Introduction
As the name implies, the zenith project is supposed to be our biggest, most polished project we complete throughout our 2 years at freestyle. After two years of learning new skills everyday in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and many more programs, we finally get to show them all off in this project. And my favorite part about the whole process was that we could choose any idea that we wanted.
For my project, I wanted to combine my passion for music with my skills from film so I decided to make some film scores. I chose 3 scenes that I would create my own version of the soundtrack for in a program called FL Studio. The three scenes I chose were from Get Out, Avengers: Endgame, and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. For the Get Out and Avengers scenes I just wanted to create my own version of original score while still keeping the same overall emotion of the scene, however, for Pirates of the Caribbean, I wanted to mix it up a little bit and see how different I could make the meaning of the scene only by changing the music.
Process
The process of making these 3 pieces came along with many challenges though as I have never created music like the ones in these scenes but it was a great learning experience. The Pirates of the Caribbean scene was specifically a challenge for me because for the other two scenes I could take inspiration from the original score but I couldn’t really do that for Pirates of the Caribbean because the original score was so different than the piece I was making. The full freedom we had in this project also lead to challenges in itself. Time management was very difficult since I didn’t really know how well and fast I could create these pieces and I had to set deadlines before I started. These challenges only made the project more satisfying to finish and I never would’ve learned so much.