RIPPING PEOPLE OFF (You Learn So Much!!!)
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- In this video Christian embraces the spirit of three classic movies, Rosemary’s Baby, Klute, with an award winning performance from Jane Fonda. Part of Pakula’s paranoia trilogy and finally the coolest cop in town Dirty Harry. By listening to the masters at work we learn so much and spark so much, but most importantly, how to tell a story as simply and succinctly as possible.
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Typeface nerd alert: The 'Cursive' font in the Rosemary's Baby titles is loosely called Copperplate Script.
Thumbs up from a fellow nerd.
Nice - appreciated
Depends what you mean by ‘loosely’ called : )
There's a typeface called Copperplate Script, but that doesn't look like the one used in the movie. The typeface ‘Copperplate Script’ is most likely made in 2001-2002 (or so), although visually based on the old handwriting to copperplate production technique.*
The amount of ‘script’ typefaces are enormous as are the similarities between them-so you would easily pick several that resembles each other apart from the details.
* The term Copperplate comes from the production used by handwriting the texts that then transferred to copperplates for mass production.
@@cornerliston Thank you for the extra info.
Copperplate script is indeed the name of a model, and does not refer to a specific typeface here. This script style was very common in 1960s graphic design. I can't give it a specific name, but Wayne Fitzgerald - who actually executed the design - had access to many different fonts for phototypesetting systems, and I assume he also had a whole collection of dry-transfer lettering sheets of typefaces that have disappeared from collective memory today. So I guess it's one of these.
You never know when a client's gonna go "can we have some funky avantgarde 70's in this part" and you pull this out of your bag of tricks
Lovely!
Any score from Lalo Schifrin is amazing.
Insightful video! Since you're taking requests, a deep dive into any of Ennio Morricone's work (or westerns as a theme) would be pretty cool!
Yes, please.
The "microtonal marimba" sound can be heard in countless Columbo episodes from the same era.
Great video Christian. I'd love to see some of the original Planet of the Apes soundtrack reproduced. I always felt it has its own brand of creepiness & artistic expression.
Please. More videos like that. Any score analyse is pure gold!
Analyze and learn. Thank You Christian, keep it coming.
More of this, please
The fastest 23 minutes of my life. I could watch this for hours.
I love the music from Danish documentaries about Greenland, but no one asks for that vibe, ever
Don Ellis did some interesting things also, that opened us up to new things. Did a lot of his work in High School and did drums and trumpet at a festival that myself and Jon Faddis were at in Reno in 1973. What a career he has had.
Krzysztof Komeda was a genius! His jazz album 'Astigmatic' is a must-have.
I grew up with a copy of Herbie Hancock's 1974 Death Wish soundtrack in my collection. Huge influence on me.
What a fantastic Video Christian, more more more please like this, totally blown away, I had forgotten all about Rosmary's Baby as well!
My goodness! What a fantastic moment you gave us. Thank you!
You clever chap. Look, I know it's hardly original but Taxi Driver just blew my mind. In terms of playing along, I recommend Chordify. I've learnt so much about the music I love by trying to play along with the chords using this app.
Keep going you clever people 😊
Awesome..great learning experience, I hope your life is going well! Love the crow hill stuff!
I know what your gonna say &I haven’t even watch to the first 2 mins
I’m with you ,some great 70’s drum samples, breaks, licks, themes ,very inspirational.
Brilliant ❤
I really enjoyed this, thank you.
This video is a gem.
THANKS FOR THIS REVIEW This is totally my thing and why I started composing and playing on films in Hollywood.
Great video, thanks Christian. Such vibes in those film selections! Would love to see a video including how you would mix drums into a track like Lalo..
Loved this episode Christian
Out with the kitchen sink indeed
Thank you, now I need to go & watch some old movies :)
I would love if you could look at Clint Mansell's score for Moon there is some fascinating use of effective melodic minimalism and unique orchestration that continues to beguile me.
