The Apple soundtrack is finally finished. After a full weekend working on it I finally feel it something that represents the piece. Have a quick listen below, but do bare in mind it's meant to go with the film and therefore may not make complete sense without it. Please note that this is a completely original composition by me and only makes use of copyright free loops right at the very end with the drums. Enjoy.
It starts of very light and dreamy with a chorus of 'Ahhs' to lighten the mood. Some bright happy motif's played on. A guitar rhythm in the background helps add to the happiness of the sound. This melody is the signature apple motif and returns a few times in the piece. The next part of the section is a piece on stacatto strings to make it seems a little more emotional but casual.
The next section is very different. A pedal in the background mixed in with an eerie glockespiel solo makes this passage a little haunting and unsettling. This breaks into a melodic minor section which is meant to connote the confusion felt by the cyclist and the uncertainty the apple faces after it is thrown onto a bench.
This soon errupts into the happy opening sequence. We get an added Flute melody that represents the little girl drawing the face on the apple.
The drunken section is made up of unnerving pizzicato strings, purely to get across the drunken confusion of the 3 men out on the town. The pizzicato strings also give the scene a dainty edge as though there is no real danger for the apple.
The next section is something different and is made up of lots of descending sequences. There is a happy sound. It has a sense of inquisition about it which is meant to represent the dog.
The next section after this is a haunting glockenspiel melody that is an intertextual reference to Witness using the same motifs and melodies. This ties in well with the scene as the tramp is an intertextual refrence to Witness.
This then defers back to the main melody giving the scene the happiness and sense of voyage of discovery we see on the first section.
We then get an atonal descending sequence with loads straight into the climatic ending which is quite dissonant in parts.
This is finally ended with a sad and lonely piano riff detailing the demise of the apple and its grave sacrifice being overlooked by the man.
Our second chosen ancillary task is a magazine review page (words by Joe Sullivan) and is meant to be from a quarterly short film magazine entitled 'Art House'. We decided to use photo's from production from and center the main colours on green as this keeps with our apple theme. The background image is also one of the promotional shots for the film. We gave the film 9/10, we though it would be best to impartial obviously!
Our ancillary tasks have now been finished. We decided to do a promotional poster and a magazine review page. The other day we decided to head up into photography and have a little photo shoot with the apples using some of the white backdrop's in there. We toyed with the idea of having the pen in our promotional posters but we eventually decided on just having the apple on a white back drop. We went with green text in keeping with the tone of the Granny Smiths and kept the layout simple. We added in a premiering date which is actually our Media Deadline and also put in a tag line "How far does the apple fall from the tree?" which is an obvious reference to the apple traveling. Here is the poster is all it's glory.
. . is all that is needed to completely finish Apple. Filming is now down, a soundtrack is on the way, the ancillary tasks are nearly done, the blogs are almost complete. All it takes now is one final push over the weekend to make sure all of these things are done properly before the premier on the 14th of December. Here is a slideshow of some of our production photo's taken during the filming (Slideshow by Jack Parfitt)
Today we went out and reshot 2 shots of Sam's fruit vendor scene. This officially marks the end of production; we have finished all filming, reshoots and pick up for 'Apple' and are now completely is post production. We have put all our progress and current status' in podcast form, so you are fully updated with our progress. the podcast can be listened to in the following video. Enjoy.
