Music

The feeling and atmosphere of my project is really important to its success and to create emotion and really draw the audience in to the story I decided that I needed a composed piece of music rather than just free sounds.

Through contacting people in the sound department I was able to find a Masters student in Sound Design who wanted to help me. I will be meeting her on Friday and so I have been doing some research into the sorts of music that would be best.

Ideally I'd like to use a piece of piano music as I think that conveys the calm tone that I want to set while also allowing for the build up to big moments and bringing it back down to a quiet background sound. The constant building up to the moments where the two characters fall in love is the main aspect I will ask her to focus on as the pace will be incredibly important.

The main example i've found really useful for comparison is the music for the French film Amelie. Yann Tiersen, the composer of the soundtrack has a style that would really work in my story but the main thing I noticed is his music is recognized by its use of a large variety of instruments. This means that it may be difficult to get a piece composed with so many instruments. But I will ask the student if it's possible to do this and if so, it will add layer upon layer of atmosphere to my work and help massively with establishing a good pace.

Soon I will update the progress of the music and add it to the hand-drawn storboard animatic I'm almost finished compiling to see how it affects it.