Napoleon Dynamite composer John Swihart has signed an exclusive agreement with Visual Music, Woodland Hills, Calif., for scoring commercials and movie trailers. Swihart’s other recent credits include scoring Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Daltry Calhoun, and the new CBS sitcom, How I Met Your Mother. Visual Music is headed by creative director Tom Seufert….
Jay Nierenberg and Dean Hovey of bicoastal Elias Sound served as supervising sound editor and sound editor, respectively, on the recently released Lions Gate feature Undiscovered. Directed by Meiert Davis from a script by John Galt, the film is a contemporary love story that stars Pell James, Steven Strait, Ashlee Simpson, Kip Pardue, Carrie Fisher and Peter Weller. For Elias Sound, the project is a milestone–the first feature run through the studio from start to finish. Nierenberg and Hovey oversaw and participated in all the sound postproduction, including sound design and editorial, delivering the film directly to final mix….
For the second consecutive year, Echo Boys, Minneapolis, has teamed with Clarity Coverdale Fury, Minneapolis, on the Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco’s (MPAAT) TV and Web campaign. Echo Boys’ composer Harry Pulver Jr. contributed a melancholy piano score which sets the tone for the centerpiece spot that shows the great lengths an addicted man will go in his quest for a cigarette. The ad–directed by Tom De Cerchio of Incubator Films, Los Angeles–opens on a man who wakes up in the middle of the night desperate for a smoke only to discover that he is out of cigarettes. Intent on satisfying the urge to light up, he goes to the garage but finds that his car has a flat tire. Undaunted, he gets on his child’s small bike, which is parked nearby. He pedals through a woodland area in the dead of night, finally arriving at a gas station. He points to his brand and an attendant in a glass booth takes a pack of smokes down from the shelf. As the man reaches into his pocket, he realizes that he has no money. The attendant puts the cigarette pack back on the shelf as our now anguished protagonist looks on helplessly. The man’s silent desperation is then accompanied by the tagline, “Maybe it’s easier to quit,” as the music ends on a hopeful up note. Sound designer on the spot was Echo Boys’ Tom Lecher. Audio mixer was Bethany Lacktorin of Echo Boys…..
