[HPforGrownups] Re: Recording chats, asking questions, writing songs & entering contests

[Warmsley]

No: HPFGUIDX 388

> >That's when I began to wonder whether or not there would be a
musical
> >soundtrack for the Harry Potter movie.
>
> Yes, I believe there will be.  It appears that John Williams
is doing
> the score.   He would not have been my first choice but he is
a
> respected composer (if a little old now) so knows what he's
doing.
>

Hurrah! I think he'll be good, personally.

> >It would be great to have a soundtrack with not only a great
score,
> > but also positive lyrics written and sung by today's
celebrities.
>
> Not always a good thing soundtracks date movies.  To give the
> film a
> long lasting shelf-life, a score without any lyrics would be
better.
> However, I also feel that a few songs would not go far wrong
and
> my
> favioute duo for that is Tim Rice and Elton John.
>

Noo! Anything but, please... :-)
I think the best bet would be to stick to a traditional,
no-words-but-nice-tunes background music - if they go for the
"pop" route, sure, they'll please all the 8 year olds but
they'll majorly annoy a lot of other people. Me, for one. (And
that's all I care about, after all). :-)

>I can see Warner Bros doing something like they did for
therecent
> Batman movies (bad films, interesting soundtracks)
>
> Batman was done my Danny Elfman my personal choice for
composer
> for
> the HP films.  For those of you who do not know Danny's work
> he did
> Edward Sissorhands (you must have seen the Channel No5. Advert
with
> the Wolf), Bettlejuice, Mars Attacks and more recently Sleepy
> Hollow.    I think Dannys stile would have been great for the
HP
> films, but alas, we have the Star Wars composer.
>

That would have been cool, actually.

>  and choosing 2-3artists who are very popular with people in
> different generations to do thesongs which are released as
singles -
> or they could ask a british boys grouplike Boyzone (are they
still
> together) to do the title song.
>
> Oh no Elton John would be fine, he appeals to both parents
and
> kids
> (see Lion King, Eldorardo)
>

But not to a lot of people in between, which I believe must make
up a significant amount of HP's audience? Or am I on my own
here. :-).
Of course, target markets and all that, they'd probably be
pretty safe with someone like Boyzone, as the parents are going
to go see it with the kids anyway, and the dedicated fans aren't
going to be put off by the music.
Am I making any sense?

>  On a realaudio note, Peg, it would be great to see some of
those
> links.
>
> On a real audio note I have a RealAudio capable webhost, so
> could
> host .RAM files if needed. - though only two connections can
listen
> at a time.
>
> Also music wise maybe we should all hunt out what music we
think
> would be nice, and if possible locate some MIDI files of
them - so
> that others can hear.
>

I actually wrote a song - two songs - about HP people, because
I'm kinda sad like that. ;-). One of them, "Thirty Pieces of
Silver", is about Sirius in Azkaban, and the other, "High
Windows" (thanks, Blaise), is about Neville... the lyrics aren't
exactly totally explicit, but that's what I had in mind when I
was writing them. I'll see if I can put them back up on the net
at some point, as I had to delete them due to lack of space...


Oh, and I'm 17 and therefore am eligible for the contest - could
someone pass me the link, as I've lost it...

--
Jeremy/Peeves_is_peeved
www.btinternet.com/~warmsley/mp3/