How To Cope With Revisions

Some people say that change is a good thing, but as a music-for-picture composer, I sometimes find myself wishing that everything I write could be used without the need for any changes. Whenever I start thinking like this, it’s usually not too long before I get a rude awakening; as we’ve seen, change is often the first order of business. The director can suddenly decide that completely different music is needed, or make new edits to the visuals that throw off all of your precisely calculated tempo changes. Last month, we began to discuss how to deal with revisions, and you should now have had a chance to try scoring the opening scene to the short film Ghost Soldier. It’s time to explain what I wrote, and continue the tale of the short film that kept getting shorter and shorter.

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