Received my copy and finally got a chance to watch it last night ...It really feels like a proper Bond film now. The quality of the end product is amazing, considering that you were working only with the finished film without access to the original film and audio elements.
Overall, a
very satisfying project to complete. Always pleased when someone appreciates the inherent difficulties of producing a new soundtrack from an existing one.
Did you do your own foley work?
Didn't do any foley work. All effects were sourced from 'off the rack' soundtrack CD's. The laying-in of the effects account for the largest share of project time.
Even with an extensive sfx library at my disposal, there were some sounds which I couldn't easily replace so had to use unrelated effects instead. For example in the pre-titles sequence the sound of Bond riding across the telegraph wire, flying-fox style, is actually the sound of a jacket zipper. Other situations saw unrelated effects slowed-down, sped-up, reversed or filtered (or a combination of several or all).
All great fun to do and with the greatest humility, I offer myself as candidate for "Ultimate 007 SadArse" for 2005 (perhaps for 2006 as well)
{spoilers (?) below}
I was initially surprised that you selected some non-Connery era cuts, but grew to appreciate the choices - (e.g. your use of the track from TSWLM during the cycle chase is excellent).
The original plan was to have three versions of the composite soundtrack. One comprising only music from Thunderball; another with music solely from the Connery era; and a third featuring at least one selection from every Bond film to date.
This idea was scrapped when I realised just how long it would take to produce just
one music track (music editing is a laborious process); and as I had already commenced work on the 'one track from every film' soundtrack, that's the one that features in the final version.
I hope to create the other music tracks in the future but need to distance myself from the project for a few months (I'd make the new tracks available for download so that people could re-author their dvd's to include the new tracks. Broadband speeds make this a viable option).
I also appreciated your selection for the end credits - I got exactly why you did that. The opening credit track is also an inspired choice - "history repeating" indeed.
Glad my end-credit music choice worked for you. It was the right choice on so many levels, just as
History Repeating was the
only choice for the main titles on as many levels.
Thanks for your positive comments about the project.
