The making of our soundtracks

For our film we had to create a soundtrack. We had to do this because we cant take other people's music, so its best to just come up with our own. We used Garage Band to make our soundtrack. Using Garage Band was easy, and fun. Its nice to play around with beats and things like that.

Our film is focused on me, and me telling my story about being bullied as a child, so I had more of a say with how the soundtrack would come out. Our music is softer, and slower because its a documentary basically I didn't want upbeat tracks because its a sentimental film. You need the music to flow with the film not bring it down or make people be interested more in the music then the story your trying to tell. Making the soundtracks weren't difficult but they weren't easy either. The process was difficult because I might like something I came up with that Zaria wouldn't like or the other way around. So it took us a while to come up with something we all liked.

Piecing together the soundtrack with the film, I would say wasn't that hard. If it feels right, if you like how the music sounds with a certain part don't question it. Just do it. You don't want to throughout the whole film have it sounding depressing, but the sentimental parts should be slow and low, and the uplifting parts should sound uplifting. 

 Our Trailer

My 4th Quarter Goals

In Quarter 3 I had started working on my interviews, soundtrack, and editing previous footage. Basically we had to make up our own soundtracks for our film. So creating those were difficult because I might like what I came up with but someone in my group would think it sucked. So finding something that we all liked took some time. We currently are done filming and now are just focusing on editing everything. Finding out how and where we ant to order things and all of that.
To finish my project by the end of the year basically we just have to order everything. See what goes here or there, make sure everyone in our group is happy/satisfied with how our film ends up. We also need to work on our soundtrack. Editing that and maybe making a few more soundtracks for our film.
My next immediate steps for this week and next week would just be to focused on helping Zaria with the editing because this is the hardest part of completing our film. Editing is our main priority. Film footage needs to be placed properly, edited properly, as well with the soundtracks and statistics etc. Also to work on the rest of my blogs for this quarter.

 

Steven Urry

 

 Six years ago a 13 year old boy named Steven Urry hung himself in his bedroom closet. He committed suicide because he was being bullied and tormented at school. It's a terrible thing to see young teenagers like Steven, or Amanda Todd, a 15 year old girl commit suicide because they think that's the best way to escape. Bullying needs to be put to an end because of kids like Amanda or Steven. Steven loved skateboarding, baseball, music and he just loved to have fun like every other teenager, but how can a kid like him really be happy if everyday he had to wake up knowing that people were going to torture him once again at school.  Steven's mother, Pam, found him in his closet, when she was looking for him because it was dinner time. What a horrible way to find your child. I feel so bad for his parents because I know they loved him, I wouldn't want my child to be so unhappy at such a young age, to the point where they have to just give up on life. Steven was artistic and didn't fit into his school, he stood out. To me I believe he stood out in a great way but to kids in his school he was a loser or a freak or whatever it was they called him! In the beginning of 7th grade was when the bullying got out of control, and he just couldn't take it anymore. It was too much for him. Earlier in school that day, the day he committed suicide, his tormentors set him on fire with a lighter and an aerosol can of body spray. They recorded their attack on a cell phone and posted it on the Internet.

Steven's parents found out abut Steven being bullied a month before his suicide. They did their best to help Steven. They filed police reports and talked to school officials, they were even going to switch schools for Steven before he committed suicide. But Steven's dad, Mike said, "We just found out too late, or maybe we didn't act fast enough, I don't know. The teachers and staff had no plan, no procedure in place to identify and stop the abuse."

"Tragically, many people knew what was going on, including many of Steven's fellow students. One of the bystanders wrote about her guilt and shame on her blog: We all knew what he went through. We knew who beat him up. We knew who locked him in a cupboard. We knew who had held his head under water in a sink. So why hadn't we told anyone? We were stupid. And we expected somebody else to do something about it. I wish I could apologize to Steven. No, I never bullied him up front, but if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. "

Kids had a chance to stand up and help Steven, be there for him, and yet they just stood back. Maybe they were too afraid to speak up or maybe they just didn't care, but to think that maybe if those kids did help Steven he could still be here, alive today? No one will ever know. But my condolences go out to his family.

To read more check out this Huffington Post article.