Press Start – Trailer, Interviews!
Posted by virt on August 31st, 2007 filed in GeneralIn case you’re reading this via a feed or something, or are too lazy to scroll down two posts, Press Start is my first feature-length film score. It’s a comedy about a trio of adventurers who are the video game world’s ray of hope against a hilariously twisted evil sorcerer. Along the way they meet shopkeepers, fight orcs, and stop to chat with a talking CG-animated tree.
If that doesn’t tell you enough, I’ll spell it out: It’s a light-hearted, moderately cheesy no-budget film done by a bunch of friends and volunteer actors and voice actors and makeup artists and choreographers and writers and yours truly — not Hollywood, nor Bollywood.
But make no mistake: it’s not just some stupid thing they threw together because they were bored, it’s a huge massive labor of love. The kind of labor familiar to mothers of triplets – including the knives and painkillers and potential circumcisions. Just the score alone took me 6 months, countless sleepless nights, tons of technical/stylistic studying and pushing my abilities to their absolute limits. I leveled-up like 15 times during the course of this, and can say for sure now: I LOVE SCORING FILMS.
Seeing how much devotion they’ve put into it has really endeared me to it, and will probably win you over, too, even if you’re a super jaded post-ironic anti-anti-hipster, which describes many of my friends. Wankers.
So: Here’s the trailer. (The only music that is mine is the “Not Final Fantasy” battle theme, and the ending jingle – I was slammed with work while the trailer was cut)
Here’s an interview clip (You can hear part of the score in the first two minutes)
It really was a fun project, but don’t just take my word for it – come September 25th, go order a copy – vote with your dollars for independent comedy films!
Plus, you get to hear an HOUR AND A HALF of brand new virtkwak, including some chiptunes. ?????
Okay, sleep time. Metroid Prime 3 is totally radical, by the way. You should buy that too.
(OH AND: If you’ve sent me mail recently and I haven’t responded: I’m sorry :( I’m catching up slowly but surely, I promise. I’m better about it now than I was last year or the year before, but still, no excuse. I love you Mom please don’t disown me!)
August 31st, 2007 at 4:33 am
Bien bien !
August 31st, 2007 at 4:40 am
Awesome! I can’t freaking wait! The interviews actually got me more excited for it than the trailer did.
September 1st, 2007 at 11:26 am
indeed. I will definetly be buying this. Oh and will the score be available for purchase/download at some point? I have a feeling its gunna be great.
September 1st, 2007 at 5:43 pm
phew, I did send you mail recently and I thought you hated me or what I had sent you was so terrible you didn’t even want to dignify it with a response. This gives me hope that might not be the case
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:29 am
^ awesomeness just HAS that kinda fear of paternal rejection effect on people
September 7th, 2007 at 9:16 am
Is there french Subtitle ? or just in english ?
September 7th, 2007 at 10:58 am
“Metroid Prime 3 is totally radical, by the way”
I didn’t know you actually played video games still. You have time for that? :)
September 7th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
[...] eu vent de ce projet par Jack Kaufmann alias Virt, l’un des meilleurs compositeurs de musique de jeux (chiptunes/rock) que j’ai eu [...]
September 26th, 2007 at 1:59 am
[...] Dark Maze Studios‘ Press Start was released on DVD yesterday, starring Joshua Stafford (Zack Nimbus), Al Morrison (Lin-Ku) and Lauren Chambers (Sam). With the sheer amount of content AND fanservice laid out for this film release, It very well may be a hardcore gamer’s dream. Jake gives you his take on the film and his musical contributions. He also says you buy: [...]
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