recording studio

Well, let me tell you.  My job is way cool.  I would go so far as saying that my job is cooler than yours.  This can be debated, but I'd probably win.  

Last night, Dan called me and asked if I wanted to go with him to see some of the songs from the soundtrack get laid down.  Naturally I said yes.  So I grabbed my camera, and off we went.

 

Recording this soundtrack is a little bit different than for most films.  Most of the time, you will have a composer take the final edit of the film and match the music to it.  The director will normally note where the music cues should go, and the composer goes from there to create the score.  To me, music is a very important part of a film.  I love some of the movies that I do solely because of their soundtracks.  For this film however, because the story is essentially about a rock star, we have to create a few of the songs that the band will sing ahead of time.  There are scenes where we show music videos as well as some concerts and such. Because we are actually showing the characters as they are playing the music, most of the scoring is done beforehand.  Once the film is finally cut, then we will go back in and put the rest of the music cues in.  

Basically, in the script, Dan wrote out some lyrics that were important to him - leaving the job of composing and "melody-izing" (you like that word?) the song to the professionals.  I've had this really awful version a song in my head every time that I've read the lyrics in the script.  To be quite honest, I have been really nervous about the songs because of that.  In my head, it's always come out to be this terrible rap/reggae type thing - which is ridiculous because I don't even like rap nor reggae.  And the two should definitely never be correlated in one song.   That would just spell disaster.  But I digress.  This is once again why I am not the one in charge of this area.

No, that honor goes to Josh Goode

Josh wrote the soundtrack to Dan's last film, Striking Range, (which can be found in most Blockbusters - if you are curious).  Josh has not only won an Emmy for some of his work, but he is also a musical genius.  Basically, Josh takes the lyrics that Dan wrote, finds a melody and then writes it, arranges it, plays it, and then spits it back out to Dan - who then makes his notes for Josh - who then makes the necessary changes for Dan - who then is amazed at the final product.  Yup, that's pretty much how it goes with them.  It was very cool for me to see Josh in the studio working his magic. 

The best part is, that now I have Josh's version of the song in my head - not my version.  Thank goodness.  I really can't wait for you all to hear it in the movie.   

Now for more pictures.  

Troy Baker - this picture may look posed, but it's not.  

Me - a picture of me filming behind the scenes stuff

  

 

This is a very multi-dimensional picture.  Josh is on the guitar and notice Troy, Me (bright orange shirt) and Jeff Rodgers in the reflection.  That is art.

  Wider shot of the studio