Music to my ears

 Welcome back to my blog! We are certainly approaching the end to the project and there is still a bit of stuff to do left. This week I’m finishing up the project, on Wednesday next week, that’ll be the FINAL day we can submit the project. Crazy how it really is almost completely over, so much time passed and so any things have happened regarding the project. One of those things actually is the music for my editing!

While the main video for the project was focused on music, and the main man of the project was a musician, it felt almost perfect to integrate his music into the project. I looked over back at some of the documentaries we watched and though music was integrated, it wasn’t always prevalent. I wanted to use music that would fit the vibe of the documentary, as well as be appropriate for the scenes they were being implemented into. This gave me the chance to go down his catalogue of songs that he has on his YouTube channel! Let’s see what we found!

I felt like the song “Petals of Warmth” would fit the vibe of a good background music when speaking of the more sentimental topics, such as his original reason for starting to create music. It a more nostalgic tone that I feel would be appropriate for looking back at the memories that he had with his brother, playing the piano and learning it to further express himself. I think however that a song like this cannot be intrusive. It needs to be played low. I’ll keep that in mind when further editing and mixing the voice.

I think the song “Sweetened clouds above a candy sky” works super well for the upbeat more hopeful atmosphere of the ending of the exert. It really makes me want feel hopeful. Gasim actually taught me in songs, there are certain core progressions that make people feel certain ways. I feel like you can get that feeling from the dialogue as well as the music. He really wasn’t kidding; music can tell you a whole story without words.

We also utilized a cool effect that goes from the songs playing on the piano, to the actual songs playing themselves. Of course they are all original covers played by Gasim himself so we could avoid the copyright. They are integrated pretty seamlessly so I’m proud of that. Finally of course, I got permission from the artist himself to use the music. He even signed it, the image below shows that.

I’m very happy I got that done! Let’s see how it turns out! Until next time!