Starting point.-My knowledge of music is quite broad however it is mainly focused towards certain periods in time, for example, I really like and know a lot of the 1960 music and 1990s Britpop movement which is my speciality its contrast my weak points are 1950 and prior and 1980s as I have a smaller interest in pop music at that point so i will have to extend my knowledge there.
parameters:
length-i will need to do a lot of research to collect 15 minutes so i will have to watch lots of other documenters and ready many books about the period to collect more knowledge
budget-i will have to do all the voiceover myself as i can’t ask anyone else to do that for me as i can’t spend any money. I will have to write a narrative to say the story over the top of the footage I’ve found this will take a lot of time as I’ll have to write it in advance.
Knowledge-i will have to read a lot of books and watch other fan-made documentaries to know how to fill 15 minutes of the documentary with different facts and interesting parts during the documentary.
documentary research-i will be watching the rolling stones “gimme shelter” it starts by the rolling stones performing “jumping’ Jack Flash which ends at 4:42 then it transforms the mood completely buy showing them listen to the radio and hearing a hells angel talk about them in a bad manner this shows it as more of a somber mood at 15:55 it goes back to an interview
it is being told through a mixture of interviews and songs which tell the story however there is no narrative this could be very hard to achieve if i has to try this as it would all need to be found footagethe documentary had no vocal narrative which gave a very close and personal experience on the other hand it had a very strong visual narrative however i won’t be able to do this myself as i will have a more broad story so i will have to have a vocal narrative however i could be able to tell some kind of story throughout a visual narrative to give it the personal feel
starting points- in adobe primer I will be using 720p quality as it is the youtube standard and if everyone does the same quality it will look a lot better when they are all put together. also, I will make a folder to put all my clips into so I can keep it all organised
the direction of my projects are to look into the psychedelic side of 65-70 so during the documentary i will focus on the importance of 1966 including the huge increase of psychedelic songs and the ways of recording to create a psychedelic song and how they influenced the progression of song producing.
main events in the 5 years of 1965 to 1970:
+martin Luther King is assassinated
+landing on the moon
+death penalty is abolished in England
+England win world cup
+Sgt pepper released
my 1965 knowledge
start point I will start the documentary with the Beatles just releasing help and show them struggling to perform live and the battle between mods and rockers as there was not much psychedelia going on at this point then I will transition into the year of 1966 which I will show the revolution of psychedelic records, for example, the backwards recording in rain and how this was used in tomorrow never knows also the release of good vibrations including why it took 121 takes and the increasing drug use including (Andrea) explains-LSD which was popularized in the 1960s by individuals such as psychologist Timothy Leary, who encouraged American students to “turn on, tune in, and drop out.
middle: into the middle of my documentary I will show the release of Sgt pepper along with magical mystery tour and the release of the doors album and how that was produced because of how advanced the American technology was and how this brought a more poetic side of song style and songwriting and how psychedelia was in full swing
end I will show how psychedelia dramatically died out of mainstream music with main events however the main in 1969 the rolling stone gig and the Beatles split 1970 brought an end to the hippy era which was short-lived at the best of times I will use clips of the rolling stones documentary to show how it ends “gimme shelter” which shows a man getting killed at a music gig for the rolling stones this really stamps out the hippies and starts a revolution towards music with more anger and some music went down a more synthesis side with the endless possibilities for bands to experiment with they moved away from psychedelia and went to space’y’ sounds
from the 1965 mind map i will use the information about the Beatles and how the equipment wasn’t there for psychedelic songs yet but it was on the horizon also i will try include the rivalry between mods and rockers in 1965 and how this influenced music.
from this mind map will try to get across how revolutionary 1966 was to psychedelic songs from backwards recording to being able to record songs in a totally different way
and how lsd became increasingly popular and how artists used this to change and evolve there music to there liking and toward the public
i will also tak about the recording of tomorrow never knows and how that used classic psychedelic sound and how this influenced countless bands to release psychedelic songs
from this mind map i will want to talk about the importance of sanfranciaso and the hippies over there and the summer of love over there
i will also want to say about the releases of sgt pepper and magical mystery tour and how the beatles now publicly said the had used lsd and how/if this changed there public image or there popularity
i also want to include how important the recording process of sgt pepper was so important Chilton (2018) emphasises -The Beatles had brought the values of the counterculture into the mainstream. By breaking traditional rules about what a “rock album” should be, Sgt Pepper gave other musicians new ideas and new attitudes to the approach of music.
i may briefly mention the who aswell and how they changed from a harsh mod sounding band to a more psychedelic sound group which in the space of a year
in the 1968 segment i will talk about the downfall of hippies and why people began to dislike like them because people didn’t like them as they wont helping society also the beatles travelling to india especially Harrison who learnt to play the sitar and came back and played it in a lot of his tracks in the Beatles
at this point will try to wrap it up by talking about the tension of the Beatles and Yoko hanging around with them and the altamonte gig from the rolling stones where 4 people died one murderd by the hells angels which dramatically brought an end to the hippie generation and instigated other kinds of rock and led dramatically decreasing in use
With the mind maps they take a long time to write and research however it is going to really help my start middle and end point as if i do it by the years it will give me certain points to defiantly add into the documentry it will give me more of a structure if i set it out like this i can go through year by year showing key events and top songs and albums of that year for the psychedelic side of it.
research plan:
13/11/18– I started to watch the rolling stone documentary gimme shelter and wanted to see how another documentary was put together and from this i found that they didn’t have a narrator which gave it a really close and personal feel however there footage was strong enough to be able to do this from this i can take how important good footage is and if its really good i won’t have to do as much narrating
14/11/18– i started to make mind maps of all the 5 years i had to research from this i could tell very clearly how recording advanced in 1966 as there psychedelic era started and finished it was also a really good way to get the key events over the years and i will try to include this as much as possible the good side to this is that its very easy to read back however takes a lot of time.
