Musical Scoring or Game Of Thrones?

The music composer’s work station. Your music composer’s set-up must be something like this. (pic from Musictech Magazine)

Are You Hiring A Film Composer?

Tips on How to Get the Perfect Film Composer For Your Film

1. What’s on The Picture?. If your film composer does not have a set of equipments that looks like the picture above, forget about him, her and no need to read further. But for more details, here’s what you should expect from someone who can make great music for your film

• A non rented working area, personal or home studio which will allow you and him/her to work without worries about rent and time limitations.

• Basic equipments of a personal computer, a midi keyboard, a sound mixer, microphones, monitor speakers and music creation software. Check for his main software which should be one of the following, Protools, Cubase, Logic, Sonar, Reason, Ableton Live, Reaper, Digital Performer, Ignite, Studio One for these softwares have been proven to be the film scorer’s best friend in music production.

• Good vibes, beats deadline and nice to work with. This is self explanatory but you will never appreciate this tip until you discover that your film scorer, spends more time watching Game Of Thrones rather than beating deadlines. So before deciding, better check the composer’s website, portfolio and over all track record.

• Must be able to bring your ideas to life. A professional film composer understands what music you want for this character, scenes or ending, and gives in to your artistic ideas rather than doing it one way. He, she is able to create standard musical scoring elements like music for action and dramatic scenes but also sounds like beds, hits, slam, drones, bwams, pads and so on. No need to understand this musical jargons for now but if your film composer does not know this terms then better think twice.

Bottom line, your film is a collaboration of your visuals, dialogues as well as of music and sound. Don’t leave it all up to the composer, but also speak out the music that’s on your mind. A brilliant film composer will surely be able to create the music you want.