Music and Sound

Thinking about what Chris was saying (we've over looked sound)and we should each go away and find some sounds to include in the game.

Music
I wondered if for background music just loops of Dizzee's tracks would suffice, a variation of this is just to have an instrumental version looping, just one song or several, one leading to the other. The rap may interfere too much so taking the voice away would be less distracting but still Dizzee. Would need to include the option to turn it off. If not his songs then maybe just something with a beat, some drums etc to set the scene of the game.

Sounds
I may have just wasted my day but I've gone through a few of his songs both normal and instrumental and also interviews with Dizzee and cut out, sounds, odd bits of rap, words and phrases from Dizzee. I thought these could be used for a sound effect here and there, buttons or just sounds that are activated when something happens in the game. Some are a bit roughly cut but after you've heard the same bit of rap for the 20th time you lose the will to live. I thought having Dizzee's voice in the game would make it a bit more personal, I don't think we should stray too far from it been a game about Dizzee.

As Chris said we don't want sounds over-load that gets on your nerves, but some here and here should work. For example the "meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" loop in Bonkers (I've cut this out) could be used when one of your scores increases as the loop gets higher, the numbers speed up as the sound does then stops. It's hard to explain in text, but I've tried to include a variety of sounds, none of which may be usable I don't know.

I've included some sfx like mobile phone rings and beeps for when you click the phone, cash register for your money etc and I was wondering instead of guitar symbol maybe have a turntable, might be a bit more "rappy" (I've found a scratching effect for when you click this).

I've put what I've got so far on basecamp, in there are sound effects, instrumentals of his songs, acutal dizzee sounds of himself and just anything sound wise I got so far. The files are a mix of .WAV and MP3 due to the software I was using but all can be easily converted to MP3. The sound levels aren't always great due to source and software but again this can easily be corrected, I've put everything in folders so it's easy to trace back where each sound is from. Because of space I've had to take out the instrumentals of his songs, songs in general and the full interviews I've found (I've left in the sound clips from those interviews that I made). To see what the instrumentals are like heres one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg37MeGu0XY



I don't think we should worry too much about copyright it is at the end of the day a university project, and it's hard to do a game about Dizzee with out any audio from Dizzee or his music.