So, I’ve been keeping busy lately battling the flu, moving office, moving webservers (and all the associated hassle of setting up mail redirects, moving the blog etc etc) and 1001 mundane things like installing our new clothes drier (a rant for another day).

I’ve also found a bit of time to venture out in a new musical direction, namely doing a bit of film scoring.

Now, I did a very basic job of ‘scoring’ my own (ultimately short-listed, but non-winning) Tropfest short earlier in the year. However, this just involved cutting down the duration of one of my own music tracks, and dropping it in as background sound.

The film score I’ve been working on lately, however, is a much more involved piece of sound engineering for a short ‘teaser’ trailer for some accquaintences off an Aussie film-maker’s board. They’re basically trying to get funding to be able to shoot the film proper, and have shot a short trailer to show potential investors. It’s essentially a horror / thriller flick, and the preview looks fairly slick. Apart from incidental sound / dialogue, I’ve had to do the whole sound-mix and music from scratch, trying to build suspense and work together with the visuals.

It’s been an interesting experience, and I’ve been using it as an opportunity to learn the ins and outs of my new DAW (finally upgraded from using Jeskola Buzz and Modplug Tracker to the ‘pro-sumer’ choice of SONAR HS 6 XL) and get some decent use out of the X-Station. I’ll post the trailer (or links) up here once it’s done and the guys are happy with the result (we’ve gone through a few versions now with the last beat sequence causing headaches, but they’ve FINALLY managed to clarify what they actually want).

So – any other musos out there looking for something ‘new’ to try – I’d definitely try posting on some of the film-maker boards out there, and offering your scoring services for free. If you’re lucky, you’ll find a film project that interests you, and you’ll be helping out the film-makers as well.

That’s all for now :)

UPDATED 26/04/07:
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‘K gang, the trailer is finished, and viewable here, and on my MySpaz band page :)