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I'm looking for a video on which to practice scoring. I encountered the Elephant's Dream video, and I find it pretty compelling and possibly suitable for the style I'm going for.

Does anyone know how I can download that video without music? I've been to the archive site, there are dozens of links, but I have no idea which one is what I need.

Or, alternatively, does anyone have a link to a suitable action/adventure/suspense video I can use for practice?

Thanks very much in advance!

You don't say what OS other than Mac. You can record the screen in Quicktime without audio in Mojave and earlier.


To record a video on your Mac:

Open QuickTime.
Tap “File” at the top of the display.
Choose “New Screen recording”
Hit record.
You can record the whole screen, or click and drag your mouse cursor to record just a specific part.


Although that still works in Mojave, Apple recommends this for Mojave & Catalina

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208721

There are many apps, free and paid that allow you to also record audio at the same time. I use BlackHole:

https://existential.audio/blackhole/

There should be something here that you can use: https://archive.org/details/ElephantsDream

mikehalloran wrote:You don't say what OS other than Mac. You can record the screen in Quicktime without audio in Mojave and earlier.


To record a video on your Mac:

Open QuickTime.
Tap “File” at the top of the display.
Choose “New Screen recording”
Hit record.
You can record the whole screen, or click and drag your mouse cursor to record just a specific part.




Although that still works in Mojave, Apple recommends this for Mojave & Catalina

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208721

There are many apps, free and paid that allow you to also record audio at the same time. I use BlackHole:

https://existential.audio/blackhole/

Hi,

I want to keep the production sound, FX, foley, dialog, etc, just not the music.
I'm running an old Mac Pro, upgraded to a XEON 3.33 Ghz 6-core, 32 GB RAM, OS 10.12.

CharlzS wrote:There should be something here that you can use: https://archive.org/details/ElephantsDream

Hello,

Yes, that's the Archive site I mentioned, there are just so many links and no obvious way to tell if any of them have the movie with all the sound except music.

You can download the MOV file which contains no music or dialog here: https://media.xiph.org/ED/

The dialog is in the 5.1 C channel. You'll be missing the effects and music, but something closer to what you're looking for.

I teach film scoring, there's a few good films with either no music or very little music so you can add some.

Castaway (very little music)
Duel (Spielberg, 1972?, there's maybe one piece of music)
Kiss or Kill (Australian film)
Patton (very little music)
Interiors (no music)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (unreal movie)
Dog Day Afternoon(no music)
No Country for Old Men (has very little music)

BDR - not to mention Dracula (Lugosi) and virtually every silent film ever made. And a lot of the Silents are public domain- just sayin.

Is there any possibility of working with film teachers/students to get excerpts to work with? Perhaps they could be approached to request renders sans-music of recent projects, or working with in-progress projects or long-abandoned projects.

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:BDR - not to mention Dracula (Lugosi) and virtually every silent film ever made. And a lot of the Silents are public domain- just sayin.

Yes, of course. You are the Maestro of the Silents! Nice to have a few choices for practice that have dialog and SFX to get in the way of.

Not to mention how easy it is working with dead effing directors. Lol

For dialog, sound effects and foley, it can be entertaining to just do a track of voice and mouth noises.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjq-Ek_wCyM