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Topic: New Musical Scores with Old Silents
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted November 01, 2013 12:45 PM
I personally agree with Shorty. I remember a rock version of Metropolis, and I personally couldn't get into it. (I'm sure that others would disagree with me on that one) ...
and then, on the other side of the "reel" (get it, "coin"? "reel"? Heh heh! ehhh, skip it!) ....
I have a DVD of Buster Keaton's "The General" with a soundtrack recorded by a modern group of artists, with a slightly modern sound, (I wish I remember who they were), and they're soundtrack does work well for it.
and yet, on the other side of the coin, I absolutely hate those "organ" scores on the Blackhawk films, which is ironic, as that was what they had originally!
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Gerald Santana
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1060
From: Cottage Grove OR
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted November 01, 2013 01:12 PM
Ernie,
I use an analog Tescam to mix my tapes all with different songs of the period or one long score of my choice from youtube or a CD. You can use contemporary music but, like Steve says, the mood should be consistent. Even when it isn't, there are still a lot of very exciting "accidents" and the music will eventually sync.
You can easily chose one from you tube by selecting a song of your choice, downloading the youtube song as an mp3 file and adding it to a CD. If the feature is over an hour, you can split the CD up into two CD's as only approximately 1hr. and 20-30 min. will fit. You don't have to worry about that for the Lost World, the Kodascope and Blackhawk version run about 60 min on 20fps.
Here's an example of a short cartoon that I transfered then, added music to from the period. I added a song from that era and matched it to end -- the same running time, that is. You can also time the reels and have better success with a good sync.
The Land of Wooden Soldiers (1928) Kinex Studios, Kodak Cinegraph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIHNmK2ayE0
I don't like the organ scores that much either Osi, I always use my own anyway. It's the distracting sound effects that I don't like more than the score. I like the Giorgio Moroder score for Metropolis -- you can buy it for $1 sometimes in record shop value bins. It's really weird and very dated but, there is something about it that fuses art and junk together that makes it "entertaining' for me.
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http://lostandoutofprintfilms.blogspot.com/
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