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Pre Term Schedule
This is only a rough outline of how i intend to focus my time per week before the term in September/October starts:
- 5 hours capturing/editing video footage, taking pictures and documenting my progress
- 1 hour spent on album art work, advertising and internet promotion.
- 10 hours instrument practice/writing material, riffs and motif's
- 10 hours recording and editing audio and samples
- 3 hours writing lyrics and collecting vocal samples to be used, and merchandising.
Full Schedule
Pre-production
June -September = 3 months
In this space of time I intend to spend many hours weekly collaborating songs with each other, sampling interesting sounds and building a sound pallet. Then moving on to constructing and composing the bulk of my repertoire for my 3rd year EP. I plan to record most of it using either sample based sounds or using my MBox to record live instruments.
However i am away for about a month this summer on holidays and at festivals e.t.c. and I am also moving house, so time will be sparse. This means that i will have to put in double the hours in the latter half of the summer so as to make sure my tracks are complete.
I also plan to intensely work on my production/mastering skills as they leave much to be required.
Providing my audio recordings go as planned i also plan to record a lot of my DVD content over the summer months ready for production and editing in October.
Summer school
September 6-10
Hopefully by this point i will have at least 5 or so tracks to present for analysis by tutors and peers, i can then receive feedback about them, allowing me to alter, remix and improve them.
Pre-production conclusion
September – October = 1 month
Further continuation of improvements and amendments, possibly experimenting with new MIDI instruments and tones on tracks seeing which sound richer.
Production 1
October – December – 2 months
Starting full time production of my chosen tracks, aiming to get one track done per week realistically. I also plan to use this time to record any DVD content that i intend filming in Newport, and finishing the whole shooting process.
After producing and mastering some of my tracks to a level I'm satisfied with i will then proceed to try and get some tracks played on local radio and internet radio, while at the same time sending as many demos as i can to record labels which suit my genre.
Xmas
1 month
I intend to review all my work at this point and evaluate any other improvements that can be made to it. I also plan to continue editing my DVD content and plan my DVDs artwork in this time.
Production 2
January – February = 1 month
I will use this time to make any final adjustments and remaster any work that requires it, but i ideally don't want to plan out this time to do anything majorly time consuming or heavy, because i would rather leave it as back up time in case I encounter any technical or unforseen difficulties earlier in my schedule.
HAND IN
February 4th 2011
