The 3 musketeers (and luke)

The 3 musketeers (and luke)

Friday, 26 March 2010

The hills are alive with the sound of Disposable!

I (George) will be taking you thorugh the thorught process and development of our awesome soundtrack. Despite Jakes lust for Marilyn Manson (actually worried for him!) i thought to use something more edgy that would compliment the soundtrack. I Listened to Massive Attack, Smashing Pumpkins, The Strokes and Radiohead in order to get a feel of what i wanted, as i felt these were on the same wave length of what i wanted.

After grasping Garage Band, eventually, and playing around with many different sound effects for a very long time i crafted our final sound track.

I decided to layer it, as i felt that this would build tension amongst the audience. if i used the same soundtrack for the whole sepquencer it would become boring, tiresome and annoying to listen to, so this way the audience doesn't get frustrated by the soundtrack.

A base track, 'Under Servaillence' was downloaded from http://www.freeplaymusic.com/

This is the Primary sound we used, as it lasted long enough to cover the sequence and as a pre recorded track it already had variation in it. It had quite a mysterious sound to it, which reflected the mental state of the main protaganist and went well when i layered any sounds over the top.

The music for the opening titles was a mixture of an Ambient Noise Effect and a Percussion Sound. This sounded quite creepy to me and thought it set up the movie genre well. It gave the audience a feeling of what the film would be about.

I used a distorted heartbeat to highlight the unstable conditon of the main protaganist. I thought it made the film more personal as you felt like as it signified his heartbeat, you knew the character more personally and you're able to connect with him. this is used at the beginning and end with no backing as i felt it focused more on the sound, making it bolder and more memorable.

After this i layered the track with Modern Rock Bass Line and a Mono Syth track used after. i wanted variation in order to not bore the audience or annoy them with repetetiveness so these played one after the other. These were picked as they complimented the base track well and in the case of the Bass, added to the heartbeat effect.

I also added a faint howling noise over the bass, which i found had a disturbing effect to it and again signifies the mental state of the main protanganist.

We took sound off at the end of the track to emphisise the pill bottle dropping which we found peircing and embeded the scene into the audience. Clips at the end on the sequence and during the sequence with no backing sound were done to make the script clearer and to highlight specific parts we felt the audinece neede to hear in order to clarify the story or to give the audience a reaosn to carry on watching the film "This is more than just a fall from grace".

Anyway hopefully i didn't go on too much and i hope you enjoy our opening sequence

George

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