You can be a part of the movie if ....

For the few followers I have on this blog I apologize for not posting in quite some time.  Of the billions of other things you could be doing online you’ve chosen to read what I’m writing and I do appreciate that enough to not want to bore you with anything less than “real exciting stuff.”

We’re at the final stages of Peace & Riot.   After a few tweaks and the technical/artistic work of a few professionals (mainly music composing and color correcting) the movie will be done. 

One of the jobs that I’m handing off is performing the song to our closing title sequence.  If you haven’t seen the video of Jake Busey introducing this idea, I will break it down for you.

The people making the movie have a song called “Running Over Raymond” that was written for the movie “Peace & Riot.”  You can upload yourself performing this song to Youtube and send us a link.  If your rendition of the song is good enough, we’ll use your performance in the end title credits.

I don’t remember exactly why I thought this was going to be such a great idea.  But I knew that it would be fun if we had people playing the song in their style.

Opening it up to the internet and having global exposure (by posting all over the world on Craigslist) I figured some one with an instrument and a dream would love the opportunity to play a song in a movie.  And as the Youtube promo video has had some 1600 views, we’ve had about a half a dozen submissions.   I’ve also had my fair share of hate mail.  

I don’t expect nor did I ask for a professional singer/band to play the song and upload it for free.  If they wanted to do that, I would gladly accept their submission and rate it with the others, but I figured most people submitting would be doing it for the love of music and the chance to be a part of something.  

 

I won’t apologize for asking for volunteers.  I won’t say that I am too cheap or lazy to find someone and pay them to play the song for our movie.   That’s not what this is about.  This is for you, your friend or your sixteen (or sixty) year old cousin who plays/sings and doesn’t always have an audience – to have the chance to have an audience that you wouldn’t normally get to see you perform.