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 Back To Viral Video Index PAGE 1 Intro/History May 21st, 2007 - After doing the audio commentary last night for the Viral Video DVD with Mike, Terry, Joey, and Tyler, I realized there were a lot of things about the soundtrack that people nerdy enough to listen to audio commentaries or read liner notes might be interested in reading about. So, I will add this to the "onliner notes" for the website, as usual, if only for written records of my own thoughts. Mike Paprocki approached me, on AIM in mid February of 2007, originally to do a theme song for the version of Viral Video they were about to start filming at the time, which was a bit more lighthearted than its final product. He originally wanted it to be a version of the song I improvised in November for the Gang Idol video with my legendary fictional band, Grand Theft Marmot. He sent me a version of the current script, and I noticed the part for the Booshe Fighters video (the only thing in the script, along with the Dino Vikings video, which remained the same throughout the many subsequent versions) and I thought it would be cool to score that too. Not long thereafter, it appeared that I committed myself to scoring the whole movie. At the time, however, we were planning on doing much more of an "art film" sort of soundtrack featuring unconventional scoring ideas and leaving the majority of the movie in silence. We decided this for three reasons. 1. Because they wanted to try making something vastly different than earlier movies 2. Because I said it would be easier than trying to get a symphonic sample library to sound good for an entire score. (and getting a real symphony was not exactly an option with the monetary figure for which I was offered to produce the soundtrack.) 3. Because there was not going to be any time to do it. (and that was before what happened at the halfway point of the project timeline, when they decided to rewrite the script and start from scratch.) After being on set for most of the UIC shoots, and especially after watching the rough cuts Mike would post for the production team, I quickly realized that most of the cues needed to be symphonic, or at least heavily orchestrated. Although there were obvious production differences from prior movies, it still contained a lot of the spirit of a Gang movie and an element of fantasy which I thought would only sit appropriately against symphonic music. |