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Synopsis: A look at the cinematic art of the film musical score, and the artists who create them.
Director(s): Matt Schrader
Production: Gravitas Ventures
  7 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
67
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
PG
Year:
2016
93 min
£101,382
694 Views


You're collaborating

with people.

I want them to feel

like a filmmaker like them

has come into the process.

I'm the one that specializes in

this one thing that they're

uncomfortable with.

You're trying to come

up with music

that supports the scene and complements

it in an unobtrusive way.

You spend as much

time as you can

immersing yourself

in the backstory.

As a film composer,

you're part

of the storytelling team.

[MAN] Do you want to spin

forward to the next cue, Garry?

- [MARSHALL] Yeah.

- [DEBNEY] This one sort of

ends when she comes

around the corner, right?

I try to get a sense

of what their insecurities are.

The more time you

spend with them,

the more you get those answers.

Most directors don't know

how to convert emotions

into musical into music.

So the composer has to kind

of act almost like a therapist

and go through all this mishmash

of what the director's saying

and get the essence of it.

What if we kind of tail

right into that?

- [WOMAN] Yeah, right, you

don't need to go -right?

- [MAN] Don't score him?

- Maybe don't score

Just put a nice

little transition, Garry,

that kind of just spills over.

- And then he comes up.

- [MARSHALL] Yeah.

Something like that maybe? Yeah.

We got the We got

the gist of it.

[HANS ZIMMER] Sort of in that first

conversation with the director

I have glimpses

of what it could be.

Every project starts

roughly the same way.

Somebody comes into the room

and says, "I've got this idea."

"It'll be fun to do. It'll be

a fun adventure," etc.

And they tell you the idea and you

get drawn in and you get excited.

And you're flattered that they're

even considering you.

"Whoa, me," you know. "I

get to go on this ride."

And then they leave the room and then

you have a moment of reflection.

You go, "I have no

idea how to do this."

Oh, my god."

And then after a while you think

should you be phoning

them and saying,

you know, "Hey, I think you

better phone John Williams."

I have no idea how to do this."

You know, the blank page

is always the blank page.

Plus, I have no idea

where music comes from.

So there's always the fear

that somebody's going to switch off the tap.

[PIANO PLAYING]

[RACHEL PORTMAN] This

is a film called "Race."

I've been working on it for a week,

so I'm just beginning.

I'm just sort of getting

into my process with it.

Where I'm thinking it should start is

is just coming up.

And I'm going to start with it

coming in really, really quietly.

[MAN IN FILM #1]

No.

- [MAN IN FILM #2] Well, why not?

- [QUIET PIANO MUSIC]

[MAN #1] You want

to win a gold medal?

- [MAN #2] Sure.

- [MAN #1] You want to do it in Berlin?

[QUIET PIANO MUSIC]

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Matt Schrader

Matt Schrader is an American filmmaker. He is best known for writing and directing Score: A Film Music Documentary (2016) and for his Emmy Award-winning investigative journalism for CBS News and NBC News. He has been nominated for various awards and won three Emmy Awards. Score: A Film Music Documentary received overwhelmingly positive reception and was one of 170 films considered for the 2018 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film won eight awards at film festivals and made $101,382 at the US box office before releasing as the #1 documentary on iTunes for four weeks straight. Schrader is executive producer of the weekly Score: The Podcast, which interviews leading composers in Hollywood about their craft. more…

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