Music and Writing/Cruise Info

All writing comes from the author, sure, but the author has a lot of help. I'll get more into this another time, but for right now, I want to focus on one of my biggest influences: music.

I've always been involved with music, from playing, listening, and even creating some original compositions. It's another one of my favorite things besides writing. So why not combine them?

I have everything from trailer music to apocalyptic metal of my ipod that I'll listen to in order to get into the mood or deeper into the scene/chapter/stanza I'm working on. As I'm working on a piece, I think it will be cool to post what I'm listening to and explain why, along with suggesting some good writing music to anyone who's interested.

My main project right now is a short film, "Cruise," which will be filmed when I get back to school and written over the summer and even as I film. The thing you may not expect--

It's a MUSICAL.

Yep.

A MUSICAL.

Anyone who knows me will be scratching their heads right now. I'll explain it in more detail later, but I'm calling it a "new breed" of the musical form as most people know it ("Sound of Music," recently "Rock of Ages"). It's not going to include singing. Instead, the pacing will be adjusted according to what song is playing. There will be a lot of driving scenes that have no dialogue whatsoever, just music and ambient noises. It will make the action do all the work showing things and won't depend on dialogue nearly as much as most of my pieces do.

In addition to showing plot details, the pitch, and scenes straight from the script from Cruise, I'm going to include the potential soundtrack as well. It should provide for an interesting take on the film. I'll make them separate posts, though, and explain why I chose the song, when it's going to play, and to what effect.