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This is a great start! Clear ideas, and the video should be fun to put music to. The next step might be to translate some of these ideas into musical manifestations. For the checkpoint tomorrow, try to have some musical ideas for the moments in the trailer. This could be new music, or music from your past projects as a jumping off point.

Great job!

This is a really interesting video to choose for this assignment! I agree with Almeda that it should be fun to capture it using audio. Are you planning to have multiple climaxes, or just one? How are you planning to create the feeling of intrigue as opposed to the climax?

It would be interesting to experiment with softer, continuous sounds when there is less movement, and louder, more concise sounds when a great deal of movement with the cards is taking place. This may create a suspenseful effect in between exciting sequences of movement.

It seems as though you have some great ideas for creating the audio, and I'm looking forward to the outcome!

Now you will have to do the analysis of the video with the exact timings. You should mark all them, the parts, things to synchronize with music (there is a lot going on in the video, you can select just synchronizing few things), in Logic as it is explained here below.

I recommend to compose something simple at the beginning (just the main instrument melody, the leitmotifs, and drums and so on), and then think what you would expect to listen apart from that, as background: a bass line? Some string chords? Other melody (countermelody) to accompany nicely the main one in a different instrument? You decide. If you would like to get ideas listen to music similar to the style you want to use and listen to its instrumentation and rest of characteristics to create your own piece with your own decisions, with your own taste (not a copy!).

Here some general ideas to help you build the music: Think of the functions of the music for audiovisuals that we studied at class and also the composition concepts. Start with analyzing the video precisely and setting its parts and the mood and characteristics of the music for each part. Plan your instruments. Remember that to make a crescendo you can add instruments apart to make them play louder and vice-versa with decrescendo. Select a good tempo that goes well with the images (beat per minute), though you might change it in some section if you think it is going to fit better. To open the video in Logic: File-Movie-Open Movie. Then mark the sections of it in the next way: Logic Pro-Preferences-Advanced Tools and activate all except for Control Surfaces and Surround (and score if you are not going to use it). Then Track-Show Global Tracks and in the Arrangement Track you can establish the sections, for example:
- Introduction: objectives (mood to set, things to remark with music...), Function/s of the music in this section (set the mood, present the main character (you can create a leitmotif for it), place the viewer in the physical place where the action is (country, region, etc.), underline the time the action takes place...), Composition concepts to get the objectives and music functions: crescendo to begin, tempo that fits, kind of music to set the mood, instrumentation that fits with the place and time,...
- And something similar to the other sections: note that the mood might be the same for all the video or that some functions can be in several or all the sections

Also in the markers track you can put markers to synchronize important moments in the scene to synchronize with the music, example: evil monster appears suddenly (remark with its leitmotif or with some low tones, or drums, etc)
The process should be that: set the objectives, set the music function/s, set the composition concepts to get them, compose the music starting from something simple, just the melodies, leitmotifs, etc. and then "decorate" it with the rest of elements and instrumentation you think that fits (it might be string/brass chords, bass line, drums, other melodies with other instruments...)

I agree with Almeda and Christina, I think its a good idea to have multiple climaxes, and your initial thoughts have good direction. What kind of music were you thinking of using, in terms of theme/setting/time period? Were you thinking about more hip-hop/techno or more traditional? What kinds of instruments do you think fit the mood the best? Were you thinking about adding/subtracting instruments to ebb and flow into climaxes, or were you thinking of lowering/heightening the pitch or volume? I can't wait to hear your final designs!

I fixed the Youtube upload, I had to re-export it, I just thought that processing was taking a while, Sorry!

Very cool outcome! I like the soft bell sounds at the beginning which give a mysterious feeling and the guitar and other sounds that add excitement which you used to emphasize more climactic parts of the video. You definitely captured the ebb and flow that you were aiming to-- the visually exciting parts of the video sound exciting and the visually calmer parts of the video sound calmer. Also, the beats seem to be timed very well with actions taking place. Great job!

I think your ideas and goals shined through well in your final piece, the bells definitely added the touch of magic you were looking for. However, I think the synchronization could have been a little bit tighter, especially at the beginning. It was a little bit distracting when the words appearing and the action didn't seem to match what the music was doing. Although I liked each individual section of music, overall the piece didn't really seem to be cohesive. I think you could have integrated pieces of earlier melodies into later ones, to give the piece and overall cohesion instead of breaking it up into individual sections that are discrete. I did think your ideas for starting and ending the piece were strong, though. Your beginning started out slow and created intrigue. I liked that you included those same sounds at the end to provide closure, and your ending using the false cadence was interesting. Great work!