SHEL HERE....
justin and i kicked ourselves all the way to our SCORE meeting with Robert Litton last night for not bringing a camera......we were very excited to hear the themes he had been playing with for the film and wanted to document the occasion.
it was definitely an occasion worth documenting.....so EXCITING and MOVING to see robert dive into justin's story and it's characters and immerge with these musical tastes that express and enhance all the emotions justin's been frame by framing his puppets through the past couple years. talk about thrill!
ROBERT LITTON GETS IT. so exciting to hear how he's broken down the story and aims to sometimes counter and sometimes meet the acting dynamics.....his interest is not just to support the acting but to keep an emotional tension building, i love that at the most intense moment in the entire film (and easily overdoable musically) he's decided to drop out all together in order to not manipulate the audience about how to feel here, but rather leave them with their own personal outlook on life to decide what might happen next. very CLASSY!
justin and i kicked ourselves all the way to our SCORE meeting with Robert Litton last night for not bringing a camera......we were very excited to hear the themes he had been playing with for the film and wanted to document the occasion.
it was definitely an occasion worth documenting.....so EXCITING and MOVING to see robert dive into justin's story and it's characters and immerge with these musical tastes that express and enhance all the emotions justin's been frame by framing his puppets through the past couple years. talk about thrill!
ROBERT LITTON GETS IT. so exciting to hear how he's broken down the story and aims to sometimes counter and sometimes meet the acting dynamics.....his interest is not just to support the acting but to keep an emotional tension building, i love that at the most intense moment in the entire film (and easily overdoable musically) he's decided to drop out all together in order to not manipulate the audience about how to feel here, but rather leave them with their own personal outlook on life to decide what might happen next. very CLASSY!
you decide.i don't know what we would have done with a camera there, it's so not about visuals, in fact i spent most the time with my eyes closed picturing different scenes in the film while robert did his music magic (somehow managing to use the piano to represent a full orchestra --and harmonica of course). he really did bring the story to life on a whole new level.....and at one point as we pictured Gerald the Dog feeling the Little Girl rejection and Robert brought in a sort sad version of the "hopeful Gerald theme" it actually brought tears to my eyes.
as soon as we got home we popped in the film and watched again imagining the music that was still ringing in our ears....
POWERFUL STUFF....we are more excited than ever.....we gave robert a LOCKED version of our edit (one week earlier than our selp-imposed deadline....thank you very much!). so this month while robert writes music, we clean frames, do end credits, look up festivals, think about booking a PARTY place to show it, etc. EASY SNEEZY!
sept 30th we go to capitol records and record it all with a full orchestra.....for that we will most definitely bring a camera and post some visuals.
2 comments:
Man o man, that sounds so fantastic, you guys. Get ready...
Robert made me cry too, but it was when he broke my heart.........
It looks like it's all finally coming together!!!! Very exciting!
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