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A conversation with composer Bryce Jacobs and editor Paul Murphy

A conversation with composer Bryce Jacobs and editor Paul Murphy

From the course: Filmmaking Forum: Scene Analysis

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A conversation with composer Bryce Jacobs and editor Paul Murphy

- Thanks so much for joining us, Bryce and Paul. Bryce, I'm going to start with you and thank you of course for sharing your awesome personal project with us. I have to say, it is a bit unusual how it came to be, and that you wrote the music first, and then found the footage, and then collaborated with Paul to put it all together. So tell us about that. - I had a piece of music that I had written with this kind of... I created a Bryce choir of 20 voices, just laid this vocal thing. (choir singing) The piece of music was inspired by my own experiences in moving country, but also very much about my grandmother who suffered with dementia. There's a lot of parallels between moving across the world, across the country, and dementia with this life that you think you know which ends up in this limbo that can't be tied down anymore. So I'd written a piece of music like that, all about that, and it was made up of phrases she said and other things I'd experienced. And I had some family footage…

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