As I previously mentioned, I had decided a while back to add a kind of “horror” theme to one of the scenes due to the strange juxtaposition it would imply (Aladdin being a children’s movie and all) so I’ve been working on it more intensely for the last couple of days, but I’m worried I haven’t been experimenting too much.
Wanting to develop the first single idea that comes to mind into a final piece was my greatest weakness last semester as far as I can tell and I’ve taken notice that the self-isolation and lack of face-to-face interaction with my tutors and peers have exacerbated that “laziness”. I would usually draw a lot of inspiration from the other music students because our styles are extremely different so they unintentionally push me beyond my comfort zone and now I don’t really have that anymore so I feel a bit lost in that sense. However, I discussed some options during my tutorial and I’ll now be doing “sketches” as before to make sure I experiment enough.
So, back to the soundtrack, I incorporated some of the recordings I made for the other chase scene but I still don’t get the horror feel entirely so I’ll have to try some other concepts and maybe revisit the lessons that discuss horror scenes from the online course I’m taking.
There’s one interesting idea that I have, though. In my other scene, I stop the clip when Abu (the monkey) falls into Aladdin’s shoulder. For this one, though, I’m gonna extend it a bit because there’s a close-up on the princess and then on Aladdin, and I think I can do something interesting with this horror-themed soundtrack.
(These are the close-ups that I mentioned).
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