I have taken a break for a week or two regarding my practical work, but I have been focusing on my research for my exposition essay. I have decided that I will be writing about how the music will affects the animation in reference to Anahid Kassabian’s book Hearing Film (2001). I have been concentrating on reading the second chapter in the book about How Music Works in Film, and it is interesting to know that there are ways in which the music relates to the narrative world and music gives these three purposes. These are identification, mood and commentary. I have included more information about my musical influences and how I have approached the composition in my Musical Composition page.
Month: March 2013
First Musical Composition Meeting
This week I have managed to grant myself a meeting with the animation students to talk over the completed (draft) version of the music. Here is what I gave to them to listen to: March 2013 Music
Overall, they were impressed with what I gave them, however they wanted to make a few minor changes regarding the Trap Sequence because they had to change the animation slightly. This required me to re-arrange the composition to fit in with each shot. I found this quite challenging because at one point you find yourself thinking that you have got it, the next everything changes! Hopefully, I manage to figure out a way around it because it is getting tight regarding the time-schedule and I have still yet to start on the sound design. Tom discussed how he wanted no music as soon as the knight set off the trap. He explained that it would give the identification of the knight’s mood where his sense of panic has made him go silent.
Instrumentation (Sneaaaakkyyyyy…)
I have been doing some testing to make the music sound more “Sneaky”! I decided to put a Piano with a bit of delay in to resemble more of Pink Panther theme tune. Here are the examples with and without the Piano:
I definitely think the piano works! It gives off identification and a leitmotif towards the character to represent his state of mind. Here is another example, apart from the Pink Panther theme tune that I took influence upon.