@EddieDean – I took a crack myself at an idea, stemming from V4. Check it out here: https://vimeo.com/495284667
Take it with a grain of salt, especially from a guy who has never seen TCW. That said, I know this much:
- It’s about intergalactic AND inter- / intra- personal wars.
- Asohka and Anakin are primary characters.
- The music should take into account the emotions revolving around each of the above.
So, I took a swing. Might be a huge miss, but happy to contribute an iota of an idea for this great thread!
Keep up the great work!
EDIT: Music credit goes to Samuel Kim, with remix by me.
I’ve to say I like it too. Right amount of epicness. For a second I had concerns it’ll be the avengers theme from endgame when the intro text unfolds.
Though I agree with eddiedean regarding the longer time for the introtext and piano to pin point this with the emerging sentences.One minor issue for me is that the audio-transition from the tcw logo to the episode name is fairly rough, because of the difference between the two music pieces. Perhaps it is possible to smoothin it out? Or maybe it the intro music could end around 0:54/55? Therefore the difference would be lesser than before.
For stereo to 5.1, you could use ffmpeg, the conversion to 5.1 should work? (not an expert though).
Other than that, great job!
Yeah, the transition could be better. I wanted to somehow introduce Asohka’s theme, while at the same time carrying the Order 66 theme to it’s conclusion of the Imperial March, and finding a way to overlay the two without having adequate source material required pitching one or the other, which both creates some artifacts and creates a bit of disconnect.
I was more concerned about the overall length of the intro, so I cut more elements shorter than I would’ve liked, so the fact that the general consensus is that longer = better, I think some of that jarring can be remedied.
The core issue with adding Asohka’s theme at the end over the episode title is three-fold:
- Tonally, def different
- Diff key
- The piano note is actually a 2nd/11th (musical term)*, over the root chord. While as a standalone for Asohka’s theme, it creates a longing/yearning/wistful/melancholy feeling, in this context, it feels contrary, out of place, and introduces a bit of thematic/tonal dissonance. I countered that by fighting fire with fire and continued with her theme using the second piano note of her theme to be overlaid on some of the Imperial March, which together is very noticeably dissonant, which one could argue might fit the eventual nature of the push/pull of the light/dark side embodied by both Asohka and Anakin (speculating though… since I’ve never seen it and I avoid spoilers as much as possible!).
All that to say, it’s very well possible these two independent pieces of music that I’ve smashed together thanks to the glory of technology may very well not play nicely in the context of this intro edit. I’ll keep playing around and keep you all in the loop.
*EDIT: It might actually be a 6th. I’m not at a piano to figure it out. Regardless, it has the same impact on the listener described above.