Mission: Get Music Rights

I have a new mission. I got too antsy waiting for my composers to give me something to cut the final scene to and I started playing around. I think I just made it impossible for anyone and everyone who attempts to score this scene to match this, in my opinion, perfect mix.

So of course, I'll have to try and get the rights to it. I don't know how much that'll cost or if I'll be able to do it. New mission though. I'll end up spending more money on the music clearence than I will on the rest of the entire production! Still, watching it the first time with the sound, gave me goosebumps.

There was another neat little coincidence that occured when I was just throwing some Tom Waits songs that I thought might provide an interesting sound, onto the timeline to see what happened. I put "Little Box of Poison" over this long static scene and it gave the entire thing new life...instead of being this threatening rattlesnake-pit feeling it became a tango between George and Max...

Interesting how music can change the mood.

I've got the entire opening sequence planned, both in what it will be and how we'll shoot it. We're going to shoot some images of things in the car and I want to try and do a montage of images to build a mood even before we see Max and Al. By the time we get to Nick Adams, hopefully the audience will be wondering "what's it all about?" We'll see.