Hi Simon,
I agree that some intro's might help build up the suspense for the audience if sync'ed with content-dependent audio (like the Warner Brothers intros). However, I'm not sure how using an intro with episode-dependent intro-sound will turn out for a series, such as Eva (with each episode being about 5 minutes long).
As of now, the clip is a bit too long to be used as an intro for all Flash movies; very likely, the intro to the shorter JHF movies will only include the last bit of the clip. (However, the entire clip will be in the intro to the JHF website.) Since the intro will be cut down to just about 10 seconds (more or less), that doesn't allow for much time for a unique content-dependent clip to blossom in the span of the intro.
So, I'm tending towards using the same sound clip for intros to the shorter movies. Still, that could lead to problems -- such as the melody becoming distinctively irksome by the time an avid fan gets to the 113th episode. Then again, knowing that that might become a possibility in the long run might help you, the audio artist, design a piece that somehow won't wind up down that path.
The point of this contest is for you to flaunt your style, skill, and audio interpretation of the visual clip I've linked above. "Tell" me about you as an audio artist, not through words, but through your ~30 seconds audio entry. (Thus, I'd have good grounds to determine whether you'd fit as an audio artist for JHF.)
Of course, multiple entries are allowed. Submit as many interpretations as you wish.
Thanks,
Jack
At 6/30/06 09:02 AM, Simon_F wrote:
Do you want an intro specific to the EVA project (as in with the Matrix trilogy, with the Warner Brother's logo) or something to be used generally?
Personally, I find that intro music customized to the movie being introduced by said studio or whatever adds a sense of forshadowing and is a lot more interesting than just some several-second intro music that is used every time and has no relevence to the subsequent movie. For the EVA project, specifically, I'd imagine a Godfather-like theme, forboding and slightly mysterious, with the main theme being introduced in a very simple manner (such as a melody with just chords to add harmony on the piano, which would also tie into the whole piano motif in EVA), and then as the intro ends and the movie starts the music changes key signature and sweeps into something a little more dramatic and complicated but with the same theme again, and then of course the composer would work from there insofar as scoring the animation with character themes and such.
If you're interested in that kind of thing, I could help out in early July, and then I'm gone for three weeks, and then I'm free starting August 2nd. I do orchestral/piano stuff, from hardcore classical to cinematic. Given the theme of piano in EVA, I think some solo piano stuff to emphasize the musical aspect of the movie and then orchestral background music to set the mood at other times would work nicely, but of course, that's up to you.
I've already conceptualized a melody, so I suppose I'll get working on composing a sample intro. I won't, however, be able to do anything but MIDI until I get my other computer back on July 3rd (which has all of my programs on it). At that point I can finalize things, and get a much nicer sounding mp3 of what I've written.