AI 0 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 There are compelling arguments for both. I loath them both equally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futuremartymcfly 0 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Mediaventures.Santaollala is more like a benign Tumor that won't go away, but at least hasn't spread yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QMM 4 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Mediaventures brought out Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell so I have to vote for Gustavo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robthehand 3 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Mediaventures.Santaollala is more like a benign Tumor that won't go away, but at least hasn't spread yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 This poll is stupid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Where is "non-linear film editing systems" option? There wouldn't even be even a need for MV and their way of manufacturing of a score-like products if these didn't appear. Damn you once again, George Lucas! Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 This poll is stupid!Quoted for immense truth value. Where is "non-linear film editing systems" option? There wouldn't even be even a need for MV and their way of manufacturing of a score-like products if these didn't appear. Damn you once again, George Lucas!The factory method of film music was around since the 20s and into the 70s. Some of the greatest film scores were products of the factory model of film music. The deception was, only one person took credit in that system for the final product, now the system allows nobodies to make a name for themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Mediaventures. Santalolalla is just one man, therefore he can't do as much evil as MV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 JWfan's most difficult poll to answer yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Media Ventures has negitavley influenced the whole film music industry. Santonella has gotten chucked a couple of gold statues but hasn't show any influence yet. Easy answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bondo 33 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Wow, look at all of the options... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 This poll is stupid! Very stupid, for more than one reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 MV was the begining and Santaolla is just another in the long line of current people who think they can compose musical scores.This poll is no more stupid than most of the stuff we all post here, but as they say, one man's crap is another man's gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckM 1 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 I still don't get why everyone hates MV so much. Sure, it's not nearly as musically intricate as John Williams, but it's just fun music. And MV really excels in action sequences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 MV reduced film music to a product, by taking away the artistic or the artisan aspact of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 On the other hand it gives opportunity to people who could not otherwise make it into an ultra-stagnant and elitist field of Hollywood. MV reduced film music to a productOh brother. No aspect of Hollywood isn't a product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 You are correct of course. But MV removes what little artistry there was left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 You are correct of course. But MV removes what little artistry there was left.Are Stanze di Raffaello any less art because Raphael had assistants working on them with him? Is the opening shot of A New Hope any less aritstically amazing because 8 people worked on it, and it was based off work from 2001?Ironic isn't it...how Goldsmith, Williams...Herrmann, all our beloved heroes were products of the factory system. You could only write all of your own music if you were someone like Rozsa back in the day. Otherwise you were working with 30 other people for one movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckM 1 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 MV reduced film music to a product, by taking away the artistic or the artisan aspact of it.I frankly don't car how it was made, just how it sounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jediwashington 59 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Anyone that doesn't use live recordings ticks me off a little. At least Santaolla records his guitar stuff live (of himself...). Media Ventures is on contract to use a few live musicians, but I don't like the way it's made, the style of the music, or the artistry involved. It just doesn't appeal to me. The way they use orchestral samplers sometimes, they might as well get a rock band to score the film. Doesn't mean the music sucks, I just don't think it should be considered film score music.~JW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Film score music is music that was written for a film, so your statement is illogical, Mr. Washington. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeshopk 8 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 You are correct of course. But MV removes what little artistry there was left.Are Stanze di Raffaello any less art because Raphael had assistants working on them with him? Is the opening shot of A New Hope any less aritstically amazing because 8 people worked on it, and it was based off work from 2001?Ironic isn't it...how Goldsmith, Williams...Herrmann, all our beloved heroes were products of the factory system. You could only write all of your own music if you were someone like Rozsa back in the day. Otherwise you were working with 30 other people for one movie.There were always many composers in both A and B movies who worked alone, with orchestrators. It has always been preferable, and IMO more artistically valid. Some people were even fast enough to write it all out in full conductor's score. It isn't that hard to compose a score alone. You need a team to do special effects. You don't need a team to compose a score. The fact that Hollywood employs orchestrators doesn't make that a factory product. A factory product is POTC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Ironic isn't it...how Goldsmith, Williams...Herrmann, all our beloved heroes were products of the factory system. You could only write all of your own music if