Gregg: It's All a Game

So in an effort to learn how to score for video, discovered The Cue Tube: a website dedicated to providing learning composers fully-edited, professional video to put our creations over. Better than that, every month they have a contest the winners of which get a review by the primary educators at The Cue Tube, which is great fun to watch.

I entered a contest for Gregg: It's All a Game<. This video is a fast-paced, dynamic edit of greed, ambition and overstimulation. Everything is from the perspective of the valueless win/lose prospect of video games, blurring into the fast-money world that "Gregg," the heedless Capitalist, occupies. That is, until someone interrupts his flow...

Right from the word go, I saw this as fundamentally a music video. The kind of thing Guy Ritchie would produce: aggressive, masculine, ego-driven action. Obviously much sillier than that. But that was the vibe I wanted to play off of.

Listening back, I could definitely have scaled back the music, which is crowding out the monolog. But I liked the way the music cut together on this one, so I guess I didn't mind at the time. Live and learn!