arispool (Member)

Everyone's talking about the Lost finale all over this wide internet, and we barely need speak of it here. But one thing that could have been improved: the music. It was so standard soundtrack-y! Swells, crescendos, strings, so on, so forth. It sounded like Jurassic Park! It sounded like so much other garbaaaaage I hear all the time when people are making "monumental" cinematic achievements! (I refer to Lost as cinema because even though it's a television show, the scope of the production, the fact that it was filmed on location, and the base in character development made the whole thing feel like a 6 year film.)

Which got me thinking "What in the FMA is good for soundtracks?" As you must know, every track on here is available for use as a soundtrack to a film of your own devising, as long as you don't make money off of it. Creative Commons is awesome like that. So, let's make a movie, as they say! Here's a hypothetical treatment I've just cobbled together, after the jump.

Scene opens. Twenty characters are sitting in a bare white room, perfectly still, dressed in white, as the credits are superimposed over them in white block type. We hear:

Stuff is kind of creepy. As the credits end, a female character sitting in the middle, to the left, stands up and proclaims, "What are we all sitting here for! This is a party!" Cheers erupt, and people jump out of their seats, knocking down the flimsy folding chairs. We hear this boogie:

The song ends, and the characters all kind of look at each other, wondering what's next. They look towards the female who instigated the dance party. She looks at the ground. So one character takes a seat on the ground, and the others follow, making a circle, holding hands, and they begin to hum. The camera pans around the circle, examining the face of each character slowly as they hum, eyes closed. Then this begins to play:

They all slowly open their eyes and look towards one corner of the room, a room we haven't seen before, somehow. There is a white door, and it is ajar, and there is a white light coming through it. They all stand and form a straight line behind the initial female character. They walk towards the door and slowly leave. Fade to black. Ending credits roll to a sad spiritual like this one:

I think that was Oscar material, or at least something that would really get the heiresses going at Cannés. As long as I don't make a profit off of it, I won't have to pay any music licensing fees! Isn't filmmaking the jam?