In creating the Batman theme music, the task was to make a serious, dark and scary tune. The character of Batman I created is soft but scary at the same time using different beats and melody. I used six instruments with different melodies on it. 'The record is a music underscore for the opening credits of Batman the Movie.'
Creating my batman theme I used various tracks(instruments) to see whether there may be some ideas out of it. The tunes and notes for the Batman theme needs to be darkish and with a scary concept to make it like the Batman movie.
Firstly, I decided to use different musical ideas by experimenting on different instruments like drums, pianos, trumpets and more. From the instrument sections, I used different tunes for my Batman theme opening and later made changes turn by turn. The instruments I used are moody jazz, electric attack piano, pop strings, silky strings, brass ensemble and Asian kit.
For my opening I used moody jazz(instrument)to make hard beats to create the opening of the scene. I used notes 1 to 6 with different beats and continued from notes 7 to 11,..,.. and notes 23 to 28 to make it seem like something dark or scary is happening. In second, third and fifth instruments, I started using from the same notes to continue the same melody on it. For my second instrument, I used repetitive beats in different notes to make a softer sound. For third instrument, I created the tunes with the keyboard using my own ideas from notes 3 to 36 to make hard beats so that it sounded rough. For the same instrument I used the repetitive tunes from notes 43 to 78 to make a melody in Batman theme. As for the fourth instrument, I used notes 19 to 29 with the keyboard making different beats with silky strings instrument. For the fifth instrument, I used the keyboard to make it more of a melody to make it sound more scary and dark and used repetitive notes from 3 to 77. Lastly, for the sixth instrument I used from notes 19 to 28 with the same notes going on and on to make it sound like a heart beating. Overall, there were many changes like cancelling the drum kits and bass instruments and adding new ones.
The music for my batman theme is not so dark and scary but has little soft tunes with loud trumpets which sounds like marching beats. As the 'Gotham City' scene begins the ending tune for my opening theme is soft to loud beats to make it startling and scary. As for the ending tune for my Batman theme the tune has a continuous melody but at the same time gets softer and softer until the music is stopped and finished.
It was fun learning Logic 8 and at the same time difficult because it was my first time and I had never learnt to use the instruments. I even had fun using it as there were so many instruments in the computer with different beats and notes. Using logic 8 I learnt how to make tunes and melody and different kinds of notes and music theory. Creating the batman movie introduction there were difficulties in making the darker concept. Overall the theme was fine but if I had made it a little more scary and dark it would have been a better theme.
