Okay so that's what's in my imagination when you mention 'garage band'. Like some messy space where people get together to make music.

But nah, that's not the case of GarageBand in Mac computers. It's clean and organised, even if it's a space for exploring creativity in music. This week we got in touch with this interesting software application. Throughout the lesson, we were taught how to insert music tracks into the making of our song, record real-life sound and voices, alter the volume and pitch of whatever song we were doing, and even play with the piano (literally) on the keyboard. And in times like these I'm kinda glad that I actually do know what I'm playing on the both keyboards!


All was fun with the clicking and mixing and playing. Then. We had to compose our own song of 30 seconds. I can't compose my own song, even if it's 30 seconds; really honestly, this mixing music thing is so new to me that I couldn't grasp how to do it. So I didn't know what 'thing' was it, that I came up with. But the others did pretty amazing, some of my classmates had pretty good mixes that sounded legit, at least. Which proves that, in the end, maybe you don't quite need instruments to make music.

Midterm break was the perfect time to begin shooting our video. Us girls gathered in campus for an early shooting session at 8am, and completed all the close-up shots required in our story. According to plan, we also had a scene where we needed to use the hotel room at Ruemz; unfortunately that plan for the day was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. Oh well, we would have to postpone those few shots for next week instead. Overall, it was a wonderful experience working with these lovely girls. Can't thank them enough for their patience, understanding, compromising, and going to the airport all the way even though I couldn't make it for the trip. I suppose sometimes all it takes is a collaborative project for people to get together and know each other, just a little bit more at least.

After the lecturer's approval of our group's storyboard, we can actually start the whole process of filming according to our own schedule. Thus is has been decided between us that we would begin shooting after our midterm week, when we will have a break long enough for us to concentrate on this project.

Shivany from our group owns  a DSLR, so that would be used for the shooting process. It is also mutual agreement that she will be the main character of our PSA video.