Two arrivals. Not so happy with this one. But the key is practice.
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Just One Big Hit and some voices to make it squeal.
I just completed and delivered a score for director Andrew Tribolini for a horror cooking show genre film called "Cooking With Clare". Shot for somewhere around Sally Jesse Raphael in musical style with some serious FM synthesizers like we were all using back in the 80's. The movie won some awards and is now going traveling around on the short circuit. Yes, that's a thing.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7685940/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Just like daily practice on cello or piano makes one better, daily film scoring will commence forthwith. This one is all about composing to the snake strikes. Had to hit a tempo and then find the syncopations that do double duty as a melodic construct.
Christian Vuissa started the LDS Film Festival in 2001, showcasing film with a uniquely Mormon message and feel. Now its 13th year, the festival is held the historic SCERA center in Orem, Utah. As the films draw from a necessarily small base of filmmakers, the results have been somewhat uneven. However a few screenings have stood out. A screening on Thursday the 6th showed 5 theatrical and documentary shorts dealing with gender identity, sexual orientation, and the church. The first was by Torben Bernhard documenting a young trans-woman, the second and third were by Stephen Williams and were theatrical shorts dealing with male homosexuality and the church. Then Kendall Wilcox showed two documentaries. One was about Wilem, a gay punk rocker from Seattle who is a devout Mormon. The other was about the "It Gets Better" project at Brigham Young University. There was a discussion afterward with great input from the filmmakers and from the audience.
Friday morning, Christian Vuissa is offering (currently as of this writing) a discussion and presentation on Mormon cinema. He started out talking about the Saratov Approach, directed by Garret Batty as a Mormon blockbuster. Then he went onto talking about the general trends in film making as it applies to the greater film world, questions of quality, and where the Festival sits in the broader scheme of Mormon art and publishing.
Overall, I find the level of quality coming out of Utah in film is of a surprisingly high quality and there is a real drive to tell a personal story. This "missionary" zeal exists perhaps because of the theology but is often a very personal statement.
Other great films found are by Rob Diamond (Prodigal Son story with gambling and gun play) and "Missed Connections" by Brandon Ho.