Learning Music

After speaking to some students studying music we realised that many people play musical instruments, however a lot of them use the insternet sites such as youtube to learn. This shows that now for the 21st century learning an instrument isnt very time comsuming or expensive as from a click of a button you can learn.

Sites such as youtube help people learn music as the publish videos that can teach you all about the instruments.




youtube also teaches people how to play specific songs so there is no need for people buying sheet music to learn.








This is a screen shot of the videos on youtube; how tho play the piano, highlighting the view.

Rupal

opening songs

we searched though youtube to find possible songs for the opening of our documantary and also to find clips of existing videos that we can use.

Week 3 04/02/08

We thought that it will be usefull to add a short interview from mrs Griffin, head teacher of Greenford High School as she helped introduce music technology A-Level in 2007. we asked her a few questions on why she decided to do this and how she might think it will helpp the future students of Greenford High School.

On Wednesday we did a few clips of karishma Vithlani playing the saxaphone and a small interview with her. As she is a very talented young muscian hoping to further her career in the world of music we have decided to follow the life of her to see how she intends to suceed.
We also interviewed some students stugying music A-Level to find out how they are finding the course.

Rupal

Neil Portnow's Interview

This is a interview conducted on Neil Portnow who talks about Starting a Career in the Music Industry.

Bhavishree

This music video has been added onto our bolg as part of the Indian music section of the production. We hav arranged an interveiw with the songs music producer, Amit Rai. He was also a Greenford High School student, therefore we thought it would be good to get some tips for him to share with present Greenford High students on how to get into the music industry. We have planned to ask him questions on how he got himself into the music industry, who inspired him and many other questions based on his career.

Jyoti Bhamra 12B

week 2 28/01/08

On monday we did an interview with Mrs Handley, who is the head of music at greenford high. we asked her a few questions on how she helps the students in the school studying music. this was helpful as as we got an insight on what teachers thought about futher careers in music and whether it is increasing or not. also this interview gives advise to young people who want to have a career in music.

On Tuesday we went to Themes Valley University who are a specialised in music. we spoke to Pritesh kotecha who is a student currently studying Music Technology and is hoping to continue it as a fulltime career in the future, we got his views on the topic and advise he would give to young people who also want to study music.

On wednesday we went to southall to a music shop called bina musicals. we went to see how the anount of people vistining the shop and asked questions on the instruments they play and if they want to further music as a career.

On Thursday we invited a man from the music youth theatre to come in and talk to year 7 students about his career and how he helps students into the youth theatre. The muisc youth theatre is there to help young students who have a passion for music and can't afford to go to study music and drama. therefore they involve these students in activities to help them further their careers.

On Friday we interviewed a student from the royal acadamy of music who has come to London from Italy to study his passion. He talks about his passion for music and gives advise for youths who share the same passions.

On Saturday we talked to a student from Cardinal wiseman high school so see her views on bollywood music and how it is becoming more westernized.

Rupal

Outline

Our main objective for this production is to generate a music documentary that incorporates the main conventions of a documentary. We chose the music industry because it is something we all have great amount of knowledge on and can adapt to any problems arose within the production, another reason for the selection is that the audience obtain a sense of diversion through the music they listen to they embrace a new world which usually makes them feel good; this is generally known as escapism.

We had accumulated knowledge from lessons based around the production and conventions of a documentary and are now constructing our own documentary similar to our previously studied documentaries. The documentary would also consist of all the possible targets of a production generator and they are to educate, inform, persuade and entertain the audience on the subject of the maturity of music. In the course of this documentary we seek for certain stereotypes placed upon the subject of music and challenge them also showing an alternative side rather than the audience believing in the typical stereotype. The focal stereotype placed on certain music is that it gives a base to violence and to some extreme crime; we intend to pinpoint this stereotype, place arguments against these stereotypes and present this viewpoint in a different manner. Another objective is to persuade the target audience which are mainly teenagers to further music as a career and take it up as a course in university we also explain the benefits of this.

Primarily we are going to concentrate on the progress of the music industry and the expansion that has changed the way we live and our attitude towards certain subjects. Keeping in mind we will also talk about all the people who have committed their whole life and career for their passion in relation to music.

Bhavishree