Category: Sound for Screen

Final Editing Everything is done, it just needs piecing together and some mixing. Noticable parts being For the wind on the second part, I added a slight bit of distortion to it, and added some reverb to it, to make it sound like that the wind is very big. I also added some reverb to…

Music Composing For the first part of the music, I decided to go with using a koto, a shakuhachi and a marimba for added crispier notes. It uses the Japanese insen pentatonic scale, usually used for japanese music for the night feel. The second part of the music I decided to use a string quartet,…

Studio Recording Session Recording footsteps and other foley needed for the videos at the comp studio. Attached is a picture of me recording the doors closing and opening for the first video, by dragging a broom pole on a piece of wood.

Foley and Music Planning – Foley needed for part 1 – Wooden floor footsteps – Sliding door opening and closing – falling down stairs – Foley needed for part 2 – walking barefoot on snow – ice breaking and shattering – bell – fire – a lot of wind Music Planning Part 1: Eerie, Slight…

New Choice of Screen I have looked through quite a bit of my possible options, and I think that using excerpts from the game Onmyoji would be the most fitting. They have minimal to no talking, they have a lot of different styles to choose from, and almost all of the CGs from Onmyoji have…

Change of plans Due to rules and assignment needs, I could not use any version of the original music. But to put a different piece of music over an animation made specifically for another song in J-Pop culture, as they value copyright and specificity very highly in creative work. This requires me to rethink my…

Music Planning I plan to do two different rewrites of the original music, one in the style of a radio, where they are driving in the car. That part could be the tamer parts of the song, as a slight background music. The second part is where the main character falls into “water”. I want…

Start of doing the Foley Foley Planning – Sounds that are hard to do in a studio – Glass getting shot by a bullet – Drink / Food getting shot by bullet – Rocket Launcher – Sounds that would be better found online – Japanese crossing light sounds for the blind – Japanese train announcement…

Artist Study – YOASOBI YOASOBI is a Japanese duo that makes music based on novels from a website called Monogatari. With Ayase being the main songwriter and Ikura being the main vocalist. They started around when COVID-19 started, and quickly got popular with their debut song, Racing into the Night. I chose their fairly new…

Choice for 3-5min clip for foley practice. YOASOBI – New Me I want to choose a J-Pop music video for my practice, as this would help me learn more about J-Pop music and its music videos. A few of my favourite artists don’t really fit this practice, as their music videos are less of “story…