Garageband Lesson

The first thing I have learnt is that it works a lot more professionally if you film your video, edit it together and then add the music to the video, this is how I will create my videos in the future. When creating a musical composition to go with your video you should make the music match the mood of your video, say if you had a big tension build up in the video you would want to match that with say dark tones. My score doesn't have to have over 10 instruments or over two, you can just use one instrument as long as it feels right for the video, you can add more to the piece if you feel it is need though. I have learnt a number of keyboard short cuts these are 'Apple Key + C' = Copy, 'Apple Key + V' = Paste, 'Apple Key + Z' = Undo, 'Apple Key + G' = Grid On/Off, 'Apple Key + T' = Cut/Slice, 'Shift' = This is used to select pieces you can move.

To find audio loops you look for the 'eye' at the bottom of the window, for info press the 'i' and the 'musical notes and film reel' icon is used to import tracks of music or movies. You can use pre-recorded sounds but to be sure you don't get sued for use in a film/movie you have to use more than one different sound or you can record your own music into the program by connecting real instruments or using the notes on the keyboard. To record you have to press the red record circle. To keep your piece in time you will want to keep a grid on your composition to keep a solid layout but if you want more freedom you can take it off. The most important factor to remember is that you have to make sure the sounds fit to your video or it won't have a big impact on the viewer.

http://dorphin.com/video/relentless-short-stories-the-dark-side-of-the-lens/

The link above sends you too a video called 'Dark Side of the Lens' which is a good example of use of sound with video. The video starts off with slow sounds to give a nice calm feeling as the video goes on it becomes more intense and raises the tension slowly then as it climaxes, it brings the video to a nice calm end just as it began. The music shows variation and works well with the video that goes with it.