Personal Projects – August Hattiangadi

Visual Productions

Making this poster was especially fun for me because we were allowed to create fictional events. This piece entertains the thought of a reunion for the 2020 winter percussion season, which was tragically cut short last year. I indulged in scrolling through a few old photo albums before finding the perfect picture, and I’m really proud of the slogan. Overall, this was a simple and enjoyable project, and I’m hopeful that this summer will be filled with percussive adventures.

This is my flyer, titled, “Get Percussed” featuring Emily Young, Erica Hooper, me, and Saige Deng (L-R)

Audio Productions

I had two audio productions: a four-chord song and experimental music, both made on Pro Tools.

My four-chord song was my introduction to ProTools as a means of creating music. I used the simple structure, I-V-vi-IV to create it.

This is my 4 chord song

This is the ProTools interface for the four-chord song

The experimental music is meant to emulate a couple that was arguing outside, made entirely with boom beats. I’m most proud of the album cover I created in Illustrator.

This is the album art I created. Click it to navigate to the SoundCloud page my music is published on!

This is a screenshot of my ProTools interface. As you can see, I used multiple distortion methods.

Video Productions

I used Adobe After Effects to produce a video about my documentary. This was the most challenging tool I’ve ever learned, but I’m glad I was introduced to it because it ultimately taught me preseverance.