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A jam submission

Concrete GiantView project page

Submitted by Vera Koeller — 4 days, 8 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Composition#34.1334.133
Overall#93.5443.544
Listenability#93.7333.733
Execution#113.4003.400
Correlation to Theme#133.6003.600
Innovation#152.9332.933
Uniqueness#153.4673.467

Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Description
I focused on Theme 2 "The Storm Colosus." trying to make a thematic piece that represented the giant machine.

How did you Innovate? (Complete later if you need to submit on time)
Personally, I tried a different approach than I usually do. Instead of picking my instrumentation from the start and making a tmeplate, I slowy added instruments as I felt I needed them. Then I went back and used the new instruments I added to fill in the orchestration.

Link to Streaming Service
https://youtu.be/SSzcQN4-TRE?si=tJLcPy4_5kt4QWuu

Discord Tag
vera088852

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Comments

Submitted

Some good old Max Steiner vibe orchestral piece, very cool tension and build up, love all the different sections, the arrangement is really well built, I think the mix can probably get a bit louder overall and get more dynamics out of everything, mostly the percs and brass to give a little notch. Well done !

Submitted

Dude, I loved your orchestration and instrument set! Awesome job here. Solid composition with tension and good dynamics. Great job.

Submitted(+1)

I also used one of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's etchings for the last OST Crunchtime jam, so regognized the style as soon as I saw it 😄.

Really liked the line moving between the different instruments in the first part, added a lot to the sort of sinister vibe I was getting from it.

Good stuff!

Submitted

I don't have much to say. I love a good orchestral piece in these jams. The percussion is especially my favorite. I think your track captures the 'working-ness ' of the colossus. I think this theme could also work for Scene 1 as well, with some added sound effects.

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Aaaaah classic cinema sound before everything needed to be bombastic big and bwaaah. Oddly besides the Bernard Hermann inspiration, at time it feels like some Danny Elfman can be also heard too. Specially with some of the bass lines on the half way mark. While taking a full orchestral approach this still feels very much unique and I am quite a fan of your approach. Originally, I thought you’ve made it in a notation software since the articulations are chosen very cleanly and fittingly. But seeing Cubase as your screenshot there might be some ways to even improve on what you have on the mixing side. Mind you what you have is already quite good.

TLDR: This is a nerdy monolog.

The biggest factor that feels like it could be explored more and benefit the song even more would be microphoning of the different sections and how you pull certain sound characteristics from the sections. For example, wanting a more searing string sound by pulling up the close mics. While the older recordings had a very roomy sound it was due to being recorded with most of the time only one omni directional mic or with a decca tree (since 1950s) working in L-C-R. Even with some recordings being made in purpose build stages with specific bright room sounds (looking at the Synchron stage in Vienna). So the sound is something different to modern scoring sounds and most sample libraries. So the best way to harness the sound of your libraries is to take every section as their own recording session with their own microphone mix suited to your liking. Next step would be processing of the different section like EQ, reverb and compression or even different processing for short and long articulations. I don’t want do overblow the critique, so I leave it at that. But if you are interested in discussing this more I’m more than open for it.

Submitted

Loved your track, I really adore the composition, but had some mixed feelings halfway through the song, there is a passage midway that feels off, but the second half sounds like just the perfect weird. Damn i'm not finding the correct words in english to describe this, might get back to this xD
I liked the execution, but I think you might need some slightly better placement.
Amazing, take care :)