Saturday, March 19, 2011

Post-production- Music

Jonjo and me have written and recorded the music for the opening title scene. We did so in one night, using Garageband for Mac at my house to do so. We were happy with the end result, and when we gave it to Jack to listen to, he was also happy with it.
We used more modern instruments than are perhaps conventional to 1940s/50s soundtracks, but we attempted to bring in conventional styles, timings and genres to the soundtrack, so that it would not appear out of place despite its modernity. An example of a soundtrack that has also used Film Noir conventional soundtrack styles but with modern instruments is the Sin City soundtrack, composed by John Debney, Graeme Revell and Robert Rodriguez.
The instruments we used were: electric guitar, bass, tambourine and keyboard- using a wide range of keyboard voices to construct a Noir inspired modern piece, such as strings, slow strings, trumpet, flute, piano and tenor sax.
I also recorded the voiceover with my brother, the actor who plays Hunter, which I added noise, grain, compression effects and EQ’d it to make the voiceover sound both old and authentic and clear and understandable.
Below are some pictures from the music writing process








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