Nan Avant: Audio, Delivery, and a Quick Response

My experience as a composer has been primarily working with independent filmmakers with smaller budgets on short, feature, and documentary films. As I read through the articles from this month’s SCOREcast writers, I found similar scenarios that I also encounter in my work — one of them being the question of audio demonstration. Whether the project is with a local filmmaker or an out-of-town client this is certainly a factor to consider, and I have learned to ask many questions at the beginning of a new project.

Ryan Leach: Long Distance Scoring

Today’s technology has made it possible to score a project with anyone no matter where they’re located. However, long distance scoring does come with plenty of challenges.

Build Your Own Temp

Do you ever wonder “why” a piece of music works in a scene? Does it just bug the ever-loving crap out you, like it does me, when you play your hard work for your director only to have him or her look at you blankly and utter the words “That just doesn’t work for me”? I hate hearing those words come out of my director’s mouth. I want him or her to be pleased on first listen. Of course, it doesn’t always work that way and it is our job as the composer to find out why it doesn’t work that way. Music is so subjective and so personal that I often wonder privately things…