This is the Spring final assignment for Composing for Film and Media, which I am given a few short clips from the black and white silent movie Beau Brummell (1924). I was required to score 3 of the clips, produce the music and to make the score for them.
The music is produced by Logic Pro and Propellerhead Reason. The software instruments were from the programs used, as well as from my synthesizer keyboard/ workstation Korg MicroSTATION.
I hope you enjoy the clips (and the music) as much as I enjoyed it when I created the music.
"Hide In The Closet, You Majesty" is a very fun video clip to score for. There is a lot of cue points for the silent movie. The music is required to be very comedy-cliché like while being a bit quirky as well. I have experimented a lot with polytonality and different percussion instruments, as well as blending instruments playing in different keys at the same time to create a unique tone colour, instead of having a big chunk of clustered chord.
This is a beautiful and challenging clip to do. There are not much cue points to match with the music in comparison to the first video I scored for, however, there is not much happening in the video. The music conveys the emotions and thoughts behind and within the characters in the clip.
This is the last clip I did for the project. Basically a full-on tragedy type of cello solo melody and a big orchestral climax for when the couple hold each other. Cliché. Cliché. Cliché.
I like the melody though. :P
I like the melody though. :P
