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Radio Advert Write up In this write you will learn how to use a lot of the logic software including a midi keyboard, and many of the functions featured in logic. How I made my advert For my second project, I was given the task to create a radio advert for a made up project. The main focus of this project was the music involved with the advert as well as the arrangement and the syncing of the speaking with the music. The product that I decided to base my advert on was a stick that is basically just a stick that I am making out to be the best thing that mankind has ever made. To make sure we passed this project we had to make three separate adverts, one had to be 1 minute long, another had to be 30 seconds long and the third had to be 10 seconds long. The reason we had to make three separate adverts is because when adverts are shown sometimes they are cut short by channels and various radio stations because of having to fit in other adverts. The software that I used to create my advert on was called logic express; this is simple and effective to use and it is user friendly. To begin with create a track by clicking on the plus sign on the top left hand side of the screen. After that a grey box appeared on the screen and I had the option to select the amount of tracks that I wanted to add, I wanted to add one track, and whether I wanted to add an audio track, software instrument track or an external midi track. I selected the software instrument track, as I first wanted to come up with a drumbeat to suit my advert.

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Radio  Advert  Write  up    

 In  this  write  you  will  learn  how  to  use  a  lot  of  the  logic  software  including  a  midi  keyboard,  and  many  of  the  functions  featured  in  logic.    How  I  made  my  advert    For  my  second  project,  I  was  given  the  task  to  create  a  radio  advert  for  a  made  up  project.  The  main  focus  of  this  project  was  the  music  involved  with  the  advert  as  well  as  the  arrangement  and  the  syncing  of  the  speaking  with  the  music.  The  product  that  I  decided  to  base  my  advert  on  was  a  stick  that  is  basically  just  a  stick  that  I  am  making  out  to  be  the  best  thing  that  mankind  has  ever  made.  To  make  sure  we  passed  this  project  we  had  to  make  three  separate  adverts,  one  had  to  be  1  minute  long,  another  had  to  be  30  seconds  long  and  the  third  had  to  be  10  seconds  long.  The  reason  we  had  to  make  three  separate  adverts  is  because  when  adverts  are  shown  sometimes  they  are  cut  short  by  channels  and  various  radio  stations  because  of  having  to  fit  in  other  adverts.      The  software  that  I  used  to  create  my  advert  on  was  called  logic  express;  this  is  simple  and  effective  to  use  and  it  is  user  friendly.  To  begin  with  create  a  track  by  clicking  on  the  plus  sign  on  the  top  left  hand  side  of  the  screen.    

   After  that  a  grey  box  appeared  on  the  screen  and  I  had  the  option  to  select  the  amount  of  tracks  that  I  wanted  to  add,  I  wanted  to  add  one  track,  and  whether  I  wanted  to  add  an  audio  track,  software  instrument  track  or  an  external  midi  track.  I  selected  the  software  instrument  track,  as  I  first  wanted  to  come  up  with  a  drumbeat  to  suit  my  advert.      

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     Once  I  the  track  had  been  added,  I  had  to  select  an  instrument  to  use.  The  instrument  was  selected  from  the  library  on  the  far  right  hand  side  of  the  screen.  There  were  lots  of  instruments  in  the  library  to  choose  from,  I  chose  drums  and  percussion,  and  this  is  because  I  wanted  to  create  a  drumbeat.  When  I  clicked  on  the  drums  and  percussion  tap  another  section  opened  with  a  huge  selection  of  various  different  kits,  I  picked  the  rock  kit  as  this  suited  my  advert  more.      

     

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     Once  I  had  selected  my  kit  I  pressed  the  record  button,  in  the  bottom  left  hand  corner,  I  then  played  in  my  beat,  which  would  be  used  as  an  introduction  to  the  advert  before  the  music  kicked  in.      

     One  my  intro  was  recorded  I  had  to  make  sure  that  it  was  in  time.  To  do  this  I  double  clicked  on  the  area  in  which  my  beat  had  been  recorded  and  a  section  in  the  bottom  of  the  screen  popped  up.  When  this  popped  up  I  had  to  make  sure  that  the  piano  roll  had  been  selected.    

 Once  the  piano  roll  had  been  selected  I  had  to  highlight  the  drumbeat  by  holding  down  the  left  mouse  button  and  dragging  the  mouse  over  the  section  that  had  been  recorded.  Once  this  was  done  I  went  to  the  top  of  the  piano  roll  section  a  clicked  the  Q  button  next  to  quantise  value.  This  button  made  sure  that  the  beat  was  in  time  with  the  BPM  (Beat  Per  Minute)  of  the  track.      

 

     Once  my  intro  was  quantised,  I  added  in  a  further  three  tracks,  and  selected  three  different  drum  kits  from  the  library.  These  kits  were  used  as  a  beat  for  the  melody  of  my  minute  long  advert.  I  then  recorded  the  beat  for  my  melody  and  quantised  it  making  sure  that  it  was  in  time  with  the  BPM.    

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         When  the  beat  had  been  created,  I  then  added  another  track  and  selected  the  instrument  classic  acoustic  guitar,  as  this  would  make  the  melody  catchy  and  memorable,  as  well  as  making  the  melody  sound  cheery  and  up  beat.    Once  the  melody  was  recorded  I  then  quantised  the  melody  so  that  it  was  in  time  with  the  drumbeat.  Once  this  was  completed  I  then  selected  yet  another  track  and  chose  the  instrument  trance  strings  this  would  be  playing  the  same  melody  as  the  guitar  but  obviously  with  strings  instead.      

         Once  the  melody  and  the  drumbeat  had  been  created  I  then  inserted  another  track  but  this  time  made  it  and  audio  track,  this  would  be  used  to  record  the  speaking  for  the  advert,  which  describe  the  product.  This  was  recorded  using  a  mic  in  which  I  would  speak  the  script  into.  The  mic  needed  to  be  plugged  into  the  midi  keyboard  in  able  for  it  to  work.  Once  this  was  recorded  this  meant  that  the  minute  long  advert  was  finished.  In  the  30  second  one,  I  kept  it  very  close  and  true  to  the  original  song,  not  only  did  this  save  time,  but  it  was  a  valid  option  for  the  middle  advert  as  people  usually  remember  the  longest  and  shortest  version  of  something,  very  rarely  is  the  middle  length  remembered  so  I  thought  it  would  be  a  safe  option  to  keep  the  30  second  one  as  close  to  the  original  piece  as  we  can.  The  10  second  one,  being  the  shortest  and  quickest  of  the  bunch,  had  to  make  a  bit  more  of  an  impact  on  our  audience’s  minds  so  I  thought  it  would  be  best  to  put  another  instrument  in,  a  slightly  more  aggressive  sounding  one  which  is  why  we  choose  a  bass  but  a  mute  bass,  I  didn’t  want  anything  extreme.  This  adds  that  hard-­‐hitting  tone  we  were  going  for,  some  more  fleshing  out  of  the  track  and  something  to  make  the  short  10-­‐second  variant  a  little  more  memorable.    As  well  as  this  the  base  was  different  to  all  the  other  lengthier  versions  and  this  meant  that  this  would  be  more  memorable.      

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I  used  a  midi  keyboard  to  recorded  in  most  of  my  tracks  for  all  of  the  adverts  this  meant  that  I  was  able  to  play  my  melody  and  drum  beat  to  my  ear.