First Project - Without Words: Evaluation of Strengths and Weaknesses (Week 2)
We worked much better as a group this week, and rather than last week where we had two people heavily leading the group, we all managed to get our ideas noticed and used. In the end, because the original storyline didn't work very well and we wouldn't have been able to make a 5-minute piece out of it (a man confronting an alien in his dream, and being unable to run away), us and Ant came up with a completely different storyline, which is more interesting and complex, and there was a lot more to compose about.
I managed to contribute a lot this week, and my introduction (a slow, creepy, jazzy-piece), the 'mad-professor' section (dramatic motif), and ending (happy, Queen-esque sounding chord progression) are being used in the final piece. We managed to come up a lot considering that we had more limited time than the other groups, due to a change in storyline, but we managed to adapt some of the music that we had used before to the new one, and it worked quite well.
As an instrumentalist, I think I did quite well. The keyboard in the rehearsal room is slightly dodgy because the sustain is always on, but I worked around it by putting the 'Split' function on (which makes the bottom half of the keyboard a non-sustained bass sound) and by composing what managed to sound well with it. Some of the notes clash because of this glitch but I managed to work around it, and hopefully the keyboard that I'll be using in the final performance won't have that problem.