Just finished scoring a horror scene.

[elfro89]

let me know what you guys think

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xutYjyqEjhM&feature=youtu.be

 

[mayfly]

Woh! 

That was one hell of a score on that scene!  Very effective!

How did you get that gig?

 

[elfro89]

Just a college project to build a portfolio, this is the area I most want to go into in music so I need to build one up It's well good fun, got a few more videos on the way at some point too. 1 of them even gets to be played by a real orchestra, proper cheesing like!

 

[whitebison66]

Excellent job!!!

 

[Cagey]

Well done!

As a side note, this is why you need a large caliber sidearm in/on your bedside table. Something like that comes creeping around my house, it'll only have as long as it takes to bleed to death to explain why it was there in the first place.

 

[jay4321]

Yeah if somethings going to come drag you off to hell, no sense saving the shells for that weekend hunting trip. If that doesn't work kick it (nothing likes being kicked). If that fails see if you can kill it with fire. After that I dunno, bible slap it as a last ditch effort.

Oh right, not about that. Very good job on the score. 

 

[Cagey]

I don't save shells for anything.  If it seems like I have too many, it means I'm not practicing enough. Practice makes perfect, so you don't need many when you do need them. As for hellbeasts, I'll leave those to the more imaginative to play with <grin>

 

[Steve_Karl]

Nice work. Footage is good also. Could have been a much better render for utube.

 

[stubhead]

Congrats! If I had it to do all over, I wish I had stuck with formal music instruction and gone into soundtrack work, rather than learning rock 'n' roll and chasing that tail around...

There are some really boring conventions in the industry, it's meant as sign language that something's going to happen - the single note whole-tone tinkly piano parts when the beautiful young assistant D.A. goes into the "empty" parking garage (and she left her gun at home because it didn't match her shoes), the throbbing "chase music" they play when a couple of stuntmen are bashing things up in a car chase.... the music is rarely snaky enough. It's a hard thing to judge, because if you don't demonstrate knowledge of the conventional cliches, you won't get a chance to break them. Most of the work these days is done by one guy sitting in a room full of computers, and the quality of your plug-ins is more important than creativity. But it beats playing in a bar band, now that MADD and karaoke have killed that beast.

 

[Cagey]

Hehe! I'll tell you where you missed your calling: you should have been a writer.

 

[AutoBat]

I thought it was mldly cliché but effective for the genre, assuming the rest of the film is akin to that scene.

I've always liked the behind the scenes of John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars soundtrack with Anthrax, Steve Vai, and Buckethead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id4ughSOH6c

 

[elfro89]

I Love John Carpenter

 

[stubhead]

I bought Danny Elfman's CD of greatest hits - at the time I had the notion of playing "The Simpsons Theme" in a weird band I was in, but it's hard music to learn and adapt - chord changes out the wazoo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivdN1pXdY_c

There's another guy named Jeff Beal who's writing I like, he scored a series of "Jesse Stone" TV movies and I had to get that "Stone Cold" CD, too. This theme got stuck in my head:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUOMPRxcquE

I'm kind of surprised that there are still so many string and horn parts in soundtrack work, I though it would all be guitars by now. I certainly like most soundtrack music better than the most modern of modern "serious" composers. Jeff Beal also did the "Monk" theme, which a bunch of people have had fun with:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ-CdKrzGPg&feature=related

 

[thebutcher85]

I also checked out your videos of Covers of Panama and Bark at the Moon, awesome playing!  :headbang:

 

[elfro89]

Thanks a lot dude