{"id":3628,"date":"2013-06-25T09:16:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T21:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2013-06-25T09:16:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T21:16:53","slug":"play-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/play-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Play It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gramophone_record\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/98\/Emile_Berliner_with_phonograph.jpg\/795px-Emile_Berliner_with_phonograph.jpg\" width=\"795\" height=\"599\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever since I naively put together a soundtrack for my first screenplay, music has been a big part of my world building &#8211; sketching in the where, when and how, throwing in some characters, and seeing\/writing what happens next. My iTunes has numerous project playlists &#8211; and they&#8217;re synched to the iPod so that I can get into that project space whilst driving or running.<\/p>\n<p>I have difficulty in hearing the lyrics of a song on first listen so having a playlist at my fingertips allows me to figure out what the words are.\u00a0 Sometimes the selection of a song whose title seems like a good match is a wash.\u00a0 Other times, repeated listenings reveal lyrics that really speak to the project.<\/p>\n<p>Take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfmamea.com\/projects\/#skyblue\">Skyblue<\/a>: originally developed as a television show, it&#8217;s set in a kind of prison so it was important that there be a ray of hope for its occupants. Then I heard this whilst trying out <em>Fly My Pretties<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 300px; height: 100px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/track=1948324041\/size=grande\/bgcol=FFFFFF\/linkcol=0687f5\/\" height=\"100\" width=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Something about the opening guitar work made me add it to the playlist.\u00a0 Then I noticed the title of the song.\u00a0 Then I heard the lyrics.\u00a0 It was win-win-win for me.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very unlikely the playlists I have will survive through to production but that&#8217;s okay:\u00a0 until then, they&#8217;re a comforting companion on the journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I naively put together a soundtrack for my first screenplay, music has been a big part of my world building &#8211; sketching in the where, when and how, throwing in some characters, and seeing\/writing what happens next. My iTunes has numerous project playlists &#8211; and they&#8217;re synched to the iPod so that I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/play-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Play It&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[956,955,958,967,236,957],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting","tag-catch-the-light","tag-fly-my-pretties","tag-music","tag-playlist","tag-skyblue","tag-soundtrack"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3666,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}