Outlaw Origins (2017)

In 2016 I was hired to compose the original score for a short film based on the popular video game League of Legends by Riot Games. The film is called Outlaw Origins, and focuses on the origin story of one of the game characters, named Graves. I drew on my experience with Ambrosia to compose music that fit pre-edited sequences with an appropriate tempo, matching up to scene changes.

 I came up with lots of ideas for this before finally figuring something out that the director liked, a few of which are included in the following playlist. My initial instructions were, “Dark like Batman,” but “Pirate-y.” An interesting combination! There was one sequence, after the intro, where the character is shown in several flashbacks growing up at different ages, where the director had fallen in love with some stock music that he was using, well before I started writing anything for the scene. I did my best to write something that was similar, but still an original piece of music that would fit with the rest of the score. Disappointingly, he decided to use the stock music instead of what I composed. What I wrote for that sequence is included the playlist here as “The Blacksmith’s Apprentice.”

The “Outlaw Origins” theme that plays at the very end of the film is based on a motif from League of Legends that the producer wanted me to pay homage to. I did several variations, and I’ve included my two favorites in the playlist. All the tracks below that, starting with “Graves Rising,” are a few of my favorite rough sketches of different concepts written to the script, without having seen any footage. Most were rejected, but some of the ideas made it into the final score.