tools software that everyone in the audio world owns but me!

But enough of that. My project is a simple one which I hope you will all enjoy. I am currently in the process of writing a piece of music that tracks through the worlds season cycle. For example, if the piece is eight minutes long, I aim to write the first two minutes based on what I interpret the seasons Spring to ‘sound’ like, the next two minutes being Summer and so on. I want to do all this to an animation that visually shows what the seasons look like. Of course we know the stereotypical view of Summer is that it’s sunny, or Winter is that it snows, so this is what the visual animation will be showing, and with any luck, the piece I write based on how I think these seasons should sound musically, show back the visual aspects up and vice versa.

That is my project in a nutshell, of course as the weeks go on, the idea shall progress and grow and hopefully build in to something, not only personally creative, but something that coincides with the animation and reflects the season cycle through audio.

Stick around!