Plan

My plans for this week i am going to be doing some primary research i am going to make a google form about proposal to gather audience perception of my proposed compositional ideas. I am also going start experiment with creating some basic chord progressions and melodic ideas to understand how to choose sounds and enter musical ideas into Logic for this activity i would need to have a piano and my guitar. Some secondary research i am going to do is into the original composer of 'The Last Of Us Part 2' Gustavo Santaolalla so that I can understand his approach to composition in terms of instrument selection, themes, harmony, etc. Some practical skills i am going to is start writing the song and just figuring out the chord progression and maybe some lyrics and i am also going to consider options for producing my tracks (live performance and/or recorded tracks).

Perfromance

This week i had done a song writting session, one the of the strengths of ths session was that i was able come up with a chord progression that i am really happy with. Another posative about this session was that i was able work on my lyric writting which in the past is something i have struggled with. The outcome of this songwriting session was very useful due to the fact i was able to get a good start to my composition and i think this was a really good way to spend some time focusing on the writting of the compostion and figuring out the chord progressions etc. One weakness from this session is that i was still not curtain on what i want my composition t be like and I'm not sure how i feel about it having lyrics. Next week I will reflect on what i have done in this song writing session and decide if i like certain things and then what i can do to change it because i want to make sure that I'm 100% happy with my composition, a solution to this is that i am going to keep experimenting with different chords and rhythms. 

This week i also made a form on google forms to gather information and opinions of people who would maybe listen to the music i made and get the audiences perspective on my project. One main strength from doing this was being able to gather other peoples opinion on my idea and also able to then get help and some advices from people on what i could do to make it better. I think this was time well spent and the outcome of this was increadibly useful, due to the amount of information i learnt from my pears and people who took my form for example i learnt that the majority of people who listen to music listen through streaming and more specificly spotify. One of the weaknesses that i had found while making one of these forms was that i struggled on getting the from out there so more people could do the quiz if i were to do it again i would try make my questions more specific. Next week I will use what i learnt from this form because i gained some knowlage for example the type of music people listening to and what genre would go with the game.

Next week i want to work on-

• I am going to make sure i am happy with the chords i did this week and think about what i want my compstion to be like.

• I am also going to be analysing a live performance that i am going to see and focusing on how they perfrom

• As well as going into more detail in the reasearch in video game music.