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This week I had to construct a storyboard, consisting of three frames, and no dialog. The task, although seeming easy, gave me a bit of difficulty. It wasn't so much coming up with an idea, or even the creation of the storyboard itself. Rather, it was creating the storyboard with three pannels. I found that whenever I treid constructing my idea in my head, I always wanted to create it with four pannles. Personally, I tend to like  explainging, and showing everything I can, about a subject, or project, in as much detail as possible. Yet, with the storyboard, it only seemed natural to create it with four pannels. Structurig it around three made me feel as though I was limiting my ideas, and that I was condensing my main principles, that I wished to convey. And although I still feel that that had happened, I do

This week I had to create a music loop, which proved to be something of a difficult nature. I have used some basic sound editing programs before. But Audacity proved to be one of the more difficult to understand, and work with. The functionality of the program was limited at best, and to edit sections of my loop, seemed to me, to be unable to do. Thie whole experiance wasn't one that that really furthered my knowledge of electronic editing programs much.
But with that aside, one thing that I did learn from this assignment was the difference of when you edit your music loops. For the main loop in my project, I used a loop involving some basic bass instruments as the main core of my project then built onto them using a variety of percusion instruments. I tried to keep a solid, steady pace with the brasses, but with the different percusion instruments I tried to keep varying tempos, and rythems, which would play off of the solid brass pieces, such as the with the xylephone, I kept it at a high tempo, and moderatly even pitch, where as with the Tympony, I kept just a swift enough tempo, so that it played off of the time between beats of the brass instruments. And from these, I tried to give the loop further depth by incorperating strings inbetween the brass pasrts, so that even though one was playing, and the other wasn't, I still had the same continuous beat that intereacted with the percusion. Though, after I had done all of this work, and saved my progress, I decided later to go back and add in additional, more dominant drum piece into the loop. Unfortunetly, when I went to reedit my work, I had, unfortunetly aready saved it, and converted it to an mp3, so I was unable to edit the tracks that I had previously added in, to match the new drum beat. So in return, I had to now match the new drum beat with the entire piece, which proved to be more difficult, and stressful, than it could have been, had I not already converted it to an mp3. So this was another lesson I felt was very important to remember.