I watched only one of the videos suggested and straight away had an idea on what I could do thinking of some like soft lofi kind of tune to go with what I saw to be a soft, innocent playful encounter between a little girl and a big animal. The big animal is given a deep growly voice maybe to make him seem more scary and to look unapproachable because of his big terrifying size, a complete opposite to the little girl who looks like she is a curious, caring and brave girl.
My first thought for this was to have some nice soft music with some calm nylon guitar and maybe some piano and soft drums to match the chill aesthetic as I feel this would enhance the emotion felt while watching the clip and hearing the music to go with.
Hello this is the next day and I decided to delete all I had made like the drums which where far too much heaviness when it was supposed to be soft. The guitar I had recorded when I got home ended up deleted also just to start a fresh as I just was not satisfied with the feel of it audio and film side by side. So in lesson today I went with an old soft of kiddy piano setting on Ableton which I felt held some emotion and a nice feeling of innocence that matched well with how the little girl is portrayed in the film. The notes in the first chord is a G major with notes consisting of G, B and D the next chord is F major with the notes F, A and C. To start with I just go back and forth with those chords slowly at 80 BPM and the more I use both the more I had little notes around the chords to just give it a little extra soft feeling and get it more graceful. I then looped that same part to play again straight after it while the first part of the girls encounter with the animal goes on then it gets to a part where the animal does a loud scary sneeze so to enhance it a little more to make sure there is no sound over it to give it a dramatic pause to bring out the fear in the sneeze.
Since I got home I managed to hook my guitar up through my interface and decided to try and add some chill guitar to match well with the piano. This was a challenge as im not used to working on such slow soft music but I am starting to get the hang of it, I matched some notes with the piano for a nice easy start and then branched of using a G major scale. To match with emotion after the sneeze with the piano I will using the high notes on the guitar to play similar notes just an octave or two up I feel this will really bring out the soft, playful emotion that this film is trying to capture. The next thing I plan to do in lesson is to find some nice tones and audio effects for the two guitars I recorded, Possibly even some piano lead for the section after the sneeze as well. I also put little checkpoints on to make sure I know when the scene cues are and what’s going to happen when so I can accurately add what I need.
I am nearly finished with the first film music with a few tweaks and volume adjustments so the audio from the film is not getting drowned out by the music I need to find a good balance for the sections maybe make some parts louder than others to keep the feel with it. I found some different reverb and delay effects, for the first guitar I put on dark hall reverb, subtle vibrato and 16th ping pong to give the first lead guitar some ambient comfortable feel. For the second guitar it has some similar effects on for around the same sort of feel.
With the few volume adjustments out of the way the song and film are blending together nicely I can pretty much call this project done and move on to the second film composition. Right now i’m not too sure on which one i’m going to pick but I do like the look of the star night one and the weird random collection of film shots, I think I should give them both a try and see which one comes out better so we shall see.