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In the synth thread forum user Sjoewe came up with a really good idea for a challenge, to score a silent movie. So this thread is here as a place for us to carry out that idea, mostly starting it to alleviate clutter from the synth thread. The obvious first step is to pick a silent movie to score. The only two real considerations are that it be in the public domain (used to be 50 years since production until Mickey Mouse turned 50, now I think it's 75 years unless it's owned by Disney) and that it be a relatively short one realer, like 20 or 30 minutes tops. The next thing to do would be for some brave soul to watch it and divide it up into timed incidents. Then we'd call dibs on which sections we wanted to musicify. Then someone would paste the whole loving thing together. So, this is a thread to do these things and answer questions like "how do I get video into my daw?", "what does SMPTE stand for?", "does anyone have a good library of goong samples?", "HALP I CANNOT MAKE A MUSIC WITHOUT A DRUMBEAT IN THE BACKGROUND!" and stuff like that. So get crackin' and start throwing out good potential movies.
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Feb 19, 2015 23:43
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The Call of Cthulhu is a silent movie that's only 47 minutes long. Perfect album length. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478988/
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Feb 20, 2015 00:05
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Radiapathy posted:The Call of Cthulhu is a silent movie that's only 47 minutes long. Perfect album length. Not to concern troll but where can you even get this movie?
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Feb 20, 2015 00:36
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A MIRACLE posted:Not to concern troll but where can you even get this movie?
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Feb 20, 2015 00:45
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Radiapathy posted:The Call of Cthulhu is a silent movie that's only 47 minutes long. Perfect album length. Another issue I'd like to bring up is that despite the story "The Call of Cthulhu" being in the public domain, the silent movie is not.
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Feb 20, 2015 00:49
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I'm in, this would be fun
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Feb 20, 2015 02:11
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Would Le Voyage dans la Lune be too cliche?
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Feb 20, 2015 02:45
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Radiapathy posted:The Call of Cthulhu is a silent movie that's only 47 minutes long. Perfect album length. Too long. You're not looking at making, like, 2-5 minute songs, you're looking at making a whole bunch of, like, 20 second to 2 minute long cues. e: also that was made in, like, 2006 Sizone fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Feb 20, 2015 |
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Feb 20, 2015 04:22
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Something old school sci-fi would be neat but I'm a synth nerd. I know nothing about movies.
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Feb 20, 2015 05:23
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Tayter Swift posted:Would Le Voyage dans la Lune be too cliche? As long as we don't inadvertently summon Billy Corrigan http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/silent-science-fiction/137304/the-10-best-silent-era-sci-fi-films hail satan https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eRZwYsPuyTc
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Feb 20, 2015 09:57
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How about a twist. A little something to warm us all up, we pick one scene freely available on the tube and we all make a score to that scene? Would be nice to see the different takes on the same material.
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Feb 20, 2015 10:30
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Sounds good. Will give everyone an early chance to see how poorly video integrates into their setups. Wanna be a champ, pick a scene and upload an .avi or an .mp4 or something of to a file share?
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Feb 20, 2015 11:26
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Might I suggest choosing from a central library like archive.org? Lots to choose from and multiple format downloads. Tons of it is government stuff and public domain.
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Feb 20, 2015 12:51
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I've found a HD version of the opening scene of Metropolis, there are already a fuckton of scores for that scene, which might be good to use as reference for us Hans Zimmer wannabe's. Let's take april fools as a deadline? http://www.filedropper.com/score-a-scenemetropolismp4
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Feb 20, 2015 13:42
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Sjoewe posted:How about a twist. A little something to warm us all up, we pick one scene freely available on the tube and we all make a score to that scene? That's actually a good idea as well.
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Feb 20, 2015 16:32
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I'm in for the warm-up. I've got no background in the video side but I've been meaning to try this sort of thing. Too bad it's not a silent so we'd lose the film audio but (the original print of) Night of the Living Dead is public domain because they forgot to add the copyright notice when they re-titled it.
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Feb 20, 2015 17:20
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This sounds great, I'm in
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Feb 21, 2015 00:28
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This sounds interesting, count me in.
