Note: I will be writing shorter more frequent posts to keep track of what is happening.

It’s official, the orchestra is booked for January 18, 2010 for one week of recording! We will be recording with the Evergreen Orchestra in Taipei Taiwan! This will be a unique experience, for sure!

But that means I have to have the music done by then, and right now I have no final animation to work with, just a rough cut.

In Hollywood, a composer would do mock-ups and the music editor would conform the music to the new edits done to the film. That would then be sent to orchestrators.

However, here, I am a one-man-show. No budget here for a team behind me. Just a mixer, a copyist and me and I like it like that, but that means I have to plan ahead.

So I am doing piano-only cues for the first act’s rough cut. That way, when the final cut comes in, I will have all my material ready to fly. I’ll just have to edit it to the new cut and orchestrate, which will take a much shorter time than starting from scratch.

The director, David,  is aware that his budget did not buy a whole music production team and he has to send me a final cut pronto.

David’s a fantastic guy to work with, by the way, and I really feel like we are on a team together to make this a great movie!

So on to composition I go!

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