October 20, 2006

I'll tell the story of my first film scoring session. One day in September, I was on the SC campus and thought, "I need to find Dan Johnson and see if would like me to score a film." Dan Johnson is a student director at SC and used to be my piano student. I hadn't seen him in a year, but no sooner had I thought of him than I ran into him and he said, "Kelly! I was looking for you hoping to find you. Would you consider scoring a short film I'm working on for class?" So, he later sent me a script and then I received an almost finished copy of the movie (without sound) on Tuesday night of last week. I wrote the music and hired (limited budget) one violinist, one cellist, and one oboist (with hopes to overdub and get a more "orchestral" sound). We were scheduled to record the music in the Spielberg sound stage at 7am Sunday. At 9pm Saturday night, my cellist called me and said that he had been in an accident on the freeway coming home from San Diego and his car was totalled and he was stuck in San Juan Capistrano and AAA was coming to get him and his car. I quickly emailed all of the USC cellists and fortunately was able to get someone willing to come. (There's another story there...)

The recording went well and we'll attend the screening this coming Sunday evening. Pretty fun experience and I hope to do more.

I'll add photos later on. And maybe the movie itself if Dan lets me...