Keeping track of life as a composer
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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Animation Feature – week 3
Well, this is taking a while, isn’t it? I never imagined for a second that the last song would be hard to write at all. But it is. The first thing was finding a style of music that both me and the director were happy with, something that has a big finale feel to it. [...]
Animated Feature Diary – week 2
Pre-production music was still the goal this week. Having completed the first song with great success things were off to a great start. As I mentioned in the previous post, I was having trouble with the second song, a big production number for the ending. But I finally completed it and sent it over. The [...]
Animated Feature – end of week 1
Monday I started work on the pre-production music for the animated feature I am scoring. I wrote the first song on Monday, the ballad, which I thought I would have a hard time with. So I approached it with intense effort, brainstormed, and after a day of hard toil I had the whole song written. [...]
Ready… set… score!
Yesterday I officially began work on an animated feature film! I am very excited to begin this and think great things will happen with it. (I can’t say much, but I can say that there is an international star in it.) I will be keeping a detailed production diary on my site, so check in [...]