I had posted this as sort of a comment in another thread, so forgive me if this seems redundant, but I would like to get some feedback on this piece I wrote as a personal project. I have a hard time finding directors to work with, so I made this as a "soundtrack" for a short film I produced in my head. It runs about 30 minutes, so if you don't have the time to listen to the whole thing, I understand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCtMCj8T9Vk
Composing : Thoughts on this? by Nate Branscom
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Here is a great way to start and get some work - get on a team for the 48hour film project. See http://www.48hourfilm.com/locations. St Louis is tentatively the weekend of, 29 - 31 May 2015. I met quite a few local filmmakers and crew having done it for 6 years. Really unimportant if you win or not, but winning is fun. I competed in 2013 on a spinoff called "48 hour mvp" (that is where they build a film from your music instead of the other way around). It won, and we went on to compete internationally against other cities where my film/music placed 2nd at last years 'Filmapalooza' to Paris (8 awards in Houston and 4 more internationally). See: https://youtu.be/jXfajMVeT54 ("Elegantia"). I have scored some non-48 hours films as a result of these including one last year which also won at the 168film festival in LA in Sept.
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I've participated in two 48 hour film contests here in Springfield. I was nominated the first year and got nothing last year. Last year the winner ripped off the song from "Lost Boys" and just changed the lyrics. I've found many filmmakers down here are flaky.
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Hi Nate, thanks for sharing this. I think it's a great idea as an exercise for composing when you don't have any live projects you're working on. I actually did something very similar recently where I took an image from a famous photographer and wrote a kind of score for still picture - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Z4_f0CC84 Enjoyed the atmosphere you've created with your piece
Actually, today I saw something on YouTube where they used images from La Jetee as their "music video." Made me consider re-scoring La Jetee.
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Oh cool man, sounds like a good approach. Are you working on any projects with filmmakers at the moment then?
No projects with filmmakers right now. It's tough.
Tough indeed, just got to keep plugging away and talking to as many filmmakers as you can. Hang in!
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Some cool an unique sounds in here Nate! To make this more "presentable" I'd get a shorter reel of this together in a 1-2 min, digestible reel. I don't know a single filmmaker that would have the time to listen to 30 min, TBH. Then maybe a 5-min full piece that shows you can put a coherent, moving, and "storytelling" piece together.
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I agree with Samuel. Sophisticated stuff. Not too long in itself, but needs consolidating for fast paced time schedules . I like the way it would background, not over shadowing , but adding a layer to whatever the characters demise is.