Putting music over a scene - The Wire (Omar's comin)
For this workshop we put music into a scene. For my first scene I chose the scene from the Wire where Omar is coming outside and he walks through the outside area then he has a conversation with someone. This scene doesn't have any music in but has lots of background noise.
I chose to use an instrumental version of Dr Dre - Still D.R.E ft Snoop Dogg.
I chose the song as i felt this genre of music fits the scene and i liked the way everything worked with the scene. Personally i thought it lifted the mood and gave the scene a new light, as when Omar starts walking outside the beat drops and it shows he's the one in charge. I also like the music as it adds something more to the scene and it shows Omar is someone you can’t play with and he’s the one in charge so I think the song adds that bit of power.
At first i tried the scene with the explicit lyrics, but as i played around with it having a song with lyrics in didn't work because of the nature of the scene as there was dialogue in the scene already having a song with lyrics didn't work, hence why the instrumental worked well. So then i tried with the instrumental and it worked much better.
This scene was a non-digetic as it was put over the scene and didn't seem like it was part of the scene already. I preferred to have the scene like this. I lowered the sound on the song so it wasn't overpowering and so you could hear the characters talking. I also made it fade in and out so we could hear dialogue in parts of it as having the music drown out the dialogue would have ruined it.
For this workshop we put music into a scene. For my first scene I chose the scene from the Wire where Omar is coming outside and he walks through the outside area then he has a conversation with someone. This scene doesn't have any music in but has lots of background noise.
I chose to use an instrumental version of Dr Dre - Still D.R.E ft Snoop Dogg.
I chose the song as i felt this genre of music fits the scene and i liked the way everything worked with the scene. Personally i thought it lifted the mood and gave the scene a new light, as when Omar starts walking outside the beat drops and it shows he's the one in charge. I also like the music as it adds something more to the scene and it shows Omar is someone you can’t play with and he’s the one in charge so I think the song adds that bit of power.
At first i tried the scene with the explicit lyrics, but as i played around with it having a song with lyrics in didn't work because of the nature of the scene as there was dialogue in the scene already having a song with lyrics didn't work, hence why the instrumental worked well. So then i tried with the instrumental and it worked much better.
This scene was a non-digetic as it was put over the scene and didn't seem like it was part of the scene already. I preferred to have the scene like this. I lowered the sound on the song so it wasn't overpowering and so you could hear the characters talking. I also made it fade in and out so we could hear dialogue in parts of it as having the music drown out the dialogue would have ruined it.
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