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Fritz Lane
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Instrumentals is the way to go!
I remember my 8th grade video production teacher giving us a site full of sounds like cartmens voices and stuff
ill have to find it and post it. |
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Frank Capra
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Instumentals, eh?
Personally, I favor Garageband: it, like all Mac software, is easy to use... plus it's compatible with iTunes and iMovie!!! w00t!!! |
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Vsevolod Pudovkin
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| I have a large collection of sound effects and background noise, if you can't find a specific sound hit me up on the pm system and I'll see what I can do. |
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Quentin Tarantino
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Fritz Lane wrote: | | Instrumentals is the way to go! |
Instrumental music is a definite plus, because you don't have to worry about adjusting the volume levels too much to prevent song lyrics from overshadowing dialogue or important sounds. However, there's more than just classical music and acoustic guitars that you can use for your films.
My reccomendation is that, if you're going for a serious film or a horror thriller, use industrial music like Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy, or even some of the stuff by Aphex Twin before he went all dance-y.
Sports films, action movies, even chase sequences need hard rock to add to the momentum of the scene.
Comedies are an entirely different story, as they can use ironic music (like a heavy metal song during an otherwise not heavy scene, like Down With The Sickness while everyone's riding razor scooters), or you can find comedically appropriate music.
Just remember kids, you can't have swearing in any of the songs, so make sure that you either dub it out yourself, or find the radio-friendly version of the song so as to keep it clean. If you're stuck with a song that wasn't released as a single and you can't edit it out yourself, just ask me; I'll probably have a suitable replacement. |
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Frank Capra
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:24 am Post subject: |
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| Quentin Tarantino wrote: | | Fritz Lane wrote: | | Instrumentals is the way to go! |
Instrumental music is a definite plus, because you don't have to worry about adjusting the volume levels too much to prevent song lyrics from overshadowing dialogue or important sounds. However, there's more than just classical music and acoustic guitars that you can use for your films.
My reccomendation is that, if you're going for a serious film or a horror thriller, use industrial music like Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy, or even some of the stuff by Aphex Twin before he went all dance-y.
Sports films, action movies, even chase sequences need hard rock to add to the momentum of the scene.
Comedies are an entirely different story, as they can use ironic music (like a heavy metal song during an otherwise not heavy scene, like Down With The Sickness while everyone's riding razor scooters), or you can find comedically appropriate music.
Just remember kids, you can't have swearing in any of the songs, so make sure that you either dub it out yourself, or find the radio-friendly version of the song so as to keep it clean. If you're stuck with a song that wasn't released as a single and you can't edit it out yourself, just ask me; I'll probably have a suitable replacement. |
Hmm... yeah, I noticed some "innapropriate" words in the System of a Down song in the student film about the "cereal" killer, (I can't remember the title...) but that was a different project, so...
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Quentin Tarantino
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| The song was Psycho, by System of a Down. While it was not quite what we would've liked, it could have been worse; it could've been Cigaro. |
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Tex Avery
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THAT SONG IS MESSED HAHA
So like one word is ok right? cus ours has the A word in it. But thats all |
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Quentin Tarantino
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| Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| Censor it. Use Audacity, dub over it. It's not very difficult. |
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Frank Capra
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| Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Tex Avery wrote: | THAT SONG IS MESSED HAHA
So like one word is ok right? cus ours has the A word in it. But thats all |
Either cut it out or dub over it... you shoudn't really risk something like that... (by the way, I didn't hear it in the song that the Director used, so...) |
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FILM G33K
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 3:25 am Post subject: my two cents |
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Audacity, not a bad program. Garageband works well too. I've never, to my knowledge, had a group actually take the time to censor lyrics or take out lyrics altogether like this.
During the school year, I did have a group loop a chorus because there was some bad language they were trying to avoid. I "encouraged" them to do so for the film festival screening. :) And it didn't seem to distract from the scene with the way they did it.
You know, good old fashioned ITunes has instrumental/karaoke versions of songs, as well as tons of sound effects. And all (dare I say) legal.
One thing you want to watch with sound effects is how they sound when mixed in with your own soundtrack. It may sound too "artificial" or too "clean" when laid down with your ambient sound. Play with the levels, or maybe play it live via an IPod or CD player on set so it blends in well. |
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FILM G33K
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 3:28 am Post subject: oh yeah |
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By the way, I do go over projects for content like this, so as the intern said earlier, you need to ask if it's worth risking one word...
Also, who in the world really can use a site with Cartman quotes? I've never seen a need for it in any student project...nor would I like to think there ever will be... |
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Frank Capra
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:19 pm Post subject: Re: oh yeah |
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| FILM G33K wrote: | By the way, I do go over projects for content like this, so as the intern said earlier, you need to ask if it's worth risking one word...
Also, who in the world really can use a site with Cartman quotes? I've never seen a need for it in any student project...nor would I like to think there ever will be... |
You would be really surprised if you saw my Jr. Video production class... we had some pretty random ideas... |
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