Monday, 25 February 2013

Soundtrack


I personally think something along these lines would be appropriate- simple piano music, without accompaniment. This piece was composed for the popular game The Legend Of Zelda, which I first heard when a friend of mine played it as part of her piano exam. As for our film, I think that this piece is too cheerful for the mood that we are attempting to create.

These last two pieces are from the same Russian composer, Modest Petrovich Mussorgski. The first piece is called Bilder Einer Ausstellung ( Originally Russian:Kartinki s wystawki – wospominanije o Wiktore Gartmane) or Pictures At An Exhibition. It is divided into different pieces, each with a name. The section that I listened to is called Der Gnom and is very dramatic. However, I think that it is too fast and the short pauses in between would not work with our film. Night On Bald Mountain is also extraordinarily dramatic. In fact, I think it may be too dramatic for our film, as


This piece was composed by a friend of mine, A. Thomas for her music GCSE last year. I thought it was brilliant (as did her teachers) and should be used for a film. Brilliant as the music may be, it did not fit with the film's atmosphere we had in mind. It was a little too slow and thoughtful. Please excuse the quality of the sound- it was recorded on an iPhone and then transferred on to the Mac.

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