{"id":1771,"date":"2023-09-22T08:44:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T08:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2023-09-24T11:07:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T11:07:31","slug":"well-thats-one-solution-i-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/well-thats-one-solution-i-guess\/1771\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, that\u2019s one answer, I guess"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Steve sat back with a hearty sigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI,\u201d he said, \u201cdon\u2019t have an answer. Don\u2019t have any inspiration either. The series is finished. This was a guaranteed BAFTA winner; the camerawork\u2019s exquisite, for once the animals mostly behaved, the narration… well, I don\u2019t need to add anything there, the man’s a legend. There\u2019s just that one little problem, and I…\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI know,\u201d Jennifer interrupted. \u201cThis isn\u2019t a disaster quite yet, but it\u2019s close. So, what are you going to do? I mean, we can\u2019t have titles with no music, let alone that footage… which you\u2019re right, is beautiful, and kudos to the team for it… but you\u2019ve got some <\/em>budget left, yeah?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot enough to get what I wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhich is?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSweeping orchestral soundscapes. Think Hans Zimmer, but…\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYes?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019ve got left is enough to fund something that\u2019s more Zimmer frame.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOh. How much?\u201d she asked, resting her elbows on the desk and rubbing her temples gently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t want to know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s the alternatives then?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWell,\u201d he replied, hesitating. \u201cWe could use stock, but…\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s like the Wilhelm Scream, everyone knows it, and we can\u2019t have that for something this grandiose.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAgreed. We could ask you-know-who if he\u2019d be willing to do the work for an… appropriate percentage of the aftersales?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\u2019s never done that in the past, doesn\u2019t trust that sort of arrangement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven for something like this?\u201d Steve was outraged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven this. Any other options? I mean, thinking about it, even if we got him to write something, who would play it? The Symphony Orchestra and Choir still need Union rates for rehearsal, performance, and a cut afterwards \u2013 can we even pay the upfronts?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShit,\u201d Jennifer exhaled. \u201cWe don\u2019t even have that much? Where the hell did the budget go then?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe kit isn\u2019t cheap. Chartering boats and flights, local fixers… that situation that Nige got himself into wasn\u2019t just resolved by gentle diplomacy, we had to grease some palms. The usual expenses, you know, and then there\u2019s…\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jennifer held up her hands. When he\u2019d finished muttering, she started ticking off things on her fingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOk. Back to the problem in hand. We can\u2019t get you-know-who, and even if we could, we can\u2019t pay the musicians. We can\u2019t use stock because everyone <\/em>uses it. What else is left? Can we run a competition to get someone to score it and sort them out that way? Can we do something completely unusual and actually just go with the recorded sounds?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steve thought for a moment. \u201cActually, that first idea isn\u2019t too bad. We can\u2019t not have music, no one wants to listen to the chopper over the visual of a sweeping forest-scape, but that might have legs…\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow long have we got before it needs to be delivered?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThree weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBugger. Not enough time. Only one choice for it then.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhich is?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have a friend in a German language Nineties-influenced techno-metal band who owes me a favour.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDear God.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve sat back with a hearty sigh. \u201cI,\u201d he said, \u201cdon\u2019t have an answer. Don\u2019t have any inspiration either. The series is finished. This was a guaranteed BAFTA winner; the camerawork\u2019s exquisite, for once the animals mostly behaved, the narration… well, I don\u2019t need to add anything there, the man’s a legend. There\u2019s just that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10158782359051062_103813597863211":"","twitter_1225722811282530305_1225722811282530305":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[695,933],"tags":[956,114,155,510,680,8,607,957,154,955,191,11,71,159],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-695","category-music","tag-any","tag-but","tag-don","tag-even","tag-got","tag-he","tag-know","tag-need","tag-something","tag-steve","tag-there","tag-was","tag-well","tag-what"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbrNJE-sz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}