Audio Tracks
Option 1: Inspiring - Stock Music provided by tunestogo, from Pond5, https://www.pond5.com/royalty-free-music/item/104075644-soft-presentation-60sec-calm-business-ambient-background-mus
Option 2: Urgency and Impending Doom- Stock Music provided by SoundPhenomenon, from Pond5, https://www.pond5.com/royalty-free-music/item/72405183-cinematic-mystery-1-minute-edit
I have started looking into audio tracks and background music that can be played with my speech. Unfortunately, the files are not able to be uploaded to Tumblr as VLCs.
Because the speech is quite serious and has a sense of urgency, it has been hard to find a track that compliment it without making the meaning of the speech get lost. I listened to the sample tracks online while my speech audio played in the background to get a sense of how it would go together. This made it much easier to pick out what isn’t working and what has potential to work.
So far, the tracks that are labelled corporate, calm, or inspiring have been better suited to this speech. I have also considered adding other sound effects like audience reactions or a rise and drop to signify urgency in some parts, but have yet to find appropriate sounds for it. It is quite hard to find audio for the speech, I’m not sure if its because I've never had to work with sounds before, or if its because its a political speech that is not associated with music, or would have music playing there.
The options labelled above are tracks that I’ve found which give this feeling when played with the speech. Option 2 makes it very dramatic and really gives the idea that this is an urgent and serious speech, but unfortunately, it may be too dramatic. It also doesn’t match with the speech where she says “ok boomer” because her tone changes here to a cheekier personality than the rest. So I would have to stop the music at this part, and play something else, or skew the tone of this part, which is not desired.
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