With the rise of the internet, texting and social media and a sense of impersonality has overwhelmed communication. Even most cellphone users are more keen on texting than answering calls, which most often hit voicemail rather than being answered by a person. Tony Shaff’s documentary “Hotline” looks at this shift in communication through the still prevalent and important tool of help hotlines, where a personal, intimate touch is everything. The film screened at Doc NYC recently and is now available on iTunes and VOD, Shaff and his composer Jess Stroup (“Camp X-Ray”) got together for The Playlist to talk about the doc and their approach to music as such. Their conversation is below. The Inspiration Tony Shaff: After years of production on “Hotline,” being immersed in the relationships that people have with talking with strangers on the telephone, I knew that the score would be so important because...
- 11/21/2014
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
When we listed Jess Stroup as an honorable mention in our feature On The Rise 2014: 12 Film Composers To Watch, it was based off his work in the upcoming drama "Camp X-Ray." His unique contributions to the film caught our ear and lingered long after "Camp X-Ray" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and today we have an exclusive preview of his score for the film, so you can get a sense of what put Stroup on our radar. Starring Kristen Stewart and Payman Maadi, "Camp X-Ray" follows a young woman who joins the military and winds up stationed at Guantanamo Bay. Once there, she strikes up an unlikely friendship with one of the detainees. It's provocative, powerful stuff, but Stroup didn't want to hold the audience's hand with his music. “The most challenging part about scoring 'Camp X-Ray' was to avoid leading the viewer too much emotionally,...
- 10/9/2014
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
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