Reflection Journal 11

So for this week's Production Lab we yet again started with briefing. This time we talked about 'Metacognition' which means 'Thinking about thinking'. I thought this word was quite interesting because firstly its not everyday I see such a word being used and secondly, because it struck up a thought in my head. "Have I ever thought about my own thoughts?". Then I started to try it out as Leon continued on talking as he talked about a guitar track. So I thought "Okay this guitar track sounds good.".Then I proceeded to go "Why do I think that?". It was really quite mind-blowing because finding out the rational behind our thoughts brought up a lot of clarity because answers start coming up and I go "Ohhhh, so THATS why I'm thinking like that" and I'd also find that a lot of my thoughts are influenced by the things around me, culture, experiences, etc. Then we went to 'Correlation is not Causation" which means that just because two things correlate does not necessarily mean that one causes the other. Now this was another eye opener because its very much used in real life situations and there are many of us that didn't realise this. It just proves that we shouldn't believe everything that we see and that we should think about what it is we're looking at and making a logical conclusion. 

 Afterwards we reached the practical part of the day and we were instructed to record our song at 2 different places. We did so and boy did it make a difference. Although it was not so evident in our 2 recordings, it was really obvious in others. Some had bird chirping and wind blowing being picked up which made their recording sound brighter while some had echo and this enclosed space kind of recording which made the recording more mellow and sentimental. Just goes to show that the place of recording can definitely give ideas when making a song to make it more interesting and deliver the message more clearly.

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