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  • A wedding score

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    I have just made a score for a wedding video.

    Here it is: http://www.box.net/shared/025r9mr3a1

    It a series of the following cues:

    00:00 - Anticipation mixed with nervousness.

    01:02 - Bride

    02:34 - Groom

    03:10 - Chuppa and wedding ring

    03:45 - Men dancing

    04:14 - Women dancing

    This is the first time I made a score of this type, at the same time the work is not commercial in character and as a result was rejected by the filmmaker ("The clients don't want to see nervousness and indecisiveness" or "Cues have to be in the same mood" etc.). I wonder what you think about my music. Your comments are welcome.
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    If the music works hand in hand with the photography, depends on the the intention of the  film creators.

    I think the problem here is not thatthe score is composed in the wrong mood., but that there are too many different parts that are changed every minute. This doesn´t mean, that the composition is bad at all. Perhaps stick with one or maximum two different parts, then it is easier to follow for the listener and the theme can be played around with a little longer.

    Apart from that, mixing music with film can be a risky business. If you risk too much, it can go badly wrong, in other cases it leads to the worlds most famous film scores.

    Take Odyssee 2001 ( Mixing classical music from Strauß with a science fiction movie......what a ["nonsense"] idea.....) [:)]

    Or the closing title of Dr Strangelove  (marrying nuclear explosions with " We´ll meet again".......)

    Of course the risk averse scheme of fitting the mood of the picture with thes ame kind of music style is much easier in most cases
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    Maybe I'm seeing things that aren't in the film and imagining moods that aren't there...

    I tried to follow the video sequence faithfully, so when the score was rejected my first words were:" But this is what you've shown there yourself!"
  • K
    K

    It is a little bit difficult without seeing the film (or can we watch the part somewhere) ?

    Anyway, if the customer didn´t like it, for whatever reason, just forget about it (unless there is a fact, which can be made better the next time).

    I think the world is full of artists who have been rejected in the first time.

    [Also read the funny story about the "Apokalypse Now"-style scoring, demanded by a director, who mixed up Coppola with Wagner, here in the forum  ] [:D]
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