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After a bit of a back and forth with my service provider, i finally got the site up. Now i have to fix a typo in the video… ugh!
Well, I finished my demo, and have since uploaded it to the internet. I was working on my website to showcase the demo when I accidentally overwrote www.ben-powell.net so you can check it out there.
BenPowellMedia.com hasn’t come through yet, so if there’s anything you think I should change, I still can! Let me know!
If you’re too lazy to go there, you can see the demo on vimeo here:
Ben Powell Music & Sound Demo Reel from Ben Powell on Vimeo.
Martin and I decided to add a voiceover to this spot, but we need help deciding which one is best. Take a listen, leave a comment.
Alrighty, this is the last one I’m doing, so it’s time to compile the portfolio! So that’s what i’ll spend this week doing. Meanwhile, here’s the last spot, another 10 second one for FlyColumbus.com. I feel like it really needs a voiceover to sell the spot, but I have no script. Otherwise I’d get Martin over here and we’d lay down a voice track like Mr. Movie-voice is still alive.
I decided to go acoustic on this one to show that I can write stuff sans-synthesizer too. There’s plenty of applications for music like this out there, so… yeah!
Once again, Youtube cut off some of the video. Try the HQ version for the full ending…!
::edit:: I guess there is no HQ version? Well, the real thing will be in my portfolio reel, so you can wait ’til then to hear that last chord!
Alright, now up is a 30 second Aston Martin spot. Just like the sci fi one, it took me 2 nights to do this. One night for music, one night for sound design. This time I started with sound design.
It took a while to find all the sounds… especially ’cause I have no clue what an Aston Martin DBS sounds like. I imagine it’s got a nice big engine. Anyway, the only sounds I could find were of a Toyota Matrix and a Honda Civic. I pitch shifted the engine sounds lower so that it sounded bigger and meaner. Then I took some audio of cars passing in the street and time-shifted them to match the swooshing.
The music was interesting too. I really wasn’t sure which direction to go with it. I auditioned it with just a drum beat and it was pretty cool too, but I decided in the end to keep the electronic instruments in also. If I were really doing it for a client, I guess I’d send them multiple versions to mull over. In this case, you guys get to hear this one. Almost done w/ the portfolio, just one more thing to do, then compile the portfolio itself!
Here’s another spot that didn’t have audio that I made some stuff to. It’s TOUGH to write for a 10 second spot! At least with the sci fi stuff I had enough time to get an entire melodic idea down with call and response and all that good stuff.
This time, well, i decided to try a more percussive thing, sans-melody. I dunno! I think it worked out okay, but I don’t think it sits as well with me as the sci fi spot did.
Also, it seems youtube cut off the last little bit of the video, so you can’t really see how the Adidas logo pops up when the last kick drum hits… but it does, I swear.