Our images comes through our ears

At Fabricated Crime, we are constantly listening to music. We are passionate about it and powers a lot of our daily work. Sonic inspiration for us comes from a wide and diverse array of musical interests. All music genres are invited to our ears but some just don't make the cut. Of course, we have our favorites. Nothing will ever top Argentina's Soda Stereo and Gustavo Cerati. There will be no punk like Discharge. We could write volumes on why Soda Stereo, but another day.

While we always had music around us, we started adding tracks to our AI-driven storyboards for film concepts. Somehow they blended. A character was born and immediately: "What should be playing?". Many times are the opposite: "This song, how it should look like?"

When the music comes first, it is when it really shines. AI might be our paintbrush but the creativity is triggered by sounds. Music we crop and splice the scenes to.

And now, some examples of the music we selected and where they ended up.

Zugzwang: The Seixas Reel

When Bridget Stokes gave us the script to Zugzwang we were not sure what to do. It was a noir with no time or place. Where do we begin? Where and when do we put the character?

After immersing ourselves in the story, we honed in the quest, the search. What is the character looking for? Where was she going? Plus, there was so much Portuguese sprinkled around. Ah! Raul Seixas should be the one here.

The rarely, if ever, heard father of Brazilian rock n' roll. His train ride related song Metro Linha 743 was the perfect choice for the trailer!

Since then, we have placed the main character in Cuba to the hip hop of Orishas and continued the search with the little known track from The Who, The Seeker.

Roller Suzie: The Siouxsie Reel

Roller Suzie is Fabricated Crime's micro-reel about a defeated roller derby star. It is an examination of showing expressions of sadness and loss through AI. Not to replace and actor but to convey in a storyboard how a performer should interpret the character.

In the story, her team lost and the winning team was going to celebrate later but Suzie is not sure if she is going. For this one, we decided Siouxsie & The Banshees' Kiss Them for Me would be perfect. A song about Jane Mansfield arriving, or never arriving, to a party.

And others

As music is so important for us, every reel we make, every storyboard we put together has tracks that accompany it. Sometimes we have cut them to an entire song, like Sister Beretta© background video. That one is to Saga's On The Loose.

Our projects have featured anything from Danzig to very early Roxy Music.

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