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02-18-2008, 07:28 PM
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Room for a composer making his way back into writing?
Hi Guys
Great forum you've got going here.
For the past three or four years I've been composing film scores, but way back when whilst I was on a break from music I did a great deal of writing.
A few weeks back a director friend of mine was let down by a writer, so I stood in and wrote his treatment for his feature.
Fortunately he is delighted, but an even bigger surprise was just how much I enjoyed it and I've decided I would like to write again.
So here I am. Looking forward to getting to know you all
Steve
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02-18-2008, 08:05 PM
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Adept Writer
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Hi and welcome!
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02-18-2008, 08:45 PM
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Steve, that is some wonderful experience that you have. I look forward to seeing what writing you post. Make yourself at home and enjoy the forums. 
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02-18-2008, 08:55 PM
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Wordsmith
Join Date: May 2007
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Room for a composer making his way back into writing?
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Nope. Sorry, the quota for those has been filled.
On second thought, though, you seem cool. Tell us about film scoring. The last refuge for the contemporary classical composer, no? |
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02-18-2008, 09:30 PM
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Welcome Steve
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02-18-2008, 10:25 PM
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Sounds like a really cool job. As a pianist and a drummer, I find what you do to be amazing.
Care to share any movies you've composed for so we can take a listen?
Welcome!
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02-18-2008, 11:49 PM
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Eh, we need more cool people like you around here, Steve. Welcome aboard.
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02-19-2008, 01:06 AM
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Wordsmith
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Hello to you, Steve, and welcome to the forum!
Nickie
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02-19-2008, 02:20 AM
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hi how r ya ? welcome and enjoy u can find some good mates here
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02-19-2008, 05:25 AM
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Wow - what a fantastic welcome. Thank you guys.
In response to questions about film scoring, music works at the emotional level and the first thing I do is watch the film over and over to establish what I call the "emotional contours" of the work. ...and I guess this is where it can start to be frustrating...
Too often the director has had their eye so tightly on the technical aspects of the production and checking whether the plot comes across correctly that they take their eye off the emotional plane.
When I see interpretive alternatives at the emotional level (e.g. from which character's viewpoint do I compose, do I score the obvious up emotion we see or give hints to the viewer that it is all about to go wrong), I'm surprised how often I get blank looks. Many times it has been left to me, which I quite enjoy, but so often by that time many options are shutdown - the picture is locked and the actors have gone to other projects, so minor changes to help things along are impossible.
I guess therefore I've had a yearning to work earlier in the lifecycle, which has re-kindled my interest in writing again.
Music is just the finest method of conveying emotion, but it is therefore sensitive to the tiniest changes - colour, lighting, cut timings, dialog speed, visual action speed, unseen and unplayed underlying emotions, plot context.
I love composing, but I'm really enjoying being at the beginning of a film instead of at the end. It sort of balances things out so I don't notice my frustrations.
Looking forward to getting to know you all
Steve
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02-19-2008, 07:03 AM
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Ink Slinger
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Hello and welcome, Steve, and hope to see some of your work in the future. Good luck.
Sam.
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02-19-2008, 01:16 PM
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Ink Slinger
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Hello Steve and welcome to the forum
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