Music Change

Music

A few posts ago i spoke about the music i wanted in my trailers but after more thought i have decided i wanted to make my gameplay trailer a little less serious and more fun than the others and becuase of this change i have been looking and listening to some music that would be good and after much thought i have decided that Back in Black by AC/DC would be a good choice for this as its a very good fast song that will go well with action with a bit of humour in it as well because of the actual song choice.

Races and Lore

Races and Lore

Since i am using the skyrim creation kit i will have access to the different races in skyrim so this provide a good history and lore about why these battles are happening. so i have written up some basin initial lore pieces for each race i have chosen to include. The races i have chose are Humans, Orcs and elves and these are the first lore pieces.

Kingdom of Engias

(Humans)

Humans are the youngest of the 3 races in Midgard. They were originally in small nomadic people who relied on farming and hunting to survive on the outskirts of the orcish lands but a rapid increase in population forced them to take more land and they slowly began taking more and more orcish land. Years past and the humans had converted from a simple people into an army and people of brave fighters loyal to there leader. Eventually the orcs and humans descended into war but from pure numbers the orcs were continually pushed further and further back and eventually into the sea and away from there homeland forcing them to inhabit a small group of islands off the coast. Which are now known as the Orc Islands. Now the humans were more advanced it wasn't long until they turned the orc lands into a glorious capital after they did this humans continued to spread across the all the land and quickly all orc influenced land was human. The orcs still have a bitter resentment towards humans and this often results in small conflicts between the races as the orcs still want to reclaim there lands but the the human empire has almost unmatched might.

Kingdom Of Aquano

(orcs)

Orcs are of of the 2 elder races in Midgard. Before there lands were taken from the humans they had a prosperous land full of good farm land and plenty of animals for hunting. But orcs were not a civil people. Outbursts of violence was common. Orcs lived in tribes and the leader was often chosen by trials of strength the stronger the leader the larger and more powerful the tribe was in turn allowing them to gain more land for themselves. When the humans invaded the tribes had no chance against a fully trained human army even though one on one humans would lose against an orc but with such overwhelming numbers orcs could not win and this is when all orcs began to flee to the orc islands. After much dispute and fighting there is now only one ruler for the orcs allowing the orcs to be lead like an army with more effectiveness which isn't good for the empire.

Kingdom Of Afrina

(Elves)

Elves are the oldest of all the races. Elves are a very cultural people who have great knowledge about the world. but this does not mean they cannot fight as every elf must train with one weapon from a young age. There are 2 types of elves in Afrina the Light and Dark elves who worship the natural life cycle of life and death the Light Elves wordhip life and the growth of everything living and the Dark Elves worship the end of life and worship the natural death of all living things they worship this because Elves believe that the world will fall into chaos without the natural cycle of life and death. Light and Dark elves both live together in there capital and can almost be classed as the upper class of all the elves. Then there are the woodland Elves who live in the Forests all around there lands who don't have a great belief in the natural cycle they prefer to just live in nature and keep to themselves. Woodland elves are very close with there camps and often the only way to join is to be born in it is very rare an outsider has joined a camp. There is no anger or tension between woodland and Light and Dark elves they can trade and in times of need help each other they just prefer different lifestyles. 

 

Music for trailer

Music for Trailers

The music in a trailer is one of the biggest parts of how you want your trailer to be like its general sound, look and feel its all affected by music if you want a good trailer about a soldier fighting impossible odds you don't wanna have Nikki Minaj screeching you a stupid hoe in the background so here is my thoughts on the music of my 3 trailers.

Originally i was only doing the one trailer and had tried to find music before and i ended up liking castle of glass by Linkin park it had everything my trailer wanted for it since i wanted to put a story to my trailer not just meaningless shots of fights i wanted the viewer to have a sense on story and this song could carry a story it had happy moments in the song and sad moments it also had fast paced then slower moments which was awesome.

when i got back to college and re thought what i wanted to do i realised i would have to have better music and not just use a song and in my research i found a band named Two Steps From Hell now even though they sound like a very heavy rock band they actually make soundtracks so right off the bat they made songs that were made to be put on films and games. After listening to a few albums i found the one perfect for my trailers it was there invincible album which had a very war like beats that you can real feel a range of emotions from by just listening i knew this album was the one i needed. So i decided to sit down and write about what i thought about every track this is my notes which led me to make my final decisions about the music i wanted

Freedom Fighters

It had a good slow start and build up, it made you feel a sense of wonder. It had incredible vocals and a good breakdown.

