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FILM SCORING
Things move fast in our business. Just when you think you have
got a handle on how it all works you find out the game has moved
somewhere else. You spend years getting good at something and
as you arrive at the party you find nobody is interested in that any
more, theyve all moved on to another venue. So heres a heads up,
as they say, of things weve noticed recently. Some of these are
reasonably obvious if you keep your eyes and ears open and
others are less so.
1. Sound design is the new scoring. Crafting new sounds out of
random wave forms like taking a chainsaw to a block of ice.
Producing new sonic textures that nobody has ever heard before
and then processing the hell out of them. Look at the rise of the
likes of Junkie XL, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Stephen Prices
Gravity Oscar winning score and plenty more. And have you
noticed how Hans Zimmer a man who is extremely gifted at
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2. Samples are Dead. For those composers whove spent the last
ten years working out how to make samples sound like a real
orchestra this might be one of thoseoh so the partys gone
somewhere else moments. Its not entirely true but how many
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Nowadays the bar is much higher. Only the best get paid so you
have to work much harder at perfecting your craft, challenging
your own assumptions. If you merely want to write film music
because you love Zimmer, Williams and Elfman but you dont
really love film, you are doomed. I see a lot of aspiring composers
who tell me how they specialize in big epic orchestral. Thats
not a specialization thats a default setting.
So. Learn sound design. Get a demo reel that has plenty of live
instruments on and sounds fresh and different. Look much more
broadly at the industry and work out where there is fun to be had
and a living to be made. Library music is still a good financial
option for the best composers. Games are great and still a growing
market.
Ultimately, despite all this though there is one golden rule. Work
in an area of the industry you are passionate about. If you are
obsessed with film, become a film composer. You love games, work
in games. You cant fake passion and potential employers will spot
it a mile off so do what you love.
Guy Michelmore
Guy Michelmore is the company director of
ThinkSpace Education. He is also an Emmy
nominated composer, specializing in music for
television and film.
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Txema Cabria
So straight, as always, I appreciate.
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Nigel J. Merritt
University of Life
Thanks for this, Guy. I can happily confirm that both Cinematic
Orchestration and Music For The Media are GREAT courses.
I'm on them!
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