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Member Since: 11/10/2006
Band Members: Sarah Decker
Influences: Danny Elfman, John Powell, John Corigliano, Thomas Newman, Clint Mansell, Eliot Goldenthal, Jerry Goldsmith, Claude Debussy, Camille Saint-Saens, lots of others...
Sounds Like: As part of my MFA degree, our thesis project was to score a short student film. My film was "Ends Runway" (see a trailer at realisticfilms.com), which is 23 minutes long and had about 15 minutes of score. We were able (and required) to record 5-6 minutes with a live orchestra at Capitol Studios on August 25th, 2008. That experience was definitely a highlight of my musical career. I'm not happy with the sound of these tracks once they uploaded, there's a "tinniness" that isn't there in the actual files, so I apologize for that. During "The Ballroom," the protagonist Dave is dreaming/hallucinating that he's stuck in a 18th century ballroom, where his wife Priscilla appears to him. Of course, their kiss is interrupted. "To Us" happens earlier in the film, during a romantic scene between Dave and Priscilla. "You Don't Have To Breathe" is Dave's acceptance and ascension. (I don't want to give the entire plot away!) "Tango of Innocence" was composed for school; we had a cello soloist coming in to record for us, and we were given 2 scenes from "The Age of Innocence" to score, both of them climactic scenes of forbidden love, and I tried to fit the scene I chose but the solo ended up being way too dramatic...but it's still a nice little cue! "Fragile Mind" is the same kind of thing, except with a viola soloist, and the scene was from "Birth" where Nicole Kidman's character learns that she's been lied to. "The 400 Blows" is a film about a young boy who lives on the street. The scene we scored was after he actually gets arrested and he's being driven in the paddy wagon to prison. He's fairly stonefaced through the whole thing, but towards the end we see a single tear shining on his cheek.
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