Our second task is to write the music and sound effects for up to one minute of animation. In the lecture we watched a Warner Bros animation and analysed firstly what had been done, and secondly how it could be achieved. I found this very useful as it enabled me to see how [...]

When my film was shown to the rest of the class, I received a variety of feedback (both positive and critical), and am now attempting to use this in order to improve my work.  There were a few main points that were picked up on:
Firstly, although I had written the composition out for Double basses, [...]

After studying the film “Persona”, I chose a section from the intro that I thought would best suit the feel I wanted to convey – beginning at SMPTE 01:01:57:16.06 (just before the shot of the hand) and lasting for about 30 seconds.
To get started, I first scored the film by hand – I am essentially [...]

This week we were given our first task – to score 30 seconds of the intro to Ingmar Bergman’s film ‘Persona’.  After being shown in the lecture the logisitics of scoring a movie in Logic, we have been sent away to score an excerpt of this film “in any style”.  Which obviously leaves a lot [...]