Posted: April 30, 2021/07:05 PM MDT / Updated: April 30, 2021/19:14 PM MDT
(DOUG JESSOP’S JESSOP’S JOURNAL – ABC4 NEWS – SALT LAKE CITY, UT) Video games have always had some kind of sound to enhance the experience. From the beeping sound of “Pong” (yeah, I’m showing my age) to today’s full orchestras, it’s clear that music is an integral part of the video game experience.
In this episode of Jessop’s Journal, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Chance Thomas. Yes, Chance is his real name. You will have to look at history to find out the origin of its name.
Not only is Chance Thomas a prolific music composer for video games, movies, and TV shows, he literally wrote “the book” on how to do this for a living, “Composing Music for Games : the art, technology and business of video game music. »
You may know his work and not even realize it. Chance is the guy who created the music for Lord of the Rings Online as well as James Cameron’s Avatar video games. Yeah, those little projects. He even has an Emmy and an Oscar.
I have to admit that a big part of the reason for this interview is because of my youngest son, who as a child would make me listen to music and guess where it came from, then he would smile and tell me that was from one of his video games.
In my opinion, a lot of video games are a form of escapism where you have to have some “suspension of belief”. Chance gave me the perfect example when we talked about a project he worked on that featured dinosaurs coming your way. Last time I checked, there weren’t many microphones when the dinosaurs were walking around in Vernal, Utah. You can see their bones now, but people really don’t know what they looked like.
What do you think a dinosaur coming towards you looks like? Chance described being in the mountains working on this project and seeing two trees swinging from each other. He was thinking; “This is what would happen if a dinosaur. I imagine this thing is getting closer and closer. Footsteps, knocks, knocks. Imagine what it would be like if my house was shaking. What if a T-Rex poked its head through those trees right now and yelled at me?
You could say that Chase is a method actor. As he said; “You put yourself in the emotional state that you need to convey to your audience.” He went on to say; “Music flows from emotion and transmits it.”
Consider this your personal invitation to watch this entire episode of Jessop’s Journal and share it with someone you know as a good story and maybe even a good video game.
Everyone has a story. I am convinced that “stories have power”. Chances are if you’re going through something, someone else probably has it too. The shared experiences that we humans have can help each other. That my friend points out that stories “help us understand ourselves.”
You don’t have to agree with everyone, but in my opinion, if people took more time to find out more about each other and where they’re from, we might just find that we have more similarities than differences.
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Everyone has a story. Stories have power. They help us to understand ourselves. Along with another entry in Jessop’s Journal, I’m Doug Jessop, ABC4 News.
For Doug Jessop, it all started with a cassette tape recorder he bought for Christmas when he was 12 growing up in Southern California. Doug interviewed relatives, friends and anyone else who might have a good story.
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