Heartland CDs 2011

Film news is a little slow right now so I thought I would post about one of my recent graphic design projects. These are the CD covers I did this year for Heartland Baptist Bible College.

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Heartland CDs 2010

These are some CDs cases I designed this year for one my annual clients, Heartland Baptist Bible College.

You can listen to previews from the CDs here:
- I Love to Tell The World (Men's Quartet)
- The Depths of the Father's Love (Ladies Trio)
- Only One Way (Ensemble)

"The Joy of the Lord"

This is the most CLASSIC version of "The Joy of the Lord" that I have EVER heard!! Gauranteed to put a smile on your face! :)
(sung by the Fortune Family...the little guy was 4yrs when they recorded this)

 They have this song available for download, click here.

You can visit their family website to listen and download more music!

FILM PIPELINE - Part 3

Post Production

"At last, we get to the end of the film pipeline.  Postproduction is everything that comes after shooting has finished."

Topics:
- Acquisition
- Visual Effects and Effects Editing
- Editing, Sound (Editing, Design, Foley, Dialog Editing and A.D.R.) and Music (Scoring)
- Job Descriptions for Post-Prod Jobs
- Sound Mix
- Color Grading / Timing and “D.I.“
- Print It!
- - - - -
By Stephan Vladimir Bugaj

- All the "Film Pipeline" links can now be found in the Basics drop-down menu in the header bar.

The Process Of Film Scoring

Learning from the professionals in any industry is of utmost value, that is, if you are serious about your craft. This is no different for film composers. While it may be relatively simple to add just any score to a film, the intricacies covered in Richard Davis’ presentation at the New Mexico Filmmakers Conference in 2008 have to be understood, assimilated and utilized in order to take any score to the next level.

Richard Davis teaches at the Berklee College of Music and at this presentation addresses the basic process and timelines, MIDI mockups, temp tracks, and a requirement for the composer not only to be a musician, but step into the mind frame of a filmmaker as well in order to understand the needs and process of telling the story through the score.

 Thanks to composer Jurgen Beck for posting these on his website.

NEW CD! - For His Glory

This is one the latest graphic design projects that I've been working on, a new CD from Shekinah Springs Studio! Caleb and Daniel Morris have been working on this CD for quite some time and it's finally at the duplicator. These guys wrote the music score for the award winning documentary Joel's Journey and also were a big part of the music team for the award winning feature film, Pendragon: Sword of His Father.

You can check out a couple of music samples here:
I'll Fly Away

Be Thou My Vision

Click here to read more info about the CD.
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Homeschool Dropouts: The Score

For anyone who is interested in learning more about composing music for films, I highly recommend checking out Ben Botkin's Blog! He has a lot of good articles and music samples.

"Homeschool Dropouts is a documentary, so most of the music I wrote for it plays under constant dialogue and keeps a very subdued and submissive role– almost exaggeratedly so, as most of the music is little more than ambient or atmospheric. Though I developed a couple different melodic motifs and musical textures that I could weave throughout the film, there was never really a place for a big, developed symphonic approach to melody or movement–most of the music would be pretty uninteresting or boring if you heard it on its own." ~Ben Botkin

You can listen to samples, see the trailer for the movie and read the rest of the article here!
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