It goes without saying that music is the driving beat that makes the heart go faster as if nothing else matters. In this instance, the collection of artists brings an eclectic and charismatic sound that makes the wall of sound more apparent. The soundtrack must be a cinematic work of art. It can be like a compilation of obscure tunes much like Quentin Tarantino soundtracks or Michael Mann’s little known classic Manhunter or a great moody soundtrack like those from The Social Network and Drive. With Obscura, the movie needs its own power (personalized) soundtrack that emits all the emotions and storytelling that the film’s script possess. The lyrics and composition needs to match the emotions of the screen and the script. For the movie’s promotional trailer, we want to go with a cover of a known song that will set the mood of the film through the words of a previously known song through an innovative and fresh take.
The OST will be a concept album based on the film’s themes and characters. This will be the material pushed in all the media circuits. Only two songs sung by Gemma in her “movies” will be inserted into the OST, produced by the chosen artist.
Examples of this in recent years have been David Fincher’s trailers for The Social Network and The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo. In The Social Network, enlists the help of Scala and Kolacyna Brothers (a little known Belgian women’s choral group) to turn Radiohead’s signature song “Creep” into a hauntingly beautiful ghost love score to invasive intrusion on people’s rights to privacy. A year later, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (from Nine Inch Nails and Academy Award Winner for his The Social Network soundtrack) teamed up The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O to cover Led Zeppelin’s “The Immigrant Song.” In order to capture that essence for the trailers, we will acquire the music clearances for the chosen song.
The potential longevity for this independent feature is much like that of David Fincher’s adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s transgressive literature Fight Club. In fact, Obscura follow the same trajectory as films like A Clockwork Orange, Don’t Deliver Us From Evil, Fight Club, American Psycho, which follows the pathology of the characters who feel trapped by confined of societal norms and break the boundaries through illicit and brutally violent ways. The topics of extramarital affairs, highly dysfunctional relationships, partners swapping, indulgent sexual fetishes, drugs, urban violence, and violence against women all under the accordance that the knowledge they acquire is at the edge of their experiences.
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