Music for Film

Synopsis: 1: Explores the process of recording a music score for film and profiles the people who make it happen.
2: Looks at the career of film music composer James Horner, covering the composer-director relationship, budgets and new technology.
3: Music engineer Gerry Nixon details the microphone placement and mixing for an orchestral record for film and discusses the role of the engineer.
4: Composer Bruce Smeaton discusses his ways of working with directors and his philosphy of using music to counterpoint or highlihgt the emotional and dramatic development of the storyline.
Language: English
Country: Australia
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 24, 52, 30, 36 min.
Year of production: 1985-91
Availability: Sale
Notes: AVRC VP745 tape contains part 1 only; VP748 previews only of full series.
Subjects: Film & television production
Keywords: film music; music composition

Cast

Title: Film score, The: music for ‘The Delinquents’
Synopsis: 1: Explores the process of recording a music score for film and profiles the people who make it happen.
Title: James Horner seminar
Synopsis: 2: Looks at the career of film music composer James Horner, covering the composer-director relationship, budgets and new technology.
Title: Recording film music with Gerry Nixon
Synopsis: 3: Music engineer Gerry Nixon details the microphone placement and mixing for an orchestral record for film and discusses the role of the engineer.
Title: Bruce Smeaton
Synopsis: 4: Composer Bruce Smeaton discusses his ways of working with directors and his philosphy of using music to counterpoint or highlihgt the emotional and dramatic development of the storyline.

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