Films, Scoring and GTP Activities

Films and Scoring 

For the last couple of weeks, mostly while recovering from a minor back injury, I scored a short film based on the script, for a friend of mine. I'm quite pleased with the outcome, as it was done at rather breakneck speed with a total of 7 tracks in about 12 to 15 hours accumulated. As the film is to be shot next week ideally, the finished product may require tweaks to the music and additional tracks. Admittedly I suspect one track will need slight remixing and another slowing down a couple BPSs. When it's all officially finished, I'll post them.

Incidentally, I'm very interested in doing more of this kind of thing.

The film is written and being directed by the same friend I'd previously mentioned GTP helping make a film last March. The reason for that film's silence is that it fell into a series of shooting cancellations and schedule juggling hell with its fairly large cast. With half the film shot and sitting on my hard drive, we're all hoping that perhaps next year we can pick it back up, get all the actors together and finish what we started.

I am also hoping to start work on a long talked about film project of my own next year, though that is still a very wait-and-see prospect at this point.




Gorilla Theater Productions

GTP is going strong. I haven't been posting much as I'm not too involved these days. In my last post I had mentioned the line up for the rest of the season would include a children's fantasy adventure, a Scandinavian classic, and something from the Bard. Instead of the of the fantasy play, East of the Sun, West of the Moon, Anna opted for Pippy Long Stockings (which has been cast and is currently rehearsing) having fallen for its script. She also decided that it would allow more production energy to be focused on the last play, which will be Macbeth. The fact that we're talking about it and already starting to plan for it when their are two plays to put on before it should give some indication that Macbeth is going to be big. At least, big by Gorilla standards. I'm very excited about it. Expect to see promotions in the near future as we head into November.

I've already started working on the score for Macbeth and have a few tracks finished that will likely make the final cut. I did get a little ways on the fantasy score, with one track finished that I'll share down the road. I'm planning to do trailers for all of these plays as of now, but as the season picks up at work we'll just have to see.

As for the Scandinavian play, it is still in the works but I'll let Anna announce that when she's ready. I will say that it is minimalistic in nature, so their isn't a great deal of advanced preparation necessary like with Mac'ers.