Music Creation - Inspiration
For our film, I will be creating the music. One of the main things about the music for our film is that it has to be sombre and ominous, but not melodramatic. One of the main inspirations for the music is the Gregorian chant, Dies Irae.
Translated from Latin into English, it means "Day of Wrath". It was originally a poem and then used as a hymn for a Requiem Mass (a mass for the dead or a funeral mass). Given that the general theme of our film is death and the afterlife, we thought it would be fitting to use the melody of this chant as a part of our music. I feel this is a nice and subtle use of this chant as it would give some clues to any viewer who may recognise the tune as to what the film is about early on.
The instrumentation for this piece of music will be simple, just a piano playing the melody then a drone bass underneath to create a more ominous tone. I will be creating the music using the instruments that I have access to, namely a digital piano with MIDI functionality to allow me to get different sounds to create a better fit into the film.
I would also like to make use of stereo sound. Most people who are watching the film will be able to get the effect of stereo sound, whether it be through headphones or some standard desktop speakers. I feel this really enhances the experience of any music, often creating a better atmosphere as it allows the viewer to feel really immersed in the world.
I have used FL Studio 12 to experiment with some ideas, and I decided to try out the stereo panning with the piano and bass panning gradually to opposite sides, as shown below.
You can see the gradual wave effect that I created and it creates a sort of swirling effect to the music that I think creates an extra bit of atmosphere that could be really effective.
Of course, it is harder to get a real sound from a synthesized piano, so I will be creating the music with my piano to get a better sense of emotion from the music. As it stands I have only made a very simple melody and bass composition.
However, this won't be used the whole way throughout the film. I wanted to create a more emotional composition to make the serious parts of the film more poignant. For this, I was inspired by a couple of classical piano pieces, written by Beethoven and Chopin.
This is the Moonlight Sonata, one of Beethoven's most famous works. It is quite an ominous piece, which would fit the mood and flow well from the initial piece of music that I discussed earlier. The minor key and harsh piano could be quite discerning and striking at times which I think would need to be changed in my composition.
As well as this piece, there is the second work of Opus 9 from Chopin's Nocturne suite. I personally really enjoy this piece and think it would fit very well into our film apart from the harsh crescendo at the end. The whole piece has a relaxing demeanor about it and I think the best thing about this piece is that it was written in a major key. This makes the end of the film not seem so baleful and gloomy. After all, the Greeks, whose mythology we are basing our film on, believe that the spirit of the person lives on and that they merely move on to another life, in Elysium or Tartarus (heaven and hell respectively). Therefore I think it would be unfitting to have the tone at this point to be completely doomful.
Translated from Latin into English, it means "Day of Wrath". It was originally a poem and then used as a hymn for a Requiem Mass (a mass for the dead or a funeral mass). Given that the general theme of our film is death and the afterlife, we thought it would be fitting to use the melody of this chant as a part of our music. I feel this is a nice and subtle use of this chant as it would give some clues to any viewer who may recognise the tune as to what the film is about early on.
The instrumentation for this piece of music will be simple, just a piano playing the melody then a drone bass underneath to create a more ominous tone. I will be creating the music using the instruments that I have access to, namely a digital piano with MIDI functionality to allow me to get different sounds to create a better fit into the film.
I would also like to make use of stereo sound. Most people who are watching the film will be able to get the effect of stereo sound, whether it be through headphones or some standard desktop speakers. I feel this really enhances the experience of any music, often creating a better atmosphere as it allows the viewer to feel really immersed in the world.
I have used FL Studio 12 to experiment with some ideas, and I decided to try out the stereo panning with the piano and bass panning gradually to opposite sides, as shown below.
Of course, it is harder to get a real sound from a synthesized piano, so I will be creating the music with my piano to get a better sense of emotion from the music. As it stands I have only made a very simple melody and bass composition.
However, this won't be used the whole way throughout the film. I wanted to create a more emotional composition to make the serious parts of the film more poignant. For this, I was inspired by a couple of classical piano pieces, written by Beethoven and Chopin.
This is the Moonlight Sonata, one of Beethoven's most famous works. It is quite an ominous piece, which would fit the mood and flow well from the initial piece of music that I discussed earlier. The minor key and harsh piano could be quite discerning and striking at times which I think would need to be changed in my composition.
As well as this piece, there is the second work of Opus 9 from Chopin's Nocturne suite. I personally really enjoy this piece and think it would fit very well into our film apart from the harsh crescendo at the end. The whole piece has a relaxing demeanor about it and I think the best thing about this piece is that it was written in a major key. This makes the end of the film not seem so baleful and gloomy. After all, the Greeks, whose mythology we are basing our film on, believe that the spirit of the person lives on and that they merely move on to another life, in Elysium or Tartarus (heaven and hell respectively). Therefore I think it would be unfitting to have the tone at this point to be completely doomful.
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