Sunday, September 25, 2011

Background Music and Sound Effects

Due to the lack of experience and available equipment/absence of time last year , we were not able to compose our own music/sound effects in our film. We mixed samples instead to save ourselves time. We were spending most of our time learning video editing , instead of focusing on all aspects of our short film. This year , however Me and Andrew have decided that we will most probably compose and mix our own music , then add it to our short film. As the script below shows , our film is of the comedy/drama genre. I searched the internet , but i did not quite come to know of any film/short film that closely matched our story. Thus , i was not able to grasp the music/effects that are used in such films. We have decided to put in a fusion of alternative rock+trance/electro music in our short film's background music , then add samples to our liking. During the summers , both me and Andrew have learned music composing software such as FL Studio , Ableton Live 8 and Deckadance(for mixing). We will use them for making the background music for our film. Below our screenshots of the softwares on my pc. All of the above mentioned software provide great command and portability(as they also come in mobile versions) and will help us a great deal in the making of our music. We are still not 100% sure , about making our own music. It is extremely time-consuming and can be a bit of headache. But still , if we have the time(and most probably we will) then we will make our own music this time around.

Above : a screenshot of the latest version of FL Studio (10.0) , which we will use in composing our music and making beats/electro for our short film.

Above : a screenshot of Deckadance 1.8.1. Deckadance is a mixing software to which we will export our beats/wav./mp3 files and mix them to create our final music for our film.

*Although we are sure of the above decision to create our own music , if any change to our plan arises then a post will be updated.

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