song writing is a hard thing. Especially for me. I seem to have the gene, or the brain, or something for finishing things. or expanding upon on idea. When I hear a song my band is working on, i know what i can do to fill in and make thigns sound good, but starting from scratch is not for me.
So being asked to write the score to three films in the last 8 months is a big deal for me, but i might be getting the hang of it, but MIGHT is the keyword there.
I have yet to write a score for a full length feature film, but hopefully someday i will. to date I’ve written two scores for short films, one of which was scrapped and will never see the light of day because of…other circumstances i am not a liberty to discuss.
writing for those two films was extremely hard, and a lot different than i expected. the first short was about a business man who becomes trapped in a malfunctioning elevator with a baby, and has to care for it till they are rescued. Hilarity ensues, i assure you. I began writing in a way most people found kind of odd, but it made perfect sense to me. I set up my computer and keyboard on a table outside the room where everything was being filmed. (On a side note, they couldn’t film inside an actual elevator due to space issues camera related things, so one was built with fly-away walls specifically for the film. pretty neat!) As the filming went on, i would poke my head in, and see how things were being done, and how the actor was interacting with the baby, and then write music that seemed to fit. What resulted was a very fun, light, and very “nursery rhyme” inspired electronic soundtrack that blended into the background of the film, and helped fill in some empty, sometimes awkward space. The second film (which was scrapped because of poor production quality) was a story of an aging superhero, and his fight against his arch-nemesis, and against a new enemy, and also convincing his now middle-aged “kid side kick” to takeover as successor. So as you can imagine the music was full of lots of big, epic superhero songs, mixed in with my signature electronic touch.
The newest challenge i have been asked to score is a film is something completely different from either film. All I know right now is that it is going to be a High School Muiscal like film…just…without the Musical part. Im excited if indeed it does go into production.
