Westworld Scoring Competition

[cosmicdolphin]

Doesn't seem to support what's happening on screen at all

[cosmicdolphin]

Doesn't seem to support what's happening on screen at all

https://www.spitfireaudio.com/westworld/
After you post your submission, provide a link.
I'm curious how you'd approach it.

I haven't entered I am 9 tracks into a 10 track album for a Library which has a deadline of month end but if you want to hear some stuff I've done that has been used on TV it's here.

https://soundcloud.com/user-45178330/se ... eard-on-tv

( For the record I probably would have scored it along the lines of track 10 - Blunt Force Trauma )

[stevebarden]

My entry in the Westworld Scoring Competition
https://www.spitfireaudio.com/westworld/
You don't need to use a Spitfire Audio either, although they have a instrument called LABS which is free.

Gabgar, kudos for writing something for this competition. Hundreds if not thousands have also thrown their hat into the ring. Good luck! There has been much discussion around various forums as what is the right approach to scoring an action scene like this: Which events to hit, when to begin the chase sequence, when to dial it down for dialogue, etc. There is no one right answer.

Here is what I thought would be the appropriate approach:

https://youtu.be/QBsLV39xMGI

[Ted]

Steve, that's a pretty nice score. I can tell you put some time into it.

One weird thing that I noticed, after watching about a hundred entries... Maybe a third of the entries ( like yours) have a running time of about 4:05 whereas maybe the other 2/3rds have a running time of about 4:17 (like mine does). Same video, but based on the sound of the dialogue track-- the voices in the shorter ones sound noticably higher, slightly chipmunky in pitch while the longer videos have more normal sounding voices to me. I wonder if it's something to do with the frame rate selection when importing the video or maybe it has something to do with the choice of DAW, I have no idea. I can especially notice with guy's voice at the end when he says "Why the **** are we stopping?!?" he sounds like a kid from South Park in the shorter videos.

Anyway, Good luck.

[stevebarden]

Steve, that's a pretty nice score. I can tell you put some time into it.

One weird thing that I noticed, after watching about a hundred entries... Maybe a third of the entries ( like yours) have a running time of about 4:05 whereas maybe the other 2/3rds have a running time of about 4:17 (like mine does). Same video, but based on the sound of the dialogue track-- the voices in the shorter ones sound noticably higher, slightly chipmunky in pitch while the longer videos have more normal sounding voices to me. I wonder if it's something to do with the frame rate selection when importing the video or maybe it has something to do with the choice of DAW, I have no idea. I can especially notice with guy's voice at the end when he says "Why the **** are we stopping?!?" he sounds like a kid from South Park in the shorter videos.

Anyway, Good luck.

Ted, I'm not sure if these are two different edits. I don't have access to the longer version to compare frame-by-frame. I've heard some people mention the frame rates are different. The 4:06 version if 25 fps. Not sure what the other is, maybe 24.97, something like that?

[hummingbird]

Mine clocked at 30fps in waveform so that's what I used. Mine runs 4:17.

[steveprobst]

Yes, kudus for giving it a shot Gabgar!

Steve, I believe you nailed the emotion and vibe needed in yours, for sure.

I've always wanted to try something like this and gave it a shot for practice. It was a creative rush for me. The weapons seemed to be a percussion instrument all their own. I went hog wild with drums. lol (One of my drums hits didn't play when bouncing, but I didn't notice till too late.)

[BBvideo]="560" height="315" src=https://youtu.be/HZLrcXpl5CE[/BBvideo]

....how in the heck did you embed YouTube video here?

[stevebarden]

Steve, I believe you nailed the emotion and vibe needed in yours, for sure.

I've always wanted to try something like this and gave it a shot for practice. It was a creative rush for me. The weapons seemed to be a percussion instrument all their own. I went hog wild with drums. lol (One of my drums hits didn't play when bouncing, but I didn't notice till too late.)

Steve, I like a lot of the thematic material in your piece and also the percussion stuff. More and more I've been trying to create percussion parts manually as opposed to relying on drum loops. It will be very interesting to see what they deem to be the "perfect" composition for this scene.

[Ted]

Yes, kudus for giving it a shot Gabgar!

Steve, I believe you nailed the emotion and vibe needed in yours, for sure.

I've always wanted to try something like this and gave it a shot for practice. It was a creative rush for me. The weapons seemed to be a percussion instrument all their own. I went hog wild with drums. lol (One of my drums hits didn't play when bouncing, but I didn't notice till too late.)

[BBvideo]="560" height="315" src=https://youtu.be/HZLrcXpl5CE[/BBvideo]

....how in the heck did you embed YouTube video here?

Steve, great job on your score. It wasn't too minimalistic and it wasn't too bombastic either. Great choice of sounds throughout.

I don't know if you saw mine but I also had the same idea about letting the gunfire come through as percussion and I structured my score in that section accordingly. Not a lot of others that I've seen took this approach.

[steveprobst]

Steve, I believe you nailed the emotion and vibe needed in yours, for sure.

I've always wanted to try something like this and gave it a shot for practice. It was a creative rush for me. The weapons seemed to be a percussion instrument all their own. I went hog wild with drums. lol (One of my drums hits didn't play when bouncing, but I didn't notice till too late.)

Steve, I like a lot of the thematic material in your piece and also the percussion stuff. More and more I've been trying to create percussion parts manually as opposed to relying on drum loops. It will be very interesting to see what they deem to be the "perfect" composition for this scene.

Cool Steve. I have the dumbek on Logic Arpeggiator as well my "Zimmer tick" thing, but the rest I pounded out by hand on the keys. It's quite a mess lol
I do have Composer cloud stuff, but chose manual.