A bit of the process (Patreon)

I received a (non-finalized) wintertime storybook animation a few days ago. It looks to release in about a month.

This is the third iteration of the music. There will be more iterations as the animation gets finalized and the sound effects get added.

The animation smashes a 24 minute TV episode into about 3 minutes.  You are unlikely to ever see a scoring job that shifts gears this fast! I am having a great time doing it. :-)

Here's the emotional timeline:

• 0:00 Christmas. Hopeful. Lovable.
• 0:17 Dark turn with mild action.
• 0:27 Organized anger. Unease.
• 0:37 Loneliness. Sadness. 
• 1:01 Redemption. A return to earlier happiness.
• 1:08 Ominous threat with moderate action.
• 1:22 Concern?
• 1:43 Action returns.
• 1:55 The tables have turned!
• 2:00 Chaos!
• 2:06 Triumph. Hopeful.
• 2:17 Sadness.
• 2:30 Mega-action!

Artistic Notes: About every 10-15 seconds, you get an emotion that is highly contrasting to the current emotion. These are usually accomplished with a change in tempo and orchestral texture (moving from winds to strings, or adding percussion).

These mood swings get crazy at the end, and the very end needs to be the biggest swing in an entire piece of mood swings.

Enter: Norwegian Metal. (Thanks, Alexander! https://www.patreon.com/anakarada/)

I'm using a section of one of Alexander's recent pieces as the final statement at the end. You can hear a bit of the theme at 1:54, but in a much sloppier cello section.