March 23, 2019 – A Lot To Learn

Now for the final step…adding in music! As I discussed in an earlier blog post, I chose the song “Bad Reputation” by Joan Jett. The audio I downloaded of the song was super loud, so I lowered it to around 10% volume when I placed it in the iMovie timeline. The song is 2 minutes and 47 seconds long, which is an obvious problem because my title sequence can only be 2 minutes long. I ended up having to splice up the audio and rearrange it to keep within the two minutes. This was very difficult; it required me to listen to the song religiously and try to match up certain sections to make it cohesive. Thankfully, “Bad Reputation” is repetitive in its lyrics and overall sound; this made it much easier to match up different sections. I made two separate arrangements of the song. For Audio #1, I rearranged a lot of the song by changed the order of the verses. For Audio #2, I left the song the same as it is in its original version until the end where I cut out a whole verse and just played the end. It’s difficult to explain in words; to hear what I mean, check out the arrangements I made below. I haven’t decided which one I want to use as my audio for my final sequence, but I plan to have some of my family members/friends listen to them and decide which one they think sounds the best. It is also important to note that I slightly adjusted the volume level of my ambient sounds so they would blend with the music.