Third Week: Confirmation on the Genre of Music to be used.

I want to have style in my animation, so the music should be some kind of “style”. I mean, the music shouldn’t be simple, my concept is Music gives life so it should be like stylistic, cool, energetic so that it can bring instruments to life. Since there is a need for style. I will the genres: Classical Music, Gospel, Jazz, Latin American, Blues, Rhythm and blues, Country music, Melodic music, Ska and Reggae(whatever that is) and Contemporary African music.

So i am left with: Hip hop, Electronic Music, Electro/Electro Funk, Electronic Dance Music, Electronica, Rock, Funk and Funktronica.

I went on researching on these genres of music by listening to short sounds loops found in Flashkit. These short sound loops have been categorised into different genres. I also found out they are very useful because they are royalty free and is not the full music (which means they are small in filesize) so i can test which sound loop is suitable for my animation.

Here are the sound loops i have listened:
Rock: Hard Cope
Funk: Funkytown
Electronica: Steady
Hip Hop 120talkabout

When i listened all these, i realised that i do not have to just use one genre of music. After you listened to all the loops shown above, i thought of a idea that could make my animation better. I can always mix the sound loops. I can do it by using a sound loop, maybe from the Rock or Hip Hop as the background while having an additional loop at the starting of the animation using the Electronica loop to signify the beginning of the animation. And then i will probably end the animation by using an explosion sound effect.