Quentin Tarantino:
"When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence. I can't go forward until I figure out how I'm going to start — what the opening mood music will be."
"I go through my record collection and just start playing songs, trying to find the personality of the movie, find the spirit of the movie... I'm always trying to find what the right opening or closing credit should be early on when I’m just even thinking about the story. A cool credit sequence and the music that plays in front of it, or a note played, or any music — whatever you decide to do — that sets the tone for the movie that’s important for you.
"So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film. Looking for that music is finding the rhythm that the movie has to play in. It's me finding the beat."
Director Christopher Salmon on adapting Neil Gaiman's THE PRICE for animation:
"I had a copy of an audio book that Neil had done and I used that recording and edited it together with the music first before I did any images, just trying to get the pacing and the feel. And to me a movie is just as much about what you hear as it is about what you see, and I was like, ok, I got it, I know what to do visually."
The goal with our musical animatics for SAURHEADS is the same: by pairing our designs-in-progress with music, to flesh out the general spirit, tone & rhythm of our story — as well as the personalities, attitudes, actions and inter-actions of our characters.
Tarantino explains his process:
• In his acceptance speech for the 'Music & Film Award' at the 16th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards
• On The Late Show with Steven Colbert (12/16/15) |
