Help me with an assignment?
 

I'm doing a Post Production assignment at uni where I need to recreate all the sound of a two minute clip from the start sequence of The Matrix. The chase scene with trinity and the police/agent Smith.

I want some sort of fast, drum & bass style music track for it but it's not the sort of music I listen to, so I'd have to just download stuff at random until I found something good.

So keeping that scene in mind, does anyone know a good artist or track that'd fit? It doesn't have to be drum & bass if it's something else that seems approppriate. What would also be good is if it had a quiet and loud section(s).

Thanks in advance.

Oh and before you think this sounds like an easy, fun assignment for a uni course, think of how many footsteps I have to recreate exactly in time with their feet. :igor:

Hmm... Otsegoelectric by Static-X might do the trick. Nowhere near drum/bass though.

Anything loud and fast might be good too, I'll check it out thanks.

[edit]Can't find a download of it yet. :([/edit]

I'm not a huge Drum N Bass/Jungle fan but you might want to try something by Dieselboy.. Let's see what I've got here..

suggestions:
Dieselboy - Harder and Faster
Astral Projection - Mahadeva
BT - Smartbomb or a remix thereof, one without vocals would be best
Gravity Kills - Guilty (Juno Reactor remix)
Hallucinogen - Snarling Black Mabel
Jolly Mukherjee with the Madra - Kirwani (Badmarsh and Shri Remix)
Primal Scream - Kowalski
S.U.N. Project - Dance of the Witches (original or Fire Mix)
Talamasca - Time Simulation
Timo Maas - To Get Down
Way Out West - Killa


best bets are probably Dieselboy, BT, Gravity Kills, SUN Project, or Way Out West, especially SUN Project or GK

let me know if you have trouble finding any. I still think it sounds like a fun assignment, did you get to pick the movie?

We get to pick from about 10 video clips, either 1, 2 or 3 minutes long. You'll tend to get better marks if you take on the longer ones, although the shorter ones tend to have more effects needed. We also get some rather crap sound effects to use if we need basic stuff like "gunshot" or "door creak" or whatever, but they haven't been copied off CD properly and some have very noticable clicks in them.

So I've been spending a lot of my studio time randomly hitting things with other things to make footsteps and bangs and such sounds. Yeah I guess it is pretty fun. :)
Lining up the footsteps, which is like the whole scene, is the only really laborious thing. And then they have the nerve to run on different surfaces. I mean really, what were they thinking? :p

I'll check out some of that music.

[edit]Mattress, I couldn't download the two you most recommend (both came up in WinMX but it was being weird to me) but I've got Smartbomb and it'll fit. I'll cut it up a bit and move parts around, and it should be good, thanks.

cool, glad to be of help, have fun with your assignment. :)
What software are you using to line up all of the sounds?

Teh Pro Tools

that looks like it's only for audio? How do you match it up to what's happening in the film?

Is this a film class? Sounds interesting, good luck.

It's for Audio Engineering, Certificate IV course at SAE (School of Audio Engineering), Post Production part of the course.

You can import video files into protools and they appear basically as another track, like an audio track. Then you can click wherever, and see the current frame, and line up audio.

A general protools track might be like this (from a song I was doing a few months ago, my mixes tend to be pretty insane), then one of those tracks would be the video.

Ever used Multiquence, the basic little multitrack thing by the people that make Goldwave? Think that times 30. Then you think you're the expert cause you know protools, and you open up Logic. :eek: Logic is teh insane.

Reminds me of Adobe Premiere except 10 times more complicated.

Looks interesting. I've worked with premiere and after effects for doing sound matching for video, never heard of protools though. I've heard of logic, but never experienced it.

Pro Tools is teh industry standard. And it's pretty easy to use which is nice.

Well, If you can wait, I can make a drums&bass track, does it have to sound exactly like the one from teh Matrix?

Thanks for the offer but I used Smartbomb from Mattress' suggestion, it fits very nicely.

so, can we see it when you're done?

Well I'm handing it in as a Pro Tools session, so you couldn't see that. I could export the audio, and add it to the video in another program, and then compress it and post it on my site or something maybe. But it won't be anything amazing, we're all pretty rushed atm cause the course ends in mid-March and there's a whole heap of stuff happening at once.