Budget

                                  Budget

Below there is the graph of the budgeting of the gig  that took place on the 20th of May in the college theatre. In the graph of the budgeting you can see how many tickets we sold and how much money we made from all of it. We also had to put down how much money the performers, sound engineer, lighting and box office staff should get and how much money we spent on the chalk and hooks.
In the graph you can also see the outcome of the profit that has been left.

Headline Fee

We decided to give the headline act the most amount of money of £100 as they are the main people in the gig because they are the performers and people only come to watch them and most of the tickets sales are sold because of the fans wanting to come see them playing live. The reason why we didn't give the more is because the they would be getting more money from their merchandise sales.

Support Fee

We decided together that the support act would be getting half of the amount of the headline ac which is £50 and the reason why is because they are not the main acts. People come to see everyone in the band but most of the people come see the main acts. But it doesn't mean they won't be making more money because there still the money of the merchandise

Sound Engineer

Next on the graph we have the sound engineer, lighting engineer and the box office staff and we decided together the sound engineer £30 which will be getting more money than the sound engineer and the box office staff and the reason why we are giving them more money is because in a live show one of the most important thing is the sound, because without a good sound engineer making sure every instrument can be heard and the singers can be heard, the event wouldn't go well because people wouldn't hear things properly and they wouldn't enjoy it.

Lighting Engineer

Next on the graph is the lighting engineer which will be getting £25. The main job of the lighting engineer is making sure that the people performing can be seen by the audience. Most of the time people want different lights for different songs so they need to make sure they change the lights for each song and sometimes people want the lights flashing and again they are the ones in charge of it.

 Box Office Staff

Next and last on the graph is the box office staff which will be getting the least amount of money of £15. The reason why is because their job is the easiest one, the only thing they will be doing is getting the money from the tickets, giving the tickets to the people buying it and giving them their change. All

they will need to know is maths, and that's why they are getting this amount.

Overall, we came out with a profit of £111,66 which is really good but that is not it, we also made money with the bar.

Understanding Technology

Understanding Technology

What is ‘equalisation’ and how has it changed the working process since the early days of studio recording and mixing? 

Equalization means adjusting (amplifies or reduces) the balance between frequency components of a frequency and about the EQ, what it does is to allow you to cut certain frequency components.

Types of EQ:

Fixed EQ: Fixed EQ: The Fixed EQ allows the engineer to boost or cut certain frequencies and where the Fixed EQ’s operates, the frequency can’t be change.

Parametric EQ: You’ll often find the parametric EQ on a more expensive mixer because this is a special type for equaliser and what is does it to allow the engineer to modify the centre frequency.

Graphic EQ: What it does is to control the dynamics of a sound wave, it can be cut and boosted separately.

What is the polar pattern called that the U47 used for recording vocals? What is the polar pattern of the other microphone that was used previously? Why do you think the directional ability of the U47 helped in the recording process in this particular case?

Identify 3 differences between using a software mixer (like the one in ‘Logic’) and a hardware mixing console (like the Audient ‘Zen’ mixing desk in the studios). 

• In the mixing console you have the options to add in plug-ins like (Eg. Reverb, echo, amp designer, EQs, Dynamics etc) and you can also add read, touch, write and latch.
• The hardware mixers normally has pre-amps in it.
• In Logic Pro you can add as many channels as you want and you also has the option of changing things to stereo or mono.

What does a DI box actually do? What other benefits are there in using DI boxes in the studio?

BSS AR 133 Active DI Box

If you are an instrumental player and you want to record your guitar, bass or keyboard, the easies way is by using the DI box
because all you will need to do is to connect the DI box cable into your instrument and whatever you play will be sent to the mixing console. The reason why the ID box is easier is because with it, you won't need to place a mic facing the amp so you can pick up sounds because the ID box will do the job.
With the DI box you can also cancel the microphone picking up other sounds in the recording.

If you were wanting to source a simple audio interface for your computer/laptop in order to record guitar and a vocal at the same time, what main features would it need to have?

Give 2 real-world examples of audio interfaces that would be suitable for this.

Focusrite Scarlet 2i2

Mbox Audio Interface

You would need an audio interface with two inputs so you could record the guitar and the audio at the same time.

One of the audio interfaces I would use to do is the Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 because it is easy to use or the Mbox Audio Interface which is also easy to use, specially for the people who owns the music software pro tools because this audio interface comes with it.

