Film Music Composition

Week 1: (5th May, Thursday) 


This week, I composed the Man of Steel Theme (An Ideal Hope) on Mixcraft. However, I altered some features of the composition. I used virtual instruments like Electric Grand and and an Orchestra Pad till now. I implemented the same notes, chords, etc. in the first part. I changed velocity from 120 bpm to 80 bpm.

Week 2: (8th May, Thursday)

I changed some virtual instruments:

• Electric Grand to Electric Sadness: Gives a rhythmic feeling. Feeling of sadness and echoes are prevalent in the first part of the song. This gives a sensation of hope. 
• Orchestra Pad to Hell's Bass Drum: When played, creates a loud sound in which lots of reverberations take place. It signifies that hope will prevail and the people will fight for it (weakness turns to strength). 

I turned the velocity down from 80 bpm to 70 bpm. I felt that this was the ideal pace for the song. I lowered the decibel range from 0.0 db to -1.4 db for the Hell's bass drum because it would create a distorted sound when major chords were played. Hence, I lowered it to eliminate the effect of the distorted sound.  

Here are the parts of the song in the virtual instruments, Electric Sadness, Hell's Bass Drum and Orchestra Pad: 

Electric Sadness:

Hell's Bass Drum: 

Orchestra Pad: 

Week 3 (15th May, Sunday): 

Added two more virtual instruments: Full Orchestra and Chorus Guitar. The third part of the song in the Full Orchestra virtual instrument, I extended the lengths of the notes so it could play at a slow pace. I also used the Quantize function for the G1 note. When G1 note is played, it gives a dull sound. Hence, I lessen the strength from 100% to 25%. In addition, I used the swing function (delays the start time of every other note) to increase the delay time from 1% to 10%. I used the Chorus Guitar virtual instrument as it comes into sync with every other note. Here are rest of the parts: 

Full Orchestra: 

Chorus Guitar: