Awesome stuff. Just clarifying that your main theme is the submission for this challenge, correct? The other themes were all posted to soundcloud earlier in the week.
Getting some very John Williams vibes from this; and I really like how you layered mallet percussion with the high winds. very cool!
I did start the other themes prior as I have weekend family commitments, however, I did upload to SoundCloud piano sketches so as not to forget my ideas on those themes, and started orchestrating when the jam starts, and just replaced the tracks in SoundCloud. It's just unfortunate it still says 5 days ago even though I only uploaded the sketch.
I got this idea from the guideline:
| Q: Can I use this jam to finish/submit an existing project I already started on? | A: No, it is required that all participants start from scratch for this jam. If you really want to start off from an existing project anyway, please make sure it is at least less than 30% finished as it wouldn’t be fair to other participants otherwise. |
To adhere to the 48 hours limit, I did set a challenge for myself as a test/experiment to spend a max of 10 hours composing the 4 tracks. I did the following:
- Assassins Theme (2 hours incl. mixing, 15 mins sketching upfront before the jam)
- Barbarians Theme (2 hours incl. mixing, 15 mins sketching upfront before the jam)
- Wizards Theme (2 hours incl. mixing, 15 mins sketching upfront before the jam)
- Main Theme (4 hours incl. mixing)
I hope that this is fair to all the other participants. I'd love all tracks to be considered for the rating, as I have poured as much effort as possible with the limited time I had during the weekend. However, I'll double-check with the jam organisers and get their thoughts :)
And thank you for your feedback :)
P.S.: Actually I'm planning to continue to write 3 more themes (for Knights, Priests, and Archers), but since the jam is over, I will do these after taking a short break from composing for a week. I'd like to continue the same challenge of 2 hours max for each track.
2 years ago(+1)
So the organiser came back to me with a green flag (phew 😅). I shouldn't have uploaded early and merely replaced, but I know next time.
In hindsight, starting early didn't really make much sense since I strayed from most of my sketches during orchestration due to the theme being revealed only after the jam starts. 😥
2 years ago(+1)
ahhh, did not mean to come off accusatory, sorry. Just didn't read your writeup super well and was initially confused about which one to "review". Thanks for the clarification, and keep up the food work!