ww2 soundtrack

lukeprausnitz · Post by **lukeprausnitz** » Sat May 29, 2004 2:42 pm

anyone got any ideas?

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Sat May 29, 2004 10:55 pm

4/4 time, perhaps a snare drum cadence in the background for that patriotic feeling. Trumpet fanfares are also a big one.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Sun May 30, 2004 1:31 am

look at sound tracks to games like Medal of Honor etc

lukeprausnitz · Post by **lukeprausnitz** » Sun May 30, 2004 12:44 pm

shall do

Themovieman44 · Post by **Themovieman44** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 1:29 pm

Check out the film We Were Soldiers and listen to the music throughout that film. There is some great Military/Patriotic music. It should give you a really good idea as to what to use.

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 6:34 am

I have that soundtrack. Very good usage of song choices. I recommend it! Although mind it is a Vietnam War film too.

tallman_house_pictures · Wed Jun 02, 2004 1:40 pm

I used a song of of Air Force One (the one in the trailer).
Yep, check out the ones to movies like: We were soldiers, SPR (if there is one), MOH(well, this is a game), Black Hawk Down (well, mabey) ect.

John Groshko · Post by **John Groshko** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 7:59 pm

Peral Harbor and The Thin Red Line had good war music as well.

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 7:27 am

tallman_house_pictures wrote:I used a song of of Air Force One (the one in the trailer).
Yep, check out the ones to movies like: We were soldiers, SPR (if there is one), MOH(well, this is a game), Black Hawk Down (well, mabey) ect.

You can purchase all those soundtracks. Band Of Brothers also has a good soundtrack. And anything by John Williams!

tallman_house_pictures · Fri Jun 04, 2004 3:53 am

Yep.
Oh yeah, I forgot about Pearl Harbour.

Themovieman44 · Post by **Themovieman44** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 5:50 pm

Might I also suggest mind that it is Vietnam, the Platoon soundtrack. Some beautiful music.

Tobbger · Post by **Tobbger** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 8:10 pm

We have some music for our 2nd world war film that our composer has done using the music program Reason. We also have a CD with swedish 40's classics that we can use to be played from gramophones etc.

tallman_house_pictures · Sun Jun 06, 2004 2:44 am

Just got the BOB soundtrack, very good music for a WW2 film.

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 4:51 am

I like the BOB soundtrack. I like writing my own music, so it's a nice pay off. If I owned my own piano, I'd be set!

SgtPadrino · Post by **SgtPadrino** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 5:21 am

Most WWII soundtracks use lone french horns and trumpets to accentuate emotion in a scene, and it generally works incredibly well (MoH theme music and Saving Private Ryan, to name two) The Black Hawk Down soundtrack was spectacular, but it'd be a sucky choice for WWII. You could get away with no music at all until the end, or when you're trying to make an especially powerful scene, which is what we're going to do with our WWII movie.

Gyro · Post by **Gyro** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 6:20 am

majority of wwii films: once a shot is fired, no music.

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 6:41 am

What also is fun, but extraordinarily challenging, is set a film to music.

Gyro · Post by **Gyro** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 6:31 pm

I've done that many times... quite challenging but very intreging.

John Groshko · Post by **John Groshko** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 12:33 am

Alos try the music from "Glory", "Gettesberg", and "God and Generals". There all from civil war films, but they would also sound good in a WWII.

I wouldn't use the soundtrack to saving private ryan for action sequences, or much of the rest of your film. It is very overrated.

If your movie happens to be set on the eastern front. Check out the music for "enemy at the gates".

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 2:46 am

I like doing it with great classical pieces. Film soundtracks already have a set theme to them from the film it was written for. But to use a Beethoven or Brahms masterpiece, then it's quite fun!

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 2:52 am

Epsilon wrote:I like doing it with great classical pieces. Film soundtracks already have a set theme to them from the film it was written for. But to use a Beethoven or Brahms masterpiece, then it's quite fun!

I'm going to go with you on this. As much as I like using film sound tracks in my work they can some times pull you out of the movie. When I make my WW2 flick, and I will, I am only going to have two instances of music, an opening and a closeing. And both will be something classical or peried, because I don't know that just seems right.

SgtPadrino · Post by **SgtPadrino** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 5:01 am

Between the beginning and end (with one exception towards the end), Saving Private Ryan contained no music, which I think worked better than overloading it with music (which really sunk the beginning of Enemy at the Gates). Basically if you want a powerful/emotional scene, SPR music is the way to go.

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 5:04 am

They used a bunch of music in long shots throughout the film. Just never during action scenes.

Gyro · Post by **Gyro** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 6:07 pm

Like is SPR, Wade's Death had music, its even the title of the song, then the school teacher song came as the group conversed and burried other members, but in the next scene when the halftrack came by as soon as a shot was fired. no music.

xbreaka420 · Post by **xbreaka420** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 7:59 pm

i haved found that basil poledouris has some good soundtracks(st)conan the barbarian etc