Taste of Cherry Trailer - The Remix

Recently I went to see Iron Man, and as usual—SLAM!—there were -- BLAM!—a lot of—CRASH!—trailers. It was almost a relief to see the Grown Ups trailer. At least the lame jokes werent ear-splitting.

As assaultive as it can be to watch a string of these cacophonous trailers, they have to be effective or they wouldnt be used on nearly every film. So it got me wondering if these kinds of sonic explosions might pep up the trailers for more subtle fare. And maybe some synthesizer music beds wouldnt hurt either. By the time I got home I had devised an experiment.

I was going to create a new soundtrack for an art film trailer and I was going to do it in the most slapdash way possible. If I worked on it for days, it wouldnt really prove anything, as my natural instinct would be to keep polishing it and polishing it and making it as good as possible. In order to find out what the result would be if a bunch of noises were thrown together without any serious consideration, I set myself some rules. Number one, I would only spend an hour or so on it. Number two, I would only use the sound files from two sample sets I bought years ago from film composer Jeff Rona, out of a series he created called Liquid Cinema. One is called Cinematic Ambiance, and one is called Cinematic Impact (It appears Rona doesnt sell them anymore.) I wasnt going to hunt through my sample library looking for the perfect sounds or create any of my own, I was just going to quickly audition the samples on Ronas discs, drag them into my music program, Logic, and see what happened. Mostly I did it right on the cuts, or as editors say, Mickey Mousing it. I didnt have time to do it any other way.I chose Abbas Kiarostamis A Taste of Cherry for my trailer re-mix, because it is one of my favorite films and it was the most unlikely film I could think of for this kind of thing. I didnt look at a single other trailer.

Of course the impetus for this project was easy mockery, but at the same time the process surprised me. Although my booms are intentionally dumb, sometimes Jeffs music beds and ambient noises sounded really good to my ears. It didnt matter which ones I used, they all did, particularly one at the end that sounded vaguely Middle Eastern to my ears. If you took out the booms, it might have even been pretty good, but booms were the whole point of this exercise.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Taste of Cherry
• Kiarostami
• Trailer
• Blam

[NuXta]

Interesting experiment. "Taste of Cherry" is right up there with my favourite films... but in my view, the noises you've dubbed here basically sanitise its splendid appeal. Too recognisably Hollywoody. :)

[TigerTheFrog]

@NuXta That was the point. I am so annoyed with movie trailers that I thought it would be funny to put as many BLAMS! and POWS! into the most unlikely film possible, i.e.,"Taste of Cherry." But the weird part was that the images in "Taste of Cherry" are so good that it isn't as obviously ridiculous as I was hoping it would be. So this is a failure as a parody of bad trailers, but maybe by accident it's something more interesting.

[NuXta]

@TigerTheFrog Yeah, it is - makes it seem like it's some dark, spooky thriller - which is interesting because in a sense, it is a dark film. :)

Maybe I'm overstating the point, but it's nice to find someone who understands the cultural chasm between this rare type of quality film and much of the overblown crap in the mainstream cinemas. Rock on.