1. Salford City College
Eccles Sixth Form Centre
BTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGN
Unit 73: Sound For Computer Games
Game Title
Grand Theft Auto V
Provide detailed descriptions from chosen examples that establish…
Clearly state what production technique(s) you think have
been used to create specific soundtrack elements
The setting of the Grand Theft Auto five trailer is in San Andreas, the game world
that features all of the playable characters and many different locations. The setting
features areas with huge skyscrapers, smaller gang ridden areas, various areas In a
desert setting, great, vast mountainous landscapes and streets with “only the rich
live here” houses. The trailer shows off the game world, landscapes and different
areas helping to give you an idea of what the game is like and what you might
expect to come across on your journey throughout the game.
The soundtrack to the game trailer is an upbeat
techno type track, it fits the game very well and
helps the person watching the trailer to get a
better vibe off the game setting and enjoy it
more. I think that to create the soundtrack for
this trailer, computer software was probably used
as it does not sound like something that has been
created with actual instruments.
The soundtrack definitely creates an upbeat mood
and is fairly comical in comparison to what the
trailer Is showing, mass destruction and anarchy.
Setting
Mood
Game genre
Narrative
The game trailer gives off a very energetic mood, it is fast paced and shows many
different cut scenes, it shows all the action you can expect and gives you a brief look
at the main three characters and what they are like. When judging the moods of this
game trailer, when playing the game itself, you would expect a lot of joking around
and serious debates between the characters as well as having to come to terms with
each of their crazy, fairly psychotic personalities. This trailer definitely gives off an
action packed, crazy fast paced mood.
Action/Adventure
This game definitely fits its genre, it is full of immense action and with the in game
world being so massive and with the ability to make decisions and choices it
definitely fits the adventure genre.
The narrative to the trailer is of the characters speaking throughout different cut
scenes, the characters are speaking about each other and the things that you do
throughout the game and are in debate over each other’s crazy personalities. This
definitely helps to set the scene of what the game is like and gives you an idea of
what to expect the characters features in the game to be like.
The soundtrack also fits the game genre as it is
very upbeat and fits the craziness of the game,
this would have been harder to achieve if perhaps
an orchestra was used to make the soundtrack.
The soundtrack fits the narrative very will as it has
been created to not be very overpowering over
the characters voices and varies and loudness
throughout the trailer.