Track listing
- The Chapel [1:32]
- Pray Tell [0:58]
- Clash of Steel [0:50]
- A Warrior We Knew Well [0:46]
- Woodland [2:24]
- The Castle / Robert's Story (Unused Cue) [2:08]
- March of the Blood Knights [1:18]
- Love's Labour Lost [2:19]
- Wisdom [1:36]
- A Tale of Deception: Main Theme [2:33]
- Travelling Beneath the Stars (Unused Cue) [0:42]
- The Chapel (Original Version) [1:32]
- The Chapel (Alternate Version) [1:32]
- Love's Labour Lost (Alternate Ending) [2:20]
- Piano Theme [0:42]
A Tale of Deception is a 2013 short film by Rob Green of Boomshank Productions. Production had already been completed and the film was in the edit when I joined the project; Rob, a student at the College of Art, discovered me as a Plymouth-based composer via Google. He initially drew comparison for his thoughts on the score with my then-recent release, By the Sword, which was as close to a medieval, swords-and-shields style as I had come at that time.
The film utilizes a main theme I initially composed for a previous, unfinished project, and I adapted the opening track from that story as "The Chapel", adding additional choral elements towards the end. Elements from "The Chapel" appear towards the end of the alternate version of "Love's Labour Lost" (track fourteen). The album-only "Main Theme" (track ten) and "Travelling Beneath the Stars" (track eleven) also come from this cancelled project. Track six ("The Castle / Robert's Story") is a cue not used in the final edit.
Tracks two ("Pray Tell") and four ("A Warrior We Knew Well") contain references to the Father's Theme from several of my Wingless Films scores -- first heard in Darkness (2011) and later as the central motif of Petriarch (2012). Both short statements in this project underscore talk of the Princess's father.
The film utilizes a main theme I initially composed for a previous, unfinished project, and I adapted the opening track from that story as "The Chapel", adding additional choral elements towards the end. Elements from "The Chapel" appear towards the end of the alternate version of "Love's Labour Lost" (track fourteen). The album-only "Main Theme" (track ten) and "Travelling Beneath the Stars" (track eleven) also come from this cancelled project. Track six ("The Castle / Robert's Story") is a cue not used in the final edit.
Tracks two ("Pray Tell") and four ("A Warrior We Knew Well") contain references to the Father's Theme from several of my Wingless Films scores -- first heard in Darkness (2011) and later as the central motif of Petriarch (2012). Both short statements in this project underscore talk of the Princess's father.