Bruce Faulconer music in movies and tv specials

[thaman91]

It recently came to my attention that a lot of the DBZ movies/tv specials on the Nicktoons website contain bits and pieces of the Faulconer score. It seems as if these are the tv versions only as the dvd copies of these movies do not contain faulconer's music. My question is, was Faulconer Productions involved at all with the scoring of these movies/tv specials? Or was it simply edited into the movies by Funimation?

Also, it says on Faulconer's website that his studio scored the Lord Slug movie but the tv version only contains small amounts of music from the show, not original music composed specifically for the movie by him(though that small amount is still by him). This is similar to a lot of other movies as well, so why is only that movie listed on his website as something he scored? If, however, lifting music from his tv score into the movies does not count as "scoring" a movie, why is Lord Slug listed there at all?

Another possibility is that Faulconer's studio did actually score that movie and others, but Funimation then decided they wanted other music before actually releasing it...but then ran into legal trouble with that other music being shown on tv so they reverted back to Faulconer's score for some bits. There are so many possibilities and I know this may seem trivial to some people but I'm curious! Can anybody shed some light on this matter?

[cRookie_Monster]

Honestly all this happened after my time there so I really can't be sure. Maybe send Julius Dobos an email and ask him? Who's credited with Music editing for the shows in question(if anyone)? If it's Evan Jones, that's Funimation, if it's Julius Dobos, Mike Smith, or Ben Kasparek, that's Faulconer Productions. If it's someone else...eh I dunno

[thaman91]

Hmmm interesting, the Bardock special credits Evan Jones as the "mixing engineer" which I'm guessing means he mixed the music. So I take it Funimation was allowed to use the Faulconer score however they wanted to. Some of the movies actually credit Faulconer with the music even though no new music was actually made for them. I'm guessing Evan Jones simply edited tracks from the show into the movies.

Just out of curiosity when specifically did you leave Faulconer productions? I know it was right after doing the Pikkon theme, and that aired on TV in September 2001 so was it around then? Also I'd just like to say I love all the work you and the team did for dbz; I can't imagine watching it without your music.

[cRookie_Monster]

Thanks I left exactly on December 1st 2000. It takes a little while from finishing something till when it airs, especially when it's the beginning of a new season. By the end of the season, the "finish" date and "air" dates get a lot closer.

"Mixing engineer" here means that Evan did the mix for all the audio in the show, meaning he adjusted levels and such for SFX, voices, and music. The music mix was done by whoever recorded the music (varies piece to piece, could be Mike, Bruce, Julius, or me). The credit I'd look for is "Music Editor" or "Music Editing" which speaks more toward music placement choices. If there's no such credit...maybe its just that Funi didn't bother to credit anyone and it was actually Evan. Some of the credits I've seen on DVDs don't even credit Faulconer or anyone for the American music at all, is this one of those?

[thaman91]

Well, I couldn't find any credit that said "Music Editor" or "Music Editing" on any of the movie/special credits. But nearly all of them had Evan Jones as the "Mixing Engineer". All of them had a credit for "Music" alone however. I think one of them credits both Bruce Faulconer and Mark Menza for Music and another one credits Faulconer for the "Dragonball Z Theme" performed by Tendril. But for the others, the music is either by just Mark Menza, just Nathan Johnson, or a bunch of different bands. But I know for a fact that tv versions of a bunch of these movies and specials used Faulconer music. I guess you're right and they just didn't bother to credit anyone.

Here's an example: http://nicktoons.nick.com/videos/clip/d ... isode.html
There's Faulconer music in some places but most notably in the credits starting at 42:51, where "Trunks Story" begins to play. I also read that this particular tv special's dub was created in the year 2000 so if you don't remember Faulconer productions editing its music, since you were still there at that time, then I guess Evan Jones or someone else just did it and didn't give the proper credit.

[cRookie_Monster]

Well if it's a mixture of different artists, which is what I think it is, it's most likely Evan that did the editing. Evan has credit for "Mixing Engineer" on many shows where we did the editing, so that particular credit doesn't really say much wrt to the question at hand.