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Final Blog Post

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This is the final blog post, there were a few troubles over the last week in terms of the performance but I am now done and just rehearsing along with finishing my essay, I’ve hit the minimum word limit and I am quite proud of it overall.

The problems I had were that the 5 minutes were not long enough for all of the tracks together, there wasn’t enough time to type everything and get it playing within the five minutes so I have to cut the whole thing down. I decided to remove the battle theme and the village theme as I liked them the least and they sounded the worst overall, it’s a shame but it was necessary to fit it all into the 5 minutes.

Rehearsals are taking a small break at the moment so I can focus on the essay but will commence again after it’s handed in.

Well this is it, it has been up and down but I am very glad it’s over!

Final Cycle

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I have now finished the tracks but its now time to make sure everything works fine together, this will be a cycle but no design this time, it will all be based around fixing it all ready for the performance, making it all fit and rehearsals. The test cases are:

  • Does the performance work within 5 minutes?
  • Does it all sound right within the overall theme?
  • Does it sound like separate 1 minute tracks?

Rehearsals will start soon after parallel is due so I’m excited to get that done and my essay is almost done as it gets closer to the hand in. Next week I should be all finished in terms of development! Woot!

Starting the Fifth Cycle

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With physics done, the battle theme was finished quite fast plus the samples also fitted this type of fast pace. So now that is finished I can move straight onto the next theme which will be the ending theme for the performance, I’m kind of glad it’s coming to an end for the design since it is getting a little boring and repetitive. The essay is killing me but it’s at about 6000 words now so I’m very close to getting it finished.

The test cases for this cycle is:

  • Does the track sound like an ending theme?
  • Does it fit in with the overall theme?
  • Does it have at least 6 different transformers?
  • And does it fit the full one minute?

That is all for this week and I’m so excited to get this finished

 

Starting the Fourth Cycle

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The Dungeon theme was super fast to finish within only a week, it was the best one to do and I enjoyed it a lot. So now we are starting the fourth cycle which is going to be a battle theme, there’s not a lot to talk about for this one aside from it being fast paced. The test cases are:

  • Does the track sound like a Battle theme?
  • Does it fit in with the overall theme?
  • Does it have at least 6 different transformers?
  • And does it fit the full one minute?

I’m on about 4000 words for the essay and as my physics is now finished I can focus on the essay.

Starting the Third Cycle

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I think this is my favourite theme to start as I am a fan of the music of most dungeons that build suspense and provide an atmosphere, the other thing was that the samples and some of the transformers actually suited the dungeon theme I am making.

The test cases for this cycle were:

  • Does the track sound like a Dungeon theme?
  • Does it fit in with the overall theme?
  • Does it have at least 6 different transformers?
  • And does it fit the full one minute?

Nothing else really to report apart from that my physics module is stressing me out and so my write up has been postponed a bit.