Today my musician, Maya Law, emailed me her cover of 'Hard Out Here' following my previous request of this song for my non-diegetic sound for my documentary. I've uploaded it to SoundCloud (with her permission) to embed into my blog.
I am very pleased with her cover and it's professionalism, as the sound quality is high, and its original song is recognisable. I'm especially happy with 1:02-1:34, and 2:12-2:55 of the cover, as these parts capture the upbeat feel which I had planned to overlay the more positive sections of my documentary narrative - therefore I will be looping them for these sections. The beginning of the cover sounds similar to 'Timber', the other music track for my documentary, therefore allowing my non-diegetic sound to flow and sound organised. I will experiment with editing this music along with 'Timber' using iMovie, to adjust the speed and pitch of these songs, and use ducking to correspond with the diegetic sound of my documentary, and my non-diegetic voice-over.
*I will update this post with the next song I'm requesting for Maya to cover once I've finished planning it.*
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Sunday, 16 November 2014
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Update from my Musician
My musician, Maya Law, has just emailed me her acoustic cover of 'Timber' by Pitbull ft. Ke$ha which I requested from her 2 weeks ago. I've uploaded the music to SoundCloud (with her permission) so that I can embed it to my blog.
I'm very happy with the quality and style of this piece of music, as it sounds professional, the sound quality is high, the music can be looped in the middle to make the song longer, the original song it's covering is recognisable, and the music does not change dramatically throughout the song so that it doesn't overpower my voice-over/diegetic sound. I will experiment with editing the speed and pitch of this song and ducking it during the editing process of my production so that it corresponds appropriately with my documentary video.
The next steps for my music are requesting another acoustic cover. This time I am requesting a feminist song, Hard Out Here by Lily Allen, to contrast with the problematic song 'Timber' which I have deconstructed in a previous post. The 'Hard Out Here' cover will once again be acoustic without lyrics, therefore its strong language will not be an issue for my audience. I've also asked Maya if this song could be more upbeat than 'Timber' to create an interesting contrast of sound and to have a range of song moods for the different points in my documentary e.g. upbeat for positive parts, lower for the negative criticisms.
I'm very happy with the quality and style of this piece of music, as it sounds professional, the sound quality is high, the music can be looped in the middle to make the song longer, the original song it's covering is recognisable, and the music does not change dramatically throughout the song so that it doesn't overpower my voice-over/diegetic sound. I will experiment with editing the speed and pitch of this song and ducking it during the editing process of my production so that it corresponds appropriately with my documentary video.
The next steps for my music are requesting another acoustic cover. This time I am requesting a feminist song, Hard Out Here by Lily Allen, to contrast with the problematic song 'Timber' which I have deconstructed in a previous post. The 'Hard Out Here' cover will once again be acoustic without lyrics, therefore its strong language will not be an issue for my audience. I've also asked Maya if this song could be more upbeat than 'Timber' to create an interesting contrast of sound and to have a range of song moods for the different points in my documentary e.g. upbeat for positive parts, lower for the negative criticisms.
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