Composer Michael Abels on working with Jordan Peele on Get Out and Us, and how he came up with *that* sound in Bad Education.
Isaac Butler: What’s the step-by-step process of scoring a film. You said for Cory Finley’syou first saw a rough cut. Did it have temp tracks on it already? Was it cut to preexisting music?Some of it was, and some of it wasn’t. Temp tracks are a necessary evil. Directors usually offer to screen the film for a composer without any music, but time is short, and you need to know what’s informing a director’s view of the film musically.
How do you actually learn how to do that? Someone is giving you information, and then you have to process it into your art form and language and then give it back to them. Then they have to listen to it and say, “Ah, yes, this is actually this thing that I was thinking,” or, “This isn’t the thing I was thinking, but it’s better,” or, “Nope, never mind.
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