2nd'd. Love the subtle drive of that score
70's funk soundtracks will always remind me of late 90's drum n bass with artists like Adam F, Roni Size, Krust, Dj Die, Jumping Jack Frost, and Grooverider releasing tracks on V Recordings... all HEAVILY sampled from these soundtracks.
Really enjoyed this. Would love to hear you analyzing more film scores. Really helped me hear these familiar scores in a completely different way. Great work.
Furthermore ... Christian ... check out "Three Days of the Condor" for a stunning 1970's soundtrack ... Highly recommended 👍👍👍
The Conversation by Coppolla. Best score ever.
Yeah, finally a new video 🤟
That little twist you did on the celeste-a-tone was very nifty. I'm off to give that a go..... 👍
Mia Farrow's "vocals" ... perfectly fit the disturbing context of the film ( the composer knew exactly what He was doing )
An Italian film scored by Moriconi Called Cat o’ Nine Tails, there’s a track called I think called 1971….worth a listen.
Thats the stuff
Good reading-How nice wouldn't it be to have a synth designed by Dieter. I feel most synth engineers missed a marvellous opportunity to win several design awards through the decades.
Fun video - thanks for making! As a slight point of information, the "click" sound from the snare drum as used in quiet sections, ballads and reggae is known as a side stick or cross stick or rim click. Whereas a "rimshot" is something quite different different. While beginner drummers, or non-drummers assume the backbeat is played by hitting the centre of the drum with the tip of the stick, this is not the case. The majority of pop/rock/funk drummers will play the backbeat by striking the centre of the drum with the tip and simultaneously hitting the rim with the shaft. I'd love to learn more about the physics going on here, but somehow it makes the drum significantly louder with loads more "pop" than a regular hit in the centre. Needless to say this technique is not easy; hitting rimshots consistently takes many years of practice. But is well worth it and very common amongst proper drummers. It's how they create the sound we all recognise as a powerful snare backbeat. Anyway, I'm sure you know all this. Cheers!
The late Leon Russell, musician and songwriter extraordinaire, said that all of the great songwriters are actually thieves. He explained that by saying that they ripped off one another, while covering their tracks… then gave examples of how he had done this very thing. He pulled the chord progressions from famous works, often the standards of the day, giving them new melodies. This was something that he did with his most famous songs… songs that became ‘standards’ in their own right. So ‘borrowing’ from those who went before (or ‘ripping them off’ as you put it) is something that can be done when it is done well, and one ‘covers their tracks’ when doing so.
Good stuff, Christian, very interesting to see an analysis of those scores. One worth listening to is David Shire's soundtrack for The Conversation. It is mainly piano, mixed in at times with some wonderful sound design of abstract noises. What i really love is how it is an object lesson in how to establish a theme which is then warped throughout the movie to indicate Harry's mental disintegration. There are some stunning atonal - ish chordal harmonies wrapped around the theme in, for example, The End of the Day, and The Confessional cues. I would love to know how those harmonies work.
Coincidentally posted a similar thing before reading this - 100% agree.
Quick lesson from these old OSTs: you only need one or two gimmicks for atmosphere and to be that recognizable hook.
Nerd fact - I believe Mia Farrow has perfect pitch. Go figure. Love this era of cinema. My absolute favourite film from this time is The Conversation. The piano score from David Shire is incredibly effective.
Lalo Schifrin invented Jazz Fusion years before it became a genre. That is a fact. Check out his 60s movies.
This was fab! Some Quincy Jones for us next, please? I need more international signs of funk in my life!
