Looking for a composer

[cjh791982 0]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask for this, and if it's not, I'm sorry, but I need some help here: Last weekend I made a little film set to "A Day In The Life" by The Beatles. It's a mix of some old film footage and news photos and it basically tells the story of a typical day and what someone experiences in it. I didn't use the original recording from Sgt. Pepper, but an instrumental. However, since I don't have the money to license the actual song (the one I'll link to isn't going to be shown in any film festivals) I'm looking for someone to compose something similar to the song. I've tried asking on other forums about this and I haven't gotten anywhere. I don't need it for any particular time, but if I was to submit this into a film festival, I would need original music for this because of the high cost of licensing the original, even though in this case I used a cover version. If anyone's interested, I won't be able to pay you anything but you will get exposure for your music. Here's the link to the video:

A Day In The Life

Please let me know what you think. Thanks.

[David Coscina 3]

No offense but you're not likely to get too many takers on this forum since it's a John Williams forum and those who compose most likely write orchestral music of some sort. Also, temp tracks are a real pain for most composers and you flatly asking someone to write a song in the same vein doesn't help matters.

[BLUMENKOHL 1,068]

I don't think anyone would want to receive exposure alongside that video.

Interesting concept, certainly, but it's not really your short film is it? It's a mish-mash of other people's filmmaking.

[Musica42 0]

Sorry others on here aren't being particularly helpful to you.

My suggestion would be to try the forums at Northernsounds.com first. Many composers of various backgrounds and abilities frequent there and you're sure to get someone interested. If not, PM me and I can get you connected with the head of the composition department at my old college who can offer your project to the composition students there.

[cjh791982 0]

It's okay, really. I did manage to find a composer here who PM'ed me and offered to help, and he's helping me with this, but to be honest, as rewarding as filmmaking is when it's complete, it is a very long and tedious process. What I was originally going to do with this film was create a sequence where someone would be going about his usual morning routine, and when he steps outside his door, we zoom in on his eyes and all those images flash by quickly. I was worried that I wouldn't have time to do any of that over the summer, but I'm sure I will because I'm taking off school for the summer, though now that I think about it, I haven't decided about what to do about actually filming a sequence though. The process itself of just finding a composer was stressful enough. I'm more of a screenwriter than a filmmaker, even though I've been taking video production courses for almost a year.

To Blumenkohl, I'm sorry you didn't like it, usually when I get that kind of response in the past I would sulk and pout but I'm trying not to take criticism badly. This was partly inspired by a friend's use of the song in the opening credits of his film, but the concept presented in this one was my idea. I was trying to develop some kind of a narrative of the range of emotions and all the things that take place at any moment, at any given time, in the world, and all the extremes (war and peace, good and evil, wealth and poverty, black and white, etc.). I also apologize if this was the wrong place to ask, but I tried elsewhere and didn't get a lot of interest. I'll try better next time.

[BLUMENKOHL 1,068]

To Blumenkohl, I'm sorry you didn't like it, usually when I get that kind of response in the past I would sulk and pout but I'm trying not to take criticism badly. This was partly inspired by a friend's use of the song in the opening credits of his film, but the concept presented in this one was my idea. I was trying to develop some kind of a narrative of the range of emotions and all the things that take place at any moment, at any given time, in the world, and all the extremes (war and peace, good and evil, wealth and poverty, black and white, etc.). I also apologize if this was the wrong place to ask, but I tried elsewhere and didn't get a lot of interest. I'll try better next time.

Don't be defeatist. I'm merely saying if you want to make a short film about the range of emotion in a day, pick up a camera and do it. You don't need to make a clip show of other people's work. Even if you want to be "just" a screenwriter, it will be a worthwhile experience in understanding the screen side of being a screenwriter.

Trust me, it will be a worthwhile experience for you, and become something you can add to your portfolio. If you add this public domain stuff to your portfolio, the first you will be asked is if this is your own work. If the answer is anything other then "Absolutely, yes!", you will be laughed out of the building.

[josefsuma 9]

Maybe I will be able to help you. You can listen to my soundtrack to video game called "Immortal World" http://iw-soundtrack.ic.cz/ ... If you will like it just write me PM