PIF 4: 24th January 2019.

What did you do within this session?
Within this session we were given a poem and some information about knife crime prevention. With this we were told to use either the poem or information, or both to make a P.I.F video. So my group used just the poem since it had less lines and could be said quickly. I was in a group with Dakota (who played some chords on keys), La' Deana (who played a beat on drums), Marwa (who said the poem with me), Nathan (who played a few chords on the bass) and Andrea (who needed to leave early so I took her place instead).

 How did the session go?/ Any improvements needed?/ How happy were you with the track? 
At the start of the session I was in a different group but I was moved to a different group to be more practical since the first group was doing anything practical since it was only two of us there, so I was put into La' Deana's group. The rest of the session with La' Deana's group was productive and very practical. One improvement was that I should've moved to La' Deana's group earlier so I would have known the beat of the music and how to speak the words with the beat. However, I did it and the track sounded pretty good. 

 Any thoughts and feelings about the session?
Personal I should've learnt and listened to the beat to make the words flow on beat but I didn't to quickly so it kind a sounded out of place. 

 Research?
The research I did for my work was how the music makes the message flow with it. So I watched various of P.I.Fs to see if they had music I could have commented on that went with the message of the P.I.F which helped me make my own P.I.Fs. 

 This the poem would used for this P.I.F:
'If we could go bring you back again' Written with love in memory of Kashif Mahmood by his sister Zainub Mahmood. 
"If we could bring you back again for one more hour or day, 
We'd express all of our unspoken love;
We'd have countless things to say.
If we could bring you back again
we'd say we treasured you, 
And that your presence in our lives meant more than we ever knew.
If we could bring you back again
To tell you what we should have,
You know how much we miss you now,
And if we could we would."

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