L. A. City Montage 2016 || The Creative Cortex Library Music EP

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ABOUT THIS VIDEO
D4Disgruntled was contracted multiple times to provide original short music cues to various video content created by The Creative Cortex – a video production company. He was given a general direction musically by TCC but nothing specific stylistically. TCC emphasized more the type of emotion they wanted for each scene musically. From there, D4Disgruntled created a wide range of cues, but all having influences from techno, hip-hop, film music and new age ambient.
This Digital Album consists of all the music D4Disgruntled provided to The Creative Cortex over the course of a year and a half as projects came in from them. He is forever indebted to them as TCC gave him his start.

This was an experimental video in which the narrative was about the city as a whole, as though it was a living organism in its own right. So it begins with the city waking up, starting its day, executing its daily activities before retiring for the night to renew for the next day. There is no dialogue but there are sounds of the city and music.

The montage was divided into segments through simple titles added over certain shots. Then, the natural sounds of the city - buses and cars passing by, subway trains, crowds, etc. - were mixed in from our footage. To help aid the narrative and mood of each segment music was added. To give it that final shine, the color and exposure levels of the footage was altered to give it some character.

MUSIC PRODUCTION CREDITS
Music Composed and Performed by: D4Disgruntled
Mixed & Engineered by: D4Disgruntled
Artwork by: D4Disgruntled
All Intellectual Property, Copyrights and Licenses are owned by: D4Disgruntled.
All rights reserved.

About The Making Of This Video:
1. The video shot by both my camera guy J. Emanuel Stuart and myself, M. C. Hightshoe. There is an equal balance of his footage and mine. James used the Canon 70D, I used the T3i with a few shots from a previous year or two shot on a Nikon an HTC One mobile phone. Those shots make up 1% of the montage.

2. We shot in the reverse order from which the footage is presented - aah the magic of editing.

3. Some stabilization of the hand-held video was necessary to provide smooth movement.

4. The editing and post enhancements were executed by M. C. Hightshoe (me).

5. The music was composed. performed and recorded by M. C. Hightshoe (me) using MIDI.

Cameras: J. Emanuel Stuart & Matthew C. Hightshoe
Editing, Post Clean-Up and Music: Matthew C. Hightshoe