Movie score for vlatko (1 Viewer)

[Martin]

Star Wars??? You're just messing with me, right? Good, we have that settled.


I don't get your criteria :undecide: Is it that you're focused on how well it fits with the movie? Cause frankly to me the movie is incidental, I listen to it again and again having forgotten much of the movie.

Btw since you bring up a game, have you ever played Dune 2000? There was some great score in there and I later watched the low budget movies, also good stuff. Not movie quality, but still.

In Beautiful Mind I actually didn't notice the music at all..

 

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[Eddy]

Star Wars??? You're just messing with me, right? Good, we have that settled.


I don't get your criteria :undecide: Is it that you're focused on how well it fits with the movie? Cause frankly to me the movie is incidental, I listen to it again and again having forgotten much of the movie.

Btw since you bring up a game, have you ever played Dune 2000? There was some great score in there and I later watched the low budget movies, also good stuff. Not movie quality, but still.

In Beautiful Mind I actually didn't notice the music at all..

I was talking about the first 3 Star Wars movies, the others were just not as good.

The criteria I referred to was which albums I would listen to if I had just started taking an interest in Film soundtracks.

You're kind of correct about A beautiful Mind, but then again, it's one of those scores you don't listen to much, but just pay attention at how a movie gets an oscar even if the music isn't like wow. but I guess I was referring to the theme mostly. It was worth it.

About Dune 2000, no I haven't but I want to now. I think you would fall in love with the Guild War's soundtrack if you got your hands on it. Jeremy should really start heading into Film scoring now, he deserves it.

 

[V]

Since you've mentioned games...there's a new Polish RPG called "The Witcher". The music in it is fantastic, composers are Adam Skorupa & Paweł Błaszczak.

 

[Eddy]

I need to get my hands on that.

 

[Martin]

So Eddy, what kind of stuff do you listen to now? Long past your movie score youth and all that?

 

[Eddy]

Oh I still do listen to it

Im heading to the Hartt school of Music in the summer.

Maybe one day you'll hear me out in a smashing 450 million dollar box-office movie

 

[Eddy]

Vatko, if you liked "Hummel gets the rockets" from The Rock or whatever it was called , I think you'll like


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[Martin]

Anyway vlatko, enjoy the stuff I told you about and don't listen to Eddy. We have plenty of time to mature (or not ) to his elevated standards. "When I was 6.." pfft.

Im heading to the Hartt school of Music in the summer.

Maybe one day you'll hear me out in a smashing 450 million dollar box-office movie

You better, or I'll never take you seriously about score again. You better beat my hero Zimmer too (or at least the guy whose name is on all the stuff I love). Hey if you're lucky maybe Hans will put his name on your compositions. :eyebrows:

 

[Eddy]

Anyway vlatko, enjoy the stuff I told you about and don't listen to Eddy. We have plenty of time to mature (or not ) to his elevated standards. "When I was 6.." pfft.

You better, or I'll never take you seriously about score again. You better beat my hero Zimmer too (or at least the guy whose name is on all the stuff I love). Hey if you're lucky maybe Hans will put his name on your compositions. :eyebrows:

He heard it, he liked it, that must mean he wrote it

 

[Lucky Luke]

Aight, but you should know that most people who talk about movie score don't have a clue. They're dazzled by mediocrity like Ennio Morricone and stuff, sad affair. What they don't get is that a movie score is the opportunity for some ass kicking orchestral music with a freedom you never get in the classical world. It's not supposed to be some precocious, delicate melody. This is why the best score tends to be found in fast action movies, not Rain Man. Without the score some of these movies below would completely lose their punch.

Listed in no particular order, except that The Rock is numbah won.

• Hans Zimmer, Nick Glennie-Smith, Harry Gregson-Williams :: The Rock
• Hans Zimmer :: Gladiator
• Klaus Badelt :: Pirates of the Caribbean
• Hans Zimmer :: Crimson Tide
• Mark Mancina, Trevor Rabin :: Con Air
• Mark Mancina :: Bad Boys
• Hans Zimmer :: The Last Samurai
• Harry Gregson-Williams :: Spy Game
• David Arnold :: Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day
• John Powell :: The Bourne Supremacy
• Klaus Badelt :: Equilibrium

:rulz:

 

[Martin]

This guy knows his music, aaand he likes Gensis to boot


Eddy, since you're the resident expert, tell us what goes into writing a movie score. I've always wondered how that works. Is the movie done by that time? Or do they have to work in parallel? How much time does it take to create one anyway?

