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BTEC Performing Arts

Annotating your work

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How to annotate your work

WALT: How to annotate your work Full composition

You must explain in detail, how and why you chose your starting ideas,what you then did to develop them and how you then composed a fullcomposition

Make sure you include these 3 headings when annotating your work:1. Starting Ideas

2. Development of ideas

3. Full composition

Use print screens when annotating your work. The more detailed yourexplanation, the higher your grade is likely to be. You can annotate yourwork in PowerPoint or Word

Remember to mention the overall structure and any FX you have used.

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Starting Ideas:

Here are my starting ideas. I

chose a piano loop called

moody piano, a guitar loop

called milk&sugar and 2vocal samples Yeah and

Everybody. These ideas are

used in the introduction. I

really liked the piano sample

as it had reverb on it already

and was in a minor key socreated a tense atmosphere.

I wanted to

use panning in

my piece so i

chose samples

with both L

and R. Thiswould ensure

that when the

track was

played it

would move

from the left

to rightspeakers.

Development:To develop my initial

starting samples i created a

piece with the structure

intro, A, B, A. This allowed

me to develop the samples

used at the start.

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Development: section A.

I continued to use my

starting samples, moody

piano and guitar. I altered

the texture my adding adrum loop that sounded

like Brazilian bongos. I

looped this until bar 30. i

layered in with 2 more

drum loops, bob loopy and

burning. This created athicker and more

interesting texture

underneath the melodic

loops

To create interest i added

different timbres at bar 13

and bar 17. i chose a special

FX that cut through the

texture and keep the

listener interested.

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I continued to loop all my

starting samples and add

different guitar loops. At bar 34

i added a wahwah. I chose thissample as it was higher in pitch

that milk&sugar guitar loop. I

continued to pan this sample to

it would move from one

speaker to the next.

As section B approaches, i added a snare roll. This is to

build excitement and tension. I also add a saxophonesample. This adds a new timbre into the mix and gives

the listener, a hint that a new section is coming.

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Full composition:

Section B begins at bar 50 [1

minute 40]. This is a drop out

section which add a contrasting

texture in the music. I add new

samples pianoman and funky

piano. I remove all bass and

drums. I bring back the

saxophone sample used at the

end of section B. I continue to

loop these samples until bar 70.

i also add panning.

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I bring back section A at bar 70. This continues until bar

120 [2 mins 50]. By using ternary form structure,developing, repeating and adding new samples, a full

composition has been created.

Finally, i used the mixing desk to

finalise panning and dynamics. I

altered the bass line on channel

6 because i thought it sounded

too loud in the mix. I also

panned the sax sample slightly

to the left.