you were someone like Rozsa back in the day. Otherwise you were working with 30 other people for one movie.At least their music was actually good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 The factory method of film music was around since the 20s and into the 70s. Some of the greatest film scores were products of the factory model of film music. The deception was, only one person took credit in that system for the final product, now the system allows nobodies to make a name for themselves.I didn't say that it wasn't there before. What I mean is that because of the advanced technology in movie making there is far too little time to score a film. Now you can have three cuts of the same film at once. Too many options and too little thought put into each one of them. And film composer is in the middle of that, trying to follow impossible directions. That's why things like MV even exist (the philosophy of working, not the style itself). And you can't say that it is the same as before.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 The factory method of film music was around since the 20s and into the 70s. Some of the greatest film scores were products of the factory model of film music. The deception was, only one person took credit in that system for the final product, now the system allows nobodies to make a name for themselves.I didn't say that it wasn't there before. What I mean is that because of the advanced technology in movie making there is far too little time to score a film. Now you can have three cuts of the same film at once. Too many options and too little thought put into each one of them. And film composer is in the middle of that, trying to follow impossible directions. That's why things like MV even exist (the philosophy of working, not the style itself). And you can't say that it is the same as before.KarolYour argument there still doesn't incriminate MV as the worst thing to happen to film music, and your first post agress with that. The worst thing to ever happen to film music according to your arugment above is the road filmmaking is taking, not Media Ventures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 I can't vote.Love both of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 I can't vote.Love both of them.Been thinking suicidal thoughts lately have we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bondo 33 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 MV reduced film music to a product, by taking away the artistic or the artisan aspact of it.False. Beauty (art) is in the eye of the beholder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neimoidian 14 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 I am not voting for any of them. Regarding Gustavo -why should it not be called appropriate film music when a guiarist delivers his guitar music at request of a director who wants such kind of score in his movie? It is still MUSIC and it works when accompanies the action on screen and enhances the emotion of the audience.Regarding MV - It is pure craftmanship and often not of very good quality - all that is true. It doesn't however differ much from everything else that is unfortunatelly common in the film industry thesedays (I mean bad scriptwriting, directing, acting, photographing and so on). Whenever a director and producer require a music that just has to be written in a week, they get crap. On the other hand, when they take any of MVrelated composers and require a score that is something more than their usual standard, this composer can surprisingly deliver it. MV has already discovered people like Gregson-Williams and John Powell (and even Badelt has once or twice proved he is really underrated). Despite the mediocre quality of many of MV (now Remote Control) products, this company has given an unique chance to many young upstarts to learn and practice, and just because of that I could't make myself call it 'the worst thing...' (even though many of those guys will never achieve anything more than 'additional composer credit' in one of HZ scores).Last but not least - I really like some of the works from the MV.Regarding modern editing tools - it is the same thing like with hammer - an useful tool in the hand of an idiot becomes a real threat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 False. Beauty (art) is in the eye of the beholder.Rubbish, with that philosophy in mind you can defend anything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckM 1 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 False. Beauty (art) is in the eye of the beholder.Rubbish, with that philosophy in mind you can defend anything!Aren't you the one who said a while ago that there are no absolutes? You can't have it both ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Mediaventures reminds me of the 60's group The Monkees. They're completely fabricated, but people still love them.I don't hate either of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bondo 33 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 False. Beauty (art) is in the eye of the beholder.Rubbish, with that philosophy in mind you can defend anything!Correct. There's room for two absolutes in this world (death and taxes), and "MediaVentures sucks" isn't one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 There is substantial group of people out there who believe that Williams John is the worst thing that ever happened to film music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,684 Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Santaolalla.I like some MV music, and I still can't quite believe that Santa has won the most prestigious film music award in the world, twice in a row. