Tonight I will start a long weekend of composing music for a short film. The catch is I will be working without seeing the final product. The project is part of one of those “Make a Film in 48 Hours” type competitions, specifically, Washington D.C.’s creatively titled 48 Hour Film Project.
The goal of the competition which kicks off tonight at 530pm and runs until about 9pm Sunday night, is essentially to conceive an entire 5-10min film; everything from writing, shooting, editing (and all the other things that go into a movie shoot) must be done over the course of the 48 hours.
Now I have helped on short films before, and I certainly have taken part in other similar music creation challenges: 2007’s RPM Challenge, not to mention an ENTIRE FUCKING YEAR!!! of making EPs. But this will be slightly different for me since the film will not be finished, therefore most of the music will be created somewhat in a bubble.
During the weekend I will take part in some of the film creation process like idea brainstorming, editing and such, but for the most part will be writing enough music and background noise to hopefully best fit the final film. Throughout all this, I will also be blogging about the process, putting up some early samples and demos and perhaps publicly humiliating myself when I crumble under the stress.
So stay tuned and see you later…
Very cool. I want to do something like this.. I’m anxious to hear what you come up with .. How do you even begin something like this? Just talk to the people making the film to get an idea of the mood and run with it?
I think my plan of attack is to be in on the initial idea sessions and figure out what genre and theme the team is given. From that I guess we’ll extrapolate some thoughts on plot and such and I’ll get to work.
I figure I’ll probably hunker down and just write about ten different themes or moods or motifs and then see what fits w\ what theyre doing later on when they have some things put to tape.