I wanted to discuss in this blog post where some of my ideas for this project came from. My whole concept for the project was based on a youtube channel I found that’s called “Editing is Everything” wherein the youtuber edits movie trailers to make them seem of different genres. That’s how it occured to me that I could take some scenes from a well-known movie and make them communicate a very different message.
As for the scenes themselves, I wanted the “good” ones to be somewhat Arabic mixed with rock or some other genres (I ended up using rock and electronic music) to give it a different feel while maintaining the the theme of the movie so I listened to very weird Arabic artists that mixed many styles of music with their own.
The ‘bad’ dance scene has traditional Chinese elements which makes it sound very weird because of all the Arabic elements so it was an interesting juxtaposition. I thought of this one by accident because I was trying to get a sample from another instrument when I picked a Chinese one . This reinforced my idea that I could make the ‘bad’ scene sound so much crazier and have the current ‘bad’ scene (the electronic one) act as the ‘good’ one and scrap the old version.
For the horror-themed scene, I used some tips from the online film-scoring course I mentioned previously. The instructor mentions the use of a single note that repeats throughout the piece and how it creates an ominous feeling.
That is what the videos look like. The instructor uses Ableton Live but all of the tips he gives can be easily applied to Logic X too.
As I mentioned, I have been reading 2 books regarding music (I’ve recently finished “Arranging for Strings”) and I got some useful tips from one in particular while the other helped me more on the theoretical side of music.
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