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If you missed the last entry, Maximum Indifference was selected a while back to produce the soundtrack to an independent movie - Death Ride. The last couple weeks we've been trying to develop a few themes for the three main characters, but things got off to a slow start. A subsequent trip down to LA for a meeting with the post production team helped a bit, but there were still lots of questions and concerns... as in we really didn't have a super-solid direction to go in.
Yesterday I went down for another meeting, a screening, really - the second or third edit of the film. After a quick brunch with Lawyer Lee and his wife, we headed over to director Junichi's very schwanky high-rise condo complex. Said complex has a nice screening room - the kind where everybody gets their very own comfy leather chair. Big time indeed.
The screening was very cool... There were no music or sound effects, of course, but they did have an arrangement of "Weeping Frontiers" from the first album in place for the opening credits! It was exciting to see our name right up there in the beginning credits. So that was a moment.
After the screening we moved to a conference room and discussed the edit - what was working, what wasn't working, how the movie could be improved overall. It was quite interesting viewing a (mostly) complete movie with no sound FX, visual FX or music - pretty much just production dialog. You really notice how important music is when its missing. Our job now is to fill in that gap - hopefully without detracting from the whole!
After the discussion, director Junichi and I went up to his condo and watched the movie again - this time pausing at every scene to discuss when and where the music should go... And what kind of music should go there. Task completed, I left with a list of 46 separate cues to be produced for Death Ride.
So now... We must get to work.
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