‘Welcome Back…’ Thursday, 14 May 2009
Posted by blairmowat in Making of....Tags: Music, scottish chamber orchestra, soundtrack, video
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As the first composer to return to The Lost Book, I initially felt a certain amount of pressure to ‘outdo’ my previous score. How could I make it sound bigger, better and more impressive? However, that’s not really what composing for film or animation is about – it’s about being respectful to the narrative and trying to complement what’s happening on screen. That’s not to say, however, that there weren’t moments where I felt the music needed to be bold and assertive.
In regards to instrumentation for this episode, I decided to use the same instruments. I’d enjoyed working with percussion before and the flute and cello would tie in nicely with Michael’s score for the previous episode.
[Editor's note: the video shows snippets from the setting-up for Monday's recording session, with Iain Sandilands preparing various percussion instruments, Su-a Lee on her cello, Janet Larsson with her flute, and Blair practising his conducting.]
The Lost Book is an animated web series where you wrote the plot.
Are you in charge of creating the gun shot using instruments or will it be created from a sound file from a computer?
I’m imagining the 1812 overture at the end of part 4 with cannons going off left right and centre.
The Gun shot was created by the fantastic sound designer for the project – Stephen Gilmour. Interesting idea creating the gun shot from instruments. Perhaps if there’s a ‘shoot out’ in a future episode then the music could take on some of these qualities!