Today I was checking out the new Spitfire Orchestral Kontakt library, BERNARD HERRMANN COMPOSER TOOLKIT and while it was downloading (136GB!) I started watching Youtube videos about Herrmans iconic scores…. Many of those films I first experienced before I knew anything about film scores or sound design or anything… Anyway this isn’t one of them, but it is related & it makes me appreciate Thomas Newman even more:
I really appreciate the part at 15.50 about the motivation for a music cue… landscape versus character… & the issue of redundant music! I went & saw a film in the theatre the other day and from the first frame the score was over-used and totally over bearing. In a 90 minute film there must have been 70 minutes of music or more… and about 80% of it felt redundant! (I don’t necessarily blame the composer as its impossible to know how the film arrived at its final form)
On a lighter note, how freaking great is this!
What a great job that teacher is doing!