Here is the link to our project.
Title: Type Your Xmas Song
Partner: Winny Wang
Conception & Design: Thinking about what can be made into our audio project, I came about the idea of composing an existed song using voices we heard in our daily life. Winny and I in the first place wanted to use slow song, but quickly we found it difficult to form the canto. Hence instead, we used “All I want for Christmas is you” as our blueprint. It is featured for the percussions in the background music. And the Xmas topic is also a common topic that make us easier to introduce our project to the audience. Ultimately, we’d want to make an interactive website where you type in the lyrics and the piano tones came out. After you typed all the characters, the whole made-up song would show up and invite you to listen.
Process: Basically, Winny was in charge of making the interaction between the music and the typing. I was in charge of the background design and the synthesis of the song. Learning from the previous project’s collaboration, we allocated our work and the story of our project in the first place. Then I used Photoshop to craft out the stage we need, including the cute characters with snow on them (I’m quite proud of making them by myself!). I recorded the sound we need such as bell ringing, hand clapping, walking on wet floor, and water flowing. The synthesize is a little troublesome than I expected. I failed to output the .mp3 file from the Audacity because of some functional issue. Hence I had to change to use Adobe Audition in making the song. I learned how to change the amplification, adjust the tones, mixture etc. It was quite fun.
Documentation: The documentation format follows what we did in the previous comic project, except an additional Audio folder that stores all our music, and an additional Ps folder storing all the background design.
Conclusion: We meet our goal for this project. Winny and I had quite a smooth collaboration and the whole process turned out to be a great one. We are both reliable and do our work in an efficient way. During the process I learned a lot about music composing and processing, as well as background design.. Winny saved much time for the team as she solved the typing with sound effect speedy, I am quite grateful to have her for my second project.
