Ideas for TAXI TV Topics

[admin]

Hi Lamar,

Rob has already said yes to that idea, but we've had a hard time scheduling it because he's been so busy making Grammy winning records! I could literally hit his roof top with a well-thrown baseball from our back yard, but busy lives gets in the way of us seeing each other. But we WILL do a remote from his studio in 2017!

Ralph will be back in April, and I'm looking forward to that. He's such a deep well of info that in 25 years of knowing him, I still learn great stuff every time we hang out.

best,
Michael

[LamarPecorino]

That's great news on both counts! I'll be looking forward to them. Also thanks for archiving the shows. Most of the time, its the only way that I can watch them.

[mojobone]

Far less people want to learn than want their music heard.

Yeah, I was in the ballroom and it was epic. I'm wondering if we could maybe gin up a few mockup scenes/commercials; borrow a GoPro and a couple of drama students, maybe something could be done with that?

[hummingbird]

Oh this isn't really a taxitv topic I guess but reading Mojo's post made me wish we had a little TAXI film scoring contest with the top 5 shown at the rally..... but then we'd need judges and stuff - it all gets too complicated!!

[Lipskimusic]

How about the following:

- Before and After: Maybe some members can show both an early and a later version of a song, i.e. one version that first got rejected and after some refinement was forwarded (obviously along with the comments why the first version got rejected).

- Taxi Office Tour How it all started, a typical day in the life of Michael asf.

- I think it has been done before but why not doing another session with an accomplished member developing e.g. a short simple instrumental cue in 'real time' during the show.

Just my five cents.

Cheers,
Matt

[mojobone]

Oh this isn't really a taxitv topic I guess but reading Mojo's post made me wish we had a little TAXI film scoring contest with the top 5 shown at the rally..... but then we'd need judges and stuff - it all gets too complicated!!

Well, the chat room can judge if it's done on TTV; the difficulty would be in finding a strapped-for-cash independent filmmaker with say, a five-minute short that a bunch of us could score for free...oh, wait; maybe not so difficult.

[jdstamper]

As mentioned above by others, I'd really like to see a music editor in action - not just talking about it, but actually on a workstation editing music into a scene, selecting cues to fit the scene, selecting which parts of the cues to include, maybe using alt mixes, setting the levels with dialog, etc. My preference would be to see an editor working on a reality show more so than a movie, but either would be great.

This is something I've never been able to find on YouTube or elsewhere.

Thanks for asking!

Jim

[Casey H]

As mentioned above by others, I'd really like to see a music editor in action - not just talking about it, but actually on a workstation editing music into a scene, selecting cues to fit the scene, selecting which parts of the cues to include, maybe using alt mixes, setting the levels with dialog, etc. My preference would be to see an editor working on a reality show more so than a movie, but either would be great.

This is something I've never been able to find on YouTube or elsewhere.

Thanks for asking!

Jim

They had a session like this at the last road rally.

[Danny]

Michael,

While we are on the Taxi TV topic, is there any reason why you can't go direct with the audio that you play on the episodes?

It just seems that with all of the technology out there, the music can be directly injected into the video feed.

If you already spoke about this, pardon the question. I must have missed it.

[Paulie]

I'd like to see another episode that features forwarded music only in a variety of genres. Not returns, just forwards.

Specifically I'd like to hear instrumental forwards in the Hip Hop/Trap category, as well as EDM, tension and urban dramedy. And for balance it would also be cool to hear some vocal forwards in a few popular categories.

Maybe ten minutes of each category to feature 3 forwards with time for comments and discussion. Personally, I get bit by the "melody could be more compelling" return... I would like to hear what a compelling hip hop instrumental melody sounds like. I also think it would help newer members understand exactly what is meant by "adding and subtracting musical elements for variety" means.