Planning: Lexicon Of Words For Electronic Dance Music

Single - a short record or CD featuring one main song or track #

Sampler - Similar to a synthesizer, uses filters and oscillations to make sound from the                            medium of pads or a step sequencer

Synthesizer - A keyboard like instrument which can make various sounds

DJ - A DJ (or more formally known as a Disc Jockey) does live sets to crowds while mixing           tracks together seamlessly to make them sound like one track

Producer - A person or people who make the music using a DAW or by notating sheet                             music for an artist

House - A sub-genre of EDM which has sub-genres itself

Research: Electronic Dance Music

Electronic Dance Music

Research/History

• The origin of this large genre is mixed but it was around the mid 70's and 80's
• It became popular in Europe first in the club scene then eventually made its way to America

Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is made up of a huge amount of sub-genres; the largest and most popular is House which in itself has many sub-genres.

There are various instruments used in Electronic Dance Music these include:

• Synthesizers
• Samplers
• Vocals
• Keyboard
• Piano
• Drum

And More...

The way most EDM is made is by the use of Digital Audio Workstations which are computer software and you can get a wide amount of different programs which can help make a specific type of EDM

Examples of these would be:

• FL Studio
• Ableton Live
• Logic Pro
• Cubase
• Reason

And others but these are the most widely used by well known Producers such as:

• Martin Garrix
• David Guetta
• Calvin Harris
• Don Diablo
• Blonde

Etc...

Overall Electronic Dance Music is a very varied genre in music and in the charts now you can hear many examples of it

Research: Music Magazine TA2

Reasearch: Music Magazine TA1

Reasearch: Media Studies Summary

After reading the first chapter I have learned

1. Development in media is speeding up vastly in the coming years.

2. A lot of media analysis is focused on the effects and behaviours it causes in society.

3. Media Studies only became a popular academic subject in the 1980's and 1990's.

4. The internet has transformed the media environment so that now the users are able to become the producers.

5. There is only a small number of big multi-national corporations which actually dominate the media ownership.

Planning: SF Magazine Content Page Flatplan

Planning: SF Magazine Front Cover Flatplan

Production: Contact Sheet SF Magazine

Research: SF Magazine TA3

Research: SF Magazine TA2