“There is always red tape around songs. Part of it is I do a lot of projects that are hip hop based, so always, you’re finding a writer who has 2%. You’re like, where are they? And you’re on Instagram and you’re trying Twitter, you’re really trying to do that. Even now with pop music being so many writers, producers contributing, and samples, all this stuff is complicated.”
“The reason why there are two DPs on it is because there’s so much to shoot every day. So you couldn’t physically be in two places at the same time. It’s in real-time, so when they get up in the morning right through to when they go to sleep at night, filming them essentially.”
Cinematographer Jeffrey C. Mygatt on how to get a 12-hour day done in 10.
“We’re having the most fun when we write something that goes really hard. I think part of going hard is we also go hard in the feels department.”
Twisted Metal is a success story for video game adaptations, and it was all shot by cinematographer James McMillan and his “pit crew.”
“I love this project so much because it hits all the things that I love to put into scores, which is weird and zany, funky things, just fun textures and layers that’s not always melody.”
“When Ted and John pass a bong back and forth, you have to have a little bit of a handoff from a real prop to a digital one when Ted grabs it. We try to overlap that as much as we can, so that it’s seamless, but the artists do such a great job with the water simmering in the bong and the smoke.”
Some actors are just enjoyable to listen to, especially when they got juicy lines; Pierce falls into that exclusive camp.
