Film Scoring Class - The Great Gatsby
Anomalies! Jigga what? Jigga who?
This week...did not go by fast enough, to be honest. I commuted and freeway traffic sucks. Luckily next week, it'll be less so thank the stars.
This is another film score assignment I worked on for class and again, the teacher said it didn't fit (notice a recurring theme here) BUT did she instruct us on how to write scores that fit visuals...mmm hmm? Did she give us a technical guide on how to score...mmm hmm? Okerrrrrr
The class liked it and Brian also really liked it. He encouraged me to keep working on it when it was in its beginning stages and I just started coming up with the piano line.
I never watched this version of The Great Gatsby with Robert Redford (The Brad Pitt before Brad Pitt) and I confess I still haven't seen it apart from this scene. I did watch the souped up version with Leonardo DiCaprio/Tobey Maguire...yawn.
I'll post the music by itself as well. How do I feel about this score? I think I did the best that I could with the info that was provided from the teacher which wasn't anything - especially tips on how to score a love story. When the diegetic music comes in, that was a weird transition to figure out when to make my own music fade out. I had fun though!
One thing I did learn from film scoring class was that no matter what a composer writes, the decision is up to the director or whoever approves the music. It could be your best work or something you're not comfortable with and if they choose it, it goes! If they don't, then you're back to square one. It's all subjective.
My favorite scores are: Braveheart by James Horner, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and Meet Joe Black by Thomas Newman and Jane Eyre by Dario Marianelli who also scored Pride & Prejudice (Shout out Alix!) which is also an absolutely gorgeous score. The Star Wars, E.T., Jurassic Park scores are iconic as John Williams is basically the G.O.A.T. but I also recognize that the genre of popular film music is unfortunately not as diverse as it could be and joined the AWFC which is the Alliance of Women Film Composers to support the effort to have more representation in this field.
The Anomaly