BOPPIN’ AT THE GLUE FACTORY

Posted by Jeff Orgill

November 12, 2007

This is great Lance! Thank you!

BOPPIN’ AT THE GLUE FACTORY is in the home stretch in post. I’ve been working with the composer, Dean Harada, re-scoring the film and MAN what a difference it makes. We have honed in on a less is more approach that feels right and actually adds a cool dimension to the story, an extra layer. When I say less is more I mean simpler arrangements, using cues or variations of themes repeatedly rather than creating whole new cues, making the decisions on whether or not music is even needed in certain spots, things of this nature.

It’s like we had too many colors and they were mostly too bright or in the middle. We’ve reduced the palette to just the right few colors and it really brought cohesion and helped get inside the film more.

Our first pass was a great learning experience for myself and the composer and generated the raw material which became the spine of the final score. Dean had composed a great angular jazz theme as the music created by on screen character Tharin Sanders. Last year when he recorded this Dean also had the musicians play a bunch of variations on that theme which was just extra bonus stuff strung out linearly. I never knew how to use this stuff or what to do with it. It was just a hunch of Dean’s to get more stuff. But when it came time to re-score Dean was able to take this extra music and arrange it with new drums and upright bass to create a whole new piece timed to picture for the opening sequence. I get a real rush watching it now because it works so @^%# good!