A good film score can rescue an underwhelming film. Produced and directed by Nancy Meyers, The Holiday (2006) fails to impress me. The story is original, but the script lacks sparkle. So a leading cast of top actors - Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Jack Black - are left scratching their heads over how to squeeze anything from their lines. Mostly, it shows. (Only Kate meets the challenge, but then again she has such screen presence that the colours on the screen seem to brighten whenever she is on.). The film is supposed to be a romantic comedy but falls between these two stools. According to Wikipedia, the film did received mixed reviews. So up to the plate step a terrific film score production team, including or rather headed by Hans Zimmer. I loved the instrumentation. For instance, the stings sound half away between real and synthetic, and the overall sound is perfectly suited to the genre, romantic comedy. There is even a custom made formant-vased preset which is very special, and shows how necessary it is to come up with a signature sound that will make your composition stand out from a score that just plays it safe. The rhythmic sections are polished and sophisticated. The orchestral themes are harmonically rich; chords are used to make the score satisfyingly unusual, so that the musical elements linger in your mind. Overall, the score really does build an that emotional bridge between director and audience (the music has to because the script does not). Finally, the mixing and mastering are just amazing. The overall sound is so clean and yet so warm. What I take from this film score is: as a composer or one of a team, you have a responsibility to improve on the impact of a film, sometimes you must rescue it from the abyss Another example of rescue is David Julyan score for The Descent, directed by Neil Marshal. This film starts off so promisingly and yet fizzles out rather spectacularly; yet the score feeds the tension with near perfection. understand what instrumentation the film demands deliver something a bit different, both musically and tonally (a custom made patch or patches. non-prosaic chord structures, e.g. I felt the music for this film was influenced by the great Italian opera composer Rossini -and why not?) aim to fulfil the highest production values possible. https://youtube/watch?v=aobKT3YmOuQ
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:38:25 +0000
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