Blog Post #60 - Editing: Score for Title Card

 In my Blog Post #55 - Editing: Title Update, I showcased my newly made title card, and it used the same "Dramatic Accent 01" from iMovie that I originally used in my Blog Post #20 - Cinematography  However, I don't think this fits the title card very well, and it doesn't flow well into Ed entering the office. Essentially, I would like it to be a short song I can flow into the next scene (Ed entering the office). 



To find a song I liked, I was looking for these requirements: fast, short (~20 seconds), upbeat, and energetic. 


To do this, I looked through iMovie's sounds catalog, as I commonly do, and then went to the Jingles section to find short songs. Doing this, I found a song called "Sideman Strut Medium", which I liked, and it fit all the requirements. This was a decent fit for the title card, but it had more of a connotation to it of a businessman in a big city, or at least that's the image it gave me.



I continued looking in the Jingles section, and I came across "Breakbeat Short", which I thought really fit my project well. It fit all of my requirements and gave the happier tone I wanted. The only problem was that it was too short, only being about 7 seconds long, since it was in iMovie's short jingle lineup. This was a problem because it would not be able to fill up the next scene.

I looked for a longer version, and there it was: "Breakbeat Medium". This version of this jingle was perfect for my project, and I added it in and made it fade out throughout the next scene, of Ed entering the office, before finally stopping towards the conversation scene.




Here is the title card and the following scene after I made these changes:



This concludes the finding of the score, and I'm on to the final changes of my project.

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