Even with live musicians, the score for your film begins its life on a computer. But did you consider the crucial step of transitioning from digital to human music performance in your budget or post-production plans? Most likely, it was an afterthought or neglected.Such neglect is always damaging, leading to scores that waste money and fail to elevate their films. However, many producers, and some composers, misplace the cause for this failure. As a result, you and many other filmmakers may be accepting a "good enough" score instead of a great score that would have brought more life, excitement, fear, joy, or love to your film.Let's dive in. Don't Sabotage Your Film Score As orchestration and music preparation professionals, our careers transition from digital to human performances. Leading this process for several Oscar and Emmy ceremonies, The Lord of the Rings films, primetime TV, independent films, and most recently, the localization of songs for Disney's Moana 2 and Mufasa; we have seen how carefully handling this transition results in better and more valuable performances and recordings. We also understand that the need for care and a proper strategy is the same, regardless of the amount of money a project has.When a score has lackluster performances, the blame is often placed on the composer or the performers. Few realize that frequently the problems arise from neglecting how the composer's music was presented to the performers. Often, this comes from ignorance of the need for a proper strategy to combine musicians, orchestration,...
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