MrBellington's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[+Quid Pro Quo+]

Hiya. I think the underlying structure of the piece is good but I think it could do with some unifying element in the there that hooks it altogether. It's a bit disparate. There's nothing that really tugs on any of my emotions. Hook me in! Make me uncomfortable or scared or sad or whatnot. For example, I think the transition about 20 seconds in from your lovely opening violin line to the dissonant french horns is a bit forced, and the those two phrases seem to have nothing to do with one another. I also think you overused block chords quite a bit and it stopped your track from really coming alive. Sprinkle in some more interesting musical lines.

I hope this criticism is taken in the spirit in which it's intended. Good luck with your future work!

KeyVine responds:

Thanks for the review! Yeah, the two parts don't go together too well because I've had the first part done nearly three months ago and I didn't know where else to go with it nor did I want to make it too short. The block chords are a result of me not wanting two voices with the exact same melody or chord structure. Perhaps my previous orchestral piece, +Tears+, may tug at your emotions a bit more.

[Emotion Epic Story of Her]

Hiya, I thought your piece was pretty solid, well put-together, mixed fairly well. It had the correct structure for the modern day 'trailer' sound, and the basic pop chord progressions that you'd expect.

To give a criticism: In my opinion, I felt it lacked a bit of emotional heft, the kind of heft you were going for. I think you could make better use of dynamics to give parts of your composition more impact. For example at 1:55, I think you could've probably made it a bit louder, maybe doubled some layers, added some stronger percs, particularly if you're going for the 'trailer' sound. I would say however, that I think the modern day 'trailer sound' is generally a pretty faux-emotional experience, it's trying to sell a film, get you to see it, rather than get you to care about characters or what's happening to them. It's interesting that you suggest you're writing about past memories and whatnot. I think if you write about stuff that's personal to you, *your* past memories as opposed to past memories in the abstract, you'll probably write stronger compositions. As I said before, I think you did get the basic 'trailer' structure down, kudos there, but I didn't get the sense of narrative that you talked about in the description.

Good luck with your future compositions! I hope you get better and better with your practice.

SteveSyz responds:

Yea thanks for the feedback! This was my first shot at trying to do something emotional so here it is haha. next time ill keep in mind to shape my music more movie style than 'personal style'. im still using basic instruments so once i get my music packs hopefully it will sound better. thanks again!