dictatorbilbo

Good luck!

I really like the piece- the melody was great, as were the sound effects. It was one of my favorite entries! :) The only thing that disappointed me was the fact that there was little difference between the sections of the video. While I thought your main melody fit the beginning perfectly, I think it would've been better if you had had a more distinct theme for the 'happy' section! The 'death' scene could've benefited from a bit more distinction from the rest of the piece (a stronger climax? a more dramatic fade?), BUT, I really enjoyed the handling of the scene where the small creature woke up after the death scene. A very good job! :thumbsup:

It was tons of fun! I must say that the entries who won blew my socks off. I was awe-struck by their awesomeness. :) And, yes! But, the Syrah competition, I think, is even more difficult than the video... It's so open-ended! No definite idea immediately presented itself, and I've spent a large amount of time noodling around with different ideas. You?

I agree that the super-fast buzzing notes on the snare can be distracting. The rest is very good! A very frantic feeling piece! I especially like the contrast between the sections with the long, suspended notes and then the faster melody sections! I think it built tension nicely!

http://www.cgespace.com/music/12/space.mov (I hope it's acceptable that I linked to where the movie was stored on the CGEmpire site... I don't have anywhere else to host it. If it's not ok, please tell me!) The movie was made by Ilias Sounas, and he graciously granted permission for its use in the CGEmpire music competitions. I had never scored any sort of video before, and I though it would be a fun exercise! It was a lot more difficult than I had anticipated! I had only found out about the competition three days from the deadline, so I had to punt. I watched the video several times, roughed out a basic structure of chords and motifs, and then improvised while watching the video. I had no clue (and still don't!) how you're supposed to go about scoring film, and I think shows. I was going for a real open, ambient 'spacy' feel- thus the big intervals and sparse arrangement. But, I think I may have overdone that- the few comments I got were about it being too passive and ambient. :blush: You can tell I fumbled in several places, especially in regards to tempo. For being a very melancholy video, it has impressively fast pacing and movement! :) Any comments will be immensely appreciated! P.S. The strange whirring noise you can hear is the cooling fan on my laptop- I didn't have a microphone readily available, so I just recorded directly into the computer with its built in stuff.

Oooh! It was good. I especially like the sort of neat, hovering feeling you managed to create. The music felt like a huge, open space! (I'm sorry about my lack of technical criticisms- I'm only mildly experienced at composing and orchestrating, so I can only offer my subjective opinions. :) ). However, I did feel that there was a definite lack of developement or change. It would have been nice if there was more dynamic variety. Perhaps large, overarching swells? I don't quite know... As the piece continued it felt a bit as if it was losing focus. 1:20 or so is when it started to happen. Overall, I really, really liked the 'feeling' you managed to create! However, a bit more direction would be nice! Good job! :thumbsup:

Improved version! :) winter_village_3.mid

... And you wrote this on a whim on a morning? :blink: It sounds very reminiscent of the standard big sweeping movie-type music! It has a strong melody, and is gorgeously orchestrated. It's beautiful! I don't have much more to add beside that... All is not lost... The music fits! I like the part around 30 something... Awesome!!! I love it! :D

Well, here is the synthesis between two pieces I've written, named An Abandoned Village. The picture I was going for was a small village abandoned and covered in snow... Perhaps after an attack... Winter: http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/winter-11973.html A Quiet Village: http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/quiet-village-11866.html EDIT: See post below for newest version winter_village_2.mid

Hmm... I like it, but the techno-percussion stuff becomes a bit annoying to me (but don't take that personally- for some reason I find myself unable to like that kinda sound- aside from my personal biases against it, it looks pretty good. Perhaps a bit more variety?). It becomes really good after the music starts to build. I like it!

I'd have to agree that it sounds like it would fit in well with a spy/secret agent sort of scene.

Hmm... I like the delayed bell part at the beginning, but I don't quite know if I like the rest of the piece as much. It feels, to me, a bit too static and structured. Though nothing is really technically wrong at all, it feels a bit... forgettable. I like the part a bit after 3:00 more; it becomes much more interesting there. Of course, I don't really know much at all... I'm interested in what the more experienced composers here will have to say...

This piece sounded wintery to me, so that's what I went for.:P It's pretty much based on 5ths (part of an excercise in my precious "composition for dummies" book :) ), and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Though, sometimes I think it feels a bit thick.... It also includes part of the same melody used in 'secrets' and my town theme. This one is also supposed to loop. Well, here it goes! winter10.mid

Hmm... Do you think individual swells within each measure would work? Or would it benefit from a larger movement?

Well, this was my first attempt at trying to make something that would loop, and now, looking back, the sudden contrast in texture between that last chord and the beginning would be a bit abrupt. Perhaps I could make the beginning a bit less sparse... To thicken the texture, would it be good to just add in sustained pitches with the strings? Or would a countermelody be better? And, you said the second part started to get little too dark? I was trying to give a hint of 'bravery and heroic-ness', but I might have strayed a bit too far... Hmm... I'll post a revised version this afternoon. Thank you!:P