Week 7 Sound Design Music

Using the storyboard, I began work on the music through garage band. I plugged in my piano and began composing a short piece to play along to the animation. Keeping it simple, I went with 4 chords (C, F, G and Dm) for the left hand, then for the right hand I used the same notes that it would take to make the chord (so a C chord would be C, E and G) to make the melody playing the notes in a decorative way playing off beat to contrast the heavy chords. I then felt the need to add more "power" to the chords so I added a bass playing the notes of the chords (C, F, G and Dm) to boost them. I also did the same with strings so the silence echoed in a sweet hum of the strings. The tempo of the piece is interpretive of the actions within the shots; so a fast changing shot would pick up tempo and a slower changing shot would make the tempo slow down. The progression of the tempo overall works as shown below.