#temp track

Remember that episode of Every Frame a Painting I linked to the other day about the unmemorable scores of the Marvel universe movies? Dan Golding has responded with a video of his own, and it is amazing.

Do you get emotional when you watch movies? Do you feel the joys of inspiration or the pain of sadness in those important scenes?

Unless you’re a robot, you will feel something when you watch a great film.

One big element that helps pull on your old hearts strings is the music. Don’t believe me? Try watching a film on mute. Something I learned years ago is that a great way to get inspired when cutting is to use cinematic scores. It can really help you to determine the editing style.

You are cutting with music from the most respected and highest paid composers and musicians in the world! It’s like a dream within a dream!

This tale starts back in 2011. It was a rainy Vancouver Saturday morning, my dad calls me to the kitchen and asks if I wanted to go to his friends (Ann Marie Fleming’s) apartment downtown. He tells me that she was wondering if I would be interested in helping out at her *temp track recording that day for her next big film. I obviously agreed, so I threw on my clothes, gumboots and off we went. As soon as we entered her apartment a surge of excitement rushed in. The apartment was a heritage loft style, filled with art, instruments, many people who would be lending their voices that day, many chairs, microphones, scripts, recorders, pens and a baby grand piano as the main attraction. It felt like a set and I was giddy to no end. I was working along side my dad that day, and our job was marking the script with the takes and being in charge of all of the recording and audio. As the day progressed the takes increased, and I was starting to learn how different people interacted with one another on set, as well as how many takes you actually need to do. I started to learn about the story and the characters from Ann Marie’s direction, the actors portrayal and marking the script continuously. As the day came to close and the sky went from the grey hue of January day to bruised coloured clouds of the night I packed up all of the chairs, and I asked Ann Marie more about her project. This was the start of my involvement with Window Horses!