Day 77 — Adding Music to “Take Your Pills”

RE the last part about adjusting for audience: Wouldn't it be amazing if YouTube and other content providers dual-tracked their video to allow for users to adjust music/vocals seperately? I mean, that has already been done at the editing stage--preserving that to accommodate those with attention and/or hearing issues would be a huge step in disability awareness. I know I often watch things with the subtitles on, because my ADHD often means I don't "hear" what was said, but if I READ it, I follow much better. My entire family does that, and I never knew it was us trying to find a way to cope. *blown away*

LadyGrndr(Lacey S)

Your feelings are dead on, and amazing <3 SInce music is the carrier of so much emotional connection with what we're seeing, it makes a lot of sense to 'get a feel' for it. But understanding and timing and being able to shift the piece in your head to best bring forth that emotion--that is sheer talent. As always, impressed by your skill, Edward :D

LadyGrndr(Lacey S)

I do have to admit, that I was not able to watch this whole video, but I skipped around a bit and it's super interesting. Seeing all the work you guys have put into this, and seeing little sneak peeks here and there have made me so eager to watch it. I appreciate everything you guys do!

Kayla Groth

I took a multimedia class last summer and I figured adding sound and music would be half an hour at the end of the class. Ha! I spent an entire week of class, which was five hours a day. I learned early on in life that music makes a difference in movies because when I was a kid, someone gave me a cassette (yup, dated myself right there) of the Little Mermaid soundtrack. Since I've been writing pretty much as long as I've known HOW to write, I quickly realized that the non-lyric music really helped set the tone for the scenes I was writing. I now use much more sophisticated soundtracks, but same basic concepts.

Donna Dull

So the cliff notes of the video is how you are using background music to set or amplify the tone of the video. I noticed the effect of music in movies years ago and how it can set a tone or mood in a movie before it happens. I made this correlation when I got my hands on the sounds track for the “James Bond” movie “To Lie and Let Die”. Having seen the movie, I could tell the exact point in the movie I was based on the music. I then noticed even how important the music was to a movie after seeing the Daniel Craig version of “Casino Royals” then getting a copy of the sound track. I also bought the CD that had a lot of the theme song to the James Bond series. This is when I personally came to the conclusion of how the music soundtrack/backdrop music played in making the franchise so popular. The music made scenes in the movies more dramic and helped set the tone. I figured it was complicated, but now I know how much work is involved in doing something what would seem so simple. Great work Edward, I think this is what my son wants to do after High School which the Technical theatre (IE lighting/sound/etc).

Speaking of music, how did you get the How to ADHD "theme song"? It's so catchy!

Hayden Bech

Edward did you find the personal project!!!!!??

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