Research:Soundtrack - Own Endeavours

From this video I have learned to make my own endeavour:

I thought this was a very effective, up-beat instrumental which would set the pace of the clip very well. Also, the inspirational music will emotionally attach the audience. It will clearly show the protagonist via extended prevalence and it will feature when the main character is walking towards the fight happening in a different so-it-seems.

In this post I will be completing the soundtrack so that we could have a rough cut finished for the deadline.

Screenshot of exporting the finished Soundtrack

I have presented and pulled together to finish the last of the titles and fine tune the editing, despite a power cut halfway through the lesson. I continued my work on the Soundtrack(which fortunately had saved a auto-recovery back-up of the project after the power cut), be matching the soundtrack to the action. I also implemented editing techniques such as changing the pitches of the two sections of the soundtrack; the first part, the piano segment, is now in a lower key to enhance the dark, mysterious atmosphere we intended to create, matching conventions, and the second section is in a slightly higher key to heighten the suspense created by the faster pace of the sequence. I exported the Soundtrack, and we placed it into Final Cut where it would play alongside our sequence. Below is a screenshot of the final timeline of the soundtrack, you can see the multiple tracks and samples that were used in the project (the longer pieces were actually mixed into one layer as originally they were several layers!)



A screenshot of the full timeline of the Rough Cut
Soundtrack

My focus was to begin the titling process and have a rough soundtrack produced. Richard was absent, so I also focused on finalising the titles that we had short-listed in the last lesson and selected the timings and adding the Production Company still that Richard and I created. LiveType was not functioning properly so they used Final Cut to produce some titles and effects using the fonts myself and Richard selected. We did a fantastic job and completed about half of the titles, along with the ending scene where the title is displayed - we produced a very good "typewriter" type effect here that is very effective.

Meanwhile, I was on my own producing a Soundtrack. I had downloaded the editing software Audacity, I placed all the samples I was going to use into the software, and began fine-tuning and editing each track, by adjusting tempo and abbreviating certain areas, as well as isolating particular notes and segments, such as the piano used in the start - the actual score I was working with was from British rock band Bring Me The Horizon's track "And The Snakes Start To Sing" - I isolated an instrumental by removing the vocal frequency, and then used a loop to get a solemn, piano piece. After discussing with the group, we decided to not use a few other samples I had created, and so extended the loops. Next lesson I need to fine-tune this area by adding a synth effect, that I could find online or use production software to create - the desired effect is a synth that builds in a lurch then cuts, to go at the end of each bar. This will also mean that the backing track will have more layers making it more original.



You can see the different tracks clearly, along with where I've added Fade in and out effects to the different tracks. Since this image, the second track has been removed and the tracks have been re-ordered,but this shot shows how I have been producing the Soundtrack so far

I then used my edited abbreviated version of "Pyres of Varanasi", to heighten the pace. I listed timings from the edit to base the soundtrack around, so that it was synchronized with the action, i.e. a large crashing noise is heard as the Shade is first seen. In the next lesson, I need to add the Camera sound effects and loud, low-frequency boom on each flashback/Shade sighting, and fine-tune the end section of the Soundtrack also. Although frustrating to time correctly, the lesson was productive and we made good progress as a whole despite the absence of a group member and can hopefully make more progress next lesson towards completing the rough edit. Richard and I later have figured out that we can get someone more proffesional to do the completed version of this, such as James Richardson, as he can view the final piece and put a soundtrack to it, as mentioned in a previous post, the plan is to get James to help us with the music.

In the following screenshot you will see that I have changed the software I will be using, this is due to me lacking access to an Apple Mac, and found it easier to work on a computer. Here is the final screenshot of my soundtrack project: