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Finding the right piece of music

Finding the right piece of music

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Finding the right piece of music

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Norman: In the last movie, we figured out where the lean forward moment is in the scene from Castles. We saw that it was the moment when Joseph felt the full weight of disappointing his father, the architecture firm and himself. It came right after Mr. Dalton's lines, this design better not resemble the last few of your strip mall inspired projects. Get out of your safety zone, Joseph. In this movie, we're going to talk about spotting the music into the scene. We're also going to talk about the style, and the tone of the music. Those adjectives that help define the character. If you have a composer, you're going to sit down with him or her, and run the entire film through in what we call a spotting session. This is an opportunity to talk about style and tone with the composer. But, as the name implies, you're also going to be talking about the spots where the music is going to start and stop, the spotting of the music. So let's put some music in to this scene. I'd like to figure out…

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