March 1, 2008

Thank you to everyone involved in the Marooned sessions. It was an incredibly fun day for me to work with so many of LA’s best. The director and producer are thrilled with the results, as am I. Screenings of the film will be announced on my site’s main page so check in from time to time for updates. I look forward to working with you again soon!

Recording date for MAROONED with 35 Hollywood Studio Symphony players and Casey Stone engineering & mixing at Firehouse Recording Studio. Mark Robertson was concertmaster and contractor. Pictured (L-R) are the violin section led by Mark Robertson and Endre Granat, me conducting, with Endre, with Rick Baptist and Jim Thatcher, and Casey Stone engineering with Rick Baptist, Jim Thatcher and Gordy Haab in the booth.

A few cues are posted on MySpace. The full score will be released later with the film by director/writer Ryan Nagata and producer George Edelman.

January 28, 2008

The Park City Film Music Festival awards me their highest honor, Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Film Music, and 5 Gold Medals for Musical Excellence for my scores to ROCKETBOY, ENTITY: NINE, FREEDOMLAND, BEYOND THE SILENCE and SHELTER.

Composer Ryan Shore was also presented with the Outstanding Achievement Award, see the press release here: "Outstanding Achievement Awards for Douglas Romayne, Ryan Shore at 2008 PCFMF"

Thank you to PCFMF and to my directors for allowing me to create such uniquely diverse scores. The scores have also been well-received by film music critics, as part of the CD "Expressing the Inexpressible." Below is a quote from music review site KQEK.

“This compilation CD featuring selections from 8 scores by Douglas Romayne is both a superb promo for the composer's skillful writing, and an addictive album...”

pictured above: (front row) 2008 Park City Film Music Festival Filmmaker Liaison Rhea Bouman, Festival Director Leslie Harlow, (back row) composer Hummie Mann, composer Jamie Hall, me (DR), composer Vince Lauria, the Festival's Technical Coordinator and composer Kim Planert.

January 23, 2008

The Park City Film Music Festival invites me to present Directing the Composer at this year's PCFMF Music in Film Seminars.

The workshop was originally created for filmmakers at the Oxford International Film Festival at the request of program director JC Schroder, who invited me to be honored at his festival and speak to attendees. Rather than talk for an hour about my work I prepared for the engagement by interviewing filmmakers about working with composers. Overwhelmingly the filmmakers wanted to know how to speak to - or direct - the composer more effectively. And so the workshop was born.

Click to learn more about the workshop

“I learned more about working with a composer in this one workshop than I did in school.”
Jon Gustafsson, Director, WRATH OF GODS

November 2, 2007

My score to ROCKETBOY is nominated Best Score for a Student Film by The Film & TV Music Academy. The award winners were posted today; Rocketboy is runner-up. Thanks to those who nominated and voted for my score. And, thanks to Justin Guerrieri for the excellent film and to my players, Chris Bleth on winds and M.B. Gordy on percussion, drums and zipper. It's a great honor.

Steven A. Kennedy wrote about the nominated score in Film Score Monthly, “Rocketboy, has a magical, Elfmanian quality.” Mark Hassan of KQEK wrote, “Quirky humour dominates Romayne's score for Rocketboy...recalls some of Danny Elfman's cheeky music for Tim Burton's early comedies.”

Listen to the Rocketboy score here.

“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”   Aldous Huxley

August 27, 2007

Douglas Romayne: Expressing the Inexpressible - Rating: Excellent

“It's hard to come out from under the shadow of a cult TV series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, but this compilation CD featuring selections from 8 scores by Douglas Romayne is both a superb promo for the composer's skillful writing, and an addictive album, particularly for film music fans wanting music with a rich, elegant orchestral sound...”
- Mark R. Hasan, KQEK, 08.27.07. Read the review on MySpace blog.

June 19, 2007
I'm happy to announce the release of EXPRESSING THE INEXPRESSIBLE, a collection of film scores to ROCKETBOY, SUNDAY PAPER, SHELTER, ANTEBODY, FREEDOMLAND, BEYOND THE SILENCE, ENTITY: NINE and THE TRUTH ABOUT FACES. The album of 35 tracks from 8 films is available through distributors CD BABY, iTUNES and starting today, at MovieScore Media's FILM MUSIC DOWNLOADS.

June 15, 2007
Expressing the Inexpressible reviewed in Film Score Monthly!

Douglas Romayne: Expressing the Inexpressible - Rating: 3 1/2 Stars

“...Freedomland…featuring a strong lyrical melody...Rocketboy, has a magical, Elfmanian quality. Again, thematic ideas make the music immediately engaging…a cross between Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Edward Scissorhands…Entity: Nine…features some great action cues…a Goldsmithian rhythmic play with a sound that closely resembles similar scores by Richard Band or Guy Gross' Farscape. The score for Shelter…ambient sound textures and a semi-James Newton Howard feel. Sunday Paper p. 2b…offers another beautifully thematic piece of Americana, with gorgeous flute and oboe solos…Beyond the Silence is…a piano and string-based score featuring a simple melodic idea set against a rich harmonic palette…This album…is a fabulous demonstration of Romayne's ability to create melodic, large-sounding scores in many genres…This release is highly recommended for those interested in hearing a voice that we can only hope will move on to more high profile assignments…”
—Steven A. Kennedy, Film Score Monthly Online, 6.15.07. Read the full review on MySpace blog.