Hello peeps, this is an early teaser of what is to be a feature doc I am a part of. Full disclosure, I am the creator of a niche stringed instrument (GuitarViol ) that is quite popular with hundreds of film/TV composers all around the world over the last 21+ years. 300, Game of Thrones, John Wick - too much to list! Lot's of Netflix, HBO, Showtime, Disney+ et al. Anyway, this is the story of a specialty instrument that few know about but millions hear every day. In this doc, we let the Composers themselves tell the story! (I am mostly an on site fact checker LOL). This production budget is zero and 100% sweat and cooperation of the subjects (and you can imagine the original soundtrack!) Myself, Terry Davis (cinematographer MTV/Walk of fame) and production coordinator/interviewer Dale Turner (Long time editor of Guitar World magazine, Musicians Institute, composer) go onsite to interview the composers in their own natural habitat and, in many cases, show how they do it on camera! It is a labor of love and we started production last year. We did one teaser with Kevin Kiner and since decided to put all the steam into getting it all "in the can". So, this is a glimpse of what we are up to! We have quite a few in the can: Kevin Kiner, Loga Ramin Torkian, Heitor Pereria, Jeff Cardoni, Fil Eisler, John Frizzell, Brandon Roberts, Nathan Matthew David, Charlie Clouser, and soon Tyler Bates! (and a few others to come). Hope to have it wrapped by the end of the year (at least in the can). A lot in the can for the cutting room floor and juicy bonus footage for sure! .Anyway, some of you might enjoy this!
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GuitarViol sounds great, Jonathan Eric Wilson! Really unique!
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Thanks Maurice! I hav met a lot of the greats in the film composers space over the last 22 years! Just telling the story by letting them tell it :) it’s fun and surreal on this end!
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You're welcome, Jonathan Eric Wilson. Have you met Hans Zimmer? I spoke with him about composing a movie way back. That was when I tried to make a movie. I don't produce movies anymore.
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Maurice, i’ve never met Hans in person. He knows very well who I am (there’s pretty much an army of people at remote control using my instruments for the last 20 years). Put it this way I know people who know him well and he’s actually responded to my posts on a composer forum. I found out through a third-party that he gifted one of my instruments to somebody in India. I did not know it was he buying it at the time. We would’ve loved to of had him in this movie, but you know how that goes! There were actually many people that deserve to be in the film that we just had to cut. 20 hours worth of footage going into a two hour feature.
That's cool that Hans Zimmer was gifted one of your instruments, Jonathan Eric Wilson. How have you been? Are you working on any new projects?