THE MUSIC SCORE IS COMPLETE!

This entry was posted on 10/19/2007 10:57 PM and is filed under Post Production.

One of the real high points for Mary Shelley's THE LAST MAN is the original wall-to-wall musical score specially composed by Robert A. Wolf, owner and operator of Wolfymusic Studio in Evansville, Indiana.

Why did we go all the way out to Indiana for a composer to create our musical score? Because I worked with Robert A. Wolf back in Los Angeles, California in the 1990's where he was writing, performing and recording music before moving on to producing music albums for worldwide distribution. He composed all of the music for my Worldfest Award winning 16mm short film, Edgar Allen Poe's THE TELL-TALE HEART. I've always been completely sure that his music was responsible for transforming my $300 short film into an award winning success. Anyone who has ever seen the film is impressed with that timeless musical score.

Robert is the only true musical genius I've ever met. He watches a scene, understands the emotion the music needs to carry, then in a flash, he hears it in his head and it flows out of his fingers and into your ears - right there on the spot, BAM! there it is. I don't know anyone else who can do that and nail it the first time like that, every time. That's a very rare gift.

When we were filming THE LAST MAN, I remember frequently commenting to my Producer, Gabriele Andres how much better I would feel if we had Robert A. Wolf composing the music for this film. All I knew was he got married, cashed out of Los Angeles and bought a big farm in Indiana where he was raising a family. I tried looking him up on the internet but only found a few links to MP3 sites that featured some of his work but no direct point of contact information.

One day, Robert found THE LAST MAN website and liked what he saw, then contacted me and asked me if I needed any music for my film, he wanted to do an exciting film. I was doing cartwheels because right then and there because I knew this film would now have that rich, big-budget sound Robert A. Wolf is famous for.

I couldn't afford him for very many days but that didn't matter, Robert works so fast and nails it every time so he made it completely through a two-hour feature in no time at all. The amazing part is the score sounds way better than movie scores I've seen people dedicate months to perfecting.

Having one of the top score composer in independent film today to produce the score for Mary Shelley's THE LAST MAN is going to be a huge help to make this no-budget epic a wonderfully enjoyable experience for our audience. I have no doubt that Mary Shelley's THE LAST MAN will be someone's all-time favorite post apocalyptic movie. That's why we're filling it with so many rich facets instead of the familiar canned music we're all used to hearing in so many movies.

Below are some photos in the studio of Robert during each recording session for our score:

In the near future, someone is going to put our DVD into their player, sit back and go on a journey they'll never forget. I love movies like that, there are way too few of them available and I hope this movie of ours becomes one of them. And Robert A. Wolf's music will be a really big part of making that cinematic journey a breathtaking one.

• 11/12/2007 1:39 PM W.R. Wolf wrote:
  I viewed the short subjects of the movie, and it looks good. It's good to know that another Evansville talent, Robert Wolf, did the music score on this movie. The showing is in Tucson, Ariz. in Jan. 2008.
  
• 11/15/2007 2:38 PM Robert wrote:
  I wanted to say that it was a real pleasure working on the score to this film. It's been about 14 years (OMG!)since I worked with James back in L.A. on The Tell Tale Heart. So when he asked me to score this film I was delighted and frankly scared to death at the same time. The first week I lost sleep trying to think how to do this monstrous undertaking, scoring a 15 min short subject is quite different than a 2 hour epic film. Not to mention it has been a long time since I have done such a thing. All summer I was searching for that so-called talented composer from the past, where was he?
  Well, thanks to James & Gabi's encouragement I found a way to get the job done, and it felt good.
  After he sent me a rough cut of the film I was impressed, not only with what he has accomplished on such a small budget, but with all the talent he found on a small budget. After I got into it, it seemed easy to compose music to the emotion that is already on the screen.
  Working with James is a pleasure, it really feels like being in a band again, (without the screaming fans and hangovers). Bouncing ideas off each other everyday It really didn't feel like I was working with people over 1500 miles away. Of course thanks to the internet and our studio computers we could get things done better and faster today than we ever could back in 1992. But it really feels good to be part of something big, a large collaboration of talented cast and crew that aren't in it for the money, but for the love of the craft. I haven't felt like that in years. And reading these other comments is very uplifting that James has surrounded himself with many other people with the same feeling about the work.
  I really want to come to Tucson to meet everyone involved,(I do miss the desert) and I'm looking forward to the next film with much anticipation.
  Maybe by working in the film industry with James the screaming fans and hangovers will return? ---I'd better get ready.
  
• 1/30/2008 11:29 AM Robert wrote:
  I wanted to update everyone on the new webite -- http://wolfymusic.googlepages.com
  I've put some clips of the soundtrack on there if you want a sneak peek?

 

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