This is your chance to create the music soundtrack for a short film clip. Discover how music can really change the mood of a film or television programme. You will also learn how different layers of music work together to form a rich musical score.
After selecting a video, you must then choose whose music you'd like to use.
Mháire's music is a modern mixture, Áine's music is modern classical, Somhairle's music is Rock and Pop and Eamonn's music is a combination of Folk and World.
Each video clip is split up into four sections:
• beginning
• middle 1
• middle 2
• ending
The music is in four layers:
• melody (red dots)
• backing (purple dots)
• bass (green dots)
• percussion (yellow dots)
Click on the dots to see the choice of instruments available and click on a red arrow to preview the clips then click 'Cur Leis' to add one of them to your soundtrack. You can add the music in any order. Add all the parts of one layer before moving on to the others or select all the music to one part of the film at a time.
Use the green arrows to listen to the music to each part of the soundtrack seperately.
Click on the lights above the orchestra to mute the different layers of your soundtrack as you play your composition, to hear the effect that seperate elements have on it.
You can save your compositions so that you can load them in the future.
If you find it hard to get started, then you can choose a partly completed piece by clicking 'Load' or choose to work at the Easy Level at the beginning of the application.
