Week 9 - Studio Recording, equipment set up

Today our group finally found time to do the studio recording for behind the scenes page. We had to set up some of the studio equipment and we shot footage of  how the studio is set up. We recorded the studio with the panorama view that we have planned, only thing is to decide later on whether we will use images taken, or changing the video we took into image sequence. Both procedures ended up with different environment lighting as the pictures taken were slightly darker due to the ISO being lowered, and the video being slightly brighter. We would later on discuss on which to use for our behind the scenes. As for the recording of the instrument set up and interview of the band's singer, we had decided to record them another day as we are still waiting for the reply of them. More to come soon!

One of the pictures for our panorama 360 view

Week 9 - Monday

Today we have to discuss on several issues on how to execute our features for behind the scenes. We still are having problems to create button for the sound mixing page. Buttons such as increase volume and decreasing volume is still unsolved but for the 'play' 'stop' and 'mute' buttons, they have been solved. Another issue is the sound wave we for our sound mixing page where the sound wave for the different instruments will appear as the song plays. I came out with an idea to place the multi-tracks, import them into adobe audition, do a screen shot video from there, and bringing it to after effects and mask the sound wave from left to right so it will look like there is sound wave when the song is playing.  

Since we would be conducting an interview to be put into our pre-production, we would need to prepare some cameras to do video recording also to include together with some text and description for the page. Hopefully the singer for Kluk Kluk Adventure would be available this coming Thursday for the interview.

week 8 - Monday

Today our group had to decide on how to do the some of the features in terms of technically for behind the scenes. We went through some googling and found a tutorial that has the play and stop button for Adobe Edge. So me, Adriana, and Nathania got together to try out the tutorial, while Spencer did some research on how to do the drag able button for the sound volume.

Half of the time in class, we were scratching our head on how to solve the problem as the tutorial did not clearly state a step by step on to how to do the buttons. We went back and forth and checking to whether every code is written correctly but still could not found the problem. Then Adriana proceeded to look for more tutorials on how to make the similar feature, she then later found a video tutorial, which our group have not work on. Spencer on the other hand had found so far that the only way to work on the volume control button is to work on Adobe Flash which we would need to convert to swf file and then later transfer to InDesign.

We also did a short consultation with Mr.Razif on our question for the interview. Our questions are much more better compared to the previous one, it has better flow and more questions regarding about the band. We just had to reduce the amount of questions as we have to consider that the answers would be long also. Another thing we found out today that we could also choose to do between sound page and behind the scenes for our group, our group then decided to go with behind the scenes. ( what a big relief )

The following below would be question asked during the interview, question would change or not asked based on answer given during the interview :

INTRODUCTION
1. Could you tell us a little bit about Kluk Kluk Adventure – the band’s background ? [ how, when, why ]
2. Who are your major influences ?
3. What is your role in the band? How about the other band members? Have you had any changes of member or roles ? If yes, has it affect band’s music style from the beginning till now ?
4. What has been your biggest challenge as a band ? Have you been able to overcome that challenge ? If so, how ?

PRODUCTION
5. What is the message that the band is trying to potray or tell through the song?
6. Who writes the song lyric for the band ?
7. How about the music-making process?
8. What was the most challenging part when producing the album/song?
9. What are your rehearsals generally like? Do you have a set time each week in which you practice or are rehearsals more spontaneous?
How can fans get access to your music? Do you have a website with sample songs or a demo CD?
10. Do the band have any upcoming gigs or events?
11. What advice do you have for people who want to form their own bands?
12.Is there anyone you'd like to acknowledge or feel thank you to?

Week 7 - Deciding which band to use for our content

On Friday's class, we were given a short tutorial on Indesign and how to make some function work, we could code our designs and magazine in either Dreamweaver, Edge to make into a html file and then bring it into Indesign. As from now on, each group would need to experiment the functions and features they want to apply for them magazine and test whether the functions and features would be able to be put into Indesign.

As for our group, we got together to discuss some local bands that we would want to feature in the different section of our magazine. We would be featuring more on a local band call Kluk Kluk Adventure as we sort of have more direct contact with the band because Mr.Razif is the band's keyboardist.  We would be using the bands picture for our cover page, behind the scenes, and one tutorial song from the band, the other being Laila's Lounge, also another local band.

Kluk Kluk Adventure

Laila's Lounge

Another than deciding the band, we had to decide the questions we would ask in the interview section for our behind the scenes page. We came out with a number of questions and consulted Mr.Razif about it. He suggested that we should focus questions more on asking about the band and the band's music also change the flow of questions. After more discussion with the group members, we refined our questions and arrange them more better. The questions are as the following :

INTRODUCTION

1. Could you tell us a little bit about Kluk Kluk Adventure – the band’s background ? [ how, when, why ]
2. Does the band have a record label ?
3. How long have you all known each other?
4. What genre of music do you consider your work to be ?
5. Who are your major influences ?
6. Do they influence the band’s music style ?
7.  What is your role in the band? How about the other band members? Have you had any changes of member or roles ? If yes, has it affect band’s music style from the beginning till now ?
8. What has been your biggest challenge as a band ? Have you been able to overcome that challenge ? If so, how ?
9. What is your ultimate direction for your band ?

PRODUCTION

1. What is the message that the band is trying to potray or tell through the song?
2. Who writes the song lyric for the band ?
3. How about the music-making process?
4. What was the most challenging part when producing the album/song?
5. What are your rehearsals generally like? Do you have a set time each week in which you practice or are rehearsals more spontaneous?
6. How can fans get access to your music? Do you have a website with sample songs or a demo CD?
7. Do the band have any upcoming gigs or events?
8. What advice do you have for people who want to form their own bands?
9. Is there anyone you'd like to acknowledge or feel thank you to?

Week 6 - Strength and Weakness of group members

Group members :

- Spencer

- Adriana

- Nathania 

Spencer's only weakness probably is that he sometimes lacks the initiative to do group's work, but if tasks are given to him, he is more than willing to do it. Design layout for mock up aside, Spencer strength is that he is able to design the magazine to be more interactive and look in the point of the reader's view. 

Adriana's weakness is that she lacks leadership. Adriana says that she lacks design sense, which is understandable because we are in multimedia, but Adriana could still try to put in more effort to design the mock up pages. Her strengths are that she is punctual in every meeting we set.

So far I have not seen or figured any weakness that Nathania has within the group. Her strength is that she is able to complete a heavy task given to her and shows a lot of effort in terms of design, and technical mock up. Nathiana is also very critical in a positive way as she would voice out on her opinion when something could be done better. Which our animation for cover page was done by her. 

Overall all my group members are very corporative, and willing to help each other. I can say we are one of the groups that are more flexible and have better teamwork. Everyone is very responsible, when task are given, everyone would complete them. As for weakness in overall, I would say that we lack a proper true leader that could or would lead the entire group.