Just come back from a meeting with Hugh Fowler our composer. It was interesting and enlightening, to get a bit more in depth info on how music is produced, and the whole workflow process. It looks like we will be using human voice predominantly through the film with a slant more on the choral music style, but using manipulation to turn the voices of our singers in to instruments in a range of styles to suite the mood and feel of the film. So we will probably be creating Choral Techno.
We’re looking at 5 key themes, for the character and film, these will be used throughout. Also we are looking at one sad song, in a Johnny Cash style blues for the end. The key is to get all of the music to work together and keep a consistency throughout. One of the songs will be written and recorded over the summer and will be put on iTunes or other such sites to bring in some budget, and recognition in the early stages. Keep coming back and hopefully before September we will have a song you can buy as a means to helping us fund the film.
We are going for a 5.1 mix, at Dolby TrueHD standards, so this means a lot of effort needs to be put into gathering high quality sound from every source. What we are aiming for is doable, challenging but doable.
I’m feeling confident that the music for this film will be top notch. We may also release it as an EP at the end with a percentage of the money going to charity.