Textbook
Tue, Apr 22, 2025 – Multimedia Ideas
Multimedia – Form & Pacing
Multimedia Project
Approaches:
Music Video Approach – you compose your music first and then add visual content (i.e. photos, video, animations) to create a music video. The music becomes the inspiration for the visual…
Film Score Approach – you create your video first and then compose your music to ‘fit’ with the video – in short, you are scoring a film. Your visuals become the inspiration for your music…
Multi-Media Approach – you create your visuals and music in parallel. Each elements (visuals and music) inspires each other.
Ideas:
animation – use drawing or animation techniques where there are ‘keyframes’ set against your music. You can often use software to ‘fill in the gaps’ – Keynote makes this possible. You may also use video footage conceived of in segments set against these key frames. Fits the ”Music Video Approach”
movie – use a video camera to shoot and edit digital video (aka ‘movie’). You then use software such as GarageBand or Logic Pro to create the music against the video as there will be a “movie track”. Fits the”Film Score Approach”
slideshow – use photos with transitions and effects (similar to a Keynote presentation) to create the video track. In this scenario, your music creates a mood or texture where exact timing of images is usually not critical.
stop-motion – create a ‘stop action’ type of video. Similar to the slideshow approach except the pictures are a set of sequence shots…
hybrid – any combination of the above ideas…
Product: movie file in m4v format
Resources, Ideas and Tips
Track Stacks (Logic) – You can create multi-layered instruments with lots of sophisticated MIDI output with just a little bit of effort.
In this example, a piano is created that generates BOTH a bass line and styled chords using MIDI FX (Chord trigger and arpeggiator)
Demo of Track Stacks with MIDI FX
Movie Tracks
Logic Pro allows you to ‘drag and drop’ video into a music project to make it easy to ‘score the film’.. When you drop the video onto the work area, a movie track is created along with a floating video panel. As you move the music transport, the video transport stays in sync and vice versa.
You can easily line up musical events against your visuals. When you are done composing, you’ll be able to save a new copy of your video with your new audio content added for you.
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