LO5/6: First draft of the full audio mixed. Overall I am really happy with the end result. I did send Drew some final notes to work on to polish off the sound. The last Draft of the audio will come int eh next few days as I am to have all the animation edited completed by the end of the 29th of May giving Drew the 30th to finnish the last draft.
LO5/6: With the new animatic and blocked out animation Alfie and a cleaner animatic to work from a d could enhance the first part of the track and build on the second part. I am quite happy with the pacing, timing and overall sound of the music. I know am waiting on a draft form Drew who will be mixing the music with the sound effects. This is a very important part of production especially to see it the sounds do mix. LO5/6: After several meetings face to face and over Skype Alfie produced this soundtrack with a base piano stem as the back bone for the music to an altered animatic as Alfie asked me to extend shot 3 to accommodate a longer musical introduction. I really like the first half of the track but the second part doesn't work as well. As it happens the end is being redrafted so I asked Alfie to proceed on working on the first half as that was unlikely to change. LO5/6: As with the other members of the group when engaging Alfred/Alfie I gave him access to google drive, the project treatment and the most recent animaitc. Alfie also asked what kind of music I was after so this time I sent more traditional sound tracks to him.
LO5/6: These where the first tests Drew sent me for sound- I think the first was very good but the sounds where some what sharp. I asks Drew to work on that aspect to make it softer in sound and he produced attest 2 which I feel is an improvement.
LO5/6: It was really easy to set up meetings with Drew to discuss the new animatic. in this meeting we discussed the new animistic and the sounds that would work and the possibility of audio for the girl; very simple gasps and so on.
LO5/6: I have contacted another sound designer, also called Drew, who has agreed to start on my project. As with all the other new members of the group I have him a link to the project treatment and animatic to introduce him to the project. I have decided not to show him the previous work Drue did as I feel i should let the artist come up with their own take on the animation. Also I felt that Drue's work was possibly a little too harsh and might send Drew down a route I wouldn't like.
LO5/6: After quite some time of not hearing back form Alex I decided that the project needed to start to work with audio and music to make sure that there would be audio produced on schedule. In a way the fact that Alex has dropped out may be a good thing as the narrative has developed to the point where a song with lyrics may not work with the narrative and pacing of the new animation.
LO5/6: Once the animatic was fixed I gave Alex a detailed breakdown of all the key points in the animatic to create a more emotive piece of music.
LO5/6: Alex has just handed in the first draft of the music which it beautiful. It has great feeling and tone which suite site the animation and the girl beautifully. The next stage of development is once an animatic has been locked down to create more of a sound track like melody which exaggerates the animation at it high points meaning the music will have to drop and fall and not remain so constant as it is in this first draft. |