Tues Feb 24: theme songs, part one

Greetings HKTD residents!

Most of you have created a show for February. Soon, you will be working on your first shows for March. As part of that effort, what you are going to do now is work towards building a theme song which will be played at the beginning of your show.

To do this, I believe that it is useful to listen to what a professional does when he creates a theme song. I have put a copy of this theme song in our shared folder on Box.net. Its called "theGlennBeckThemeSong" Here's what I want each of you to do with it:

A) download it and listen to it

B) listen to it again, and try to imagine that you have to re-create this theme song. How many elements are in this theme song? Does it have any special effects sounds in it? Does it have audio quotes from movies or speeches? Does it have a musical backbeat? Does it have any special quotes or slogans?

C) Imagine you were trying to re-build this theme song from scratch in Adobe Audition. How many different tracks do you think you would need? How would you layout all the different sounds?

D) Now that you've thought about it, you will need to create a discussion post on our Google group detailing your thoughts. Label it "Beck theme song", and in the body of your post, list the following:

1) list all the different elements in the theme song, and describe each one. Say whether its an audio quote, or a special effect, or a voiceover, or some background music. If you know where it comes from, by all means, show off your knowledge.

2) describe about how many tracks you would need in Adobe to re-create this theme song, and describe why.

3) List any opinions you have about this theme song, and explain why you think and feel as you do.

THIS IS AN ASSIGNMENT FOR EACH OF YOU, NOT A GROUP ASSIGNMENT

Cheers,
Mr. L