Whilst I have been slaving away at the electroacoustic soundtrack for Roberto, we have also been doing various other assignments for our other lecturers. Dave has been setting us interesting weekly compositional tasks and I particularly enjoyed the latest one; composing a variation to the Martini advert theme.
I chose to do my theme in a steel pan style. Having played the steel pans with Dave two years ago I remembered enough about the instruments and their ranges to produce a realistic piece that obeys all the workings and capabilities of the steel pans. Unfortunately the samples in Logic sound slightly synthetic toward the higher range of the instrument but I did what I could to make the sound as authentic as possible.
The "Londongrad" assignment is the assessed work for Birger's module and the score is in for February. I have now spotted the short film (9 minutes) and have calculated that I shall be writing 4 minutes and 17 seconds of music. This does not seem like a lot at all but I am approaching it very seriously, I have got a fantastic book out of the library called "On The Track - a guide to contemporary film scoring" by Fred Karlin and Rayburn Wright. This book is simply brilliant. It covers all the necessary areas of composition for film; spotting the film; developing the concept; the actual composition and much more.
I have used the techniques described in this book alongside some of Birger's own advice to spot the film. Much of the spotting is rather typical (which is not a bad thing) though there are some scenes where music is perhaps used untypically and some scenes where music is absent when it perhaps would not normally be. I am still in the process of developing my themes and have not started to actually score the film yet.
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