October 2016

Lincoln College Show Reel – Price Layout

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CD Show Reel

Our initial pricing was £750

We broke this down into

  • £500 – Recording, Mix, Mastering – Travelling there to record.
  • £150 – Studio Rental – To record at where we were located
  • £100 – CD Production Fee – We create the CD’s and send them out

Dave Mallet (Lincoln College Music) agreed that the recording cost was fair. He said on the surface it looked expensive but as he thought about it, it seemed just.

Dave said he couldn’t justify paying for the studio rental as they have facilities of their own to record in.

The CD production fee was also something Dave was not interested in as he felt that was something they themselves could also do.

We will use Dave’s feedback to help us adjust our pricing.

 

Meeting With Dave Mallett – Lincoln College Music Department

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Dave Mallett is the program leader of The Lincoln College music courses. We decided to speak with him about our idea of a compilation CD. Joe was on the music course so we used this to create a less formal meeting with Dave.

Before the meeting, we created a simple product layout which had the intentions of the product. We wrote down some ideas for who the project would help and mainly how much it would cost.

We met with Dave on Monday the 10th of October at the college. We spoke about the idea and how we thought it would be able to help the college. He liked that it would give his students a taste of what university would be like. The budget of the project was the big factor as Dave was not too keen on the pricing. He said that the extra fees for recording at the university and the fees for CD production were too much. Being in a music college they would have all the facilities to do this so he said he would mainly be paying for our time and experience as engineers.

Overall the meeting went really well and Dave was very on board with the project. We exchanged emails and agreed to meet the bands he had chosen to set up some dates.

Lincoln College – Music Course Promotional CD Package

Lucy Johnstone – Freelance post production sound designer

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The lecture consisted of a lot of professional practices as well as industry tips.

The first part of the lecture was mainly information about mixing and tidying up sound files. This was very useful and included an example in which she showed part of a TV program and how she received it. She then showed us what she changed and how it was done. She spoke about a variety of techniques such as sound matching and information about plugins which will be very useful when coming to do post production for uni work, as I am working on a film project for AP2

The insight into the freelance industry was very interesting as she spoke about work experience and the different parts of a CV that would help someone break into the media world. As she has worked for both a company and as a freelancer, her insight into both worlds was very interesting.

Throughout the lecture, she gave helpful tips about things such as spot effects being in mono, slow motion footsteps, and time stretching. These tips were very useful and will be sued when i come to edit sound clips in the future.

Overall I found the lecture to be very engaging and a good insight into what this industry is like to work in.

 

Audio Project – Meeting 1

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Joe and I met with Lee Gretton our tutor for the project. We initially had two ideas in mind for our project and we discussed both of them with Lee.

The first idea was to record a band and create a professional sound EP for them. They would be considered our client and we would work for them during this project. Lee made it clear that this was little more than a level 2 project and asked how we would step to a level 3 one. We spoke about the possibilities of turning it from a client based project to a research-based one. This would have worked by us looking into specific aspects of the recording process, researching more about it and then doing it for the band. This would mean that the band would probably not get the material they were after and this posed some concern.

The second idea was to create a compilation CD of college bands for the college to use as promotion and marketing. Our idea was to bring the bands to the university to record them, mix and master the project then print CDs. We would have the college as our client and we would work for them during this. Lee was more positive about this idea and discussed with us ways to advance this project. We spoke about contacting the college to set up a meeting.

After the meeting, Joe and I decided that the college project would be more beneficial as it would give us real world business experience. The band project would have been good but we feel not being able to produce a full EP would cause bands to be discouraged.