[Personal] - Music

Once we had completed our final animation, we had to decide whether we wanted to use sound effects, music or both.

We all had mixed opinions but in the end we decided to go with music, as we felt that music plays a huge part and can really make or break anything. It could bring so much more emotion to a scene than sound effects alone could ever do. Having both music and sound effects would probably end up causing the scene to be too cluttered with sound, especially over the lawn mower facing and air show scenes as they would require continous engine sounds.

The big dilemma was coming up with a suitable peiece of mucic which would not only suit all four of our scenes, but also give the right impression to tourists considering to visit Essex.In the end, I came up with the idea of using the theme song from the Pixar film "Up" which can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoEMx_-ccR0

I believed that this music fitted our animation perfectly for a few reasons. The main one being that I have said since the beginning that we were all aiming for a Pixar-like style to our animation. So what better piece of music would fit our scene other than one from a Pixar film itself? It was this theme from this particular film because I just felt that it had the same sense of quirckiness that our scenes had.

We were quite lucky with the timing too, as the music stays quircky throughout the first three scsnes and then becomes dramatic towards the end over the airshow scene, before slowly calming down towards the climax of the animation.

Of course, there is the issue of the music being copyrighted to Pixar and Disney. So if our animtion does get picked to advertise our client's webiste, unfortunately either they would have to pay royalties, or find a replacement song...