Summer Movie

August 3, 2012 at 2:28 AM

If I'm not mistaken, I mentioned me and my sister's annual summer movie on June 1st. We waited for a while before finally starting it about a week ago. (Maybe it was six days ago). We've been filming a scene or a couple scenes a day, but it's hard to do anything outside because it's just been so hot!

But I'm not here to talk about the plot of the movie, or the characters, or even my little acting experiences I'm having. I'm here to talk about my first time in writing the complete soundtrack for the movie, and having the experience of composing a movie soundtrack before I go into a class about it. It's been a lot of fun! I've used my violin, sad to say, very little so far in the making of these songs, but I'll try to pull it out again sometime. For one piece, where the heroine is reunited with a character who has been sick for a while and is healed, I took my time on the song, timing the scene for Quarter=88 measures and writing various spots down. That way, when I sat down at my keyboard, I could write themes based on different things that were happening in the scene. I may do this again for maybe a battle scene.

So on some days this week on my blog I'll try to write about a song I wrote or something like that. Please enjoy! And if you have any tips for me that would make my composing even better, please feel free to let me know! :)

Oh, yeah. Kinda off topic, but I should probably mention I'm learning John Williams' 1984 Olympic Fanfare and Theme on piano, which is a whole lot of fun!

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