Composing music for film is grounded in an intuitive response to the visual narrative, the characters and the tone of a film. Being musically instructive can lead to sign posting the story and distracting an audience's cinematic experience. Finding the right combination of all these factors is a real process of discovery. Instrumental timbres (sound qualities), chordal types/qualities, key signatures, the speed of a composition, the amount of silence and the obvious 'should there be music score?' are all aspects that require careful consideration. This piece is from a short film we composed the music for, titled 'Horse Feathers'.
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