Since my experiments on garageband a while ago, I thought it was best that I didn't tamper too much with the track so I tested out a few of the music samples I had previously downloaded with the animation mock up I have. The music was from freemusicarchive.com.
I decided to go with 'La Rencontre' and this needed cutting down from 2 minutes 18 to 15 seconds. I realised I was going to get about 8 bars into the animation plus a fraction of a second. I played around with using different sections of the music. The start is very delicate and quiet and as it gets towards the end it gets more powerful and dramatic. I wanted to capture this transition as I thought it was relevant to the animation but not in a really dramatic way.
I chose this section because music is quite steady, following the theme of the imagery as nothing remotely drastic is happening. The end of the piece of music sounds like it is more in a minor key (please excuse my limited musical knowledge) which fits with the growing intensity and mystery of what is happening in the animation, the chess piece is enlarging and the screen is becoming dark.
This snippet of music consists of two lots of 4 bars and I felt that the change in the middle needed something visible to happen alongside it so I dragged the point where the king starts enlarging to this point in the music so as the second part of the music starts, the animation sort of takes a turn. Using the waveform of the music was helpful to position the keyframe in the right place.
Sound Test from Naomi Smith on Vimeo.
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