Well, this is another bucket-list project. Ever since I first heard it 22 years ago, James Newton Howard’s score to Waterworld has been one of my favorite scores of the 1990s. Bold, brash, thematic and epic, the soundtrack for this orchestral score got a lot of time in my CD player. Having worked on a few expanded reissues of JNH projects, I would keep asking about the possibility of doing an expanded Waterworld. At one point, I was told it was …
I developed another website based on Theme.co’s Pro WordPress theme, this time for composer/violinist Maxwell Karmazyn. Max wanted a simple and clean website with embedded audio, and a little custom code was done for the header logo, and a custom post type was built out for the projects detail pages.
Just like with Baywatch, I had the good fortune to work on the soundtrack for another current film title, this time for Steve Jablonsky’s score to Transformers: The Last Knight. Once more, role was more of a coordination role between the studio, La-La Land Records, and the ad agency that was handling the artwork. Some of the workflow issues we had with Baywatch were resolved this time around, but there was a creative change at the last minute which required some …
It’s that time of year again, which means that the annual slew of Blake Neely album projects are coming out! First up is the new CW drama, Riverdale. Based on the Archie comics, but in a modern setting and definitely more adult subject matter, the show’s artwork has a high saturated look, with a neon-styled title treatment. Doing a little digging, the font was Centrum, so I went with that for the headers. Because there was a song album, we had …
Since I’ve started freelance web design back in 1998, a majority of my clients have been composers. It’s not often, however, that I get a chance to develop a website for a critically acclaimed Oscar-winning composer who is on the shortlist for nearly every major project. And so it was that I built a website for Michael Giacchino. Working fast, this site was just “Phase 1” of a larger project that will extend into the fall. The design of the …
Once again, I was fortunate to be involved with a current title, this time for Paramount’s Baywatch, featuring a score by Christopher Lennertz. My role was similar to the past current titles from Paramount, in a coordination role between the studio, La-La Land Records, and the ad agency that was handling the artwork. Some of that meant conforming the art files to fit La-La Land Records’ template – and some of those files really tested the limits of my computer! …
At this point, I had done the album art direction for numerous DC-related properties, but had yet to tackle one of the ‘vintage’ DC television shows. All of that changed with Wonder Woman. Producer Neil Bulk and La-La Land Records had previously employed me to do the artwork for the 7″ vinyl picture disc single released last year, so it was always expected that I would be doing the 3-disc CD release. The biggest problem we faced was a question of …
My latest website project is a clean site for composer Steve Mazzaro, known for his work collaborating with Hans Zimmer. This is a straightforward site with a minimalist design, built in X with a custom post type for the projects. I did a bit of hand-crafted PHP work to create a custom shortcode that can be used in WordPress which will allow the client to update the Listen page easily, pulling the information from the custom post type as well …
Back in 2013, La-La Land Records released Elmer Bernstein’s scores to The Shootist and The Sons of Katie Elder on one disc. The latter portion was the 1965 re-recording done for the LP, meaning that the original film score recorded still had yet to be released -until now. This new album is sourced from the original mono film music stem, as well as selected cues from an Electro-vox recording found in the archives. In addition to the score and source cues, we …
So I finally got a chance to redesign the Kraft-Engel Management website. The original site was built back in 2012 and while the visual aesthetics were fine, the way it was implemented meant that there was a lot of manual database entry and FTPing of audio files to update the clients. I knew that there was a simpler solution, and one that would also modernize the site to allow it to be mobile-friendly. Using the X Theme (again, from the …