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An inside look: Conversations with editors and composers

An inside look: Conversations with editors and composers

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An inside look: Conversations with editors and composers

- I thought I'd round out this chapter by letting you hear from the experts themselves about using and creating music in film. We'll hear from several editors about working with temp score and working with composers, and also from a composer about the process of writing film score and working with the film making team. This movie is comprised of several Skype conversations edited together, I hope you enjoy. - [Sofi] I think sometimes first time directors don't realize how huge having a composer is for the movie. There's just such a difference between having, you know, a piece of music that is what it is under a scene and a piece of music that is actually composed to the beats in that scene to help the emotion move along. Like, it adds a whole other level on top of what you've already got there. - It's funny as a composer because I think the thing that people discount a lot about us in the process is we're kinda the last, one of the last creatives that can have quite a drastic and…

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