Development: audio

The tricky part here is the commercial issues.

As this is a university project, I might get away with using a licensed track for the purpose of showcasing my editing skills.

When it comes to publishing it ‘world-wide-webly’ it gets a bit more complicated, as technically the purpose of the promo is commercial (so that Radek expands his audience, gets more offers for performances etc.).

After careful consideration and browsing my entire library, I chose Nine Inch Nails – Where is everybody.

I believe this song matches the atmosphere of the video footage we have at the moment, is very dynamic and has this ‘epic’ thing to it. Plus the lyrics look as if they were meant for a magical performance: “trying, denying, defying” etc. It is the magic tricks that are supposed to ‘defy’ an ordinary person’s logic.

This is true for the chorus though.

Since the final movie will not be longer than 2 minutes, I had to edit the audio to match this length.

First step was to cut the verses out.

It was a shame as some of the lyrics were matching the content unbelievably well too (“did you manage to catch, or did it happen so fast”)

As of now I am not entirely sure on the informative content (build up who Radek is, what he specializes in, quoting reviews and references etc.) and how long it would take that is why in the initial mix I left considerable space at the beginning of the audio (the build up/intro).

Furthermore, for the sake of keeping the dynamics up I used the 'reverb' effect to artificially introduce