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Wikiversity School of Music:
Mad Max's Course in Film Scoring for Motion Pictures
Lesson:
Lesson #01: Creating the sound of "Fear"
Pages of this Lesson:
Lesson Summary: Creating moods with individual notes
Select One:
GarageBand (only)
Page 1a: Getting started with GarageBand
Pop Quiz - garageBand (only) - 4 points
Page 2a: Creating the sound of fear with GarageBand - 6 points
GarageBand with Symphony Orchestra sounds
Page 1b: Getting started with Symphony Orchestra Sounds
Pop Quiz GarageBand with symphony sounds - 4 points
Page 2b: Creating the sound of fear using symphony orchestra sounds - 6 points
Notation's Protégé (free demo version)
Page 1c: Getting started with Protégé
Pop Quiz - Protégé - 4 points
Page 2b: Creating the sound of fear with Protégé - 6 points
More Musical Sounds
Page 3: Creating additional moods for motion pictures with individual notes - 6 points :
The sound of fear! :
| Part 1: Create a musical sound effect for "Fear". We are going to start very easy. Your first assignment is "Fear". Fear is one of the most basic musical themes in horror movies. If you plan to write film score (or if you are budding film director or film producer) for your first motion picture (which often is a horror film), you need to learn how to create the emotion of fear. Also, fear is the easiest mood to create with music. Your First Assignment Your first assignment is to have fun. Create 3 to 10 seconds of a musical sound effect for fear. You can do whatever you wish… or you can follow the instructions below. Step 1. Create a musical sound effect How do you create the sound of "FEAR"? Listen to the different violin trills in GarageBand with Jam Pack:Symphony Orchestra (or whatever software you use.) Just a single note (a single press of the key when you have selected a violin trill software instrument) gives you an entire violin trill which is ideal for the explaining to the audience that they should feel the emotion of "Fear". Adjust the volume When you create a sound with a single musical note (in this case, a violin trill), something seems wrong. The volume is either on or off. That is not right. Fortunately, you can go back and adjust the volume of the note over time. This is makes the note expressive. It makes the note come alive. Step 2. Export your music Save your work Export your music (your single note played expressively to create the mood of "Fear".) Step 3. Upload your music Send me your sound effect If you know how, upload and store your musical sound file to Wikiversity. Put your name, the sound of fear, and "Mad Max's class" in the description. Email me with the files name so I can look at it. Note: Wikiversity can only accept OGG files which is a new, free format for music sound similar to MP3 but free from royalties. If you do not have this capability, just send your audio file to me and I will convert it and upload it. To email me, you simply Click Here. | Part 2 - Create other moods Once you have finished creating the sound of fear, you should also try creating the sound of: The Sound Of Danger Danger Once you have created the sound of fear, the next sound you should create is the sound of danger. You can create the sound of danger in two ways. 1. You can make a sound like fear but very low pitch. 2. You can use a very short melody with very dark sounding instruments. This is much more difficult so start with just the sound of fear made with very angry sounding musical instruments. The Sound Of Joy Joy (Happy, magic fairies) Joy is very different from fear and danger. Joy cannot be created with a single note as with the sound of fear. For this, you want four or five notes that repeat over and over again very quickly, very lightly. Bells are great for this. To help you, there is a complete lesson for creating the the sound of joy. sad busy disgust humor waiting / boredom anger |