Carlee Avers on Playing Moose

FOODIES series regular Carlee Avers plays Moose, the object of Porter and Danny’s attention. We sat down with her to discuss her experience working on FOODIES, what she and Moose have in common and the trouble with gluing food together.

FOODIES: Do you consider yourself a real life foodie?
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Creating the Music for FOODIES

FOODIES composer James Michael Barry shares his process in creating the musical score for the show.

I think we’ve all come to imagine our lives having their own soundtracks.  Recent generations don’t yet grasp how novel it is that we never have to be without music. We don’t need to go to concerts, or sit in front of a bulky Victrola, or even be in our cars or homes or businesses to have music constantly with us.  Where music has always been used as a release from the so-called real world, an experience you planned around, we can choose music over the real world.

I doubt I’m the only film enthusiast who imagines an ominous, Herrmann-esque tune when I’m walking at night.

My “method” with this score was to imagine what these different characters’ “inner soundtracks” were, and thus come up with the score to the series.

Listen to an early demo of the FOODIES theme.

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I got lucky with these characters.  Whether or not I might want to know them in real life, they felt instantly familiar to me.  Like I would add them on Facebook after we met at a party, and then keep them around because they sometimes posted cute videos of animals.  Their musical interests are varied, their inner soundtracks downright disjointed.

Some Brian Eno, some Brian Wilson; a bit of obscure Italian pop music; the mechanical beats of the old electric organ at Grandma’s house, and its ability to make anything sound square and uncool.  A bit of 8-bit video game music, and I may as well just admit that I’m projecting myself onto these characters.

I don’t know if I’d get invited to any of their dinner parties, but I can imagine what’s on all their iPods.

I suppose I’m like a Method actor, in that I try to get into the skin of the characters, to feel what they feel through the music of their own “brain composer/music supervisor.”

I am imagining what music they think of when they go to a party, or to the market, or when they are just sitting around, trying to drum up anything to amuse themselves (I give the characters I write for the benefit of the doubt, and assume they know when silence is the best soundtrack).  I imagine I’m one of these characters, putting together a mix CD; once I figure out what’s on that mix CD, I write it.

I tried to write music that would feel familiar to these characters, and would help them to cope with the discomfort they so often inflict on themselves and each other.  It’s weird music; neither the music nor the characters make any apologies for their weirdness.

Designing Foodies: Danny’s Dinner

FOODIES Production Designer Miguel Montalvo gives us an inside look at the process behind designing the world of the show. Go to Show Page

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Welcome to the Foodies Production Blog.  It’s here that the crew will be sharing their first hand experiences with making Foodies.