Memories from the Good Old Days (WIP)

A post apocalyptic indie film music meant for a mildly emotional scene where the protagonist, due to a series of events, found himself back to his childhood home where he has flashbacks and misses his family.

 

@Zimr Music

1. It's extremely repetitive (yea, I saw your name, but you dont have to follow the Zimmer)

2. I believe that you should start softer and slower, so that you'll have more space to grow into.

3. What need do you have for the percussions?

4. Make it more... emotional? Where are the string chord blasts, the changes in dynamics and scale transitions?

5. If that really is a movie- you might get a better effect from pads and basses. Remember- sometimes more is less. You might even want to keep the scene with no music at all (smart choice at times). 

6. In my belief, if you really are going to score a whole movie- don't make the music regarding to that one sole scene, make it in the context (both thematically and musically) of the whole movie. The repeating piano pattern, though way too loud and repetitive, could be used (though fewer times, different scales, different registers and instruments) to symbolize something in the movie. Think about the effect of hearing it in a sole trumpet when he comes back home from a war, then in the higher registers of the Celesta when he looks at his picture as a child. How grand would that effect be for the listener? This "aha" moment of "oh alright we heard it because that's his access to his true and honest self, the closer he is the more sensitive the music gets".

I hope that was helpful,

good luck :)

Also be in contact with the director, because his word is the one that matters.

My word means nothing if the film's director want something else...

On 9/28/2020 at 10:01 PM, Rabbival507 said:

@Zimr Music

1. It's extremely repetitive (yea, I saw your name, but you dont have to follow the Zimmer)

2. I believe that you should start softer and slower, so that you'll have more space to grow into.

3. What need do you have for the percussions?

4. Make it more... emotional? Where are the string chord blasts, the changes in dynamics and scale transitions?

5. If that really is a movie- you might get a better effect from pads and basses. Remember- sometimes more is less. You might even want to keep the scene with no music at all (smart choice at times). 

6. In my belief, if you really are going to score a whole movie- don't make the music regarding to that one sole scene, make it in the context (both thematically and musically) of the whole movie. The repeating piano pattern, though way too loud and repetitive, could be used (though fewer times, different scales, different registers and instruments) to symbolize something in the movie. Think about the effect of hearing it in a sole trumpet when he comes back home from a war, then in the higher registers of the Celesta when he looks at his picture as a child. How grand would that effect be for the listener? This "aha" moment of "oh alright we heard it because that's his access to his true and honest self, the closer he is the more sensitive the music gets".

 

I hope that was helpful,

good luck 🙂

 

Also be in contact with the director, because his word is the one that matters.

My word means nothing if the film's director want something else...

 

Wow you provided a lot of helpful tips there. Thank you. We've been working on the film on our leisure and so we have lots of time to develop.

I've been experimenting with music lately and I was inspired today by Samuel Laflamme where h uses unverving recording of foley and he knows how to get the tension and anxiety build up through sound. I am following his style now I'll update soon