By: Staff
Filmmaker Timothy Ro has released a new short film entitled The Conversationalist, with Guitar International’s Dr. Matthew Warnock contributing the score.
According to MattWarnockGuitar.com, Timothy Ro contacted him after the piece was filmed about recording the score. “He wanted a jazzy feel to the music, kind of Ed Bickert meets Gene Bertoncini, I immediately agreed to do the project,” Matt said in a post. He continued, “I was excited to work with Tim and because those are two of my favorite players.”
Warnock gave input on where music should go in the short film after watching it, and a week later he and Timothy Ro got together with Ro’s engineer to record the sections. “Each musical section that you hear in the film was improvised on the spot as I watched each scene, basing my ideas on the characters and the storyline of that particular moment in the film,” Matt explained.
Understandably so, this way of recording a film score can be stressful. “I didn’t know if Tim would like my ideas, but after he said I was playing exactly what he had in his mind the rest came together in a snap,” he said, adding that the method really allowed him to connect the music to the characters, making the film and score one cohesive whole.
Check out the film below:
