Music Pt2

Music

As well as what Frankie and Abida made on Garage Band for the Action section, we also needed a piece of music for the beginning when the detectives find the house and the necklace.
We wanted a quieter and calmer piece for this part, so I looked through a number of copyright free songs from our teacher’s husband’s band and settled on a section of one of their songs to loop around. We didn’t think that lyrics would be suitable for this part and that a drum beat would give the wrong feel to the scene, so the piece I chose was a slow, soft guitar piece that also sounded quite sad. This was appropriate for the crime scene as something bad had happened and we wanted to also convey this across in the music.

Originally this music was in two places in the film, once at the beginning up to the point when the victim opens the door and again after the credits up to the victim opening the door in the dark room.
However, when we showed the rough cut of our film to the other groups their feed back told us that they thought we needed a different piece of music for the post credits section. So I started to look for alternatives, after looking once again at the music my teacher had given me, I couldn’t find anything suitable that I thought would fit. I also searched mobygratis.com and although found something we could use, the time it took to get back permission to use it, did not fit the schedule we had to get the production done. Instead of trawling the other copyright free music sites and possible having to pay a fee for permission to use them, I decided to use the Garage Band software on the Macs. Using what Frankie and Abida had done as a guide, I tried to make a piece of music that would fit in with what we already had and gave the scene to sort of atmosphere we wanted to create. The instruments I chose to use where just drums and guitar, the same as what had already been used, this gave the music a unified feel. To continue this I selected the guitar track from the same category as Frankie and Abida had. The drums I chose where slower than the other Garage Band section, to fit in with the slower pace of this section. Another reason I picked this drum beat, is the bass drum rhythm, which sounds similar to a heartbeat, the section the music plays over is very tense as the victim has been taken by the villains. The music had to be ‘scary’ and tense, similar to the other section but at a lower tempo. I also thought that the addition of a footsteps sound effect would help to build tension for this part and also help reinforce that the victim had been taken to the warehouse. Garage Band had a suitable sound effect so I added in it. Overall I think the music fits well with the scenes it is meant for and helps to reinforce the ideas we wanted to get across in the scenes.