Project 2 Task 1: Section A

In Task 1 Section A, we have to write a blog post explaining what we have to do in all of the tasks of term 2. In addition, we are required to fill in a Gantt chart to help us get an overview of when we have to complete each of the tasks.
Section B of Task 1 is about researching at least three different cover songs or songs which have samples of other songs in them and critically analyze the differences between the original and the cover song. After this research, we need, to sum up, what we found out in a 500-word blog post.

Task 2 is about meeting the band which our project group is assigned to, attending one of their rehearsal sessions, taking notes about their performance and then recording them.

In Task 3 we need to prepare one of the demo theaters for a live performance, assign each person of the project group a specific task, set up the mics and the route everything through logic and then have one person record and another person be the cameraman for the session.

The last task, Task 4 is about a critical analysis of how all of the tasks went.

Gantt Chart: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yUHVIhV3Sl5esjKsZ1czwyo-8eBg2K-8ANvePhUUsSE/edit?usp=sharing

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