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My name is Chris, and for about 7 years I have pursued the creative arts. I first decided to try my luck in screenwriting, I knew I was a good writer and I believed that I had good ideas, in fact I dabbled in screenwriting when I was much younger but I had not yet developed the tools needed to create something of substance, something not a copy of something I saw in a movie, which was what my early scripts were. Later on, after a long time away from it, I got back into it, but taught myself through a college course the basics of screenwriting. I had the ideas in my head but I needed to know how to get them down on paper. I worked on a few scripts, some were unfinished, some were. I decided to enter a screenplay competition which was run by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, who had won an Academy Award for their screenplay for "Good Will Hunting" and tried to inspire others to pursue their dreams of making it in Hollywood. The results were a complete disaster. Not only did I have a friend advance ahead of me, no one seemed to like my screenplay. The criticism, sometimes constructive, and unfortunately seeming personal, was too much. One writer who worked in Hollywood told me I should write books instead of movies, as if he was counting me out, as if he was saying I had no chance. He also said that the only ideas that work in Hollywood are high concept ideas, which basically means movies for entertainment value and not necessarily for artistic value, movies that serve as mere eye candy and not brain candy. I stayed at it for a little while longer, then just stopped.
I never attempted to write another screenplay for three years, until I got an idea for a television series. I figured television would be more reasonable because one gets to prove themselves week after week instead of a one-shot deal like a motion picture. It was an idea for a dramatic anthology series based on the real life stories of Olympic athletes and true stories of Olympic competition over the past 110 years of modern Olympic history. I initially had an idea of what the theme music should sound like, and this is where the story behind my music posted here begins: I contacted a composer friend of mine to see if he would compose the theme music for the series, if it were ever to become a series, of course. Not long after that, I began to get the music in my head. The brass fanfare which opens the piece came first. The melody came afterward. The rest of the music was thought up basically as I went along. I then hummed it into my tape recorder since I did not have any musical equipment. I then got some equipment, and tried as best as I could to figure out the chords and such. Many attempts were made at recording the music. In fact, what you hear on the files comes from multiple takes of one passage on piano or any other instrument the keyboard can come up with. I downloaded a keyboard you can play on your computer but I basically struggled to get control of it. I heard the exact instrumentation of the music in my head. I composed arrangements for strings, brass and percussion. I then attempted to record each instrument onto separate tracks.
The problem was, I had to open up my audio recording program in three separate windows to accomodate the process of recording. I had two windows for the music tracks and one for recording. I had to sync the tracks manually, and often it led to less than perfect results. I am hoping I can get a better setup when I get my keyboard soon. Basically, the music you hear on my page was inspired by an idea for a TV series. Yet since the TV series does not appear to be a real possibility, I decided to repurpose the music for television coverage of the Olympics. Originally, I wanted to adapt John Williams' Olympic themes into my work, but after a composer/orchestrator friend of mine out in Hollywood advised me against it, citing royalty fees, I decided to make mine all original, but the Williams influence shows as he is perhaps my favorite composer of film and television scores, along with other greats such as Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, and Bernard Herrmann. My first soundtrack was James Horner's "Titanic" but after hearing a muffled version of John Williams' "The Towering Inferno" main title on a tape I had, I began to like it. This was 2000, and the next year was when I was really introduced to film music with some score compilations I bought while on vacation at Disney World. I still have John Williams' Greatest Hits and that really introduced me to his greatest works, his most famous. I loved his music for NBC News, the famous "Mission" theme that still airs today. I knew he was an Academy Award-winning composer, I was vaguely familiar with his music, but when I bought the Greatest Hits cd, I really fell in love with it. I bought some more soundtracks, and the rest is history. Yet getting back to influences, those composers, especially Williams, inspire me. I hope you like and enjoy my music.
I never attempted to write another screenplay for three years, until I got an idea for a television series. I figured television would be more reasonable because one gets to prove themselves week after week instead of a one-shot deal like a motion picture. It was an idea for a dramatic anthology series based on the real life stories of Olympic athletes and true stories of Olympic competition over the past 110 years of modern Olympic history. I initially had an idea of what the theme music should sound like, and this is where the story behind my music posted here begins: I contacted a composer friend of mine to see if he would compose the theme music for the series, if it were ever to become a series, of course. Not long after that, I began to get the music in my head. The brass fanfare which opens the piece came first. The melody came afterward. The rest of the music was thought up basically as I went along. I then hummed it into my tape recorder since I did not have any musical equipment. I then got some equipment, and tried as best as I could to figure out the chords and such. Many attempts were made at recording the music. In fact, what you hear on the files comes from multiple takes of one passage on piano or any other instrument the keyboard can come up with. I downloaded a keyboard you can play on your computer but I basically struggled to get control of it. I heard the exact instrumentation of the music in my head. I composed arrangements for strings, brass and percussion. I then attempted to record each instrument onto separate tracks.
The problem was, I had to open up my audio recording program in three separate windows to accomodate the process of recording. I had two windows for the music tracks and one for recording. I had to sync the tracks manually, and often it led to less than perfect results. I am hoping I can get a better setup when I get my keyboard soon. Basically, the music you hear on my page was inspired by an idea for a TV series. Yet since the TV series does not appear to be a real possibility, I decided to repurpose the music for television coverage of the Olympics. Originally, I wanted to adapt John Williams' Olympic themes into my work, but after a composer/orchestrator friend of mine out in Hollywood advised me against it, citing royalty fees, I decided to make mine all original, but the Williams influence shows as he is perhaps my favorite composer of film and television scores, along with other greats such as Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, and Bernard Herrmann. My first soundtrack was James Horner's "Titanic" but after hearing a muffled version of John Williams' "The Towering Inferno" main title on a tape I had, I began to like it. This was 2000, and the next year was when I was really introduced to film music with some score compilations I bought while on vacation at Disney World. I still have John Williams' Greatest Hits and that really introduced me to his greatest works, his most famous. I loved his music for NBC News, the famous "Mission" theme that still airs today. I knew he was an Academy Award-winning composer, I was vaguely familiar with his music, but when I bought the Greatest Hits cd, I really fell in love with it. I bought some more soundtracks, and the rest is history. Yet getting back to influences, those composers, especially Williams, inspire me. I hope you like and enjoy my music.
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