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[Sep. 5th, 2008|07:22 am]

david_von_staal

OK, so about 2 years ago some guy on myspace was in college making films. He makes all of his projects with the help of friends and people that can do it for free. I decided to help him out by mailing off about 3 mix CDs of tracks I've made.

The film is finished, and it is a short horror movie, just shy of being 45 minutes long. He is mailing off several copies to me. The film is called "Violent Black."

I consider this something I can add to a Music/Sound resume and portfolio. Names are in the credits, yadda yadda yadda.

This same guy is now in the planning stages for a second horror movie. He asked me if I could record an actual soundtrack this time for the second film, and I have said yes.

As with the first film, everyone who helps with the movie is helping out for free. These films are for college projects.

This film is currently titled "Bad Trip." In the e-mail that the guy has sent me, he states this: "It is a horror movie that takes place in 1991/ 92. The 'high concept' description of it would be 'Henry: Portrait of a serial killer' meets 'The last Horror Movie' or if you haven't seen that, the documentry sections of 'Behind the Mask: The rise of Leslie Vernon' "

He has included with the e-mail an actual script of the movie, which I have downloaded and am currently reading.

The film will include a timecode, and I will probably have to use some software to sync the music with the movie, or at least, something to help mix the music alongside the movie. He mentioned Adobe CS3, but I am thinking about giving Vegas 8 a shot first. I have an S-Video Out on the back of the computer, so maybe I can preview everything on an actual TV during the recording/mixing.

Anyways, I have a while until I am handed footage of "Bad Trip," so I am trying to get prepared beforehand.

2 other people are probably going to help me out, one being a multi-instrumentalist, Tony, the other is a guy who makes ambient drones, Napalm Dave. The music needed in the movie: Late-80's-to-early-90's rock with a sinister feeling to it, and dark ambient. I am going to write out all of the rock music, program the drums, and then record Tony playing the music I write out. Then with Napalm Dave, I plan on remixing his ambient drones (he layers sounds on top of each other and then using a bit of trickery he blends the sounds together until they seem like one single drone, so I've been thinking that it would be interesting to remix that kind of material, since the drone would change drastically if the individual parts were manipulated even slightly - given the way he mixes his material).

I know that this will be somewhat challenging, but I also think of that as being the fun part; Figuring out how to get everything done by whatever means necessary. As I said before though, I have a bit of time to prepare for it all. The actual recording and mixing starts next year. His last film took him 2 years to complete, and he has to rely on people (mostly friends) who can help him out for free during every phase of the film's creation. He was able to do that the last time, so it figures he'll most likely be able to do it again. And it also takes time because he edits the film personally, to his own liking - which I don't blame him, because he creates the storyboard and the script.

I see this as an opportunity to add another thing to my portfolio/resume.

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