Oil war music trailer

[P.Petridis]

This is my latest film scoring demo.It's about a movie that exist only in my head and i make also a video with pictures to make the story more simple.I used some loop samples for some ethno  voices and some ethno flutes,my friend N.Kouris played for me a lot of violin tracks for the "arab" style enseble.In this project i wanted to combine diferent instruments from diferent places and coultoures so your opinion its very important .

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiffY5OH5UU

 

 

[P.Petridis]

Hey thanks for your reply Jon,in this demo i deed some  experimentation and at the end   I'm still a little confused about the all thing,not only the rock thing but and the others genre's are a little bit unclear in my head .I think that  finally prevailed the first glance thrown at the  issue of oil war>>.

I have seen syriana>> and its true that something like that was in my head!!  Thanks for your time and sorry about my bad english!!

 

Jon Corelis said:

Well, speaking as a film-goer who might watch such a film, I had mixed feelings about this.  It begins effectively with middle-eastern sounding music over a threatening back beat, and the ominous chords accompanying the military hardware are very effective (those pictures with the music somehow remind me of Eisensteins's insect/machine like soldiers in Ivan the Terrible.)  The switch to building-up artificial wave sounds for the Western images is also good, and then at about 1:40 the strings, sounding like some Arabic-influenced Turkish popular music I've heard, convey the tension in another way which reinforces the switch back to the fighting.  But then at 2:20 for me it falls apart with the heavy-metal like rock music.  This whole genre of music always seems to me strained and overheated, and here it adds a very jarring note to a serious subject.  Then the ending is effective again.

 

So all in all I thought it was successful except for the hard rock, which for me ruined everything (and personally I like many kinds of rock, but I don't think this kind works here.)

 

By the way, have you seen Syriana?  Some of it looks like your imagined film.

[P.Petridis]

Hey Ray thanks,can you explain what is the IMO?if you meen the arabic violins thing,i was having a big big problem because they recorded at home with a lot of noise and after a hard noise gating they where still rigid for the reverbs and eq's!!

Ray Kemp said:

Great cue P,

Although IMO it's a bit dry. Could do with more space and epic scale when it really gets going.

[P.Petridis]

Ok now i understand,hehehe...Thanks for the advice Ray,you are targeting on sound problems and i appreciate this a lot because i'm working in my living room with some cheap headphones and always help me to know what the others are hearing,Thanks man.

Ray Kemp said:

IMO "In my opinion"

It's the quiet passages with the brass that seem too dry to me.