To many notes, Mr. Mozart

[Lostin Space]

"We decided to cut about 8 seconds from the last filmscene in the last minute - hope that wont change your music in any way, cause the sync on the scoretest was great. Take som time of now, and have a nice weekend!"

No problem, Mr. Idiot. Editing the picture wont change anything at all for me. I`ll just cut about 8 seconds from the music too then, one place or another, and it all will come out just fantastic - I wont even have to compose it all over again; You see; music is just a piece of symetric wallpaper that you can cut and glue any way you like with todays tools, as long as the music have the same lenght as the picture.

Have a nice weekend too, and BTW: when the lady with the blue dress enters the room, and you hear that strange burp/fart-sounding instrument in the background, just pretend she is a cowgirl from hell trying to fit in.

I love smart and broke directors.

[paulwr]

.........you may as well get used to it. If you are ALWAYS WILLING to re-write and ALWAYS WILLING to edit, and also look/sound like your are willing.............. well, it works for James Newton Howard. This got me remembering a an interview he did, and went on at some length about this. If you can learn to do it here in the beginning for low or no $, you'll have the money earning attitude when it counts.

-Paul

[cyrod18]

Look at the bright side... When you make it big, you could always release a "previously unreleased music from the ______ motion picture" CD.

[Sp3ctre18]

At first I thought this was a joke, and twas funny, but judging from these other posts... what, seriously you got a mesage like this? o.0 wow.....

Originally Posted by cyrod18

Look at the bright side... When you make it big, you could always release a "previously unreleased music from the ______ motion picture" CD.

That's true. I never delete my old versions, even if they were changed a lot. I might want that other version, or at least it might be like a scrapheap and i'll still use certain things from it.

[rikp]

Originally Posted by Lostin Space

"We decided to cut about 8 seconds from the last filmscene in the last minute - hope that wont change your music in any way, cause the sync on the scoretest was great. Take som time of now, and have a nice weekend!"

No problem, Mr. Idiot. Editing the picture wont change anything at all for me. I`ll just cut about 8 seconds from the music too then, one place or another, and it all will come out just fantastic - I wont even have to compose it all over again; You see; music is just a piece of symetric wallpaper that you can cut and glue any way you like with todays tools, as long as the music have the same lenght as the picture.

Have a nice weekend too, and BTW: when the lady with the blue dress enters the room, and you hear that strange burp/fart-sounding instrument in the background, just pretend she is a cowgirl from hell trying to fit in.

I love smart and broke directors.

That my friend is the business. If you don't want to play by their rules, don't jump in the pool!

Peace

rp

[peter5992]

This happens more often than you think. Just hope and pray the director tells you well ahead before you go in front of a live orchestra and have to find out, on the spot, that all of a sudden there is something funny with the synchronization of the music to the picture and have to rewrite the last part which may take hours - during all of which the entire orchestra waits patiently, doing crossword puzzles, until you and the copyists are done (burn baby, burn, $$, and it comes out of your pocket if you have a complete package deal). No use getting angry, it's just the way it is, however I would tell the director that it does make a lot of difference and he should keep you in the loop as soon as something like this happens.

[Alec]

you can cut... or you could change the tempo here and there to lose 8 seconds.
Sometimes it works.

cheers,

A