WEEK 2

Alicia


Plan:

Our plan for this week was to work on our melody and lyrics for our first song by 12pm, as well as to work on the demo 2 in terms of chord progression, story wise of the song, and melody and lyrics. We also wanted to work on our arrangement for our 1st song to see whether there was anything that we could change or add to further improve it.

Do:

I think we were over-ambitious by having too much tasks to complete within the day, as we only managed to finalise the story behind the first song as well as general lyrics wise - certain phrases and words that we could potentially add in the song. For our second song, we had decided that we wanted it to sound more solemn / sad in contrast to our 1st song. We had played around with some chords and found out that the chords Fmaj7 - C  - G - Dm would be fitting for the mood that we wanted to potray. Another chord progression that could potentially work at some point could be Am - Dm - E. We also finalised our artiste that we wanted to produce to be Shirleen.

Check:
I really like what we have so far both in terms of arrangement as well as the general lyrics / phrases that we had thought of for the songs. Maybe some changes will be made throughout as time goes by to fit it better but what we have so far could potentially work.

Reflect:
I feel that we are potentially a little behind time, considering the fact that we technically had a head start because of the demo that Loke had beforehand. A lot could be more organised on our end to make everything more productive.



Bernice


Plan: 

This week’s plan was to finalize the lyrics and melody for both songs. However, we wanted to finished loke’s demo before 13 since the entire structure is already there. 


Do:

Obviously, we overestimated our abilities because we couldn’t form any lyrics, any melody, any ideas worth working on until the very last hour of our booking. That’s a very long time. Due to my lack of understanding of Loke’s song, I requested that he explained the story behind his song. Since it was a personal song, it took him awhile to open up. After his explanation, I had a better context of the song and could finally come up with lyrics. For the second song, we managed to come up with a chord progression that would serve as a continuation of the first. It had very mellow tones to it. 

Check & Reflect:

I think what we have now is really leading to something bigger but we are behind time. We’ve wasted too much time procrastinating. I think we need to have a sense of urgency because everyone else around is making far better progress than us.


Loke


Our plan that we had for this week was to try to at least finish the lyrics and the melody for our first song and also to try to come up with a little something on our second song. I think that we may have overestimated our own abilities and planned a little too much to do for ourselves as we could not really churn out anything until the last one and a half hours. It was a little frustrating at first but I think we're making decent progress. We came up with our first verse and also wrote down certain phrases we could use for the rest of the song as well. We also got a couple of chords down for our second song that we could use. I really like what we have so far and would die to see what we can come up with for this week.

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