Many of you have been asking when we will have a premier date. “It’s Me, Matthew!” has been submitted to many international festivals. Our team is gearing up for our promotional debut. Thank you for your faithful interest in the film, and I appreciate your eager anticipation of its debut. Unfortunately much of it is out of my hands, but as soon as the film receives positive recognition and makes a debut, I will let you know immediately. In any case, please log in because many fabulous things will be revealed on this site in the future. Please stay tuned….

In the meantime I asked Lisa Dotolo, to share her experience writing and performing the original score song for the film “It’s Me, Matthew!” (See the blog entry on Lisa, 2-17-2008)

Lisa’s Lyric

Songwriting and performing my songs have always been such a great joy for me. One of my greatest passions in life is to write a song and bring it to life within the recording; in the studio. For me, taking a simple idea that we call can relate to and creating a whole song around it and adding the instruments and the vocals is truly a blessing. I am so grateful to have the opportunity to create and use my writing, singing and live performance express my inner most thoughts and feelings.

Whenever I am asked to write a song, or whenever I write a song I always like to relate it to a personnel experience so that I truly understand how the song unfolds. My hope is that the listener can hear my honesty and my truth within the song and somehow relate it to their lives as well. So they take something away from my work or my song. Maybe a song they like reminds them of a love that has passed or maybe a song reminds them of a happy day where they had no worries. Whatever the case may be, my goal is not only for personnel expression, but to evoke a certain feeling within the listener. Basically, let them stop for a moment, hear the song and listen and feel something.

As a painter may paint a picture and it is viewed by many evoking a sense of calmness or sadness even. I have done my job truly if my words and my voice make the listener feel an emotion.

When Micheal asked me to write a song for his movie “Its Me, Matthew!” because of our friendship of so many years, I had a very strong idea of what he was looking for, so I was able to write the song fairly easily. I related to the song because I wanted it to be a song about not giving up, standing strong and tall and moving forward through life no matter what comes your way- good or bad- you are a survivor; something I personally believe in. So I was able to convey this message while creating a lasting melody and straight forward simple lyric. To sing the song was an honor as well because we are friends and that is what friends are for! To help each other! I know this project meant and still means a lot to Micheal so the fact that I created the tune and performed it certainly was the least I could to “add” to his endeavor while allowing me to be creative.

Within us all there lies the seeds of creativity and passion. To find your passion and life and being creative with it frees our minds and allows for even more happiness. I hope all of you who read this find your passions in life and use your creativity for the betterment of mankind and our world today.

Writing this song for the movie “It’s Me, Matthew!” allowed me to do just that, use my passion of songwriting to evoke positive feelings in the listener while freeing my voice and creative inner spirit.

God bless you all and thank you Micheal for the gift of your friendship and wonderful opportunity to write this song.

Best of luck to you and all of the viewers!

Lisa