Brian has completed his work on scoring the film Crooked Arrows. The film will have a limited theatrical release on May 18th in some specific lacrosse focused markets and then on June 1st…the film will be released in hundreds of theaters nationwide.

If you would like to read more, the official film website is at: www.crookedarrows.com
and if you would like to help spread the word to your facebook friends, the film’s facebook page is at: www.facebook.com/crookedarrows

Coming to Theaters nationwide on May 18th.

Nice mention at the Film Music Reporter that Brian is currently scoring the upcoming sports drama Crooked Arrows. The movie directed by Steve Rash (Can’t Buy Me Love, The Buddy Holly Story) follows a rag-tag Native American high school lacrosse team that is forced to join the elite New York Prep League, which is comprised of better trained and equipped rivals. The film starring Brandon Routh, Gil Birmingham, Crystal Allen and Chelsea Ricketts is written by Brad Riddell and Todd Baird. J. Todd Harris (Bottle Shock) and Mitchell Peck (Priest) are producing the project, which is co-produced by Sports Studio (Miracle). Brian will be recording his Native American influenced score with the Hollywood Studio Symphony next month. Crooked Arrows will be released in theaters this spring.

Original Air Date: October 1, 2011
This Episode: SCOREcast Episode 31: Total Request (Sorta) LIVE!
Co-hosts: Deane Ogden & Brian Ralston
SCOREcast theme composed by: Jeroen “Kejero” Rogier
SCOREcast announcer: Jeff Rechner
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In this episode, the boys answer your questions in our very first social media-centric episode of SCOREcast. Nothing is sacred—topics include samples versus live instruments, composer copyright issues, dealing with your first film project, handling directors, where to live when starting a film scoring career, and much, much more. We’ll also give you a sneak peek into what we have planned for SCOREcast’s 5th Anniversary, and how you can get the full scoop coming up on what’s ahead for the website and podcast. Check it out!

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Original Air Date: September 18, 2011
This Episode: SCOREcast Session: Music Editing AVATAR
Co-hosts: Brian Ralston
SCOREcast theme composed by: Jeroen “Kejero” Rogier
SCOREcast announcer: Jeff Rechner
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In this SCOREcast Session episode originally recorded on June 4, 2011, Brian Ralston sat down with composer James Horner’s long-time music editor Jim Henrikson and Cuetime software developer and music editor Dan Brock to discuss the role of the music editor in the Hollywood feature filmmaking process. Get ready for an incredibly entertaining episode full of stories from some of filmmaking’s greatest moments, including a behind-the-scenes rundown on how the music for James Cameron’s 3D sensation Avatar was recorded. This is one episode you will not want to miss!

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Very exciting news regarding the Sci-Fi short film VOYAGER that Brian scored as part of the University of Arizona film scoring workshop back in April. VOYAGER has been accepted into the largest short film festival in the world for its world premiere. The prestigious Los Angeles International Short Film Festival later this month.

Brian is extremely excited to have contributed the score to this impressive project. The last film Brian scored that premiered at the LA Shorts fest was The Rece!pt in 2005 which went on to win Best Comedy at that festival, qualifying it for Academy consideration in 2005.

Click the play button below to see the trailer stream from Vimeo:

Voyager Trailer from Jared Potter on Vimeo.

Trailer for the short film Voyager. Directed by Jared Potter.

Official Selection LA Shorts Fest 2011

Jared Potter’s sci-fi film Voyager has a new “one sheet” poster. Take a look. Exciting festival premiere news coming soon!

Voyager One Sheet

Brian’s recent trip to Arizona to conduct the film scoring workshop and live scoring session was a complete success. Director Jared Potter’s film VOYAGER will premiere at the Fox Theater in downtown Tucson on Saturday, May 14th at 7pm. Below is a little teaser of Brian’s score edited together with live footage from one of the sessions in AZ.

Brian has been invited to speak next week, April 15th at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. The University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film & Television, the Hanson Film Institute an Xerox presents a film scoring seminar/workshop and recording session to be headlined by Brian on April 15th, 2011. The presentation will take place in the Harvell Bldg, Room 104 at 10:30am – 12:00 noon and is open to all students. Followed by a pizza lunch. At 1:30pm – 5:00pm, a live demonstration film scoring recording session will take place in the School of Music recording studio, music room 57 (basement). NOTE: Due to limited space in the recording studio, to attend the recording session, you must have signed up for a 30-minute slot during the previous session.

