About the FFVII:AC soundtrack...

[Marvelous-Shiva]

I'm so exceited now that they've told the releasal date! I just hope they don't postpone it again. Its so cool that they're incorporating rock into it as apposed to their games. The only thing that would make all of this better would be to relase it in theatures but that's been declaired a no-no, or so it seems. Well I just hope that u ppl rn't right when u say that Cloud will be the character to die... my heart wouldn't be able to take it lol. What if its just the obvious guess though and Seph dies b/c if u remember he died a tthe end of ff7 (but then again he was dead to begin w/ and how can u kill the undead?).

[Nova Briar]

I'm happy it's not Vincent who's slated to die! And I was going to ask a question about Vincent here, but I think I'll put it in another thread.

I wouldn't be surprised if Sephy dies (again) because he's a "bad guy", and bad guys usually die at the end of most storylines...in fact, he's practically doomed to get killed off, if you really think about it. Point being, it wouldn't be such a shocker as if Cloud died...not that I want Cloud to die, or anything.

I guess they could kill Sephy if he's using another cloned body the way some people think...kill the body, kill Sephy, ya know? Though he does seem absurdly difficult to get rid of...makes me think of Seymour in FFX. (I can't even remember how many times I had to kill him off...)

Oh, and thanks for the welcome, Cloud Strider. Much appreciated!

Nova Briar

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Stay on-topic.

[Nova Briar]

Stay on-topic.

*salutes* Sorry about that! Apologies... :riiight: No, seriously--am sorry about that. Won't happen again.

In other news--assuming everyone isn't all talked out regarding the AC soundtrack, which is possible, since not everyone's a musician, and not every musician's music-obsessed like me--I found this article on the net today, apparently based off an interview with Uematsu last year.

It had quite a few interesting tidbits. For instance, it reports that Uematsu stated AC's soundtrack would include rock, classical and folk music (folk? ) and that he was actually not planning on using much music from VII. The three original tracks the article claimed he was considering using were One Winged Angel, Aeris' Theme and the Main Theme.

Of course, this article is a little over a year old now, so things could definitely have changed since then...*shrugs*

Nova Briar

[amratis]

HA HA! So he *is* going to use Aeris's Theme, well as long as he uses that I dont what else he uses.

[Nova Briar]

So you wouldn't care if it was a kinda yucky version, like (no offense intended) Pure Heart? O_O

Nova Briar

[Destai]

I think I remember that interview, The whole movie business was kind've new to him and alot of the rest of the staff so they were open to alot of options. I still think Ac will be full of old tracks.

[Nova Briar]

Well, like I said--the article was a year old. And I definitely wouldn't mind if they stuck with basically the VII soundtrack. Don't get me wrong, I like folk music (I'm a huge fan of Appalachian folk music) but I kind of wondered how on earth they'd fit folk music in with something like AC anyway.

Nova Briar

[Sefie1999AD]

Many movies use music in the trailers that is never used in the movie itself. This happens for various reasons. For example, the composer might not be done with his work yet, or s/he doesn't want to spoil people about what kind of music there will be in the movie.

Nobuo Uematsu has used One-Winged Angel from FFVII Reunion and Final Fantasy VII Main Theme from FFVII Piano Collections so many times in the trailers that while it is possible for those themes to appear again during the Advent Children, that doesn't mean they'll be played there for sure.

Since Uematsu has left Square Enix for now, I think he's already finished composing FFVII AC's soundtrack. According to an interview, Tetsuya Nomura is inserting the music into the movie. If there will be new scenes that need new music to be composed there, Square Enix will probably ask some other composer to help Uematsu there. It could be Hitoshi Sakimoto (who's doing the music for FFXII) or someone else, though I'd hope for Yoko Shimomura myself. She can arrange Nobuo Uematsu's songs very well, and her arrangement of One-Winged Angel in Kingdom Hearts is superb.

I think I heard some audio clips from some screening festival event, but I can't remember much of it. IIRC, the music is quite different from FFVII. The melodies feel somewhat familiar, but I still can't really recognize them. Possible AC SpoilerThe flashback scene between Cloud and Aeris had a soft theme that reminded me of Aeris' theme, but it still didn't have the same melody.

Rock and folk music, eh? It will be interesting to see how well that works out. I still hope Uematsu will put some epic, dramatic, emotional and FF-ish tunes into the movie too, and not just rock songs for action scenes.

[Nova Briar]

Hmm...so that's who arranged One Winged Angel in KH? I hadn't been able to peg a name with the track until now. Thanks! If the rest of her work (which I'm sure I've heard some of without realizing it) is as good as that, I'd be glad to have her on the AC sountrack team.

I think I heard some audio clips from some screening festival event, but I can't remember much of it. IIRC, the music is quite different from FFVII. The melodies feel somewhat familiar, but I still can't really recognize them.