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 I'm not an art person so I really don't like to make these kinds of comments, but it feels appropriate here so I'm gonna give it a try: Williams, Goldsmith, all the legends paint a beautiful picture with care and devotion. MV chucks a couple of cans of paint on a canvas and calls it a painting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,684 Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 I agree with the basis of what you're saying, but I still think that's being a bit stereotypical. I've heard a lot of scores come from MV which have clearly had some thought go into them - Gladiator, Flyboys to name a few.Is it the fact that they are 100% synth writers? Well plenty of non-MV composers write with synths yet we don't bash them. And most composers are under schedules you can count in weeks on one hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bondo 33 Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 I'm not an art person so I really don't like to make these kinds of comments, but it feels appropriate here so I'm gonna give it a try: Williams, Goldsmith, all the legends paint a beautiful picture with care and devotion. MV chucks a couple of cans of paint on a canvas and calls it a painting.Opinion, not a fact. Therefore not an absolute. Williams scores a film, you enjoy it. MV scores a film, you don't enjoy it. End of story. This has nothing to do with "the worst thing that ever happened in film music." That honor would belong to George Lucas and Ben Burtt's editing of the music in the prequel trilogy. THAT is the worst thing that has ever happened in film music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Hans Zimmer (I'm not sure about MediaVentures) tactic as a whole seems to be a lot of experimentation and then finding something that works. So I guess in a sense he is painting (he is not chucking cans of paint at a canvas) multiple understudies and picking the ones that work best. Does that make him any less an artist?Leonardo Da Vinci did it. BondoSounds like a deconstructionist to me. Do you also believe that a telephone book could be a greater piece of literature than the complete works of Shakespeare? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bondo 33 Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Sounds like a deconstructionist to me. Do you also believe that a telephone book could be a greater piece of literature than the complete works of Shakespeare?I understand that you're trying to make an analogy, but it doesn't work. A telephone book is not intended to have any artistic merit, whereas Shakespeare does. And if it WERE to have artistic merit, who is to say that one is better than the other? Again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This is all one big moot point. We can argue this in circles. When it comes to film music, or music in general, there is no such thing as "better" or "worse" when dealing with facts.This thread basically posed a ridiculously biased question and set up a discussion to bash the two choices in the 'poll.' As someone else said, it's stupid. This is not a productive thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 MV... they are terrible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Barnsbury 8 Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 There is substantial group of people out there who believe that Williams John is the worst thing that ever happened to film music.I'm sure most of those people wouldn't even be film score fans if it wasn't for Williams.Ray Barnsbury Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Your argument there still doesn't incriminate MV as the worst thing to happen to film music, and your first post agress with that. The worst thing to ever happen to film music according to your arugment above is the road filmmaking is taking, not Media Ventures. Yes, that's why I didn't vote. Neither of the two is the REAL problem.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 While that is true, MV isn't exactly innocent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bondo 33 Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 MV is completely innocent. They are hired to do a score, and they do it. This whole business of all MV scores sounding alike is utter nonsense. If Pirates of the Caribbean sounds like The Rock, Gladiator, and Drop Zone, it's because that's what the director/producers wanted. But the evidence speaks for itself - Black Hawk Down doesn't sound like Gladiator, which doesn't sound like Kingdom of Heaven, which doesn't sound like Pirates, etc. To claim otherwise is just ignorance of the material itself.Again, you either LIKE IT or you DON'T. It's very simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Neither of the two is the REAL problem.The real problem? Any problem in this matter is purely subjective. Things not being done the way we wish they were anymore. In that sense, our denial of that situation is what's creating the real problem. I'm sure neither Ridley Scott nor Ron Howard don't consider the scores to Black Hawk Down or A Beautiful Mind a problem. Nor do most people who aren't us.So we can bitch and complain and moan and be as sarcastic as we want, but that doesn't make us right. It'd be like complaining that the Arctic Monkeys don't sound like the Rolling Stones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry B 50 Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Film scores composed by former members of Media Ventures dominate the field of film music today. Zimmer and crew often outsell composers like John Williams, and are much more popular. I find most Media Ventures music incredibly trite, dull, and sensationalist.Santaloalla? He won a couple of Oscars, but he's hardly the preeminent film composer of today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 I will say that I'm glad that MV didn't completely corrupt Gregson-Williams. Narnia is one of my favorite scores of recent years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,041 Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Whoever said this was a dumb poll deserves a hug.I got nothing new to bring to the table, and frankly, no one else does either. As the wise bondo posted earlier, "you either LIKE IT or you DON'T. It's very simple." That's really all it comes down to. There are perfectly legitimate objections to both MV and Santa-whatshisface, but all this moralistic quarreling is dumb. Every listener reserves the right to have guilty pleasures and not be hated for them. I, personally, own several MV-style albums. Some months, I listen to them frequently. Other months, I can't stand more than a couple seconds. I can relate to both crowds. But when absolute rights and wrongs become part of the discussion, something's gone awry.Give it up. Enjoy the music you enjoy. Don't worry about the music you don't. Smile! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 The worst thing that ever happened in film music is, without a doubt, shortening post production schedules, or, in general, a composer having less time to compose music. That lead to less creativity, and also lead to the rising amount of rejected film scores. I think it quite ridicules to blame any given composers (especially ones, like the one's mentioned above, who generally write good film scores, if not good music.). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now