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Laying the musical foundation: Working with the temp score

Laying the musical foundation: Working with the temp score

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Laying the musical foundation: Working with the temp score

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- Temp music is really there to do two things, establish the tone and the mood of the scene, and help sort of guide the audience into feeling what you want them to feel, and serving as a template for the emotional beats of the scene for the composer. So, when I kind of look at a scene without any music, I kind of pick where do I want it to start, where do I want it to shift, and where do I want it to end. - So, I love that part of the process and I'm so respectful of the fact that a composer shouldn't just be ripping off your temp score. But I try to provide a really solid blueprint, to say, listen, here's why I made the choices to have the music start here, to have the music stop here. Here's why I like in the temp music there's an oboe that comes up at this look on somebody's face. Don't rip it off, don't copy it, but I want you to pull the essence out of the choices that I've made, bring your own voice and your own emotion, knowing that there are specific beats in the scene that I…

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