Monday, July 8, 2013

Dipping my toe into film audio and scoring

After a couple of failed attempts to hook up with a film-maker I decided to bite on the bullet myself and find something to add sound and music to.

I wanted a film without dialogue and something that would suit a mixture of interesting sound effects and ambient music. After scouring Vimeo for several days (wow, there's an app that needs a decent search engine!!!) I came up with this by Petr Ć princl. I'm uncertain of what license is associated with this film, so let's be clear. I did not create, nor do I hold the copyright on this film.

https://vimeo.com/43559211

In my mind the last minutes of the film could be cut without affecting the story. But, bear in mind that I've only WATCHED the original. I haven't listened to the audio as I didn't want to become 'tainted' by the original. For all I know there could be a narrator explaining everything that was left to my imagination.

Anyway, part of the deal I set myself was to spend less than eight hours on this, and finish it. Since it was my first attempt at anything like this I decided that I shouldn't do my usual trick of spending weeks on something and not actually finish it.

I did get permission from Petr to create a derivative work, so here are my efforts: