Josh Monroe: Music composer in Parkerfield, Kansas.

Sean Staples
Composers...do you write to or away from film?

Hello fellow composers. I am interested to know if you prefer to write directly to film or do you take the more Mark Isham type approach of absorbing the film and then writing away from film and then applying back what your written. Personally i've done both methods and I find that sometimes it is e...

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Wesley Lawrence Curry II

Mostly directly with the film. Though I am always composing ideas with compound emotions in design. My first tack is to improvise on piano while watching the film. And doing this several times through...

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Josh Monroe

I write the "theme" song based on the info I recieve from the director. Once I have the film then I write the score based on the theme.

John Doyar

It depends on your goal and emotions what you want to bring up in the audience's head.

Sometimes it's better to compose aside from the video to create a huge gap in meanings, subtexts and whatnot.

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