Heart Of Courage

Had an amazing start with very good drum beats which emphasised everything else. It had some great moments where the music got faster. the violin mixed with vocals was great. and it used silence very good.

Master of Shadows

Had a great start with violins and good use of drums for the underlying beat had a slow build up but got very repetitive. was maybe stretched out too long and got too boring for any of the trailers.

Moving mountains

Good start it sounded like a fable game mixed with a kingdoms of amalur game. But after that it sounded too menacing for the type of trailer i wanted

Am I Not Human

The start was OK but the song sounded too electronic so there was no real feel of a great medieval battle.

Enigmatic Soul

This song had the same problem as the the one before had too much of an electronic feel to it.

Fire Nation

It had a very good slow start with a violin and later on the song mixed with guitars and sounded very good but the song never really popped and got really exciting.

Black Blade

The Beginning wasn't very good but it got a lot better when the heavier faster beats came. It reminded me very much of a song that should of been in a pirate film but it did show a great sense of adventure throughout.

Super Strength

It had a very good war drums opening but began to sound sinister the song seemed very random and had no solid form i didn't really like it.

Invincible

It had a great fast paced start and sounded amazing with violins. This song could easily carry a story on it. When the heavy overpowering drums came in i knew this was an amazing song. The song continued to get better and better since vocals also came and and they improved everything about the song and gave it a sense of struggle it also gave out a strong sense of hope. This song is very good perfect beats all the way through.

False King

The opening was vocals mixed with a piano and it sounded very very good this song also gave a sense of a struggle. When the guitar came in it added alot of pace to the song which came along at the perfect time which added a sense of a huge battle. the song was repetitive but not one part got boring and the small 10 second tune at the end of the song was perfect add on.

Hypnotic

This song was really repetitive and i didn't really like the song at all.

Fill My Heart

 This song seemed too much of a love song to be in an epic war trailer but the song was still good just not right for the scenario.

Protectors Of The Earth

very good building up start with amazing violin work which made you feel a sense of honour like you was a Knight doing his duty which was perfect for what i want. The vocals in this song were very good and the drums added a lot to the song. this is another song that could also carry a story. the song ended very suddenly which was very good.

Velocitron

The song seemed too sinister and i didn't like the song that much.

Undying Love

amazing start it makes you feel a sense of greatness and broke down very well but the song didn't really turn into a war song it stays a little too slow which is ashame. 

1000 Ships Of The Underworld

This song also feels very pirate like with its use of bells throughout and general sound.

Tristian

The song was only OK all the way through there was no real amazing moments in the song.

Breath of Rag Nor

Sounded very far east like i didn't really like it that much.

Infinite Legends

The start was very good and the song gave a sense of innocents and heroism. There was some great violin work in this song but the song never got fast enough.

To Glory

Very good intense start of the song which was very good the song portrayed a sense of honour and glory. the use of drums and vocals was very good and gave a very good war song feel to it. and the small tune at the end of the song was perfect to add.

After the Fall

The start was very good had a mix of vocals and violins but the song gives you a feel of a struggle or battle being over not a in battle sound.this would be perfect for a song after a battle or in the credits of a medieval war film.

These were my initial notes from me listening to the album and from these and more thought i found 5 song that i had to decide between which were

Heart of courage 

Invincible

False king

Protectors of the earth

To glory

 i will have to go away and listen to these songs more in depth so i can decide on which ones.

and just to show i didn't write the notes off the top pf my head straight onto the blog here are my original notes 

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MoodBoards

Mood boards

I have created 2 mood boards for this project one for the time period and buildings and another for the type of battles i want here is the building mood board

as you can see my inspirations are very medieval with influences from games like Fable and real life Tudor houses. I think i should chose an era that i enjoy so my work will reflect it and i wont get bored of working on it.

And from this mood board you can see that i want my battles to be like huge medieval battles so there is a lot going on and everywhere the player looks. The aim of a trailer is to catch a potential buyers eye and you need that to be exciting through a number of ways like epic music and epic battles which i will try to do but first i must research different types of trailers not just games but films.

 

 

LAST PROJECT

Last project

Since we are now in our last project we will have the choice of what to do. Obviously I will be doing engine work. but after thinking over the 2 weeks Holiday we had i decided i wanted to instead of just a map i will also like to do a cinematic trailer to go with the map i plan on doing this all in engine then editing it afterwards. So every post from now on will be about our final project.