Intermediate Audio Production Week 6: Operation Overlord

It was nice to continue working  on our Beastie Boyz remixes especially by adding our own music playing through MIDI. This really adds the cherry on the creative cake because we can really add our own flavours to our remix instead of just relying on the Pro Tools arsenal. The fact that you can play virtually any instrument form a keyboard is very cool. You could probably simulate an entire orchestra if you really wanted all in the virtual world of the MIDI interface. Needless to say it made this week's pass/fail quite enjoyable. The lecture on soundtracks for films and television was also very interesting. I actually really enjoy listening to various movie soundtracks including the soundtracks for Inception, The Dark Knight, and pretty much anything Hans Zimmer does. However I don't know how I would have fared back in the day when everything was done on tape and had to be meticulously cut and pasted together (not in a computer either, actually cutting with razors and pasting with tape). Knowing all the elements of a soundtrack, like diagetic and non-diagetic sound, made my appreciation for movie music that much greater. Like the example we saw in "Apocalypse Now", somethings in a soundtrack although they may sound out place, are actually there for a very important reason, usually something deep and  meaningful depending on the director's vision.