20
June
2008
Cue of the Week: “Hold, Please”
Here’s the end title theme for Hal Cantor’s comedy web series Hold Please, which follows the exploits of an actress struggling with her office day... Read More
13
June
2008
Cue of the Week: “Getting Busy”
This week’s cue comes from the film Home Room, wherein Alicia Browing (Busy Phillips) attempts to spring a friend from a psychiatric hospital. The scene... Read More
06
June
2008
Cue of the Week: “Escaping the Country”
This week’s cue offers some orchestral action/suspense writing for a daring escape scene involving airplanes, armed thugs, and, of course, tax auditors. That shaker you... Read More
23
May
2008
Cue of the Week: “The Clock”
This week we have a simple piano cue from Home Room‘s score used to accompany the passage of time. (Perhaps I should have posted this... Read More
16
May
2008
Cue of the Week: “Devil in the Forest”
This suspense cue (from thriller feature Hell Bent) introduces the film’s murderous antagonist, your classic guy-with-sharp-object-dressed-in-devil-suit-lurking-in-forest archetype. Rather than give the killer a theme, I... Read More
02
May
2008
Cue of the Week: “The Morgue”
The scene in Home Room which this music accompanies centers around the topic of acceptance of death. To reflect the moment’s introspective mood, as well... Read More
25
April
2008
Cue of the Week: “The Mirror”
Here’s a moody and somber piano cue from Home Room‘s score. The hollow-sounding sustained tone in the background wasn’t produced electronically as you might expect,... Read More
04
April
2008
Cue of the Week: “Going Home, Part 2”
Here’s something in a more traditional lyrical movie-music vein, one of two cues for oboe and string orchestra towards the end of Home Room. The... Read More
28
March
2008
Cue of the Week: “Tibetan Jam”
This short cue is a genre-blending mixture of meditative Far Eastern percussion and contemporary beats. I’m not winning any points for ethnomusicological authenticity here, but... Read More
14
March
2008
Cue of the Week: “Two Girls”
From the the film Home Room, a moody piece accompanying a dissolve between two film’s two protagonists (played by Erika Christensen and Busy Phillips, respectively)... Read More
