3 WEEKS TO DAYTONA [2011]
composer
Bret Stern Productions
written & Directed by Bret Stern
Starring: Scott Cohen, Jorja Fox, Rip Torn

SCREENINGS::.

• 2011 Bare Bones International Film Festival **NOMINATED for Best Feature **

• 2011 Hills Film Festival

• 2011 Sunscreen Film Festival

• 2011 Myrtle Beach Film Festival

• 2011 The International Reel Wheel Film Festival

• 2011 Las Vegas Film Festival

• 2011 Texas International Film Festival

3 Weeks To Daytona is the story of a down on his luck stock car racer with one dream left to hold onto, drive with the best. Unfortunately, with a busted car, no money, and a bad job, Chuck's limelight could be fading fast. When a final chance falls his way, can he patch things up with his son, crew chief, and turn himself around before it's too late?

ABOUT THE SCORE

• I had a blast writing this score. I got to use a lot of guitar in this score. Bret Stern (filmmaker) left the music end of things wide open for me to write and play around with.
  
  The intention of the music in this movie was to reflect the moods of the film's pratogonist - Hopeful, Sadness, Failure, and Heroic for a down on his luck type of character that has to overcome many obstacles thrown at him when trying to pursue his dream of trying to get into the Daytona 500.
  
  The score starts off with the theme I wrote for Chuck's love interest, which you can hear in No Regrets. It then carries into the main theme of the film's score. You can hear the main theme in Night @ The Speedbowl, The Shootout, and Victory Lane. I also incorporated the theme in Asking A Favor. It's a slower mood to reflect the state of Chuck's disappointment. You can also hear how I took the theme at a more somber feel in the cue, Find Another Sponsor.
  
  The first theme I wrote was a small melody which you hear in the piano motifs throughout the score and in the heavey guitar riffs later on (Stiffed and in the beginning of The Shootout cue). Another reccuring theme I wrote was for Willy (Chuck's son) which you can hear in Zoo Is Closed. I incorporated that theme to also reflect Chuck's sense of failure in We'll Get Back There.
  
  The end cue, Victory Lane brings all of the themes together. It starts off with a dreamy sequence (Chuck is thinking about a past conversation in his head) and enters the main theme. It breaks into the laid back themes you hear earlier in the score and then dissolves into a small piano melody taken from the action cues (30 Minutes To Race).
  
  The player may take a few minutes to load [lots of music!] The music tracks posted here are in order as they appear in the film..