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Intellectual property. Concert rules

Intellectual property

Have you ever heard of intellectual property?

It refers to all the creations a person can make in the fields of industry or art (music, painting, cinema, photography). When artists create a new thing, this becomes theirs and they can transfer its property in exchange for money.

Here you have two videos to understand it better.

Concert rules

A concert, whether it is in a theatre, a bar, a concert hall or festival, implies a social context and some rules of behaviour. Do you know them?

In all the concerts punctuality is very important. You should be at your place before the time the concert is supposed to start, without bothering the rest of the people and always avoid leaving before it finishes.

Silence? For musicians it is the most important thing as they need to concentrate and with noise it is not easy, isn’t it? If the concert is in a festival outdoors, silence is a bit complicated but also musicians are amplified so they do not realize so much if you are talking.

And applause? Every time a song or performance is finished. Remember that in classical music concerts you can’t applaud until the performance is completely finished, there might be movements but you can’t applaud between them!

And the main rule is to go and enjoy and let the rest enjoy too showing respect for the musicians!

So, for the next concert, we will follow all the rules!

Commercial break

Do you know what a commercial break is? When you listen to the radio, there are sometimes very short spots with music and slogans very easy to memorise. Those are the commercial breaks!

A commercial break is a small message introduced in big format. For example, an announcement of a theatrical play on the news, an ad after a song on the radio, a commercial of the new cd of an artist in the middle of a movie.

Let’s try to do our own commercial break.

We will need the following materials.

A room that serves as a studio.
A voice recorder or a mobile phone.
Computer with public domain software programmes: Audacity (Sound recording and editing) and Kaffeine (Music player).

Once we have all the material ready we have to think about the purpose of our cuña: a concert announcement, an alert to buy tickets…

We have to follow these steps after having decided our idea:

1st step: write the script with the message we want to send.

2nd step: define the interpretative tone we will give to the voice.

3rd step: decide the duration of the commercial break.

4^th step: we will record the voices with a recorder or a mobile phone.

5^th step: we will choose a song or any other sound effect to accompany our spoken message.

6^th step: we will create the commercial break with the help of Audacity.

We already have our commercial break!