Friday, October 28, 2005

Schizophrenia & Violent Tendency



"精神分裂症 + 暴力傾向" 是個大合輯CD製作計劃。經過快一個月的時間,於2005年10月25日完成。
源由我一個在時裝店打工的同學抱怨店裡音樂播到快爛掉而跟我要音樂而起的念頭。
於是,我決定作一個裡面有最新曲的合輯。

原本的構想只是放幾首歌而已。但是之後,我卻想要作得像混音合輯一樣的自找麻煩,不過很有挑戰性。

之後,到處搜集了好多新歌還有許多有趣的元素,想要把它們全部匯整起來。過程中最困難的部分,是把每首不同的歌曲作個連接性,類似的曲風要放在一起,或是哪些地方要改變樂風等等的。有一首日本電子舞曲叫"侍",是由化名Jazztronik的日本人野崎良太創作,這音樂結構複雜,原長6或8分鐘。但是重覆的部分太多,我怕放在合輯裡太長會顯沉悶,所以必須裁剪,又因為結構複雜,所以修剪起來有點棘手,但是最後完成的三分鐘版本實在是不錯。另外,還有一次要把一首龐克搖滾和一首嘻哈樂連結起來,那晚我花了很久的時間去翻我的CD收藏,只為了找到一段笑聲和雷聲,但是完成了一個很滿意的混音橋段。

第二個困難部分是,一開始我是集合了一首首的單曲,接著兩首兩首作連結。到最後,必須要把好幾個曲段全部連成一個音軌。這個步驟需要一臺具備強大CPU的電腦,可惜我沒有,所以幾乎花了一天的時間把他們全部連成一首歌。

最後,"精神分裂症 + 暴力傾向" 在"瘋狗" (為了紀念我的所作所為)廠牌的名下出生了。

"Schizophrenia & Violent Tendency" is a CD max project ,that operated for almost a month, and finished 4 days ago.
The project was an inspiration which was a result of a request from a friend, who works in a fashion shop with same musics been played over and over again. So I decided to produce a CD contained songs that are going to be released this fall and winter (even next year).

The original idea was just a simple CD contained a lot of songs, somehow I thought this would be more fun making this CD like a mix CD, everything changed then.

The CD contained various elements from music to movie, and various music genre. The difficult part making this CD was make all songs connective. During the making process, a japanese dance music - "Samurai" , was the most hard and fun track. Its original length is about 6 or 8 minutes, and I thought it's too long to put in the CD so I cutted some parts and not make it like was cut. That took me so long to finish. Because "Samurai" is a music with complicated construction.

There was another funny part I remember, during the process, I want to combine a punk rock song which has a woman screaming sound effect with a hip-hop song that starts with thunder. First came to my mind was Michael Jackson's hit - Thriller, which has a male laughing sound, and then I found thunder effect on Cradle Of Filth album. So I made a perfectly mix. The transition of two songs doesn't sound too weird.

After all songs cut and pasted, the final step was to make songs into one single track. This part required a good operating platform - a computer with a great CPU. But I only have a common one, that's the reason I took about a day to connect all songs into one.

However, "Schizophrenia & Violent Tendency" - A Mad Dog Presentation, was out on October 25th, 2005. I posted an article that night I finished the CD, but one little mistake I made leaded the article no longer exist, so I have to post this now.

And I would like to thank my mom who cannot have better time using computer due to I have to complish the project. Most of all I have to thank Vennesa who support me and sacrificed time I spend with her for doing the project.
Thank all you guys out there, though you don't even know what I've been doing. Thank you.

Saturday, August 13, 2005

Everything Is Illuminated

導演 編劇
Directed & screenplay by Liev Schreiber
原作
Based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
主演
Cast - Elijah Wood 伊萊亞伍德

這是一部描述一位年青的美籍猶太人強納生(伊萊亞伍德飾),為了尋找一名在二次大戰中拯救過他祖父的女士,而到了烏克蘭一個被納粹蹂躪的村莊在當地說著破英文的男子幫助下尋人的故事。

A movie about a young Jewish American man endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village, that was ultimately razed by the Nazis, with the help of a local who speaks weirdly funny broken English.

這部片子吸引我的地方在於裡面的風景非常好,從這一版本的海報就可以看得出來,是部色彩相當鮮豔、風格獨特的片子。導演Liev Schreiber曾在許多電影中擔任配角,雖然看到名字還想不到是誰,但是只要一看到照片,腦裡馬上就會浮現他的影像。Liev Schreiber曾在電影【穿越時空愛上你】中飾演將休傑克曼從19世紀帶到21世紀的科學家;你更可以在【驚聲尖叫1~3】中發現他的身影。Everything Is Illuminated是他第一次執導的作品。

This film contains a lot of beautiful scenes, you can find out by looking the poster. It's a colorful film. Liev Schreiber used to starred in TV shows and movies. He played a scientist in "Kate & Leopold" and played a role in "Scream" trilogy. This is his first time been a director.

Everything Is Illuminated在捷克首都布拉格拍攝,美國預計2005年9月16日上映,臺灣預計2005年11月25日。
官方網站 http://wip.warnerbros.com

The movie was filmed in Prague. In theater of US on September 16th.
For more information please visit http://wip.warnerbros.com