Music and Sound

For the music and sound in our piece, Nora suggested that having a happy and cheerful song, might juxtapose what we're doing quite well, but we wanted our piece to be taken seriously, so we decided to have a mixture of songs.

We also wanted the sound of gas to come in at some point, so that it made it obvious to the audience what we're talking about. I went home and downloaded a program I have used before to mix songs together and add sounds over the top, so we have a sad piece of music and the sound of gas playing throughout and at the end, where our piece is quite deep and emotional, we use a cheerful sounding song, "It's a Long Way To Tipperary" by John McCormack.

We chose this to juxtapose the sadness of war, with the proud, happy moments that soldiers felt during some parts of the war.

Gas sounds:

These are the sounds that I cropped and altered to fit together to play over the music and to fade in and out.

Sad Music:

This is the sad music that I found to juxtapose with the more cheerful song at the end. I think the music sounded effective and really added to our piece. It felt a lot better when we ran it with the music and created more meaning, so should connect to the audience more.