20/11/18– i began to look into different scripts for docuntentrys as i was just about to write mine I’m going to try to focus 3 miniutes per year as this will give me enough time to say about all there key events that happened in that year and explain them in enough detail
script:intro
Between 1965-1969 there was an revolution in the world of music with the way it was produced to the way it was played live it included massive changes in the uk especially London as young people began to get themselves money and with this came freedom this allowed them to be able to buy more things for themselves and really begin to explore
1965-
in 1965 the beatles released help which was a dramatic turning point in the Beatles’ career. The Liverpool quartet made a bold leap from teen beat combo to studio artists. they also released a film to follow which did very well
however in London there was another generation was evolving
mods begin to get more money that ever before because they were able to get jobs it was the first time that young people will be able to get them selves money since the war this allowed them to buy themselves scooters which gave them as a group a sense of freedom which effected the music
the Beatles were becoming ground breaking in the studio as in 1966 they relesead revolver.
1966
in 1966 the Beatles released tomorrow never knows from the inventive use of johns voice to Ringo Starr thunderous drum pattern and the manipulation of sounds with McCartney laughing to sound like a seagull really changed they way people recored gave birth to psychedelia
by using a lesley speaker it gave john pennons vocals a echo twisting sound which gave the psychedelic sound
the beach boys released good vibrations, which was there effort at a psychedelic record with the electro-theremin which gave it the sound of the unknown
the obscure mood changes throughout the the song give it a essence of the unknown
it was also the most expensive pop song of all time costing £50000 to create
1966 was the birth of psychedelia and more was to come in 1967.
1967-with the summer of love in san francisco and people in london starting to wear
1967 was the prime year for psychedelia the Beatles had just released revolver and after realising they can experiment in the studio instead of playing live as they technology wasn’t advanced enough so everyone could hear them they “felt them selves slipping into average musicians” they released sgt pepper- because they weren’t touring they had as much time as they ended to get this album correct this album along side many, many others really started the hippie movement in san francisco
at least 100000 people gathered in Haight-Ashbury in san Francisco these people were called hippies and it was the summer of love in America mostly young people supporting the hippie lifestyle and behaviour.
1968-in 1968 psychedelic music began to become very popular with many albums being released at the end of 67-68 fashion started to be an important factor for hippies
in 1968 there main reason for hippies was because they wanted to do there own thing and didn’t want to be part of society this was partly down to the baby boomer generation as the youths and young adults experimenting.
the use of lsd also became increasingly popular especially in san Francisco where it was illegal however many people still used the drug along side many others which also influenced the hippie generation
1969-
in 1969 hippies began to fall
at the rolling stones Altermont gig which was a free gig on the end of there America tour they got the hells angles to be security. which didn’t go to well. some big fights which led to 4 people dying one by a stab wound caused by the hells angles this really significantly marked the end of the hippie movement
in the 60s there were many music changing bands the beatles,rolling stones and the who who changed music and inspired many people to make music in many different ways
reflection:
in this project i feel that my mind maps are quite strong and carry enough detail and make it easier to write my script however they do take a long time to make especially 5 of them so if i had to to they again i may look for a easier and shorter alternative that still has as much detail.
if i was to do another project again like this one i will start editing and putting pictures in earlier as i found myself pushed for time towards the end to get end of the project
process: first i did mind maps about each year to what the best information was that i could put into the documenty this helped me and made it easier putting information in however it took a long time to create so next time i will try too find a quicker way to get good information
next i did a rough plan on what i would could put in and how i could long it would be this helped me figure out what information from the mind map i would keep and what i would discard
after that i collected images and videos from the internet and put the into premier which took me a long time but after i did it i was almost done
next i wrote the script which i found easier after doing the footage collection because it made me have a aim on what to write about and i could see how much i need to write for a certain amount for time so i could fit it in.
after this i recorded it and edited it into place in my documentary i found the recording process of it quite hard so next time ill try to get someone else to say my script which will make it easier editing it in was a bit difficult as some of the gaps i had made didn’t fit very well so there was a bit i had to go over so next time i wouldn’t put them in so i would record the script first.
my first thing i did to start the creation of my documentary was collect images and videos to put into a primer file so i could edit them and make the documentary
after this i found the music i wanted topuut in for this i found some of the top songs from that year that i was focusing on and used that i the clipped it up and got the correct times and how long i wanted the project to be:
after i put the clips in i aranged them and put in gaps where i would put my commentry over it this isnt the normal way to do it but i thought it may make i easier. after i did this i could see it may make it harder because the audio i recorded waste the exact length i thought it would be so if i was to do this another time i wouldn’t do this first i would recored the audio first then
then i recorded my speach over the top and edited my gaps slightly to fit the amount of commentry i had and slotted it into the right places this was harder than i had imagined and i didn’t not get a very good sound so i will do it in a a easier way and see if that sounds clearer.
These are the chords and lyrics through the song however i didn’t play these chords i played a riff around the chord of dsus2.
delay- delay may be the most commonly used effect as it gives an echo effect on whatever sound you would like, choosing the correct delay times is really important if you get it wrong it will give you a completely different sound than you would want. The most commonly known type of delay id analog and tape delay these were the first types of delay and really helped 60s rock be born with there guitar tone
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