Hey Christian , absolutley brill - giving the you the international funk sign now ! your quick recreations are so effective.. nicely done! how bout a look at - Alien (Jerry goldsmith) or Apocalypse now(Walter Murch and Carmine Coppola) both great scores - AN maybe more sound design..hmmm , or Bullitt very funk score too... cheers :)
enjoyed this. i love all the scores by geoff barrow and ben salisbury, but i suspect they may defy analysis. anything by cristobal tapia de veer, though. i think he's amazingly original.
if you listen to King's Row Suite.. that's literally what John Williams copied for Superman's main theme... so yea.. even John did it. and the Mars 5/4 thing too of course.. but that was requested by George Lucas that he put that in the Star Wars score. I am studying the heck out of a few game scores that i really like and trying to recreate their sounds and mocking up some tracks. hopefully in the long run that passes over into my own writing styles
I’d like you to checkout Barry Grey’s soundtrack to the 70’s tv series Space 1999. Very 70’s and distinctive.
Did you ever study, or perhaps rescore, any of your father's films (such as Psychomania as displayed in your room)?
I thought the video title was a reference to the elections 🤣
Good title for the Tory manifesto!
The Killer Elite (1975) the original Jerry Fielding and The Mechanic (1972) the Original score. Those are really great to have you review. Also possibly "The Enforcer" Clint Eastwood, sort of like in your genre "Harry's World" cue will remind you of of another song that is very familiar. I'll let you guess.
Second the Ennio request
My favorite era. Lot's of brass etc. and strings less pushed back in the mix also in relation to so much sound fx mucking up the score. No days you can't even hear the soundtrack. One of my favorites is "The Mechanic" 1972 Charles Bronson. Jerry Fielding RIP Woodwind Clarinet solos, brass strings it has it all Along with many of his scores for Clint Eastwood movies and Director Micheal Winner, Sam Peckinpah films of which he did many of Peckinpah's, Straw Dogs, The Wild Bunch,
Utopia- Cristobal Tapia de Veer
The wireless mouse is like having a bad wife! try the Kensington Orbit Trackball
it's so jungle.
First rate. I was around when all these films came to the fore....an era that included "Chinatown" - a score written under IMMENSE pressure on Goldsmith, given the original by Phillip Lambro was rejected...
@TheCrowHillCo Very cool video ! Could you make the same thing with some 70's italian movies ? Like "Stridulum", very cool score by Franco Micalizzi !
Or maybe "Confessione di un commisario di polizia al procuratore della republica" scored by Riz Ortolani. I also love Stelvio Cipriani "La Polizia ha le mani legate" or "Anonimo Veneziano". I think italians really had an awesome vibe in this era !
I absolutely adore 70s Italian movie soundtracks. Got a UA-cam playlist a mile long of them!
It's the real deal ! Italian composers in the 70's really had a strong vibe in horror, funk and romantic scores. Come on guys, let's get Christian into it !
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Hey Christian, how can I get more involved with your passion for music? I'm a Brit who moved to NY in the early 2000's. I write and produce. I want to switch from tech support to 100% MUSIC. It'd be great to talk sometime. Continue to be AWESOME!!
What Nord Piano are you using and why did you not get another Dopefer?
Get Carter, The Professionals
anything from john barry .
I am a bit disappointed with the assumptions about the unexpected effect of the music in Rosemary's Baby. Polanski and Komeda worked together since Polanski's first film and both knew perfectly well what effect they wanted to achieve. When working on Rosemary's Baby Komeda was already a star of European jazz, he had his own jazz band, composed music for over 60 films and composed Ballet Etudes. Mia Farrow: she was a perfect fit for the film and her voice is exactly what her character was supposed to have - again a planned action. I am very happy with Christian's enthusiasm, but composing excellent music is not accidental - unfortunately it requires knowledge and practice. Which I wish to everyone :-)
Mia Farrow’s singing/song could be called the Master Blueprint for Trish Keenan/Broadcast…. RIP Trish, you are soooo missed. 😢❤
ps Dot’s vox would be great on your homage’…. just sayin’. 😉
Listen to the title music of an old series called 'Wicked Women', i can play it note perfect from memory. I am working on a track with Dot called Seaside Nocturn, simular to yours ,spooky. P.S. I love Dot.
I can't help noticing you're wearing longer sleeved t-shirts these days - am I right?
"Klute" not "Knute".