Pieces that influenced this task.
Danny Elfman’s Batman, with his use of a technique similar to Smalley’s ‘Square Technique’ to create drama and suspense in the music. Also Elfman’s use of variations of a theme which overplay and repeat each other in a number of different ways.
Danny Elfman’s Beetlejuice and its use of a two or three note motif (around 0.39) to carry the track heavily inspired by piece
The original soundtrack for the scene I re-scored was also heavy inspiration, with Zimmer’s use of fast motor rhythms.
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My objective was to write a score implementing woodwind instruments, in this case being a scene from the movie The Incredibles. I First adjusted the tempo of my track so that the key frames where sat on mostly strong beats helping to enhance many of the visual elements, then pizzicato stabs where layered on top to highlight any key frames which were not on the strong beats. Composers techniques adopted where Elfman’s use of variations of the theme played on different instruments overlapping each other inspired by his scoring for Batman, As well as Hanz Zimmer’s use of quick motor rhythm to carry the pace of the track used in the original soundtrack for the scene. An audio technique used in this task was to send all the tracks in my project to a bus with a reverb unit to emulate the sounds being played in a large hall. A new musical technique implemented in this task was slowly layering up large sustained notes of the melody on top of each other to create and enhance dramatic build ups in the scene. This task is an example of practice as research as I have discovered techniques used in Batman (Elfman.1989), Beetlejuice (Elfman.1988) and The Incredibles (Zimmer. 2004), further researching these techniques by incorporating them into a original composition which shows the use of fast motor rhythms and multiple variations and counter melodies. I would give myself a mark of around 65-70, as I believe I have explored multiple composer and audio techniques to meet the task objectives.
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Youtube(2010).Batman 1989 Theme. Available at <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgpmdqUEQRM>.[accessed 10/4/2011]
Youtube(2009).Beetlejuice -Main Theme. Available at <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZktSPrGSck>.[accessed 10/4/2011]
Youtube(2010). The Incredibles Soundtrack #13: 100 Mile Dash . Available at <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IekwaN1xCaU>.[accessed 11/4/2011]
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i did double up all the instruments with others, or different nuances of the same instrument , to create a thinker more realistic sound. I also added slight reverb, but may still be a little to dry??