Garage band

CLC

Yesterday was our second trip to the CLC, however this time was for the use of Garage band and not editing! Although we haven't quite finished our editing yet we needed to start creating our music or we'll never finish our product! Miss gave us a demo video before to look at, but had no idea how Garage Band worked, so this session really helped.

We got to the CLC about 1:45pm and went strait upstairs to use the macs, firstly our group were on separate macs to investigate different sounds after having a tutorial on how to use garage band properly which was a relief!
Danielle, Trisha and I eventually got together and started trying to create a music base for our film. We found a very similar beat to that of 'Damian Rice' called Emotional piano 03, however playing around with this we started to add more beats on top and found a really good violin sound which fits in well. However I really didn't think our music sounded at all similar to a horror. However miss re-assured us that sometimes it sounds better if the music isn't tense because then you can't anticipate what is going to happen next and to build up and intense atmosphere.
We also found some really good scary sounds we could layer on top of the piano sound. We filtered all other sounds just to dark and intense. This way specific sounds would only come up, we found some very good beats which were thinking of using every time the killer is on screen.
I was also thinking it's going to be very hard for us to fit the sounds in time for every scene.

Whilst listening to the tutorial I learned some very useful tips, I found out that you can change the pitch of the sounds, but also make the sound start of quiet and gradually build up. This gives an intense build up, like that of the movie 'Jaws.' Also you can actually play around with the sound so it can just come through one headphone then come through the other, this gives a sense of realism and shock to the audience.

We have a few more garage band sessions to come, so hopefully we'll be creating the prefect piece to go with our film.

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