Since Matt news is still pretty slow I decided we should post news related to The Sweet Shop even if it isn’t specifically about Matt. So, The Official Sweet Shop website has been updated with an interview with composer Phil White. Here are a few exerpts from the interview:
What can we expect from the songs in ‘The Sweet Shop’?
They’re mostly acoustic tracks where the only parts are a vocal and an acoustic guitar. I’m hoping they will be representative of how the characters are feeling at the various points in their lives within during this film. Obviously I hope people like them, they’re all based on strong melodies so even if people don’t like them they’ll probably remember them! We wanted to avoid having to dub music on in this film in as many places as possible, we wanted the music to essentially be recorded live on set and then left untouched so you’re left with the performance we captured there and then, rather than something done later in the studio.How much did the script influence your song writing?
Rather than let the script influence me when writing the songs for the film, I worked in the same way I have done previously with Ben Myers the Director, where he and I sit down and discuss the characters and what’s happening to them at the point in the film where the music is being used. I find it so much easier to then go away knowing the feel of the scene in terms of emotions on display from characters which obviously you can’t necessarily get from simply reading a script. Ben gives me mini breakdowns of the kind of thing he’d like the music to get across, sometimes its just a few words and others can be full paragraphs describing how he see’s, or hears the music for a certain film and I like the challenge of trying to come up with something that fits the film in his mind before we have even started filming, because if the director can visualise the scene with the music I’ve demo’ed up for him then that’s got to be a good sign I guess.
On a side note, here is my entry for the Facebook contest, please like it so I can get 100 likes 😉 If you have an entry you can post it in the comments and people can vote for it for you!
