Kalon
Media
The Sugar Creek Gang series
of five family movies was released on DVD in 2005. The first two films,
entitled Swamp Robber and The Great Canoe Fish, premiered at the Fox Theatre
in Atlanta, GA in November of 2004. Created by Kalon Media owners Joy Chapman
and Owen Smith, the movies were scored using ACID Pro software and loops
from the Sony® Sound Series™ Loops & Samples collection. Movies
three, four, and five are now completed and available to the market.
Sony Sound Series Loops &
Samples comprise the world's foremost collection of royalty-free music
creation content representing nearly every music genre. Sony Sound Series
loops and samples are optimized for use with ACID software but can also
be imported into any other program that supports the .wav file format.
"Acquiring quality music to
use as a film score is cost prohibitive for the typical independent filmmaker,"
says Kalon Media's Owen Smith. "With Sony Sound Series loop libraries and
ACID software, the ability to create an individual and affordable sound
for each project lies within easy reach."
Smith and Chapman simultaneously
work on post-production of multiple films at any given time. As scenes
are finalized in the edit suite they are exported for use in ACID Pro software.
Smith then pulls from his personal collection of Sony Sound Series loop
libraries and adds the soundtrack in, one loop at a time, until the film
begins to spring to life with music. "When we first made the decision to
create our soundtracks from Sony Sound Series loop libraries," says Owen,
"we started with the promotional trailer. The response to the music in
the trailer was so overwhelmingly positive that we knew we were on the
right track."
Kalon Media was founded in 2003
and strives to produce quality independent feature films on a small-scale
budget. Owen Smith is a graduate of the University of Georgia where he
studied broadcast journalism and film theory. Upon graduation he acquired
the rights to The Sugar Creek Gang book series and began pre-production
on the films. Joy Chapman is a graduate of Birmingham Southern College
in Alabama. After graduation she began writing screenplays and has worked
on such productions as Sweet Home Alabama, A Cinderella Story, and Hidalgo.
Joy
Chapman and Owen Smith
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