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Feb 21, 2015 00:30
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I've been working on some more soundtrack-y stuff lately so I guess this is right up my alley. Don't think I've ever watched a silent movie though, so I don't really have a reference point 
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Feb 21, 2015 01:12
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I'm definitely in, will begin work as soon as a clip is nailed down. Also, as someone who works in Renoise, is there any option for me for syncing? Is there like a vat that will play a video in start/stop sync?
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Feb 21, 2015 04:39
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I'm definitely interested. I'd vote against Voyage Dans la Lune or Metropolis just because they both seem really obvious and the first one at least has been done a number of times. There are Youtube channels devoted to public domain movies, if that helps. e.g., https://www.youtube.com/user/BestPDMovies
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Feb 21, 2015 05:51
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We can do Melies' non-union equivalent, Segundo de Chomon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoNBThYCA04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_xUodu6fB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW_YErkEt40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK-meBbHUVE Trig Discipline fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Feb 21, 2015 |
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Feb 21, 2015 06:03
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Anyone got any good slaughterhouse samples? Figured it would be nice to put in the background for the metropolis clip when the workers start entering the factory. A Meatropolis as it were.
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Feb 22, 2015 11:37
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I'm using reaper. Is there a pluggin I can plug in to make the video preview a frame by frame thing like Vegas does?
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Feb 24, 2015 10:52
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We should definitely do something horror. Someone find a good clip please.
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Feb 25, 2015 08:12
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Whale Cancer posted:We should definitely do something horror. Someone find a good clip please. Nosferatu is public domain, right? E: poo poo, that's still like an hour and twenty. We want clips, yeah?
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Feb 25, 2015 16:43
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Anyone work out what software would work for this? Tried Reaper, the video render doesn't do key frames. Sync would be do-able, but only if I were a much better musicinan.
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Sizone posted:Anyone work out what software would work for this? Tried Reaper, the video render doesn't do key frames. Sync would be do-able, but only if I were a much better musicinan. I've only used Pro Tools for scoring. Haven't tried Ableton or anything yet. Max/MSP would probably be good too.
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Finally hit on something workable last night. The crippled consumer version of Soundforge works pretty o.k., shows keyframes with a fine enough grain and displays video in such a way that I can handle syncing audio with it. Trade off is that there's only one stereo track so stems, nondestructive editing and all the other accoutrements of proper multitracking are absent. Working on the metropolis intro warm up using littlebits and an ipad. Should actually be finished with it in anothr two weeks.
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I've got a song underway, but there's no way I'm going to have it going for April 1 sadly. I'll keep at it and submit it. Basically I have the main portion of the scene, but I want to transition into it, and I've yet to hit that sound that works for it.
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I've been hard at work on mine all day. I think it's approaching a state that might reasonably be called "finished", but I'm going to let it ferment overnight and listen to it in the morning with fresh ears before I upload anything. The film I'm scoring is Segundo de Chomon's "Scarabe d'Or". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Iwg701cp9k I'd never actually listened to the original soundtrack, but now that I have it's funny that there are some vague similarities. Piano and violin, minor key, etc.
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Apr 4, 2015 10:48
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All righty then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=118P7kd4V18
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Apr 4, 2015 21:13
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P good for someone who doesn't get Download. Software you use? Just bitwig?
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Thanks! That was in Logic. Would've loved to use Bitwig but it doesn't do video yet. For sounds it was some Kontakt, some BFD, and some FM8. I started a couple of other Chomon things, but wasn't too pleased with either of them. I may take another stab at them in a few days. Trig Discipline fucked around with this message at 13:48 on Apr 6, 2015 |
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Apr 6, 2015 13:45
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Warm up on the intro to Metropolis. Real minimal, littlebits and orphion on the ipad (fed through littlebits). Really wanted to get this out of the way so I could start on something for reals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhSkVgYjGPQ
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Nice! Anyway, I made another one because hey why not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og002aFZRlc
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Apr 9, 2015 21:53
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Man, Trig Disc., make more of these. Yours come out super well.
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Thanks! I'm traveling for the next month though. I have my computer with me, but am unlikely to have much time.
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We actually did one of these a few years back! I'm not in a position to find the original thread but here's the final product: https://youtu.be/FdI-fSWN5KE
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