Some horrible gnashing of teeth or growling or some downpitched scrape on a metal sheet or something. I think there could be a benefit to a much more monstrous kind of sound happening when the screen goes black and the shots start. I don't think it needs to be much, just a nod here or there, maybe even just a single snort as she passes close, panned off on the left or something. My heart wanted to hear a horse snorting at some point, we see a lot of horse snouts, but i never got a strong sensation that there were horses from the sound design. Do you have a professional library of sound effects that you are using? In any case it felt immersive, and the mix was great too. ![]() But I've caught a bit of a bug so I don't think I'll be able to do much more this month.įirst off incredible foley work, it felt 100% real, the barn doors, footsteps in the grass, creaking of the lantern. It is so much more interesting than the one that I've already started (the AVA Halloween challenge which is great in its own way but the video is a little too focused on the comparatively pedestrian killing and cutting up of women). Perhaps some filtering of some kind.Īnother though is that, to help that process, perhaps there could be louder sounds outside - wind, distant sounds of a homestead or a horse whinnying, that can then become muted (rolling off the highs, reducing the volume) once she goes inside.ĭarn (tootin'), I wish I was entering this contest. One, is to alter the reverb between outside and inside a little more to create the space in a more defined way. I think that it could use a couple of things, as a first thought. So, um, did she just go into that barn and murder a bunch of cats? Other than the slight concern that the audio made it sound like she was killing at least one cat, I love the sound design here. Not western, exactly, but western adjacent - a bit of Sergio Leone, a bit of that jazz guitarist that works with Tom Waits sometimes. Other than to say that the guitar style is great. Sorry, I'm sure there is better advice to be had but this is all that I can put together right now. Dynamics are good although a lot of trailers stick to the quiet, LOUD, quiet approach - you don't have to be that crude about it! but in this case the dips in volume seemed more accidental than intentional and with purpose. There were some fluctuations in volume, especially towards the end. It might sound bigger on speakers with better bass response, but I think for a mix that will translate to lots of devices that might be used to watch a trailer needs the bass to be strong a little higher in the frequency spectrum as well as at the bottom. The bass seemed a little weak on my laptop's speakers. Perhaps a jangly piano, a bit of banjo or acoustic guitar could float to the surface early on. I thought that early on, some of the western-like elements of the music seemed a little buried. It is usual to have key sounds or musical moments making the visual action seem more powerful and striking. Otherwise, there is surprisingly little punctuation of key moments in the video for what is a trailer. Elsewhere, there is what sounds like a very deep snare that imitates bullets. I love this music and it matches the tone of the images nicely. ![]() Anyway, that's just my 2 cents, if any of that is helpful to you then great, and in any case good luck in the contest! And honestly (this is just my preference) but I wanted MORE guitar, especially ramping into the ending. Things were shifting and changing yes, but maybe not enough? The guitar sounded very quantized (did you quantize it to a grid?) Playing with the performance might be good if you can get it to sound more organic, played in rather than programmed in. Then later the guitar comes in and that was very satisfying so maybe that could have come in a bit sooner? The first half felt a bit static to me. I think there is just a disconnect between the shots in the video and the places the sound/music goes, I didn't get the feeling that they were working "together" beyond the point that the mood was getting set (and the mood was good!). I liked the unnerving sound design vibe that you open with, felt very atonal and edgy. I'm a beginner, so I barely know what I am doing anyway, and that is probably even being generous. I took a listen through yours and I do have some comments but please take all this with a grain of salt (actually a small mountain of salt is likely more appropriate). Thanks for starting the thread on here I hadn't realized there wasn't one yet! I finished my entry a little while back, hopefully it's entered correctly! (I'm still waiting for it to show up on the official entry playlist but they haven't updated that in a while now).
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