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It is Thursday and more than the half of the time in Leeuwarden is over. It is scary how fast the time is running. Out of the daily life of Tampere we can truly say that this trip and the experiences we have in here are just overwhelming. The kindness we get from the Dutch participants of the project is just amazing and made us quite fast forget the turbulent start of our time in Leeuwarden. After the first shy baby steps of getting to know each other we are now at this point that we feel more like a little creative family. This vibe is bringing so much productivity, intensity and inspiration to the daily work that the results are more than great. Day by day the students not only learn from each other but also about themselves, their proficiency and their limits. It is a growing process which makes the Finnish-Dutch songwriting collaboration already now to something really special. Mika and Guido while their co-writing. Monday started quite rough for the Finnish students. The lack of s

It was meant to be an adventure. But that the adventure will have a turbulent start like THIS was something which probably no one of the five Music Production students was expecting. Dutch student Sjoerd and TAMK student Mika talking about the work on their pop song. The whole group with alumni Freek (left) while the presentation of the songs.   Sunday noon: some of the second year music students are together with teacher Janne Tauriainen on the way to Leeuwarden. Leeuwarden is a small town right in the heart of the Netherlands and the home of the Academie voor Popcultuur. Five of our TAMK music students got an invitation to visit the university and collaborate with five Dutch students in a co-songwriting week. The idea about the project is to create at least 25 songs which will might be produced and published afterwards. To make out of this idea a more than thrilling matter the teachers from both universities decided to choose students from different backgrounds of music. Rap, pop or

“VIVANT - FIND YOURSELF” MUSIC VIDEO Created by Iina Kuula, Yulia Pak, Oona Seppänen and Sindy Giraldo (Tamk) INSPIRATION Being interested in Motion graphics and Music video production, we decided to create a project that would allow us to work with special effects, including “Trapcode Suite”, a set of Plug-ins for After Effects that can create really interesting graphics and which is used in Tv and in many movies such as Sin City, Angels and demons, Spiderman 3 and more. We thought it would be a great opportunity to learn this plug-in and develop our basic knowledge in After Effects. US The project started on November 2013 by Iina Kuula, Yulia Pak, Oona Seppänen and Sindy Giraldo. MUSIC CONTEST ONLINE The first step was to find an artist that would be interested to get a free music video. We set up a Facebook page where we gave the possibility for interested artists to submit their songs. In the end we got about 40 songs, from which we chose a german artist called “Vivant”. P

Advanced Media Techniques Workshop was held on 25 - 29 August 2014, led by Antti Perälä. The main goal, learning outcome of the course was to help the students to acquire the insight and skills needed to apply a specific Media Techniques subject. Shooting video with green screen for one of the assignments. This course was mainly about video codecs and formats, export and import of video files and working with Adobe Premiere software. There were two days of contact teaching and three days of independent working with assignments.  I must say, it was one week well spent. Thank you!