CROWDFUNDING PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS: I’m currently following the program – best practices – set out by IndieGoGo for crowdfunding. It’s extremely comprehensive. I plan on also reviewing the @fundition best practices as well but I’m going with IndieGoGo for now given their success…
THE TITLE CHANGE After a lot of thinking and discussions with my new producer, we’ve decided to change… Changelings to The Tear. Maybe it’s a mistake to go changing the title this far into the process, but I believe it’s for…
THE LIST With life coming at me from every direction progress has definitely slowed on Changelings, buuuuuuuut, I have been pressing forward and the shot list is now complete! It’s also much more ambitious than had originally anticipated. Here’s a…
CLICK ON IMAGE TO PLAY: The Tear is the first track I heard from Taylor. I drove out to our hometown for the weekend and stopped by his studio – pics next time I promise – and it’s probably the…
CLICK ON IMAGE TO LISTEN: The Tear Among Us contains the first iteration of what is quickly becoming a theme throughout these sketches for the Changelings score. It’s a simple melody that colors the ominous, threatening tones of the rest…
Another track for my short film Changelings. Taylor Jordan sketches out here a modern take on what feels like a John Carpenter classic! I love the plucking guitar with the accents of eerie synth. It sounds a little like The…
The second upload in this series for Changelings where I share with you the progress of the score. Taylor and I have been engaging in probably the most collaborative experience with music I’ve ever had for a film. I’ve worked…
FOR POSTERITY As promised – whether you people like or not I suppose – I’m uploading the latest breakdown of Changelings here to the Steem blockchain. Just as a reminder, a breakdown is a catalogue of all the items that…
FOR POSTERITY Here is each page of draft 7 of Changelings with all my notations. Many of these suggested changes were rejected in the 8th draft. Read if you like. The new draft is much better and a couple of…
For the aesthetic of Changelings, I originally wanted to use cassette tapes for a sort of diary medium for the characters. I love old technology. I enjoy the tactile nature of it and the aesthetics, their miniaturized, mechanical parts moving in…