Music for Linear Narrative:

I scored a couple of films working with film student Bronte Dunning on Reflections of Myself and audio student Kathy Stephens on a scene from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I collaborated with my classmate Hannah Buck for the latter.

Reflections of Myself

The main framework for this score was centred around a few different pieces of music with different feelings, but similar timbres and tonalities. Check out more about the film here!

The brief for the music was folk in genre, dreamy, cathartic and upbeat overall.

There was much trial and error involved (as you can see below) as this is a style I'm not well-versed in. I used a combination of guitar loops from Splice and my own playing, electric and acoustic.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

The main framework for this score was centred around a few different pieces of music with different feelings, but similar timbres and tonalities. Check out Kathy's page here!

Our brief was pretty straightforward as Kathy was clear on what she wanted. An orchestral score which accentuated the mood of the scene; ominous, tension, fearful, dramatic. Because of this, Hannah and I wrote with orchestra plugins an a lot of dissonance and high pitch, which we had researched and found put audiences on edge.

Music for Non-Linear Narrative:

Fish Heck

Fish Heck is a compilation of 4 fish-inspired games made by video game students Zachary Cox and Christopher Matiussi-Pimm. I made the soundtracks to all of them. These first two I had more notice for, and am very happy with how they turned out.

Past Portfolios:

• 21T3

• 22T1

Reflection

I'm pretty happy with how hard I have gone on the cross-disciplinary collaboration this trimester, and it has paid off big time, with both of my projects being entirely comprised of work for film, games and audio students at the Byron Bay campus. I feel I communicated effectively and efficiently with everyone I collaborated with, and thus created music which enhanced and improved their own creative vision for their work.

Writing and producing music for games has made me really excited about doing more of this in the future, all the games I've loved have had gorgeous and inspiring soundtracks, and I think game scoring could be a fantastic avenue of work for me. Using reference tracks has been more important than ever during this trimester, particularly for the games.

I've had to step way outside my comfort zone this trimester, which has obviously been super valuable. The Harry Potter score I found really tough initially, as I had never made music that isn't meant to be the primary focus of the audience's attention. As simple as the score itself ended up being, that factor was incredibly strange to work around. The Reflections of Myself score was a lot of fun! Bronte and I went back and forth a few times until she was happy with what I had produced. I'm keen to work on more short films.

Creating an abundance of tracks and soundtracks has been awesome this trimester, and I can see the expansion of my skillset, not just the technical aspect of producing, but collaborating as well, which, at the end of the day I think is paramount. In the industry everything is a collaboration at some point, and to be able to do that well is to be able to succeed.

Big steps forward this tri.