Planning Initial sound

Me and Fabiha used Logic Pro to create the soundtrack for our film opening because we thought it was the best programme to use. We also were thinking about using Garage Band but we were not too familiar with it. We actually got our music teacher to help us with the making of the track as he is a professional. As i said, we were inspired byt the song Radioactive by Imagine Dragons because we think that the type of music used suits our film opening. 

MALE CHARACTER SOUND:

The music for our male character was more complex to make as we wanted to use synthesizers; we thought this would make our soundtrack more interesting and catchy and would almost match Radioactive. We used this as a guide for our soundtrack. The reason why we were so attracted to this song was because of the way the beat kicks in after the guitar strings, we thought that this would link with our film opening as we start quiet then go loud during the boys scenes. We actually used guitar later on to finish off the track and just to add a variety of instuments. The synthesizer helped the music sound more electric, which made that our music sound dark but interesting. The Big Beat Remix Kit, Techno Syncx B and the everlasting were played at their loudest during the boys scene and the strings were [played very quietly that you could barely hear it. The strings however, gave dimension this part and it made it easier to fade in a d out and still make it sound neutral. The boys music was also at a low pitch contrasting with the girl making it sound more masculine.

This is a quick sample of the sound that will give an idea of how the boy's music is going to sound like. It includes synthesizers to match Radioactive. I used Powtoon because i thought it would be a suitable website to use as i can insert text and images in the video. We planned to make this kind of music instead of classic music because we are trying to attract a younger audience and  this type of soundtrack will appeal to them more. We could've chosen to use violins and piano throughout the whole film opening but chose not to becase a younger audience might find that rather boring. Classic music would attract a much older audience which is not who we are targeting.


FEMALE CHARACTER SOUND:
We decided earlier on that we would have the same neutral track playing throughout the whole film opening but add certain instruents that would show the contrast between the boy and the girl. As our music was very neutral we had to show the difference in terms of sound when both characters were being shown. For the girls part of our soundtrack we wanted it to sound it to sound high pitch and more jolly than the boys. For the girl we used strings and violins as well as some other bass music. We thought violins were particulalrly effective because they show high class as classic music always has violins in it. The reason we used those two specific instruments was due to the high pitch tone it gave us. The highest note on the violin was used in our soundtrack in the girls section because it sounded enlightening and it suited with her image of being this upper class innocent girl. Moreover, the violin gave more dimension to the song, if we didn't use this, the violin would have sounded flat therefore we converged them together creating a light, soft and catchy tune. That is why we had to use strings along with it and it worked really well. However this is just our initial saple: we will be adding drums to make it even more masculin.

This is a quick sample of the sound that will give an idea of how the girl's music is going to sound like. It includes violins and strings. I used Powtoon because i thought it would be a suitable website to use as i can also insert text in the video and images.

It is clear that both sounds are similar to each other because the melody is the same. We tried to incorporate different instrument and music types all in one track to emphasise the contrast between the actress and actor.