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Could we also hear the music by itself w/o the audio?

Hi Peter! This is the audio only  'Without Film Audio' 

You use a huge variety of different orchestral effects!  On the whole the music sounds pretty hectic and random most of the time yet it totally fits with the scenes presented (I guess because the scenes were also kinda hectic).  Darn those nasty sprites!  I love the cute and innocent beginning which already contains the character of the menace that awaits all those 'fun guys'.  I'd say you use all the orchestral colors at your disposal quite effectively and you build tension quite well and as danger increases, so does the dissonance.  I do question whether the pizzicato you have at 2:16 is possible to be played that rapidly though.  I love the way you swell the trumpets in many places to take the edge off of the attack.  How did you fare in this contest?  Did you win anything?  I think you did a splendid job!  You totally exhaust the potential of using the orchestra in a kind of comedic/cartoonish way, which is what I think you were going for?  Thanks for sharing!  It was really fun.

Thanks! This was the first time I composed a piece for a short film only using orchestral instruments. There are other things I dislike about this piece as well. I just found out about the contest. On top of this, I bought all of the Metropolis Ark series and the Abbey Road Orchestral Foundations, and had to learn some of the articulations as I went along. 

You are right, it wouldn't be possible for 1 section to play the pizzicato at that tempo. Maybe with divisi?. But it would lose the cinematic sound I suppose. I should've spaced them out appropriately (maybe interweave subtle mute brass, bassoon staccato notes between those pizzicato notes?). I can't change it (and upload it) since the entry for the contest ended yesterday. The judges mentioned they would have the winners announced around the beginning of March. I do not expect to win. I have heard far better arrangements from the seasonal contestants who participated. Maybe in a few years I may win one. 

I think you, Quinn, OutlawCityAngel, Left Unexpained, and a couple of other regulars on this site could easily win these contests. 

Thank you for taking the time to listen and respond. It helps a lot for new composers like myself.  

Very Clever indeed~! 😁 Thanks for sharing

Thank you, MJFOBOE! 

On 2/1/2022 at 1:31 AM, Atlantis_ said:

I think you, Quinn, OutlawCityAngel, Left Unexpained, and a couple of other regulars on this site could easily win these contests. 

I'm flattered that you think so.

Are you going to enter Ryan Leach's composing competition on YouTube? 

Also, I liked your score. Great touch adding bit of that menacing brass at the very end. Most people I've seen score this just leave it all happy sounding there.

Thank you, AngelCityOutlaw. I just posted my submission via his application. I made this to keep my mind busy. I am not expecting to win. 

On 4/30/2022 at 7:35 PM, Atlantis_ said:

I made this to keep my mind busy. I am not expecting to win. 

I think the only real point of these competitions should be to inspire you to create something tbh

I only entered the Ryan Leach one because the picture gave me an idea for a new tune.

The problem with these competitions is that they get so many entries that it necessitates the judges having pretty much no attention span, and I suspect they skip a great deal of tracks outright. Nobody wants to sit there and listen to hundreds of songs or has time for that lol

I see with the Ryan Leach one, that he wound up using some track as a benchmark after the fact...so you're not really composing to the picture anymore, you're composing to some random track....