Garageband at the CLC

Last Wednesday, my whole media class took a trip down to the CLC to learn how to use the program 'Garageband' on the mac's in school as my group especially, had basically finished our editing of our film and so needed to compose the music.

When we arrived, we all got given our own individual mac's to play around with until the lecture began. Nobody from my group knew how to use Garageband properly and so we were just listening to the different genre of sounds, until we come across the "thriller/horror" genre. For example, we found, "Captiol C Orchestra Kit, Desire E Chellos, The Tad Sound, Atmospheric Beat 01 and many more." All of these sounds created a tense atmosphere that we thought would build up into our film.

After the lecture on how to use the program, my group and I decided to all sit together and experiment on one mac. We learnt how to control the sounds and tempo of the music playing condensing the music to parts that were not soo tense in our film.


These loops that were on the computer were good enough to be put into a horror film, but since we had already had an idea of what we wanted our music to be like we still wasn't fully satisfied. We decided to get the keyboard out and plug it into the mac and try to create our own music that would imitate "Massive Attack - Angel" as we think that this piece of music goes best with our film. We decided to look through the real instruments sounds and we found under guitar, Muted Electric and New Surf Lead. We thought that these sounded right and al most like massive attack so we started playing the beat of it to see if we could figure it out and mix it with some of the loop sounds. We used the simple low keys of C and D repeatedly to try and make a simple but catchy beat. To our luck the beat sounded perfect and would be a good starting baseline.