Soundtrack Shocker !!!!!!!

[MTR]

It just occurred to me the way the scores are composed for Drama's like Sejong and the deluge of pop songs that are inserted .
Going back to Japan and the venerable Taiga Drama i read an interview with Ennio Morricone who composed the great score for the 2003 Stinker Musashi .
The way it works is the composer is given a script for the first few episodes and a general synopsis from that he composes the main theme and several themes for various characters ect and thats it job done .
A Soundtrack album is also released .
As the drama moves along the pop ballads are added and either the main composer or usually some in house struggling musso is bought in to add some more themes or variations of existing themes but none off this stuff makes it to the OST ,Aside from the fact its probably out already but also copyright .
OST for both Korean and JP drama's also are usually not the same as what's on screen the composer usually cranks out two versions on for tv and the other for cd .
I have no idea why they do it this way but its very common practice not just in Asia but here and in Europe too .

[ajk]

That actually would explain a lot, dyc. For one thing, it explains why the later-episodes music that I was looking for isn’t on the CD. It would also explain why we didn’t hear any pop stuff in the series until three-fourths of the way through (ep63). And not only that, one of the three pop songs on the CD, I swear I did not hear it even once at any time in the entire series. So if the pop songs were selected for the series and put on the CD before they were actually used in an episode, then that could explain the mystery song.

Frankly, if they’re going to handle the CD like that, they shouldn’t call it an OST at all. Call it the “companion CD” or something, and then come out with a true OST when the series ends.

What bothered me the most about those pop tunes was that they always used them to try to take the edge off of tragic scenes. I’ve read stories about movie studios that screen their films for test audiences before releasing them, and if the test audience thinks the film’s ending was too dark, they’ll redo the ending and make it more upbeat (even if it means departing from a book that was the source material for the film). It seemed like that was exactly what was happening here. Maybe it was because of the low ratings, but whatever the reason, it was like the producers suddenly didn’t want us to feel any more sorrow or anguish or sense of loss. Of course, all that does is make the successes and triumphs in the story less powerful too. And maybe including pop songs helps sell a few more copies of the CD, but if that’s the strategy then they should at least try to find better places in the series to use the songs.

One thing that I’m going to do now that we have a break between historicals is watch the DVD of the HBO “John Adams” miniseries. You think I’ll hear any Britney Spears in the background? I’d better not; I don’t care if she’s singing about federalism and the separation of powers (oooh, baby, lemme see your veto). That would be about as bad as what KBS did. Okay, maybe a little worse, but you get the idea.

[MTR]

I Once had the dreaded pops in seoul on and the ever hyper VJ Kim Isak (real name Irma Simmons !!!!!its true )was bobbing up and down and spouting 100 words per minute ,anyway she played a Music Vid from Sejong and talked about how she had interviewed the composer and he bragged he had never seen a single scene from any drama he composed music for .
Of course at that point the never ending Isak (at the time i had a choice between pops in seoul a Palin speech ,an old soccer game from the 70's or the usual the worlds gonna end in 2012 crap from the History Channel so it was pops ) burst into a seizure and collapsed into a gibbering mess .....no no just wishful thinking .

[MTR]

Now we have duplication
there is a cue in Sejong that is more than close to one in Dae Jang Geum
others that bear much more than a passing cue or two
KINGDOM OF THE WINDS --- /LEGEND/ FIRST KING /4 GODS
YI SAN ------SEO DON YEO (in fact these two scores are pretty much the same )

[jojo]

Anyone know if the OST CD comes with a booklet?

thanks

[kathleen34]

Jan 23, 2009 12:17:49 GMT -5 jojo said:

Anyone know if the OST CD comes with a booklet?

thanks

Yes jojo, there is a 10-page colored booklet with the OST CD. There are lyrics included for Tracs 1, 2, and 3 ... and of course they're in Korean. It's a lovely booklet. I received it this week.