Well, I didn't get the week between Christmas and New Year's off, but it's not a total loss. I need to the money. Y'know... to keep eating... smoking... drinking
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There's a slew of comics that have soundtrack suggestions with them. Chyna Clugston Major's Blue Monday comics even have the track names written on the page,so you know what song fits with what scene.
Huh. Yeah, that's pretty close to what I was thinking about. I'd be interested in seeing what could be done with an original score and it be packaged with the book. Lots of consideration would have to be put towards the rhythm of dialogue and how panels drop on the page to coincide with the beats of the music.
That doesn't really make sense, since the writer/director of movies don't create their scenes to fit with a specific musical score, the music is scored after the films completed - I don't see why comic books would be any different. The consideration would lie in the musicians hands. Unless they also writing the script and drawing the pages. Not that I believe comic books even need a soundtrack (aside from suggested background music, which can be helpful), novels don't come with musical soundtracks, so why should comics
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Yeah, I know how scores are applied to movies in most cases. And, nah, I don't really think that comics NEED a soundtrack either. It's just the novelty of the concept. Same reason I'd like to work the pacing to match the rhythm.
Good point about how to make the dialogue work, and this was something I was thinking about a little bit yesterday. I think that you'd have to boil the dialogue - and I'd only go with dialogue - down to its purest state. Distill it down to instantly recognizable soundbites. It sounds a little wonky, but I think there's something to it, and I also believe that the narrative wouldn't have been sacrificed too much if at all.
Like I said above, it's really down to the novelty of the idea. Just to try it once. A brief experiment. Nothing too fancy. Get in and get out.
That Chappelle Theory is excellent, it'd make a great movie - in a similar vein to Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, never sure what's true or what's delusion.
One issue of Superfucks is entitled "Big Shiny Assassination" and is basically the same panel (the crosshairs pointed at a window) for the entire issue with captions telling you which song to play next--each panel representing a certain amount of time. So, it's basically waiting for someone to be shot while listening to a mixed CD.
I often think about music and comics in some sort of weird combination.
Sounds of Music
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December 21 2005, 12:32:34 UTC
Tim Winton, an Australian author with a pretty big literary reputation, wrote a novel called Dirt Music and released a soundtrack along with it; some of the songs were old classics and other music was specifically created for the CD.
Less something to match particular scenes and more something to fit the general mood/tone of the material. I've often wondered how it would work, but usually I just name chapters after songs...
Actually, Chet. In Rush there's specific mention of certain songs that were supposed to fit the scenes. Often it was a play on the lyrics more than anything else.
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Good point about how to make the dialogue work, and this was something I was thinking about a little bit yesterday. I think that you'd have to boil the dialogue - and I'd only go with dialogue - down to its purest state. Distill it down to instantly recognizable soundbites. It sounds a little wonky, but I think there's something to it, and I also believe that the narrative wouldn't have been sacrificed too much if at all.
Like I said above, it's really down to the novelty of the idea. Just to try it once. A brief experiment. Nothing too fancy. Get in and get out.
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I often think about music and comics in some sort of weird combination.
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Less something to match particular scenes and more something to fit the general mood/tone of the material. I've often wondered how it would work, but usually I just name chapters after songs...
Actually, Chet. In Rush there's specific mention of certain songs that were supposed to fit the scenes. Often it was a play on the lyrics more than anything else.
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