Roles & Evaluation - Major Music Project

Roles & Evaluation - Major Music Project

Each person in the class had their roles such as posters, promotion, pre release, marketing, tech, lighting etc. Everyone worked hard which made our gig more successful.

Roles - Playback (Summer Gig):

Poster - Bianca & Demver

Demver and I were in charge of making the poster/flayers and putting them around college, because that is the easiest way of getting people to come to your gig by putting them around college so people can see it and by giving the flayers to people outside college which helped to promote our gig to the public inside college and outside. 

I was the one in charge of making the poster itself, putting all the information needed and making sure the look of the poster would grab people's attention with colour, pictures and font. While I was doing that, Demver helped me to put the right details on it, like address, price of the tickets etc. After finishing up with Demver's help, we started putting some of the posters around college and some near the entrance and we did the same thing with the flayers.

Lighting - Demver, Darlene & Bianca

The lighting in a concert is very important just like any other role, because it helps creates contrast and mood, for example, if the band is playing a love song the put red and white lights which goes with it or if it's a up tempo song then put mixed colours flashing at some points but it excites people but if the singers doing a A Capella song, then just the while light would be enough because everyone would be focused on the singer but in my opinion in a gig if there's no lights, I wouldn't enjoy as much.

Darlene and Demver were in charge with the lights, and what they did was to go through the set and talk between them which lights then think we suitable for each song and what I did was to ask the people performing which colour of the lights they wanted on their original songs and then tell Demver and Darlene which helped. After doing that we made a list with each song and what colour of the lights we needed on each song.

Social Media - Le-Shaun & Caitlyn

Another way of promoting yourself or getting people to come to the place where you are going to perform is through the Internet, social media. By creating a social media promote, for example, making an event on Facebook and inviting all your friends, by tweeting people you know on twitter or even making an video on your youtube page if you subscribers asking for people to come and by doing that, you will get more people to come to your gig, specially with Facebook because most of your friends and family members use it.

What Le-Shaun and Caitlyn did was to make an event on Facebook with all the information about the gig location, price of tickets and time and then they put all the performers as hosts so we could invite people from our own friends on Facebook. Caitlyn and Le-Shaun and some of us also shared the Facebook event on Twitter.

Pre Release - Garnett

Garnett's roll was to write about all the information needed about the gig the time, locations, price of the tickets and some other details and all that information was put on Facebook and shared on Twitter. After getting all the information needed and putting them all together, he submitted in onto a document and posted it on a Press Association which made it available for the public to view because it was on the association site. That role is very important because it is another way of promoting your gig and making the details about the gig available for everyone to see days before the gig.

Strategic Marketing - Donavon & Yemisi

What Donavon and Yemisi did was to talk to each other and figure out a way to get more people to come to the gig we were putting together with college and what they did was simply to ask in person people they knew, friends, family and even some other people from college, some of us also did the same which helped to get more people to come.

Tech - Andre Shanice

Andre and Shanice was involved with the production students because the were the tech team, what they did was to work on the sound quality, for example, the sound check of each performer making sure each person in the bad could be heard or if any of the singers wanted reverb or any other effect on their vocals they did to tell them so they could talk to the tech team and again make sure it could be added and heard by everyone.

Visuals - Dar

Dar made a montage video of all of the 2nd years. She put together some of the videos she took last year and some she took this year of us and made into a montage video with us performing, rehearsing in class etc. In the video Dar also included some of our songs, such as Priorities by Kieran, Prisoner by Yemisi, her own song and Darlene's.

Link of the video: Westminster Kingsway College Music (Montage Video)

Evaluation
In my opinion the entire gig went really well because we all worked really hard. Every performer wanted to put on a great performance and we did because we were so ready it that we could perform them with our eyes closed and the most important thing, we all had good time. Everything went as planned and the idea of having the bar and the DJ set before the actual gig was a great a idea because everyone was having a good time.
We were all happy with the amount of people that came to the concert, even though most of the people there were from the music department.
The first song of the actual gig was 'Take Me Back' which was cover. It's a uptempo song and it was a really good idea to start with it because it got people listening and enjoying it.
We were most worried about the amount of people that would come, but at the end of the day were happy because a lot of people were there and we knew they enjoyed every song and the night and which got us really excited and happy with the results of the how successful the gig was.