Music Dissertation, Dawn of War 2!

Jono8

Jono8

Jono8

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Hi Guys

I am working on my dissertation for the final year of my music Degree and I am going to do a showreel of music for film/media.

One video i am re-scoring is the latest CGI trailer for Dawn of War 2. I thought as this Forum will have many people interested in this game/video it would be a good chance to get some feedback from the gaming audience!

At the moment I have scored about half of it with a few initial ideas but I will keep you guys up to date as I complete it (if allowed?!). Its in a rough state at the moment but it will be cool to see what you guys think so far!

*UPDATE*

Ok so my dissertation is all done and I thought I would show you the finished article. I took some of your comments on board,and both me and my tutor were very happy with the results!

I realise this is a bit of shameless self promotion but as a budding mdia composer I think its vital to get as much feeback as possible from the communities that I will hopefully be writing for in the future.

Enjoy!


Final Version:


Ofcourse youtube video audio quality applies, and doesnt really do orchestral stuff ( or any music ) justice.
 
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It's quite good so far. I've never seen that video and liked it :)
I didn't particularly like the last few seconds as the score didn't really seem to fit the video, but apart from that, I think it's good :)
Good luck.
 
I don't think it really fits the video or the theme, seems ok until the first shot is fired then comes in way to dramatically and none of it seems to match whats happening... kind of sparks of those random youtube videos of clips of MSG4 (or other random cut scene laden game) put to the soundtrack of Gladiator or something.
 
I think it's good so far, as others have said it doesn't really seem to fit the clip, 1:16 for a dissertation piece is it a bit short?

I tell you what I would do as it will impress the socks off your Lecturers, try and find somebody on Film/Media course and either get them to edit something together for you using Dawn of War II as the theme if you like or compose something for an original film.

I did something similar back in the day and I got huge amounts of extra credits.
 
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Voltar said:
It's quite good so far. I've never seen that video and liked it :)
I didn't particularly like the last few seconds as the score didn't really seem to fit the video, but apart from that, I think it's good :)
Good luck.
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Yeh the last few seconds are just a bit random as i havent worked on that yet.
 
HEADRAT said:
I think it's good so far, as others have said it doesn't really seem to fit the clip, 1:16 for a dissertation piece is it a bit short?

I tell you what I would do as it will impress the socks off your Lecturers, try and find somebody on Film/Media course and either get them to edit something together for you using Dawn of War II as the theme if you like or compose something for an original film.

I did something similar back in the day and I got huge amounts of extra credits.
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This is only a small part of my dissertation. I have to do about 15-20 mins overall.
 
Out of interest, are you using Sibelius to score?

Can you find some video that affords you a closing opportunity? IE: is there a final death that you can end on with a deep, solid tone?
 
I don't think it fits at all, and the screeeeetchiness is very annoying. Back to the drawing board! :) Less obtrusive smaller music clips to fit with each scene.
 
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No Cubase and Vienna Instruments with a few synths and East West samples.
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Ah ok then :)

I think the stabbing kind of movement works at first with the firing, but it sort of becomes irrelevant. Still good music though BTW :)

If that movie has a point where someone important gets killed, it'd be a great opportunity to kill the movement and go to a cymbal crash, timpani roll and a prolonged cello "death" note, IMO.

BTW I hate you - I wish I'd chosen Music over art at GCSE... I probably would have gone to uni and done composition :( Would be good to have a chat though if you want to add me on MSN :)
 
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the screetchiness is the sound effects of the howling banshees
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No its not, is the appauling scratchy screetchy violin or whatever it's supposed to be at the beginning. It then resurfaces part way through (just after sergeant talks).
 
Solari said:
Ah ok then :)

I think the stabbing kind of movement works at first with the firing, but it sort of becomes irrelevant. Still good music though BTW :)

If that movie has a point where someone important gets killed, it'd be a great opportunity to kill the movement and go to a cymbal crash, timpani roll and a prolonged cello "death" note, IMO.

BTW I hate you - I wish I'd chosen Music over art at GCSE... I probably would have gone to uni and done composition :(
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yeh definately.

I think that it's also a little to big and brash for what is going on on screen. Seems like there should be a lot more men fighting it out! I will probably tone it down a bit.
 
FirebarUK said:
No its not, is the appauling scratchy screetchy violin or whatever it's supposed to be at the beginning. It then resurfaces part way through (just after sergeant talks).
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fair enough. It probably a little too high in the mix.
 
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