Reflection

At the beginning of this class, I considered myself nothing but an editor. It seemed that editing was all I really felt prepared to do. And while I still do not considered myself a narrative writer in any way, I do now feel that I have more knowledge to pull from that will help me improve my writing and storytelling skills.
As this semester has flown by, I have had more fun making audio and video projects than ever before. I have felt encouraged to be creative and this creativity has allowed for a lot more hands-on time with both Final Cut Pro and our new JVC HD cameras. Through this increased practice of composing new media pieces every few weeks, I have been lucky enough to be challenged by obstacles that I never would have taken the time to figure out and learn from without being pushed to create on a more regular basis.
The pieces I have turned in for this class, as well as for my experimental film class, have stirred up a strange combination of feelings for me as a student of film. Between the excitement of new possibilities and ideas, the frustration of their actual creation, and the relief of turning in a finished product, my emotions have run the gamut. But through utilizing the skills and theories learned in the classroom I have become at least a more confident media-maker, and at most, a better one.
Now that we are at the conclusion of what will be my last semester of actual classes, I feel that I am better prepared as both a storyteller and a filmmaker for whatever lies in my path. I will take both the theoretical and practical aspects of what I have learned and use them to better myself, as well as my film-making.

Like Spinning Plates

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beatles remix in mono

Up until the last few albums they released, The Beatles saw the monophonic mix as the primary version of their albums. The stereo mixes were mixed by record companies as a gimmick. Usually, these stereo versions were terribly mixed, with vocals only in the right channel and instruments only in the left channel.

The reasoning behind this lack of focus on the stereo mixes comes from the limits of musical technology adoption. During the Sixties, most music was played on monophonic record players, jukeboxes, or AM radio. Listening to music in headphones, where the left and right channels are clearly separated, was just not the norm.

Due to this separation of instrumentation from the vocals, I was able to reconstruct pieces of songs by The Beatles into a new and original work.