The Cycle
Project Overview
After the fall of a fellow feathered friend, five cats band together to take on the biggest creature that threatens their skies.
The film is currently about just over 2 minutes in length, and will be finished in late April. No voice actors, so the music is an incredibly important aspect of this film that will carry a lot of weight in the final result. I'm currently working on the lined animation.
Credit will be given at the end of the film with whichever name or username you prefer should you be hired for this project! I also plan to post it on social media after submitting it to film festivals. I'm on a budget as I'm a full-time college student, but this position is paid.
Payment is in USD, and will be sent through PayPal, venmo, or cashapp.
Make sure you have clear song examples and/or a clear reel to provide.
I'd prefer to contact those who get roles through discord, but email is fine as well. We can communicate through voice call and/or we can simply stick to messaging. Feel free to contact me on discord (my username is shadeyenova) if you have any questions!
DEADLINES AND AUDITIONS
The current deadline for auditions is January 18th, which is just over a week since the posting of this casting call. Late February is the final deadline for the final cut of the music, which will give you just over a month to complete the music once chosen.
I'm looking forward to hearing the auditions and ultimately working with one of you!
Concept art and animations can be viewed on the project tumblr account!
https://www.tumblr.com/thecyclefilm
This project is a tribute to my childhood, my siblings, and of course, the final necessary step to get a really expensive degree.
Shoutout to @snipsnops for helping me with this casting call stuff <3
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I'm currently looking for a music composer for my thesis film!
This film will have little to no dialogue, so the music will be the most important element to carry the story. The runtime of this film is just over 2 minutes, though around the 1 minute 42 second mark, the remainder of the film will be just rain/storm sounds.
For the current version of the film, I've used a placeholder musical number from Bambi that starts around 15 seconds in - though class feedback says that this has made the film seem comical (to be fair, there are a few funny boards I added, though the final version will be much more serious). So I’d like to go for something more original that would make the film seem less of a slapstick, but has punctuating sounds to accompany certain moments of the action. I think the soundtrack I have from Bambi gets what I'm looking for across, but the final track can be as similar or different to this substitute as long as it gets the increasing intensity across.
The film starts out very chill, no music, just a breeze and flapping sounds. I'm open to a few piano notes possibly playing here, maybe some kind of gentle violin, but the quiet at this point works just fine as well. It's when the tree comes into view I'd like some sort of steady tone to start, maybe something that even starts out sort of whimsical, but from that point on gets louder and more dramatic - especially as soon as the main cast engages with the griffin.
I'm looking for/okay with: string instruments, wind instruments, possibly percussion instruments.
I'm NOT looking for: electronic, 8-bit video-game-esque, vocal/lyrics.
If you're selected to be my composer, you will be paid $200 for the completed music (I definitely wish I could offer more, but that's really all I have to offer on a college student budget). Your chosen name/credentials will be listed in the credits of the film, and fingers crossed this film will be released into a film festival circuit if everything goes well!
I'll be doing the rest of the sound design/foley, but I'm holding off just a bit on that to see what music I'm working with first - see what sounds I can fit in there or wouldn't be necessary paired with the song.
I need a finished track as soon as possible - by late February at the absolute latest. I'm already in the post production phase, but the soundtrack was decidedly unfit at the end of my previous semester. Please keep this in mind when applying! And thank you so much for reading.
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