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11-07-2012, 06:20 PM
Alan Silvestri's score for the oscar winning short film. Below is an interview segment relating to the score. Enjoy.
Tell me about Two Soldiers.
Two Soldiers was a fantastic short film that was made by a young film director named Aaron Schneider, who incidentally won the Academy Awards for that film, for Best Short. It's well deserved recognition for his work! It's a very interesting thing, because I was sent the film by Bob Ducsay, who is Stephen Sommers' partner, an executive producer of the film. He sent it to me, just to get a sense of my musical take on it. It's one of those films that the filmmaker made with his own money, very limited means, did every job himself - so there wasn't going to be much in the way of resources to score it. So Bob sent it to me just to get my take on whether they were headed musically in the right direction. I was sitting with my wife one night, we popped this thing in, and watched it. Within 15 minutes, we're both sitting on the couch, crying, watching this movie. When it ended, my wife asked me what was going on with this - and I told her that they wanted to get my opinion on what I thought of the film, and how I felt about the music. She said, "Well, you should do this!" So I called up Bob and asked if he thought Aaron would be interested in me doing it! And he said, "I can maybe talk him into that!"
It's one of those things I did for absolutely no fee; I did it because the film was beautiful and had so much love and care into it. I had still not met Aaron when I said I was going to do it. I subsequently met Aaron, who is an amazing ball of fire, and I'm sure we'll hear a lot about him in the coming years! We spotted the movie, and I came home and I did it all on synthesizers, as it were, for the most part - I think we hired guitarist George Doering to do some guitar work for us, but we did it all in my room. Dennis Sands was gracious enough to help me mix the score, and we handed it to Aaron. Then he went out, and won the Academy Awards! I think that was the most fun I think I can remember - seeing him up there, winning the Academy Award for this film that he worked so hard on, and spent all his own money on. It was a great fun thing - so we all congratulate him, and we'll be hearing more from Aaron!
01. The Shikepoke Nest
02. Day Of Infamy
03. Don't Forget Your Prayers
04. A Sword In The Stone
05. I Got T'Git There Today
06. Brothers In Arms
07. Battle Of The Bold
08. Knighthood
09. Promise Me
10. Two Soldiers
11. End Credits (bonus track)
12. Bob Ducsay and Aaron Schneider about Alan Silvestri scoring Two Soldiers
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Tell me about Two Soldiers.
Two Soldiers was a fantastic short film that was made by a young film director named Aaron Schneider, who incidentally won the Academy Awards for that film, for Best Short. It's well deserved recognition for his work! It's a very interesting thing, because I was sent the film by Bob Ducsay, who is Stephen Sommers' partner, an executive producer of the film. He sent it to me, just to get a sense of my musical take on it. It's one of those films that the filmmaker made with his own money, very limited means, did every job himself - so there wasn't going to be much in the way of resources to score it. So Bob sent it to me just to get my take on whether they were headed musically in the right direction. I was sitting with my wife one night, we popped this thing in, and watched it. Within 15 minutes, we're both sitting on the couch, crying, watching this movie. When it ended, my wife asked me what was going on with this - and I told her that they wanted to get my opinion on what I thought of the film, and how I felt about the music. She said, "Well, you should do this!" So I called up Bob and asked if he thought Aaron would be interested in me doing it! And he said, "I can maybe talk him into that!"
It's one of those things I did for absolutely no fee; I did it because the film was beautiful and had so much love and care into it. I had still not met Aaron when I said I was going to do it. I subsequently met Aaron, who is an amazing ball of fire, and I'm sure we'll hear a lot about him in the coming years! We spotted the movie, and I came home and I did it all on synthesizers, as it were, for the most part - I think we hired guitarist George Doering to do some guitar work for us, but we did it all in my room. Dennis Sands was gracious enough to help me mix the score, and we handed it to Aaron. Then he went out, and won the Academy Awards! I think that was the most fun I think I can remember - seeing him up there, winning the Academy Award for this film that he worked so hard on, and spent all his own money on. It was a great fun thing - so we all congratulate him, and we'll be hearing more from Aaron!
01. The Shikepoke Nest
02. Day Of Infamy
03. Don't Forget Your Prayers
04. A Sword In The Stone
05. I Got T'Git There Today
06. Brothers In Arms
07. Battle Of The Bold
08. Knighthood
09. Promise Me
10. Two Soldiers
11. End Credits (bonus track)
12. Bob Ducsay and Aaron Schneider about Alan Silvestri scoring Two Soldiers
https://rapidshare.com/#!download|484p11|3668275923|TwoSoldiers.rar|73460 |0|0