I'll be a little disappointed if some of my faves aren't included in the final version of AC, but I still hold out high hopes for the AC soundtrack. Even it's mostly a disappointment for me (the way the FFX soundtrack was), I should still walk away with one or two songs I love (like "To Zanarkand", with the FFX example). And where did you manage to find audio clips from a screening, anyway? The most I've heard of the movie is what I can listen to in the trailers...

And I'm sure that there will be epic, emotional songs in there somewhere...if there weren't, the movie wouldn't make much sense. (*Pictures rock music while (SPOILER)Cloud and Aeris talk to each other in the flower patch and falls over laughing*)
But anyway...um...yeah.

Nova Briar

[Cloud_Strider]

The music will all be orchestrated, and HOPEFULLY, most of our favorite songs from 7 will be in it, such as music from Rocket Town, Midgar, etc...

And I'm picturing One Winged Angel being like an opening... Maybe with newly done scenes of flashbacks of the orig. game.. like when Aeris dies, Weapon, Meteor... stuff like that...

[Sefie1999AD]

Hmm...so that's who arranged One Winged Angel in KH? I hadn't been able to peg a name with the track until now. Thanks! If the rest of her work (which I'm sure I've heard some of without realizing it) is as good as that, I'd be glad to have her on the AC sountrack team.

Yoko Shimomura has composed music for several Squaresoft games, and I think the most known soundtracks she's composed are Super Mario RPG, Legend of Mana, Parasite Eve I, Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. She has also rearranged some of Uematsu's songs, and they sound pretty good, suiting the game well and still keeping the song's original feel. These songs include the Prelude, Fight 2 (FF4's boss theme), Fanfare and One-Winged Angel. The first three were used in Super Mario RPG, and OWA was used in KH. She also made some pretty good arrangements of many Disney themes in KH, and the classical music piece "Night on Bald Mountain" in KH.

I'll be a little disappointed if some of my faves aren't included in the final version of AC, but I still hold out high hopes for the AC soundtrack. Even it's mostly a disappointment for me (the way the FFX soundtrack was), I should still walk away with one or two songs I love (like "To Zanarkand", with the FFX example). And where did you manage to find audio clips from a screening, anyway? The most I've heard of the movie is what I can listen to in the trailers...

The music was pretty good in those audio clips, even though I couldn't recognize the melodies. I don't know where I got those audio clips, and I don't have them anymore. I tried searching them online yesterday, but they were nowhere to be found.

And I'm sure that there will be epic, emotional songs in there somewhere...if there weren't, the movie wouldn't make much sense. (*Pictures rock music while (SPOILER)Cloud and Aeris talk to each other in the flower patch and falls over laughing*)
But anyway...um...yeah.

Yasunori Mitsuda or Vangelis could use music like that, but not Nobuo Uematsu. His music has always worked well with FF games, so I'm sure he'll be able to compose something appropriate for the movie. I just hope he chooses orchestral style rather than synthesized rock style. Movies with a fully orchestral score just feel more "professional", not to mention epic (try imagining LotR movies with metal music ).

What I'm slightly worried is that Uematsu composed music for what he thought would be about a 60-70 minutes long movie. However, if the movie really does become over 90 minutes long like Tetsuya Nomura predicted, that'd mean the movie needs additional 20 minutes of music composed.

[Nova Briar]

Ooh! I really enjoyed the Legend of Mana and KH soundtracks. (Never played Parasite Eve...) Now that I have a better idea of who we're talking about, I agree with you--she'd be a great choice to polish up the AC soundtrack to high-quality stuff. The other composer you mentioned before--Hitoshi Sakimoto--was he one of the people who assisted on the soundtrack for FFX? (These Japanese names never stick in my mind... O.o)

No audio clips, eh? Oh well...I'm sure I can wait.

LotR movies with metal music, eh? Seriously, though, I can see what you mean by synth rock music being inappropriate. I don't think that it'll be that way, though...surely someone on the AC team at Squeenix could see how much better orchestrated music would be. And if they can't, they're being paid waaaay too much. :rolleyes2 Maybe, if they have twenty extra minutes of music-less footage, someone like Shimomura can revamp some of the AC music (or even the original VII music) to fit in.

The music will all be orchestrated, and HOPEFULLY, most of our favorite songs from 7 will be in it, such as music from Rocket Town, Midgar, etc...

Well, if the group visits any places with their own distinctive music (ie Rocket Town), the VII music for that area would be very helpful to clue us in on what location we're looking at. But from what I've seen on the trailers, it's hard to tell if they even go that far from Midgar during AC. So I guess we'll have to wait and see...

Nova Briar

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Hitoshi Sakimoto has been a main composer for Treasure Hunter G, Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Final Fantasy XII, and various games in the Ogre Battle/Tactics Ogre series. He's great.

[amratis]

So you wouldn't care if it was a kinda yucky version, like (no offense intended) Pure Heart? O_O

Nova Briar

No I'd mind if it was a yucky, corny version. But I trust that it won't be, I'm sure he's a better composer then that. Just for the record Nova I'm a musician too. Play 3 instruments

amra