Sound Tracks.

Why do I start many blogs of with this phrase.

"Haven't blogged in awhile"

So I'll say sorry Graeme, I bet it's hard getting through the week with out reading one of these bad boy blogs.


Righto, Sound Tracks.

I've been buying soundtracks recently, mainly ones that have been scored / composed for the film.
I'm a great believer in music in film, I truly think it's the difference between a good film and a great one. If you put a superb soundtrack to a terrible movie, it would probably make it look good. However, if it was the other way round horrid sound to beautiful pictures, the film would be poor.

Take Star Wars, The theme music by John Williams (he also did the whole film, but just think about the theme) , It is incredible, sounds massive, exciting, inspiring and your only watching some yellow text scroll up a starry nights sky. It sets the tone for the entire film. Without that music would Star Wars be this big? Well, I can't answer that, but when you ask someone about Star Wars they usually hum the Darth Vader Theme.

John Williams also did Jaws, now is Jaws that good? or is it that the Theme music is genius!

I listen to the Edward Scissorhands soundtrack earlier by Danny Elfman, It was amazing. I always new it was great and have been banging on about it for years. But listening to it by itself made me appreciate even more. I felt every mood and feeling of the film, it made my hairs stand on end and without sounding like a sissy it even moved me (close to tears).


I've decided to by a classical album, one with various well known pieces on. A fan of classical music would probably laugh at it, like I do when somebody tell me they like Nirvana and start singing "smell like teen spirit", not really a fan, just like the well known stuff.

But with a lot of film scores being big bang classical music I thought I'd open up to the whole genre, start with the popular pieces and if I like it then delve further in.


I'm hoping it will make me think about my own filmmaking. The final song on THE PAYOFF, (short film I recently made) is a piece of music by a good friend of mine. He didn't actually write it for the film, he was just writing it at the time I asked him. The piece actually worked better than I could ever imagine. It even think it made me understand the scene better, I don't know why that is because I wrote the dam think. But as Brandy is walking out and Billy is considering his options, I can see and hear and feel the pain they are both going through.

Strange.

I think i'll leave that one there for now.

I recently did a video review of Public Enemies on my YouTube page. I'll post it up on here once this blog as had time to digest.