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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.