Some confusion with Screener critique
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2022 11:20 am
Hello all:
I submitted this track for the following listing.
ORCHESTRAL DRAMEDY INSTRUMENTAL CUES are needed by a Music Licensing Company with a HUGE list of placements in Films, TV Commercials, and A-List TV Shows.
NOTE: This Company has signed lots of TAXI members over many years and nailed down lots of placements for them!
This Company is looking for Instrumental Cues that could be found on a playlist with the following references:
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (From 0:59 - 1:55)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4XWN5cohTY&t=59s
RHOSLC Highlights S1 Ep6 (From 1:35 - 2:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vnwMR-VCKo&t=95s
"Sneaky Snitch" by Kevin MacLeod
Please submit well-produced Instrumental Cues that set the tone for quirky, light, dramatic scenes in Reality TV shows. Your submissions should have solid motifs and high-quality Orchestral instrumentation. Please craft your Cues around a singular motif and mood, and create a sense of dynamics and forward momentum by layering instrumentation in and out as they progress. Be sure to avoid submitting anything that sounds too busy, as it could interfere with a scene’s dialog. Your production should be polished and any virtual instruments or samples you use need to be top-notch.
Submissions should be about 2 minutes long, give or take, and have non-faded, buttoned/stinger endings. Do NOT copy the references in any way, shape, or form. Use them only as a general guide for tempo, tone, and overall vibe. Broadcast Quality is needed.
Here is the track
https://www.taxi.com/members/93-HgfxkQ7 ... d-skulkin-
the critique
I think you could improve this song by
This is good, although, with a cue structure, you want to stay on the "a" section throughout utilizing subtractive and additive composition. This has a "b" section at 0:51. For this request, try an alt-arrangement and maintain the "a" section and lessen the overall density of the instrumentation. Less is more for this request. Listen to the references and study the density of the instrumentation and the openness of the rhythmic phrasing.
and then:
I returned or forwarded this song because
The track has a good menacing attitude, although, it could benefit from a revision in the arrangement to get closer to the desired character style of arrangement referenced and requested in the listing.
One of the references "Sneaky Snitch" a great feel to it...and I think a similar level of activity in the mid to upper mids that mine does. It also shifts to g minor for a b section with a rather contrasting rhythmic schema-the second phrase in the b in the context of four measures of 4/4 is organized in groupings fo 3+3+3+3+4-thus a strongly contrasting B section. The B section is repeated. I find it a little frustrating when I am being admonished to listen carefully to the references and then being confronted with such a contradiction between the critique and the references that I am supposed to work from. Sneaky Snitch has disappeared from the link provided above so I found this as an alternative:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm0qaXi9THA
I am not, at this point arguing that should have been forwarded...I am sure people will weigh in what could be improved...would most welcome, actually..I just feel at times that I am at a a loss as to what to follow...I feel there is a disparity here..Lastly with two of the references-it is hard to hear the music underneath the continuous dialogue and the low level of the track being referenced.
any comments/criticisms welcome.
best,
jlevis6
I submitted this track for the following listing.
ORCHESTRAL DRAMEDY INSTRUMENTAL CUES are needed by a Music Licensing Company with a HUGE list of placements in Films, TV Commercials, and A-List TV Shows.
NOTE: This Company has signed lots of TAXI members over many years and nailed down lots of placements for them!
This Company is looking for Instrumental Cues that could be found on a playlist with the following references:
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (From 0:59 - 1:55)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4XWN5cohTY&t=59s
RHOSLC Highlights S1 Ep6 (From 1:35 - 2:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vnwMR-VCKo&t=95s
"Sneaky Snitch" by Kevin MacLeod
Please submit well-produced Instrumental Cues that set the tone for quirky, light, dramatic scenes in Reality TV shows. Your submissions should have solid motifs and high-quality Orchestral instrumentation. Please craft your Cues around a singular motif and mood, and create a sense of dynamics and forward momentum by layering instrumentation in and out as they progress. Be sure to avoid submitting anything that sounds too busy, as it could interfere with a scene’s dialog. Your production should be polished and any virtual instruments or samples you use need to be top-notch.
Submissions should be about 2 minutes long, give or take, and have non-faded, buttoned/stinger endings. Do NOT copy the references in any way, shape, or form. Use them only as a general guide for tempo, tone, and overall vibe. Broadcast Quality is needed.
Here is the track
https://www.taxi.com/members/93-HgfxkQ7 ... d-skulkin-
the critique
I think you could improve this song by
This is good, although, with a cue structure, you want to stay on the "a" section throughout utilizing subtractive and additive composition. This has a "b" section at 0:51. For this request, try an alt-arrangement and maintain the "a" section and lessen the overall density of the instrumentation. Less is more for this request. Listen to the references and study the density of the instrumentation and the openness of the rhythmic phrasing.
and then:
I returned or forwarded this song because
The track has a good menacing attitude, although, it could benefit from a revision in the arrangement to get closer to the desired character style of arrangement referenced and requested in the listing.
One of the references "Sneaky Snitch" a great feel to it...and I think a similar level of activity in the mid to upper mids that mine does. It also shifts to g minor for a b section with a rather contrasting rhythmic schema-the second phrase in the b in the context of four measures of 4/4 is organized in groupings fo 3+3+3+3+4-thus a strongly contrasting B section. The B section is repeated. I find it a little frustrating when I am being admonished to listen carefully to the references and then being confronted with such a contradiction between the critique and the references that I am supposed to work from. Sneaky Snitch has disappeared from the link provided above so I found this as an alternative:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm0qaXi9THA
I am not, at this point arguing that should have been forwarded...I am sure people will weigh in what could be improved...would most welcome, actually..I just feel at times that I am at a a loss as to what to follow...I feel there is a disparity here..Lastly with two of the references-it is hard to hear the music underneath the continuous dialogue and the low level of the track being referenced.
any comments/criticisms welcome.
best,
jlevis6