Short Film I Scored

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgXcaMnu78Q 
 
Hey everyone,
 
This is "The Gradations of Purgatory." It won Best Nevada Short Film at the Pollygrind Film Festival, and was directed by the same director who did my "If Only Tonight I Could Sleep" Music Video that I posted here a few weeks back. It's a really interesting and unique film about a man who is given choices in purgatory that he doesn't realize will decide his fate in his next life. I'm really proud of the score I composed on this one. It's the 3rd of four short films I've scored for these filmmakers, and they're getting ready to go into post production on their first feature, which I'll be scoring too.
 
Enjoy. Would love to hear how you liked the film and its score.
 
David
 
 

I think the score is absolutely perfect for this movie. I like the videography. Since I don't believe in purgatory I can't really give something I'm not accepting of a high mark for the ideas behind the film, but I can enjoy the delivery and the way it was made which I did :) Most excellent job on the music!

Thanks everyone.
 
Starise: Yea I don't know necessarily if I believe either haha, but it's certainly an interesting take on the idea. I had a talk with the director after it was all done and he said he kind of drew the original idea from multiple ideas he had read about the concept.
 
kicksville: i just scored to picture, mixed the music alone, and delivered the final wav, then they handled the final full audio mix with sound and everything. and yea, everything on my end is done in Sonar. :-)

Haha yep. Gotta just go with the story. Thanks Warren :-)

Thanks so much. I really appreciate it. I'm very proud of this one. The feedback has been really great so far. :-)

Thanks!

Maybe he had them with him when he died... Probably not many clothing shops either what with all the angels and stuff flying around all naked. :-)

Thanks Lynn. Glad you liked it. I don't know what I believe but hopefully in my next life I stick to piano and guitar lessons when I'm a kid instead of spending all my time playing videogames :-)

It's certainly a unique take on the idea, and I don't believe was taken from any one religion's interpretation of the idea.
 
That being said, it's not a music video my friend. It's a short film... My music was only meant to support what's happening on screen... However the feedback on the score has been so good that I might consider eventually going back to it and maybe making a song version of it for one of my albums :-)

Not sure I know what you mean, but I've got a lot more music at my website http://www.bydavidrosen.com 
 
I don't really play live or anything, but I compose a lot of music for all kinds of things including my albums, film scores, and other projects.

Nailed it.
 
Haha.

thank you! that means I did my job :-)

Thank you! Yea unsettling but not in a scary way was very much what I was going for at the end there. 

Glad you liked the music. I'm really proud of the whole thing including the actors, but no, I'm just responsible for music.

Glad you liked the music. Thanks! :-)