Many thanks to Dan Brock who has put a lot of time and effort in organizing this event, to the U of Az School of Theater, Film & Television, professor Jeff Haskell and the School of Music and Wiley Ross from the U of Arizona recording studio.

U of AZ Film Scoring Seminar flyer

The film Don’t Fade Away which stars Ryan Kwanten, Beau Bridges and Mischa Barton and features a score by Brian is set to have its DVD release in Australia on April 6, 2011 through Ovation Entertainment. The film is directed by Luke Kasdan. The film’s star Ryan Kwanten, known to many from his role as Jason Stackhouse in HBO’s True Blood is a native of Australia. This is the first English-speaking territory where the DVD has been officially announced. The film will have a U.S. release on DVD this summer, though the date has yet to be announced.

Author and writer Randall Larson interviewed Brian and co-composer Kays Alatrakchi about their work on scoring the SyFy original movie Battle of Los Angeles which premiered on the channel March 12, 2011. The article is called, “Music for a Mockbuster: Scoring the Other Battle of L.A.” Larson contributed “The Score” column to Cinefantastique magazine from 1983 to 1999. He is the author of Musique Fantastique, A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema (1984) and Music from the House of Hammer (1996), Larson also published CinemaScore: The Film Music Journal during the 1980s. He currently writes a bi-weekly film music column for buysoundtrax.com, reviews horror soundtrack CDs for Cemetery Dance magazine, writes for Music from the Movies and Film Music magazines, and writes soundtrack CD liner note books. His well crafted column/interview with Brian and Kays discussed the process they went through in scoring the almost wall-to-wall musical score which started back in November 2010. Larson is also including part of this interview in his upcoming 4 volume book on Science fiction film music.

The SyFy ratings are in and like the Asylum’s B-Sci-Fi flicks or not, nearly 2.2 million viewers were tracked for the Battle of LA premiere. This marks the third Syfy Saturday Original Movie to shatter the two million viewers mark so far in 2011, joining Mega Python Vs Gatoroid (2.35 million) and Behemoth (2.16 million).

Brian recently scored a SyFy Original Movie that will premiere on the SyFy channel March 12.

A little promo/trailer has been put out by SyFy and can be seen below. Be sure to check it out when it premieres Saturday evening March 12 on the SyFy channel.

Original Air Date: February 25, 2011
This Episode: Episode No 29: Christopher Lennertz
Co-hosts: Deane Ogden and Brian Ralston
SCOREcast theme composed by: Jeroen “Kejero” Rogier
SCOREcast announcer: Jeff Rechner
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Chipmunks, Spartans, and bunny rabbits——Oh my!! In our 29th episode, Emmy-nominated composer Christopher Lennertz (Alvin and the Chipmunks, Marmaduke, Hop!) stops in to hang out with Deane and Brian and talk about everything from scoring features, games, and television to didgeridoos and chocolate bunny rabbits! The boys also discuss a new film music financing model that is gaining traction in industry circles, and they continue the ongoing discussion of the proposed composers union in order to highlight a few very interesting recent developments. If this episode sounds like it is packed to the gills, that’s because IT IS! Hunker down and take it all in!

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Original Air Date: January 31, 2011
This Episode: 2011 NAMM Wrap-Up Episode
Co-hosts: Deane Ogden and Brian Ralston
SCOREcast theme composed by: Jeroen “Kejero” Rogier
SCOREcast announcer: Jeff Rechner
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In our very first SCOREcast Session episode, Deane and Brian go in-depth with their impressions from this year’s NAMM Show. Utilizing a different format in this episode, the boys walk you through the hits and misses from the convention floor and also answer a few listener emails from last months regular episode. If you were at NAMM this year, you’ll appreciate the more detailed descriptions of some of the items that were highlighted during our 2011 NAMM Video Series. If you weren’t in Anaheim, get your notepad ready… You won’t want to miss some of these killer products coming out in 2011!

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