It’s been awhile since I’ve posted a blog entry but the music gallery has not slowed down and I’m now up to 91 albums available to listen to. That’s the bread and butter of this site, not my posts, but I do intend to make a better effort in writing more. With the start of the […]
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One very cool part of my job on Sword Coast Legends is that I get to be a part of its score’s creation process. We chose Inon Zur, the BAFTA-nominated composer, to score SCL because of his long pedigree in the RPG genre. Among his many scores and accolades for film, television, and games, are Fallout 3, Fallout […]
James Horner was the composer responsible for getting me into film scores. My father bought the Braveheart soundtrack after seeing the movie and I never picked it up until years later to listen to it. It became a recurring CD in my bedroom and was such a piece of my high-school years that I cannot listen to […]
I’ve been gone for quite some time from the site but am now finally back. I was hard at work on a submission for a writing competition while doing long days & nights at work. I am the Development Director at n-Space Inc. and we have been creating Sword Coast Legends, a CRPG in the Dungeons & […]
Soundtracks are created to enhance the storytelling on-screen. Necessary in that storytelling is the setting, the characters, their emotions and actions, and a structure of events intended to entice the viewer to commit their attention to the film. When we write, we see the scene in our mind, imagining the face of our protagonist responding to a […]
I was at the bank’s ATM today when a mother opened the bank’s doors and out came her six or seven year-old doing karate chops and kicks at the air, making all the appropriate “HEE-A!” noises. That got me thinking while I waited my turn at the ATM (the guy at it might have been doing […]
I’ve always written to music. It helps put me in a creative place and before I know it me and the keyboard are moving right along to the tracks in my headphones. Over a decade ago, before I studied Creative Writing in college, I had been a Music Composition major with the hopes of one day becoming a […]