Campaign Creations

With the string of Maglok topics I think it's time to break the ice a bit.

I'm curious what kind of thought processes you gentlemen go through when you choose music, both for your trailers and your mod/campaigns themselves.

I consider it a religion. I'm planning to write an entire article on this subject alone, because I see so many otherwise decent trailers and mods but they choose the most illogical of music, like anime singles and stuff.

I personally go through a very lengthy process of matching. Every one of my worlds has a very specific sound to it that is tied to its emotion and ambience. TOA, for example, has a lot of Hungarian/Oriental classical styled music, because the Hungarian stuff typically sounds very deep and sad (even though the vocals may not indicate that, they're in Bulgarian and I can't understand them anyway). A good example is my Black Sun videos.

MFTG and ITAS ect use very energetic, if still somewhat deep and serious, metal and big orchestral soundtracks.

Loladins of Legend uses a lot of gothic, celtic, and folklore kind of stuff.

For some reason, most of my years of wanting to map, I would listen to a song popular at the time here, and want to make something to its tempo and/or lyrics. Remember when everyone used the Final Fantasy 8 track? Something like that.. Everyone had the same setup. Huge crew appears to show up, next thing you know an epic battle ensues.

I guess it's rather.. Stereotypical to do something like that, but it seems to be the way I enjoy to do things (probably why Maglok is more in charge of music in our project). Obviously, I prefer something close to the genre however. Such as a electric instruments for more StarCraft related atmosphere while Orchestral for WarCraft. I'm not very musically inclined to be honest, but I can make anything go to music.

EDIT:

IskatuMesk wrote: With the string of Maglok topics I think it's time to break the ice a bit.

Combo breaker!!

i try to stick to instrumental stuff that capture the atmosphere I want to portray on the map. For instance I used some prince of persia music on some desert maps because that was the type of atmosphere I wanted to portray. Basically if it sounds pretty good and fits a video game and it fits the atmosphere, then I'll use it.

Right now I'm torn between using metal pieces for AO cinematic sequences. I'm not sure if it would be fitting. I don't mean actual bands, but instrumental pieces I have lying around. I haven't yet defined a style for AO, but this video will create one.

Depends on whose perspective you want the audience to see from. The invader's or the invaded's.

It changes perspectives at points.