Sound Mk II

So here we were in the pub, when all of a sudden WE GOT IDEAS for this wonderful final project that Jamie's doing - this is a rehash of a rehash essentially, but It'll help me organise my thoughts on the project.

Stop Motion Photo Montage: As Jamie said he wants it to be based along a mini adventure (no mini, no.) And the overall feel of the piece will be nice, happy and twee. Therefore I would like to submit an idea of a simplistic plinky-plonky sounds, much like Noah and the Whale or if you're going a bit over the top, have some Gershwin (About 0.29s in) Sorry about the m4a format, I suck.

Film Noir: I think that this will be the toughest piece to put together as I feel with Films, even though you have less of a challenge in terms of conveying an idea solely through music, you now have to accompany what's happening on screen and that is a massive challenge - music can make or break a film.

So let's break this down. We discussed the possibility of about 4 or 5 themes that will occur throughout the film, to represent the places and characters that appear:

• Theme 1, the Messed up Detective.
• Theme 2, the Femme Fatale
• Theme 3, the Bar
• Theme 4 + 5, lost forever in the depths of my pint.

Now the idea is to have separate themes, and when two or more of the characters/places are on-screen, I will attempt to merge them, hopefully we'll get a soupy goodness appearing. I also toyed with the idea of using popular songs and some typical sexy sax style songs to sorrowfully serenade the audience, something along the lines of Elbow and this random video. Okay that last example isn't great but still it's a start.

Another thing we need to consider is how to build up emotions, especially tension throughout the film - the use of silence, very high or very low sounds can be very effective at this, but Hannah probably has better knowledge of this than I do.

Hansel and Gretel - I'm going to be cheeky with this. I think Englebert did a great job orchestrating his text, and I'd like to borro- steal his themes and transfer them into a modern context, through use of a more popular music form i.e. a band with additional instruments.

When Jamie said he wanted to set Hansel and Gretel in someplace modern, like a crack den I instantly thought new cr- grimy and then jumped to the nearest song I've been listening to for an idea, and so here is a remix of Elbow's Coming Second. Obviously we can't use that for the whole thing, but also think of a bit of techno (Matrix?) Neither of those two are entirely appropriate as of yet, but something along the lines of grimy synth and fairly heavy rhythm would work well for a grimy fairy tale.

So that's all from me for now, let me know your thoughts.

Mikee