Orcestrating Hymns for another purpose...

What would be wrong with it? We just recorded the soundtrack for the trailer to our film. Our composer did and excellent job. We used a piano rendition of "It is Well With My Soul", modified to fit the mood and sequencing of the trailer.

 

Don't see anything wrong with that.

:type: :wavey:

 

I was just about to warm up for a good rant...

...then remembered the number of times the Hallelujah Chorus has been used... "inappropriately"...in movies, so decided to just go sit in corner and sulk instead...

 

Well, yeah . . . Making sure it is appropriate and tasteful is a Good thing!:thumbsup: :wavey:

 

There's nothing wrong with it, morally, but those songs may be so familar to people from being used in a church context, that it could be a distraction to them when used in another context.

For example, in my old church, they often had a song called "I Should Have Been Crucified", but because the melody of that song was taken from an old country song called, "There Goes My Everything", I could never listen to the song in church without laughing and, just by instinct, singing the words to the secular version of the melody.

Likewise, I can never hear "Jesus Loves the Little Children" any more without subconsciously singing, "We're all part of Andy's Army/We love all our boys in green/and we'll really shake them up/when we win Lombardi's Cup"/ For Philly has the greatest football team"

((and, yes I know that it's the Lombardi Trophy, not the Lombardi "Cup", but that doesn't rhyme.))

Now Playing: Matraca Berg - "Lying to the Moon"

 

When I hear "Jesus Loves the Little Children", I go right into . . . . "Everything is Beautiful" in it's own way .. . :smilewinkgrin:

 

I see nothing wrong with it. I have heard hymns on regular tv.
Faithgirl