Pirooz and his partner, Sohee, spent a week in New York City seeing the sites, developing the script, and celebrating their recent marriage with friends. Around mid-week, we filmed a table-read of the script to look at the dialogue and timing, and hosted another reading on Friday to hear the results of our tweaks and changes. The scene rhythm is really coming together after many months of research and adaptation. Many thanks to the talented actors who read for their nuanced take on THW characters.
Pirooz and I also met with Frank Ewing of Downtown Harvest to brainstorm about the film's score and musical voice. Frank is from my home state of Pennsylvania, near Philly, and we hit it off instantly. My partner, Dayana, and I have a vintage Yamaha Electone C-55 organ that we picked up for free from a church in Jersey, and Frank just started rocking out to the Beatles, playing bass with the foot pedals and jamming on the double-decker keyboard. Later, he started playing with musical themes based our mood descriptions of the film, and the results were amazing. He and Pirooz have a great rapport, and we hope to trade score ideas and themes over video chat as we push toward production.
We got Pirooz and Sohee to the airport just before the biggest snowstorm of the year blew onto the Eastern Seaboard. The gods are truly with us!
Set in 2003, The Human War covers a day in the life of a teen in Youngstown, Ohio who discovers and reacts to the declaration of the Iraq War.
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