#10 - Part 2

Feedback:

- "Instagram is a great idea because a picture speaks a thousand words" - Samid
I chose instagram for your group because you're allowed to post videos and pictures. Also I hope you can follow it and like the pictures of yourself.

- "you're very good at communicating with the group, however you could improve on being stricter." - Kareem
Thank you Kareem, whenever I'm strict the teams aren't productive, whenever I'm laid back more work is getting done.

Here is the instagram page and a sample photo:

http://instagram.com/SMD_official4

Musical genius at work

A photo posted by SMD (Shut Me Down) (@smd_official4) on Nov 23, 2014 at 12:30am PST

If you need help with instagram please visit this page so you know how to use it.

Mr. Ball telling us about the role of an executive producer:

#10 Part 1

Wadha Al Nabti
Music Production 10
5th December

Process Journal #10

This week the first lesson we were given to work on our roles. While on the school trip to Dubai I decided to be productive and search more on my role as an executive producer, even though Mr. Ball cleared up what we need to do. I always say knowledge is power, the more the merrier. According to my research from the video and websites I've seen, an executive producer basically the business side of things wether its funding, distribution, or promotion. In our cases its mostly distribution and promotion because we are supposed to promote our bands, while showing off their music. However it can be funding, by giving them ingenious ideas for their music, or ways to make the image of the band better, either way they are trying to make the band sell merchandise. Other than that I didn't follow the other part of Hayaan's advice because I know what a musician, producer, and songwriter is supposed to do thanks to Mr. Ball. I only followed his advice when I was supposed to search my own role because if you do your job correctly, then who you're representing is in safe hands. The only role I didn't know much about was engineer, and thank god I didn't research that because Mr. Pardy came and he used to be an engineer. He taught us how before there would be three engineers for the different functions, but now only one engineer is needed because all the dials and switches have been put into one board. Also, he told us about something called ambient tainting and that is when other sounds interfere with yours and you get background noises and static type of sound. This thing ambient tainting has been the thing that has been getting on my nerves for the last two years, thank you Mr. Pardy. He also summarised everything we learn about microphones last year, meaning phantom power, omnidirectional microphones, stuff like that. Other than that what I learnt today about the engineer is that he comes and fixes everything a musician does to make it sound better, so basically be a music critic, however you need a physics degree sometimes because you need to work on a program thats way more complex and different than Logic X Pro; it's basically like a smart technician music critic its pretty cool. After Mr. Ball told us we had to advertise our band, I decided to create an instagram for SMD, calling it SMD_Official4, while I created a vine for G.O.A.T, called GOAT7.

#9

Wadha Al Nabti
Music Production 10
28th November 2014

Process Journal #9

I wasn't here for the whole week as I was absent sunday, and wednesday I was off to a football competition from the 28-30th of November. I missed two lessons because of the football competition, and one due to a fever. 

#8

Wadha Al Nabti
Music Production 10
November 22nd 2014

Process Journal #8

Today we continued on with getting started with our real life studio experience by getting roles.To freshen up your mind, there are four roles that you could get in a real live studio and we were told that by the end of last lesson we would have our roles, albeit Taji and I didn't get one. The roles we could've secured was a producer, songwriter, musician, and engineer, but at the end of the first lesson Taji and I were executive producers. In hindsight, I wish I was a songwriter, because I really love fusing poetry with music. Furthermore, while attempting to understand our roles we realized we had to split the work, in which we decided to divide the four groups between us to in a way, manage them. I took over SMD, G.O.A.T and the little practice room in the classroom, which would later on become my office. The next lesson SMD (shut me down) and G.O.A.T (Greatest of all time) were in practice rooms to decide on a genre and name of a band. There was a lot of disagreements so the whole lesson was spent trying to get along with each other and deciding on a name. Sara, Samid, Hamad, and Basyouni decided on the name SMD (shut me down), while Darwin, Al Anoud, Kareem, and Hayaan decided on the name G.O.A.T (Greatest of all time). That was as productive as it was gonna get because these bands weren't made up by friends but by classmates, so lets just say it was a diamond in the rough, a butterfly waiting to break out of its cocoon. 

Feedback: (on role)
"I believe you should research more about your role, and others as it will help you understand what everyone is supposed to be doing in your groups, and what you're supposed to be doing obviously" - Hayaan

Thank you Hayaan, that was honestly very helpful because then I will understand what it is to be in a live studio from all perspectives. Also just the way you put it was beautiful I will know what I'm supposed to do and how to apply it to the other roles and help them understand what their doing. In this moment I realize how hard it is to be a teacher.

"you need to start advising us on our genre and try to be a mediator because I don't want to waste more time fighting in my group" - Hamad Al Mawlawi

Hamad I will try my best to advise you on your genre however that is a group decision and I believe that you need to get used to it because you will be working with them for the next two months. Albeit, I will try to find the most famous genres as they will have the most information, instruments, and lyrics to create around those genres. Also the faster you help stop the fights the faster the other group members realize they need to take the matter of the project seriously. 

Photo of my office:

#7

Wadha Al Nabti
Music Production 10
13th November 2014

Process Journal #7

Today we started a new unit based on different roles in a real live studio, bringing reality into the class we currently take to face reality.  I really dreaded the second lesson as we spent all of it trying to understand our roles on youtube; if that lesson was subrogated with one where we could try and guess our roles, then we would be shown the videos to see how wrong we were, in that way we could learn from our mistakes. I was really happy to work with this new real live studio unit because honestly I love songwriting and fixing peoples music the best. I like to call myself a music critic, so I'm not a huge musician, meaning this is my time to shine. Moreover, even though I complained about the masterclasses they really helped me understand the roles and the basic guidelines, but I still needed to touch up on some stuff. Whatever role I get I can watch the videos again as they were very useful or just read the guidelines of the roles on the white board, because there is nothing wiser than Mr. Ball. In all honesty, I wasn't being sarcastic Mr. Ball is my favourite type of teacher doesn't like to go all out and gives us all the basic and essential information needed in bullet points. He's a very productively challenged person, as in he can do the most important stuff in a short amount of time which is a quality I value highly. Anyhow, I will use the whiteboard and the videos to reference my need for knowledge on my role, which shall be chosen by the end of this week, however Taji and I still don't have a role.

There is no feedback (barely started my job)

Photo of Mr. Ball explaining to us our roles: