Wednesday 21 January 2015

Choice of music for the trailer

I have sourced the music from a website called http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/, you can access royalty free music online and download them easily onto a memory stick or PC. The best trait of this site is that you can browse background music by genre, such as electronic or horror, and feel, such as eerie or aggressive. This is helpful when navigating the enormous database of music. I picked the traits 'horror', 'eerie' and 'unnerving', this helps me find tailor made music to suit the feel of my trailer. This provided me with a more concise list of songs, here is a link to the results
 http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?feels%5B%5D=Eerie&feels%5B%5D=Unnerving. 

Each song shows a detailed description of the overall feel, the length, the instruments used, and the tempo. This helps me gauge how useful it is without even listening to it, thus making the site easier to navigate. You can easily play the music through the site and pause and play when required. 

After looking at the website, I have come up with a rough list of potential soundtracks, the description of it is from the website: 

  • Mirage: A sort of drone-based piece with something that sounds like a waterphone, and some other things that I don't know what they could be. Super chill - good amounts of tension with some glorious consonants.

  • Devastation and revenge: A low hum sets a dark and mysterious mood, but at 0:49 the orchestral strings, horns, and pounding drums begin, perfect as the background to the hero?s dilemma or impending battle scene. At 2:01 the music reaches a climax and builds into discordant, terrifying suspense. The ending, at 2:35, features a lone guitar and mournful vocals, depicting a great sadness and loss.
  • Ghostpocalypse 2, the call:Some dark and low rhythmic elements. Some bits of piano.
  • Lightless dawn:Add a dark intensity to any scene... Is there building action? Is there a clue? Is there a need for ambiguity?
  • Private reflection:Epic myth. Part of the hero's journey. Starts with a solo soprano, and later mixes a full choir. Ends assuming you'll mix it into another piece.
  • Lasting hope: Minimal percussion gives a subtle edge to the smooth synth line
  • With a creation :An experimental piece, designed to emulate a keyboardist with her robot. The piano player likes to play with the EP in this piece. Take a listen to get the full effect. EP used heavily throughout the entire piece. Build at 1:02, percussion picks up with heavy, fast beats.

On reflection, I have decided to go with ghostpocalypse 2, this is because it is roughly the same length as a film trailer should be, but can be edited easily due to the quite elements. It has an unnerving feel and the crescendo at the end will be good at the end of the trailer when a climax is built. Here is a link to the track :
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100667

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