As the 2012 election season rolIs around again, it seemed a good time to mention that I scored the film Media Malpractice, about the 2008 election, produced by John Ziegler. Here’s the IMDB link.
and the trailer
The music was produced using Logic Pro software, and lots of plug-ins, including Stylus RMX, Sonic Implants Strings, Sonic Implants Brass, Garritan Personal Orchestra, and VSL.
Since it’s a documentary, the film has lots of talking heads, without much in the way of chase scenes, huge swooning love scenes (well… there is ONE of those. Maybe two.), and so on, so the trick is to try to help the film-maker create the moods that help sell the narrative line. I found some places to suggest, musically, that the current speakers were lying through their teeth, where it was obvious that was the conclusion the director of the film wanted the audience to reach… and that one of the, uh, stars of the show was crazy as a loon, also clearly part of the director’s narrative intent. As it happens, that particular talking head has left MSNBC (under duress) and now is the star of a show on an obscure cable show that few watch…. I’d like to believe it was the great power of my musical observations about him… but probably not.
I mean, music is powerful…. but there are limits.
An unusual aspect of this project, as films go, is that the producer/director wanted the music to be nearly “wall to wall.” Inevitably, there was some re-use of cues, but I tried not to make it too obvious. Two hours is a lot of music.