{"id":2833,"date":"2010-11-01T11:29:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T15:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/lemgsoundtrack-the-moviel-emg\/"},"modified":"2010-11-01T11:29:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T15:29:44","slug":"lemgsoundtrack-the-moviel-emg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/lemgsoundtrack-the-moviel-emg\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Soundtrack: The Movie<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3e_oEElxhMY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>This is a concept that&#8217;s been bouncing around in my head for a few months, ever since an old discussion we had concerning the sometimes obtrusive use of rock songs in movie soundtracks. The degree of difficulty is high, but I have faith in us. <em>What if a movie was composed solely around a soundtrack selected by members of Rock Town Hall?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps some movies have been developed on the bare bones of a soundtrack, such as that Beatles-based movie from a couple of years ago, <em>Across the Universe<\/em>,\u00a0which I still haven&#8217;t had the nerve to see. But that&#8217;s just a movie pieced together around a soundtrack from a single band. Similarly, that old Ralph Bakshi animated turd, <em>Heavy Metal<\/em>, may have been developed according to as suspect a plan as I propose, but that was an animated film. I think we could put together a cinematic masterpiece (or disaster, if that&#8217;s what the job calls for) by using a rock soundtrack to construct the guts of\u00a0a film.<\/p>\n<p>Can we work together to develop the feature-length film\u00a0<em>Soundtrack: The Movie<\/em>, using a\u00a03-act structure, as described <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writerswrite.com\/screenwriting\/lecture4.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, by the legendary and recently deceased television screenwriter and producer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_J._Cannell\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Stephen J. Cannell<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>(<em>The Rockford Files<\/em>, <em>21 Jump Street<\/em>, <em>Silk Stalkings<\/em>, <em>The Commish<\/em>)?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In Act 1 we should be introduced to the main characters and learn what the <strong>problem<\/strong> of the story is.<\/li>\n<li>In Act 2 we introduce the <strong>complication<\/strong>, that point in the plot that makes the problem even trickier than expected. By the end of Act 2 the protagonist should be nearly defeated in his or her plight.<\/li>\n<li>In Act 3 the protagonist rises from the ashes and achieves a <strong>resolution<\/strong>, or what you may be more familiar with as <em>The Healing<\/em>, in Rock Town Hall terms.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Think about this. See if we can&#8217;t piece together a coherent film that is told almost entirely through a rock soundtrack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a concept that&#8217;s been bouncing around in my head for a few months, ever since an old discussion we had concerning the sometimes obtrusive use of rock songs in movie soundtracks. The degree of difficulty is high, but I have faith in us. What if a movie was composed solely around a soundtrack <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/lemgsoundtrack-the-moviel-emg\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[125,133,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}