September 7, 2006
franz
My old friend Dave Mackenzie [the director of Hallam Foe] and Nick McCarthy [of the rock band, Franz Ferdinand] having a cigarette outside a recent screening of the rough edit.
Backstory: Instead of using a composer to write a filmscore, Dave’s production team made a deal with Domino Records to supply original music for the film. Franz F. is on the Domino label, so Nick was down at the screening, checking out the film for inspiration. Full story here.
From an editing standpoint, this approach is quite tricky. With a standard film score, the compser’s music is written around each and every frame. But with this approach, the director takes the music as raw material, and tries to cut it in such a way that it fits the film edit. All quite complicated.
Luckily, Dave’s done this before. When he shot “The Last Great Wilderness”, he got the guys from Pulp to write him a song for the movie, and it all worked great.
Rock on roll lifestyle, Baby, Glasgow style. Indeed.
More power to him. I’m currently doing a film scoring course with Berklee and it is scary stuff, timecodes and all
Morning here in Toronto, checked Technorati and Gaping Void has moved up 3 spots in the ratings over the past few days… Right on and may the trend continue!