Score!

A few hours was spent this bank holiday monday with the very talented electronic whizz kid Liam Dunne.

I had last week put together a minimal electronic score for the film, its only 45 seconds to spot, but its a very long 45 seconds if you know what I mean.

In other words by the time my 45 seconds had elapsed it had became boring and ceased to have the effect a good score should.

Liam was about on saturday, we were just hangin' (man) and he had a go of my Casio CZ-5000 after about 10mins of him messin about on the synth I invited him to come work on the score as I had some ideas but not the technical prowess in order to achieve them.

Liam jumped at the oppertunity to score a film.

A lot of time was spent adding the specific elements that I wanted included and Liam was very patient and delivered what I needed brilliantly. I wanted to keep things as "old school" as possible and insisted that Liam perform everything Live as opposed to doing everything via midi as I wanted it to have a very natural human sound to the performance.

We did a few takes of each track and nailed it. Some happy accidents happened along the way that would never have happened it we took the midi route. I love when shit like that happens.

When it came to the last track of the day Liam came up with some amazing chords using a french horn sample. I took great pleasure in "conducting the orchestra" for this part and we recorded directly to the playback on screen. In three takes we had it.

A lot of work goes into those 45 seconds of screen time for a score that hopefully no one will hear but certainly feel.