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Spitfire Westworld Competition SPINOFF - Composition Discussion, Advice and Examples

Ok, last minute decision to join as well :) Almost forgot about it. But sometimes having only limited time might actually help to get s*** done. Here is my two evening effort. Good workout after the regular office workday. My first action chase...

 
Sigh. I just ran out of time to handle the production aspects for the competition. Really disappointing... I thought I wrote a neat piece, but seriously underestimated the time it would require to make a professional-sounding rendering.
 
MrLinssi said:


Well well, it turns out that I actually CAN write four minutes of music in two days. Is it good? Probably not. xD First time scoring to video, so if the more experienced fellas here happen to watch my sad attempt at scoring then please, do tear it to shreds and tell me what went wrong and what (if anything) went right. :D
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It's good for 2 days of work. And I do really like the less-bombastic approach to the whole scene, but I just felt it was way too laid back for the intensity of the scene. You barely hit any points, and the choice to not score over any of the genre shift will not go to your favor when judged. Bottom line, it's pretty decent, just nothing too special. But considering it's your first time scoring to film, I think it's a great start!
 
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The best thing about this competition is to see/hear all the different approaches to the absolute same 4 minutes of film - and many of them actually work great despite being completely different. Just amazing, I really enjoy watching the artwork of all you guys. And Hats off to Spitfire and HBO to bring this to life.

But now, I really "need distance" from hearing the same dialog over and over again ;) and a bit of sleep.
 
squishy boi said:
Another long time lurker reporting in. I toyed with doing a waltz-esque thing on the genre change in a sort of tongue-in-cheek fashion. Problem is, I don't even know how to do that. So... the result is this thing with possibly too many ideas happening later on. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's been fun looking at everyone's submissions. Personally hoping one of the unique approaches wins.

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I like what you did there with the waltz over the long shot of the car slide - almost perfect! This is the first entry that I’ve heard that is a bit less “predictable”... although that’s not to say there are a lot of great entries to listen to yet!
 
meradium said:
Ok, last minute decision to join as well :) Almost forgot about it. But sometimes having only limited time might actually help to get s*** done. Here is my two evening effort. Good workout after the regular office workday. My first action chase...

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Cool stuff! Just a quick note though, the audio levels of the music is too loud for the dialogue and FX in general.
 
Jacob Fanto said:
Cool stuff! Just a quick note though, the audio levels of the music is too loud for the dialogue and FX in general.
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Most likely, but I didn't have any time to bother with the compressor. I literally had one minute left once the render went through :)
 
Ok so another late entry here - only a couple of evenings work so probably not as polished as I’d like...

but I too went for something a bit different just to push myself out of my comfort zone a bit...

I didn’t want to do booms and orchestral ostinatos etc So I took some inspiration from Lalo Schifrin’s Bullitt soundtrack and went for keys and horns...

 
Damn it! Was almost pleased with my job on this before I completely ran out of time and filled the last third of the film with complete and utter bollocks. Didn't even get round to scoring the final explosion sequence, but with a bit of luck it'll be interpreted by the judges as a stroke of spotting genius

 
I guess I won't be competing as I didn't have time to actually score the whole scene but I did do a quick mock-up for the beginning, it's fun after all.

 
visiblenoise said:
Time well spent with the Eurorack! I like a lot of the sound design in this one. It's a little bass-boomy at points but apart from that I enjoyed it.
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Thanks for the feedback! Just went back in and started mixing again without the mov and dialog! So essential to do this - but too late now to re-load I'm afraid.... Super fun exercise either way.
 
josephwmorgan said:
Is anyone having trouble where when you upload your video YOUR audio/music is removed but the show's audio remains?
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Happened to me today.. Tried uploading the HD version of the file but Youtube deleted my music? Went back and created a SD version (720) and it worked.. Really strange!?!
 
iggyigoe said:
Happened to me today.. Tried uploading the HD version of the file but Youtube deleted my music? Went back and created a SD version (720) and it worked.. Really strange!?!
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dang..that really sucks. Was so happy I got mine uploaded and turned in RIGHT in time just to find out this happened 👎
 
Hi, just uploaded and submitted to Spitfire literally 35 mins before cutoff time, and I am glad I just made it, ha ha.

Thanks so much to Luke (jononotbono) for the tips about uploading to YouTube. I eventually used 48kHz 24-bit WAV format, and hope the sound will be ok.

By the way, I found mine does not have the following info at the end of my YT video description while everybody else does:

Category : Music
Suggested by WBTV : HBO

Was I doing something wrong with the submission? Thanks a lot.

 
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