Wednesday, 1 March 2017

UPDATE: Soundtrack First Draft

Today we received the first draft of our soundtrack from Alex:

His comment about the drums is regarding what we said about how we would like to keep a fast-paced drumming sound for the montage with each shot high-impact. We discussed style yesterday and he said his ideas so far were to involve piano and synths/drones, which we thought sounded great. Below is said first draft...









(https://youtu.be/S1tEPBKoikg)

Tia and I love the soundtrack so far: we think the tone is appropriate in that it is tense and dark, and the piano introduces an interesting dynamic that we hadn't thought of with our previous soundtrack choices. We are finding that being able to communicate in this way with the creator is a big benefit as we have a lot more input when it comes to how it fits, rather than our previous method of working around what we already had with pre-made music. A few issues we picked up on in the first draft are small, but nevertheless significant: currently the dialogue and voice-over are hard to hear (which we assume is due to how this is only a first draft). We also think that it could be more effective in terms of the timing of some piano chords: for the shot of the hand covered in blood, we would like the chord to be synchronised with when the hand drops to the ground, so it is more impactful. We'd like a similar effect for the shot of the character Connor in the woods - when he turns his head, we have suggested to Alex that there is a strong drum beat that builds up during the montage. Overall, we love the progress so far!

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