MashItUp

We once had an assignment which will rotate around sound. We were all assigned to make a mash up of songs by our Communication and Technology professor, Miss A. Since I once had a band in our school during my high school years, I was a bit confident about doing it. After our class, I went home and during my travel, I analyse how my mash up should sound. I included some factors to consider for me to have the right mash up. I first choose the right beat and I came up to a final decision to have an upbeat pop rock music influenced by my background about music. After choosing for the right beat, I tried to reflect things about me until I relate the theme to how I should live my life. After that, I browse through my playlist and luckily I was able to find the right songs with the right beats. I chose "Somewhere in Neverland" of All Time Low wherein it talks about our career days where we will be experiencing nostalgia as time goes by and as we old. The other one is "Great Escape" of Boys like girls where it focuses on how we should live our lives to the fullest and being free from everything. They both suit me well including the fact that I'm from a band so I said to myself that it will be easier for me to mash up things up. Have I ever tried to mash up songs? The answer is no though I was able to use softwares like VirtualDJ v8 and Audacity and here is where everything will change around my music life.

| watched videos on YouTube first and hoping to find some helpful tutorials that can lessen my stress with the sound editing. Sadly, I was not able to find one so I did things myself by exploring the full capacity of the softwares although I think I was able to use only a minimal percentage of the over-all use of the softwares. I clipped certain parts of the songs which I used for the mash up. I also did some amplification for the parts wherein it is almost inaudible. I thought it was easy but while doing things up, it started to be more complicated because of technical problems. Good thing for me is that I know some things that I should remember like for example; the fade-in and fade-out of song and how to put them to a part of a song. While doing the editing things, I told to myself that exploring things is a wonderful experience especially to my course and because of that; I exerted more effort for my output. Although it is only an assignment, I still considered it as a weekly project and looked to it as a mission that I must complete cleanly to obtain more ideas. I finalize things up before extracting it and passing it. I'm impressed of what I've done and I'm proud of it since I was the one exerting effort for that. The day of the presentation came and I was so nervous that I accidentally raised my hand and be the first one to present. I was able to present it properly but the most memorable happening is when my professor nodded at me and smiled which means that she is impressed of the mash up that I did.