 

[V]

Eddy, since you're the resident expert, tell us what goes into writing a movie score. I've always wondered how that works. Is the movie done by that time? Or do they have to work in parallel? How much time does it take to create one anyway?

I'm pretty sure it is, the score is I believe the last thing that goes into the movie, the final touch.

 

[Eddy]

This guy knows his music, aaand he likes Gensis to boot


Eddy, since you're the resident expert, tell us what goes into writing a movie score. I've always wondered how that works. Is the movie done by that time? Or do they have to work in parallel? How much time does it take to create one anyway?

It depends on the budget of the movie. You get a theme stuck in their head depending on what type of film it's gonna be, and you practice it out before watching any of the scenes cause they would still be directing obviously. Basically just brainstorming, getting ideas for how youre gona compose and how it's theme is going to be and once the film is done, you have about 2-6 maximum weeks left to put it out on the movie. Hans Zimmer in this case, he uses keyboards with Orchestra software on the computer and he dictates on when to put this piece of melody on that part of the scene etc... He sometimes uses an orchestra, sometimes just keyboard, but sometimes he also mixes them both, like in Batman Begins. You can hear those damn synths he makes in movies but anyway.

When that's done, you can either choose to put it out on an Orchestra (expensive, only big budget movies), or perhaps an orchestra you bought (john williams nigga) or just use the Orchestra program from the computer (really hard and you need to know the technical areas of how to make it sound lifelike). I'm currently doing option 3 and it's one pain in the ass.

Easier said then done really, people go into serious stress in those 2 to 6 following weeks and that will really determine if the score is gona be any good. I remember Hans Zimmer had to complete one of his scores in two weeks, can't remember which one but he did. Kudos to him. It's stressful, you won't get much sleep at all as well but then you wouldn't care because you would be doing something that you love. God I can't wait.

EDIT: When I say Keyboard, I mean Keyboard connected to an Orchestra program on PC, and they tend to add Synthesizers to it as well but only sometimes. They used to use synthesizers ONLY back in the 70's and early 80's, depending if they have the money to spend on an orchestra.

 

[Martin]

So what is this movie you're writing for anyway?

Btw, surely you know Rob Dougan?

 

[Max]

What about the score for The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly?

 

[Eddy]

So what is this movie you're writing for anyway?

Btw, surely you know Rob Dougan?

None, just composing at the moment

Nope, sounds familiar though..

 

[Martin]

None, just composing at the moment

Nope, sounds familiar though..

He's immense. Well his only album to date. You have to check it out. "Furious Angels". If you know the Matrix soundtrack he wrote two tracks for Matrix Reloaded, one of which is in the movie.

 

[Dominic]

Aight, but you should know that most people who talk about movie score don't have a clue. They're dazzled by mediocrity like Ennio Morricone and stuff, sad affair. What they don't get is that a movie score is the opportunity for some ass kicking orchestral music with a freedom you never get in the classical world. It's not supposed to be some precocious, delicate melody. This is why the best score tends to be found in fast action movies, not Rain Man. Without the score some of these movies below would completely lose their punch.

Listed in no particular order, except that The Rock is numbah won.

• Hans Zimmer, Nick Glennie-Smith, Harry Gregson-Williams :: The Rock
• Hans Zimmer :: Gladiator
• Klaus Badelt :: Pirates of the Caribbean
• Hans Zimmer :: Crimson Tide
• Mark Mancina, Trevor Rabin :: Con Air
• Mark Mancina :: Bad Boys
• Hans Zimmer :: The Last Samurai
• Harry Gregson-Williams :: Spy Game
• David Arnold :: Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day
• John Powell :: The Bourne Supremacy
• Klaus Badelt :: Equilibrium

Blasphemer!

 

[Martin]

He's the Harry Potter of movie score :wink:

 

[Zé Tahir]

I had no idea people were fans of such things; you people are amazing. Especially V, he really dissects a movie to the tee

Anyway it was interesting looking at this. I really liked The Rock's score, considering it's one of my favorite movies of all time