Soundtrack News: Vinny Bex Dae
As we hit the home stretch of this production these are the type of updates you’ll be seeing on Microcosm. Stephenie is hard at work on the post production audio now that she has almost every bit of sound captured on location. Brett is trying to get us some more groups on the soundtrack and I’m trying to keep it all together. Actors are coming back in to re-record some dialog. Lucky for Alex all of his audio is clean, but every other person who speaks even one line will have to come back in!
The big news is that we’re adding another group to the already awesome line-up of Ryan and Kaitlin along with Awesome Car Funmaker. Antigo based Vinny Bex Dae will be hooking up with us as well. I’m mulling over exactly which track(s) of there’s will be making an appearance, but I’m really digging them right now and want them on this soundtrack.
In the original “dream soundtrack” I mentioned in my last post I employed eight different groups, which is an insane amount of music for a short. Most feature lengths will get just above that area and Microcosm currently clocks in at 16:20 with end credits. So really with one more group I should be able to completely round out the soundtrack.
All the same, I can’t say I’m surprised that my soundtrack would be really dense. I’m addicted to music something fierce. Just yesterday I waited for compression, FTP transfers and other various necessary evils of editing I just cruised band biographies on Wikipedia. Also, as mentioned back on my old personal blog, the film is very Altman-esque in that it’s a series of connected scenes that have big gaps in time between them. A solid soundtrack helps the audience make that jump and keeps the narrative feeling connected. I’ve also mentioned to folks before that the only reason I want a budget for my films is to pay everyone and to buy the rights to music. I don’t need special effects or anything other than the equipment I’ve scrimped and saved for over the last decade or so. Just give me a good solid soundtrack I’ll make the rest of it happen my own way.
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