I recently got some feedback from my music teacher and he suggested I could add to the foley by including some other sound effects (which he kindly sent me) at specific moments he deemed appropriate. He also suggested I called my soundtracks A and B as opposed to good and bad but I still think the bad soundtracks are bad for a reason. I feel like the chase scene just sounds ridiculous with the horror music because of the bright colours and cheerful characterizations. I still tried by best to change the mood into a scary one but I don’t think you could honestly take it seriously.
The second bad soundtrack is just wrong because of all the traditional Chinese instruments and sounds I’m using. The movie is set in an Arabic country so it makes no sense whatsoever to have foreign musical elements in it. I also added a very weird transition into a more upbeat section which sounds very unnatural (and let’s not forget the squeaky toy at the very end).
I appreciated that they were good enough that my teacher considered the “bad” label unnecessary but I still think they’re a bit too funky.
The reason I didn’t make them excessively bad is because it would’ve been way too easy to just throw random instruments and audio and make both scenes sound like complete trash.
Anyway, I’m currently fixing my blog so that it looks more aesthetic and interesting (I still struggle with figuring ou WordPress), but tomorrow I’ll be fixing the last details to the scenes with this new feedback.
The first scene looks too Arabic for traditional Chinese elements and the second one looks too colourful to be from a horror movie but I still tried my best to make the ‘bad’ soundtracks work in an interesting way.
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