Soundtrack On Garageband

In a previous lesson, we learned how to use the program Garageband, which lets you compile a range of sound-bites, from guitars to synths, to create our own soundtrack that could be used in our intro films, as we are unable to use copyrighted music due to legal issues. By the end of the lesson, everyone played a segment of the music they would use in their films. My goups film genre is teen comedy so we centered the music around a more youthful sound, like pop/punk or indie as this is the stereotypical type of music, heard in teen comedies like, 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and 'Sex Drive'. So we had a prominent bass line to start with, then we added in drums and a guitar riff, and inserted a synth bite to finish it all off. It has an over the top feel to it, but this just adds to the ambience, and would probably work quite well in certain scenes.
Another groups ensemble for a romantic film, featured a lot of acoustic guitar, backed up by string melodies, almost always found in this type of film, as this pulls on the heartstrings of the viewer. If we take the film 'P.S I Love You', as an example, it has a opening piece that contains these features, from this we know what's most likely to happen.

Horror was quite popular in the class and featured the very familiar sound of low chello's, violins and bass, that builds up tension, by transmitting a darker and more sinister sound. An example of this would be the shower scene in 'Psycho', where the strings slowly build, then swell when the shower curtain is pulled back.

Overall the lesson was a great success as it has given my group the chance to focus on what sort of sound we would want in our production, that would accurately tell the viewer what genre our film is, and help them to indulge into the narrative.