Monday, December 10, 2012

Rewind


 
Length- 15:00

An audio documentary about classical music


The documentary is organized in 3 parts.
The beginning is all me talking about myself and my music, as well as my experience with classical music, then there’s a transition saying that other musicians also seek classical training, and I took Nesma Mahgoub as an example.

Then I have Nesma carrying over the next part of the documentary where she, being a professional musician/ pop artist, talks about how important classical music training was for her and how she incorporates it in her work, whether it be the songs in her album or for her vocal training.
then she talks about opera and there the transition happens where Baboukis takes over.

In The third part of the documentary, John Baboukis takes over talking about providing classical music training for young musicians and his experience doing that. He also talks about how important classical music training is for professionals to produce more sophisticated music.
I was very meticulous in the selection of my music. I wanted the music to rhyme with the mood of the content. Whether it was soft and calm opera, or loud and vivacious Allelujah.
Copyright-
I used three sources for the music in the documentary.
1- Nesma Mahgoub’s songs, which she approved the usage of, and cleared me from copyright issues.
2- My own music, in the beginning of the documentary. I took the audio from some of the video of me playing and singing myself.
3- choir opera music- recorded the music from my choir practice, The Cairo Choral Society.

I used Final Cut Pro for editing, because it’s faster and I’m better trained using it.
I recorded using an M-audio. The Voice Over was recorded in the sound proof booth at the Adham Center.