Uerrilla Film Scoring
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Guerrilla Film Scoring
Author: Jeremy Borum
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date: 2015-04-09
As the movie and music industries have changed, film scoring has become an overwhelmingly independent process. Film composers have more responsibilities than ever before, and they must fulfill them with smaller budgets and shorter schedules. As a result, composers are increasingly becoming armies of one. In Guerrilla Film Scoring: Practical Advice from Hollywood Composers,Jeremy Borum provides valuable guidance on how to make a good film score both quickly and inexpensively. This handbook encompasses the entire film scoring process including education, preparation, writing and recording a score, editing, mixing and mastering, finding work, career development, and sample contracts. Offering strategic tools and techniques, this insider’s guide draws on the expertise from a number of prominent composers in movies, television, and video gaming, including Stewart Copeland, Bruce Broughton, and Jack Wall. A straightforward do-it-yourself manual, this book will help composers at all levels create the best-sounding scores quickly and cost effectively—without jeopardizing their art. With access to rare and extremely useful input from the best in the business, Guerrilla Film Scoring will benefit not only students but also professionals looking to update their game.
Contemporary Film Music
The purpose of this book, through its very creation, is to strengthen the dialogue between practitioner and theorist. To that end, a film academic and musicologist have collaborated as editors on this book, which is in turn comprised of interviews with composers alongside complementary chapters that focus on a particular feature of the composer’s approach or style. These chapters are written by a fellow composer, musicologist, or film academic who specializes in that element of the composer’s output. In the interview portions of this book, six major film composers discuss their work from the early 1980s to the present day: Carter Burwell, Mychael Danna, Dario Marianelli, Rachel Portman, Zbigniew Preisner, and A.R. Rahman. The focus is on the practical considerations of film composition, the relationship each composer has with the moving image, narrative, technical considerations, personal motivations in composing, the relationships composers have with their directors, and their own creative processes. Contemporary Film Music also explores the contemporary influence of electronic music, issues surrounding the mixing of soundtracks, music theory, and the evolution of each composer’s musical voice.
The Evolution of American Film Music, 1960s-1990s
The New Wave of American Cinema emerged in the 1960s amid seismic social, cultural, and political shifts. Where the films of the Silent era and the Golden Age had relied on classical music compositions to score their narratives, the emergence of the New Hollywood movement introduced a reliance on popular music. This blending of film and commercial music, accompanied by instrumental innovations like the synthesizer, fundamentally reshaped the soundscape of cinema and reflected broader cultural and industrial change. This book traces the evolution of film music from the 1960s through the 1980s, examining its development from aesthetic, industrial, and technological perspectives. It highlights pivotal moments such as the incorporation of jazz scores, the rise and fall of New Hollywood, the emergence of the Blaxploitation genre, the MTV era, and the underground No Wave movement that developed in New York City in the late-1970s to the mid-1980s. Drawing on conversations with composers, sound designers, and industry executives, this study offers rare insights into the creative processes and industry dynamics that transformed the relationship between music, culture, and American film.