Rediscovering Old Original Songs...

Recently I've been searching around my room for a specific old scrap of paper from an old A4 graph book. This wasn't my best choice to write my ideas on but, it must have been the closest thing to me when the ideas came to mind all those years ago. I'm not 100% what year I wrote this but, I believe it was before my college years whilst I was studying for my GCSEs in school. If I had to guess, I'd say I was about 13/14 when I wrote this. I vaguely remember writing this song but, I can definitely remember that it was one of my first intended with the accompaniment of a piano. It's quite a sad song really and I notated any actual music for it although I can still remember the vocal melody in my mind which must be a good sign.

In the image I have shared of this work, you'll notice a little lightning strike sort of shape against the word 'inside' at the bottom right corner and a similar thing that was later scribbled out just underneath. I got into a habit of using these shorthand for what would my musical equivalent of half a turn. A turn that doesn't go back to the root and just goes the starting note, one note above the starting note, back to the starting note and then one note below the starting note. these were not necessarily performed any faster, it was just a quick pitch reference for me that probably wouldn't mean anything to anyone else without a full explanation just like this. It doesn't help when the symbol I draw does suggest to myself going back to above and beyond the starting note but, I know what I mean. I didn't use these kind of things very often, although I cannot deny that looking through old lyric books that you would not find any more.

Filming Music video No. 2, Part 2.

On Wednesday 6th April I met up with Kieran again to continue filming. As before we met as his house but, this time before leaving to go to the city recorded a short moment of him leaving the house. We were a little more stuck for ideas this time around. I had a re-read though all of my notes and we seemed to have already used most of the ideas. The weather was a bit on and off all day with showers and then sunshine so it was really difficult to predict what we were going to achieve by early afternoon.

We decided to walk towards the city centre but, then ended up walking up towards the old windmill. The area had a small park, and of course the windmill was quite an interesting landmark to feature. We walked around this area for a couple of minutes and later found a rather nice set of stairs with bold black metal railings. We decided to use these for simple shot of us juts walking down them and talking we only did one take with it, but it seemed to look good.

After we had finished with that location we headed off towards the Arboretum. When we got there, the first thing we did was head towards the bell tower with cannons on all four corners. On the way, we found a nice open area which we figured we could use for a later scene of myself playing guitar but, we tried to stay focused on what we wanted to do with this area. We ended up using two different  locations for the camera to sit on the tripod as we climbed up onto the bell tower just to record ourselves having a bit of fun. It was a bit of a mess around really. We were jumping about all over the place. We wandered down to the bridge and I really wanted to include an argument scene. Under the bridge just seemed to be the perfect lighting set for the argument to take place. We recorded several takes on this, in hope that if we mash it up it would give it a greater effect. After that, we were done with the Arboretum for the day. We knew that we would have to come back to adda additional scenes but, that was waiting for another day though, before completely finishing for the day I decided to record the passing of the sun though the clouds. I still need to get some more footage of the sun, as weird as that sounds but overtime I have a day to myself it's cloudy and when I'm at work it stays sunny! How unfair is that!?!