Film Scoring Competition question

[William]

I am not sure if it is o.k. to ask this question here but this seems the only possible place.  I can just shut up and try to do something on my own if it is illegal to discuss the rules, but if this were a normal film scoring job I would be asking the producer this question -

How can the suite for The Wolfman can be five minutes long, when the cues listed total almost twenty minutes in length?   For example the first cue is opening titles and is almost three minutes, all demanding music.  The music can not possibly start late or cut off early - it has to be music throughout.   So the rest of the whole suite can be only two minutes?   This makes absolutely no sense to me right now as a film composer.  I would be telling the producer, you can't have it only 5 minutes!  It has to be longer! 

Can someone  involved in this contest clarify this?  Has a mistake been made?    One could do ONE or TWO of these cues, but not all FIVE of them with only five minutes total of music. 

[Martin]

Hi William,

the answer lies in the first sentence of the rules:

"Entries for the competition will consist of a 5-minute suite inspired by specific scenes from one of two films."

So the scenes should inspire you, and 5 scenes at roughly 1 minute of music each make up a piece of 5 minutes.

"The character of the 5 movements must be descriptive of the following 5 scenes..."

So don't stick closely to the cues, but create five one-minute movements that describe the scenes.

Cheers,
Martin 

[William]

So these are not going to be synced, right?   In other words they are just impressions of the scenes and are not going to be judged according to have perfect synced buildup, stingers, etc. that fit the film scenes in timings?

[Martin]

Exactly, William!

[William]

Thank you Martin.