Film Trailer = Recording Music

Millie and I has originally planned to use the Music Departments  recording studio to record our own version of Sam Smith's Leave Your Lover. However, due to technical faults in the recording studio, the date we planed to record kept being pushed further and further back. This was very inconvenient for Millie and myself as we really wanted to get the trailer complete and handed in by the original deadline of after the Christmas holidays. After releasing that the recording was going to take longer than expected, we spoke to our media teacher who agreed to extend the deadline for us, however we had to of had all footage edited by the original deadline and just the music to add afterwards. This took a lot of stress of for Millie and I.

Unfortunately when we returned back to school after the Christmas holidays, with all our editing complete, the recording studio was still broken. So Millie and I sat down and tried to think of another way to get this recording complete. We decided to make other arrangements and book out the recording studio, so we had the Logic Pro software but use a microphone, a Blue Yeti, Millie had got for Christmas which plugs into a computer by a USB cord. This meant that Millie and I could use the needed software only available in the recording studio, but record the vocals and piano ourselves. We then set a date with our friend Molly who can play piano, and luckily were able to use an electric piano belonging to the head of music so that we had a softer sound than a normal keyboard used in the classrooms.

After practising a number of times, we finally got a recording with the piano and main melody line  that Millie and I were happy with. So Molly then left and Millie and I focused on adding the harmonies we wanted to add more layers and depth to the recording. When we recorded the harmonies we were careful not to sing them to harshly as we wanted the tone to remain soft and gentle to match our storyline and the emotions of the main protagonist. After completing the recording we then just needed to add it to our film trailer so I saved it onto my memory stick so we could upload it to the MacBook we were using at school in our next lesson.